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Oh you tease!
Show is the vid! (when it's uploaded of course  )
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Here it is:
the first test run on air!
It still has a few leaks, I think the union on the pipe from the regulator needs resoldering. The boiler might be able to keep up, it might not, I will just go and find out!
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You are a Mamod loco god!
Let no one else say anything different 
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Tremendous, well worth the wait. 
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Wow, that is grand, keep us posted I hope to actually see it in February.
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Titan
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Well here it is - the first steaming!
Quality of the video is a little poor, i compressed it a bit as I did not want to wait all night for it to upload!
Not successful - funnily enough for a rather unexpected reason - but looking promising.
Theres a hell of a lot of heat in that burner - it'll shift anything when its done!
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Chris
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I'm sure it will be running with a bit of tinkering.
Your test track really makes me nervous though. Think I would either be testing with the track on the floor, or use a loop of track. I can see the thing jumping into life and taking a leap off the track! 
Really looking forward seeing this working, and evolving.
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alan2525
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Shame it didn't play ball on the first firing, but once those leaks are sorted and you've got to run it all in a bit - it should work brilliantly!
All the ingredients are there and it shouldn't have a problem getting enough heat into the boiler with that burner!
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Shame it didn't play first time. Any clues to why that bogie wasn't behaving?
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I bet it will be quite a brute once you get it sorted out. So frustrating, I can tell.
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What was the problem with it in the end??
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| syrtismajor wrote: | | Shame it didn't play first time. Any clues to why that bogie wasn't behaving? |
Not really, it was running on air, but locked up on steam. It was fitted with the upgrade kit - not new cylinders, but piston and glands replaced for ones with O-rings. The other end is in fact standard Mamod stuff. A little - or maybe a lot of tinkering will have it going, but with a project of this magnitude I would have been quite suprised if it ran OK at the first attempt!
Quite a lot to do but I am looking forward to it!
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