Member postings for Terry Chapman

Vaccuum being created in the tank, possibly? Removing the cap allows air to enter, solving the isuue?

Rob

Terry, do try to get along to a club or at least have someone with experience of loco running as there are a lot of little points you need to know to avoid damaging the loco and boiler during start up and cool down.

You should also track down the drawings and articles in ME if you can as they will tell you and show you where the controls are.

Terry ! The big handle makes it go. The little screw thingy on the left decides which way. The knob at the bottom of the glass tube is a gauge blow down. The one near the pressure gauge may be the blower. The square nut at the bottom should be the boiler blow down. Top left looks like a feed water control as I think is the bottom left.. Does this help ? Noel.

Over the years there has been repeated lamentation of the lack of a society for people interested in 3 1/2" gauge locomotives.

A few abortive attempts have been made to set up a group, or even a forum but none have succeeded.

This thread is an attempt to encourage discussion on a gauge which combines affordability and transportability while still being large enough to haul passengers. This is aimed at electric, steam and other forms of propulsion, which is why it's under the general topic. Also, I hope it could be of interest to those (like me) with wider interests who could find electric 3 1/2" gauge a relatively quick way into this side of the hobby.

If there is sufficient interest participants' could perhaps meet up at rallies or other events, and who knows, eventually a club or society could emerge.

But this is all up to you. perhaps we could start by folks with 3 1/2" gauge models telling us who they are and what locos they have?

Over the years there has been repeated lamentation of the lack of a society for people interested in 3 1/2" gauge locomotives.

A few abortive attempts have been made to set up a group, or even a forum but none have succeeded.

This thread is an attempt to encourage discussion on a gauge which combines affordability and transportability while still being large enough to haul passengers. This is aimed at electric, steam and other forms of propulsion, which is why it's under the general topic. Also, I hope it could be of interest to those (like me) with wider interests who could find electric 3 1/2" gauge a relatively quick way into this side of the hobby.

If there is sufficient interest participants' could perhaps meet up at rallies or other events, and who knows, eventually a club or society could emerge.

But this is all up to you. perhaps we could start by folks with 3 1/2" gauge models telling us who they are and what locos they have?

I use dehumidifier water (and so do colleagues) in car radiators and to top up Lead-acid batteries. And if does not smell either.

A UK shed without a dehumidifier is a shed with rusty tools, sooner or later.

Cheers, Tim

I havnt got one and my tools etc are fine,the 'shed' cost £3500 and is insulated and has a tube heater on 24/7 during winter!!!

You need to join the Groups.io gauge1railways forum. You don't need to be a member of G1MRA to join that forum but obviously you will want to join them to have somewhere to run it.
Welcome to smaller scale model engineering.

If it’s text can you scan it and paste the text into Google Translate or some similar APP?

Japanese? Who did you buy the kit from? Can they not help?

Beautiful little loco but learning to read Japanese instructions would take the project to a whole new level.

Hello Terry,

Better still, pin them together.

Brian

Thanks for posting Terry

All looking good.

Happy Xmas to you

br

Making progress....