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Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad week, and it's only friday

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#1

Oy, such a week it’s been already.

#1 - Monday my AccuCraft Garratt starting behaving strangely, and emitting smoke from places smoke should not come - and a funny smell, too. Turns out that the heat shield under the smoke-box isn’t ‘shieldy’ enuff, and it has burnt through a couple of inches of connecting cables from front to rear servos…

#2 - Last night running my ‘Countess/Erl the Loster’ the superheater tube came unsoldered, allowing steam to turn into water where it should not. Instant shut-down there, too.

Shux, guys, that means I’m left with my two and three-cylinder Shays, my RH and a couple of German Pacifics…how am I going to cope?

'spose I could always run some sparkie stuff…

tac
www.ovgrs.org
Supporter of the Cape Meares Lighthouse Restoration fund

#2

Sorry to hear about the failures.
Are they common?

After our one and only visit to Kenya and seeing the real live Garratts in the Nairobi Rail museum, I’ve become a convert!

Official link: http://krc.co.ke/krmuseum.asp?folder=.247.236.22.26.107.73.157.172.59.57.30.204.252.224.125.196.189.188.84.177.240.233.64.175.41.7.241.0.205.201.134.63.9.18.0.177.208.96.202.254
Unofficial link: http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/Kenya/nrm.html
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi_Railway_Museum

#3

Terry, there are reasons to stay away from all that fire and heat! I trust that you have been able to make repairs. Now tomorrow go to the Sunset Valley layout and run the Ruby, if I can get close to the track that is!

Paul

#4

I had to pull the smokebox off my traction engine to get at a stuck washout plug, Two days of unco-operative bolts rust and soot everywhere… The plug came out, but I need a new one (only $10 or so) But the smokebox probably isn’t worth putting back on, either… And getting a new one rolled will be about $250

#5

Some days you be the bug…some days you be the windshield…:wink:

#6

Bummer :frowning:

#7

Oh dear.

#8

Hope you’re able to repair the locos TAC. :slight_smile:

#9

Gee whiz, guys…the Garrat will require some extensive re-wiring of the front-to-rear servo loom, installation of some further heat-shielding, and heat-proofing of a number of areas that seem to be prone to suffering from the effects of flue gases…

As for the ‘Countess/Erl’ - well, that will need some dismantling and use of silver solder in place of what right now appears to have been soft solder - VERY odd thing to use in the area of a gas-fired firebox…

All WILL be well, alevai.

Thanks for the sympathy, gentlemen - sometimes what’s really needed is a figurative guy-type hug and a pat on the fur.

Best

tac
www.ovgrs.org
Supporter of the Cape Meares Lighthouse Restoration Fund