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| Nick |
Welcome Back MTA!Nice to see you posting again Si!
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| Atticman |
Brilliant to see
absolutely great in fact 
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| Steve_S |
Yes, welcome back!
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| IndianaRog |
Another happy to see Si back on this forum...excellent! | ||
| Mamodman123 |
Great to see you back Simon 
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| Sandman |
Great to see one of our founder members and one of my true friends back with us.
You've made my day Si. Welcome back mate.
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| MooseMan |
Brilliant! | ||
| Manxman |
Now that is good news. I raise my glass to you. Now bloody well stay around. We need you.
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| Chris |
 back!
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| MTA |
Aww, thanks everyone.
It is good to be back, and I hope to be talking with all of my forum friends once again soon. I say soon as toy steam has taken a bit of a back seat at the moment, as garden railways have overtaken it. More of which at a later date 
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| Graham-Jilly |
I hadnt realized you had left but welcome back anyways
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| made-in-england |
I thought Id gone deaf but your return has reassured me I havnt
Only joking mate! Good to have you back! |
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| dampfmaschinenjoe 1967 |
Nice to have you with us again, Simon !
Cheers Joe |
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| Les |
Welcome back Simon.
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| Mamodman123 |
What have you been up to Simon?
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| MTA |
A lot, really! My MSS loco 'Victor' is now running, thanks to a new set of Dream Steam's gas flow cylinders. He still needs running in, and then I'll be painting the bodywork. 
As you can see I also replaced the brass cheeseheas screws with steel hex headed ones. I'm now waiting for FC (short for Forest Classics, in case you were wondering) to post one of their Bix gas burners for him. I've built a lot of 16mm rolling stock: I.P. Engineering MoD brake van. This is still in build, but I am very pleased with the outcome so far. 
Since that pic was taken it now has its wheels. AnDel colliery hutch, which will serve as a tender for 'Victor' 
AnDel bogie wagon 
Binnie bolsters (now painted grey) 
and today I am building an I.P. Engineering battery electric 'Feanor' kit and one of their North Ings tanker wagons
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| Sandman |
Jeez, you have been busy mate.
How about the layout?? Any more work on that??? |
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| madeinenglang |
well come back | ||
| MTA |
Nothing as yet, the garden really needs more work before I start laying track that could potentially get in the way at a later date. Also I've decided to just do a circuit for now, so I can actually run something! www.freewebs.com/pandglr |
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| MooseMan |
Lovely stuff there mate!
Do those gas flow cylinders make much of a difference? I'm currently modifying seven colours sh*t out of my SL3, and I think my SL1's next in line! |
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| MTA |
Hi Moose,
I'm still running them in so I will have to get back to you at a later date. However, my IP Jane has them fitted and she could pull a house down! Well, a doll's house maybe 
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| alan2525 |
The gas flow cylinders are much better engineered than the standard Mamod or MSS cylinders The ports are much more precisely drilled and much better finish all around, in particular the mating surfaces on the port block.
My IP Jane seems to run better and better all the time and is a huge difference from an unmodified loco. It'll pull all the stock I have plus a Roundhouse Millie too! I wanted to get some videos but have misplaced the charger for my Camcorder! |