Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

The B 40 is a lovely beast - I've a green one with yellow ends ...

They run well as well.

Al.

The B 40 is a lovely beast - I've a green one with yellow ends ...

They run well as well.

 

Al.

Spot on Atom. Need the green one now!!

X1 Hornby Thomas & Friends R9082 Accessories Pack 2 (2005)

GNR-Gordon-4 (HF)

Yes, you remove the body - one screw and a couple of 'lugs' at the other end- under the coal bunker I think.

There's a small brass screw if I remember holding the lid on to the synchrosmoke, and it should have a felt pad in it - which you 'lightly soak' in oil.

Does the piston work when the loco's moving - is it even connected?

Al.

Several sales later, another 'NRM replica' addition, albeit a little older.

I sold my BR split chassis Green Arrow, and purchased this quite difficult to find LNER one, 'as preserved' - it is DCC compatible should I ever venture that way, eventually ....

Al.

My one and only Synchrosmoke Triang loco (I think it was a Jinty...but not sure) that I had as a child, had the smoke oil dripped from an 'eye dropper' down the chimney onto the pad and heating element. Not saying that this is the correct technique for this engine, but it might be........certainly a lot less hassle than removing the body. Look down the chimney to see if you can see the smoke unit below.

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Remember to use the correct smoke oil......'Suethe Smoke Oil' these days......do not use some of the oils that you see mentioned in Internet articles and on YouTube. Like 'baby oil' for example. Baby oil and others will gunge up and eventually burnout the heating coil.

Makes sense Chris - don't see why you should have to dismantle just to 'top up'.

Al.

The synchro smoke does indeed work, when looking down the chimney all you see is a tiny hole, but once body is off, you can see the price with tiny hole  simply pops off the top allowing you to add oil, on my other synchro smoke loco you are able to add through the chimney as the hole is in a recessed area in the smoke unit.. and the top of that one doesn't pop off

Good evening everyone,at the weekend,I managed to purchase some items that were advertised locally to me,these were:

Airfix class 31

Battle space jinty

Tri ang Polly

Hornby Mark two coach

Tri ang murgatroyds tank wagon

Hornby Mark one coach

Early Tri ang coach

All for the bargain price of £20.

Apparently they were a loft find and were filthy.

I spent most of the day on Sunday cleaning them all up,changing brushes,where needed and lightly oiling where needed and now they all run as good as new.

The Airfix class 31 is my first Airfix loco and I'm quite impressed with it.

Also,while on a day trip to swanage recently,I managed to purchase a Tri ang jinty and a battle space plane launching wagon,for £8.The jinty had a loose driving wheel on one axle,so I replaced the bush and now it's ok and the plane launching wagon is missing the plane,but for £8,I can't grumble and I also purchased a Triang Baltic tank loco,which also had a loose wheel on one axle,which I repaired.Sometime during its life,a previous owner decided to paint it Matt black,but as I only paid £10 for it,who am I to complain?