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pauly
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 Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: TE1A problems (again) |
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my TE1A has never been a good runner except in stationary but today after I had attempted to get it going the running gear was blown right off in a miniture steam explosion 
lucky no one was hurt later found the cylinder in the grass
I am at wits end at what to do.
I think it might be cursed 
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bessytractor
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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what happens? I have some experiance of duff TE1a models
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pauly
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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it sort of struggles and steam pours from the cylinder and I have even replaced it with no effect when the accident happened it had struggled like always for a few feet and stopped nothing unusual there but when I gave it a nudge forward it just disappeared in a cloud of steam.
I have been over every inch of the engine and cant understand whats wrong. 
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bessytractor
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rod the pipes through with a thin bit of wire, its possible some dirt is stuck in the exhaust pipes. This would act like an exhaust throttle like on the TE1.
This cured my ones crap behaviour.
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DLR
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| mine had this problem. i found it was to do with the tension spring find a sping loaded pen and put that on the shorten it untill it runs better |
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pauly
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| bessytractor wrote: | rod the pipes through with a thin bit of wire, its possible some dirt is stuck in the exhaust pipes. This would act like an exhaust throttle like on the TE1.
This cured my ones crap behaviour. |
its working now and at a very realistic speed  
now it can do the job I bought it for hauling slate and equipment around the mine and railway
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bessytractor
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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wow I was right for once???
YAY 
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Les
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| pauly wrote: | | bessytractor wrote: | rod the pipes through with a thin bit of wire, its possible some dirt is stuck in the exhaust pipes. This would act like an exhaust throttle like on the TE1.
This cured my ones crap behaviour. |
its working now and at a very realistic speed
now it can do the job I bought it for hauling slate and equipment around the mine and railway
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What did you do to it??
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pauly
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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gave the exhaust pipes a clean
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johnreid
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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You might want to put a drop of Locktite on the Cylinder Screw too so it doesnt come unscrewed.
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mc_mc
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Glad you've found all the bits.
You're not a real Mamod owner till you've experienced the flying piston effect!
Check things are tight (but not too tight) before every run and it shouldn't happen again. |
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