We collected our AccuCraft ‘Countess’ yesterday.
Ran it last night.
It went very well.
-4c here today so we won’t be running outdoors.
We will name it ‘EARL’, not after the Earl of Powys like the original, but after our lobster.
tac
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Hey Tac,
Very nice !
http://www.accucraft.com/index.php?show_aux_page=150
How hard is it to change gauges? (32mm for 2’ gauge prototype/45mm for just under 3’ gauge (33-2/3")prototype)
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Joe Satnik said:
Hey Tac,Very nice !
http://www.accucraft.com/index.php?show_aux_page=150
How hard is it to change gauges? (32mm for 2’ gauge prototype/45mm for just under 3’ gauge (33-2/3")prototype)
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Mornin’, Joe!! Thanks for the call! Although the original is actually 2ft 6in [the only railway with this gauge in the entire British Isles] changing the model to 32mm gauge is no big deal. the axles have indents on them, and it’s a simple matter of slacking off the grub-screws, resetting the wheels, and tightening them up again.
Done.
Have a look on youtube at the Summerlands chuff-pipe conversions to this loco.
Besp
tac
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Tac,
You said: “We will name it ‘EARL’, … after our lobster.”
Is Iggy jealous?
Is your lobster alive in an aquarium?
Joe
Joe Satnik said:
Tac,You said: “We will name it ‘EARL’, … after our lobster.”
Is Iggy jealous?
Is your lobster alive in an aquarium?
Joe
Ah, Nossir, our lobster is a memento of good times spent at Cannon Beach OR. He lives in a tupperware container with all the chocolate pennies and stuff, and our granddaughter has to ask him v politely if she can have one.
He is called Earl after the well-know phrase or saying - used when encouragingly somebody to take advantage of golden opportunities out there, as in - ‘Well, m’boy, the world is your lobster!’’
I hope that makes some kind of sense. If not, it really doesn’t matter.
Best
tac
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PS - ig says it’s a never no-mind situation, and his beek is most definitley not out of joint.
OK - SERIOUS NOW FOR A MINUTE!!!
THE REVIEWER IN THE BRITISH MAG GARDEN RAIL NOTED THAT THE ACCESSORY BAGS CONTAINED A LOT OF SMALL BITS AND PIECES, INCLUDING A PIECE OF TUBE TO EXTEND THE RATHER SHORT SYRINGE.
THIS PIECE OF TUBE IS NOT PLASTIC - IT IS IN FACT A SPARE SIGHT GLASS, MADE OF QUITE FRAGILE THIN WALL GLASS, IN THE MANNER OF SUCH ITEMS.
DO NOT TRY TO USE IT TO FIT OVER THE SPIGOT OF THE SYRINGE AS IT WILL SPLINTER AND MAY CAUSE A NASTY CUT.
tac
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And how did you find this out, TAC?
I was just thinking the same thing…
Steve Featherkile said:Well, I'll be totally truthful with you about this, and no funning.
And how did you find this out, TAC?
I read reports on models with a very jaundiced eye-trumpet, and it just seemed to me to be very strange to read in the report that any manufacturer would provide such an item as an extension tube for a water filling syringe, so I put that thought on the mental back-burner for a while until I got my own loco and could see WTH he was aiming at.
When I finally got the usual AccuCraft mummification off, there were three little plastic bags of bits to examine, and one of them contained a set of name and number plates, and a long thin item - about 1/4" in diameter, and 2.5" long, carefully wrapped up in a layer of tissue paper. Why on earth would anybody take the trouble to wrap up a pice of plastic tube? - I asked myself. So I carefully unwrapped it, just in case it was fragile, and found what appeared to me to be a piece of clear glass tubing that was precisely the same dimensionally as the sight glass I had in front of me in the locomotive. When I gently tapped it with my nail it made a ‘tink’ noise, not a ‘tonk’ like plastic.
I looked around for the ‘sections of tube’ mentioned in the review, and came to the conclusion that this was it, as there was certainly nothing else approaching that description.
When you spend as much money as we have to to join in the live-steam fun, you take things VERY seriously. Just about everything we have over here that is sourced in the USA costs around twice as much as you guys pay for it, and we necessarily begrudge that a whole lot. Even though this little loco is a UK-sourced item, it still represents almost $2000 of my hard-obtained $$$, and I wasn’t about to let anything contribute to spoiling it.
Best
tac
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Terry A de C Foley said:My Accucraft Shay came with such an extension tube for the water syringe. It was very flexible vinyl tubing though :D
[i][/i] ...and it just seemed to me to be very strange to read in the report that any manufacturer would provide such an item as an extension tube for a water filling syringe...
Jon Radder said:Jon - I have five AccuCraft steamies, and not one of them has been provided with any such item. Maybe it's a US only kinda thang. [wink]Terry A de C Foley said:My Accucraft Shay came with such an extension tube for the water syringe. It was very flexible vinyl tubing though :D
[i][/i] ...and it just seemed to me to be very strange to read in the report that any manufacturer would provide such an item as an extension tube for a water filling syringe...
Best
tac
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It may have been something the dealer added to the package. I can’t recall if it was in the box with the Shay, or packed separately with items like the water bottle and Goodall valve. The steam oil syringe also had one.
All of mine came with the little tube. All of one, that is. The little Shay…
Jon Radder said:No steam oil syringe this time. No other little tubes made of plastic. No water bottle - never had a water bottle...
It may have been something the dealer added to the package. I can't recall if it was in the box with the Shay, or packed separately with items like the water bottle and Goodall valve. The steam oil syringe also had one.
No sign that the packaging had ever been opened either. and only one set of name and number plates. Ian Pearse told me this morning that that has happened quite a lot - usually customers only get the ‘Countess’ plates etc and not ‘Earl’.
tac
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Just has a 43 minute run in the cool morning weather…very smooth - about 20smph.
Sorry I can’t post the movies even onto YT - the new iMac doesn’t like them.
Well, I’ve got news for Apple - I don’t like this $£%%^&** iMac either, and I’m offloading it as soon as I can do it.
It doesn’t like any of my 35,000+ images - won’t resize them to include in emails, hell, it doesn’t even talk to any other video link system. And saving stuff onto an external drive is a no-no, unless you have the Apple 'time machine - at around $500…
What a pure waste of money it has bin. 
tac
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