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And I thought Tag was 'dyed in the wool' steam
Tag has a couple of diesel outline locomotives. A Roundhouse "Little John" and the Mamod "Boulton". Both have had the Tag Gorton special treatment.
Mamod "Boulton" Diesel Outline Locomotive.
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Tag has a couple of diesel outline locomotives. A Roundhouse "Little John" and the Mamod "Boulton". Both have had the Tag Gorton special treatment.
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Old air horn.
New air horn.I didn't like the air horn as first fitted, so I hunted through my spares box and found this neat brass air horn. I think it looks a lot better and more realistic.
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Megan has now been fitted with a Timpdon GT radio control system.
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Megan now completely finished. I'm rather pleased with the end result.
Very nice. How do you do the red nameplates on the loco?
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Peter Lucas
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Quite simple Peter, paint them red, allow paint to cure, then buff them to expose the raised letters and border.
Rhinochugger
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Rhinochugger
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They're one of the few, now, although I'm sure there's somebody else who does plain brass, but the name escapes me - it's an age thing
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Megan just prior to stripping her gears.
I'm rather miffed today. My seven week old Boulton has stripped it's gears. Until today the locomotive had hauled fairly light loads. Today I tried it with six Accucraft wagons and brakevan, after moving a couple of yards the locomotive literally ground to a halt. A grinding noise came from the gearbox. As the gearbox is integral to the motor it looks like I will have to contact Mamod for a completely new motor.
The alternative is to fit a more robust motor and gearbox such as supplied by Roundhouse Engineering.
I'm rather miffed today. My seven week old Boulton has stripped it's gears. Until today the locomotive had hauled fairly light loads. Today I tried it with six Accucraft wagons and brakevan, after moving a couple of yards the locomotive literally ground to a halt. A grinding noise came from the gearbox. As the gearbox is integral to the motor it looks like I will have to contact Mamod for a completely new motor.The alternative is to fit a more robust motor and gearbox such as supplied by Roundhouse Engineering.
Rhinochugger
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Mamod say that it's an MFA motor (I assume with gear head) and that's a pretty common make, there must be hundreds running around on our garden railways, to say nothing of your battery drills etc (Como is one of the other makes).
It sounds as if you've been unlucky there, Paul
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How are things going with repairs to Megan? Always good to hear about "the after-sales experience".
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Megan is going to be fitted with a Roundhouse Engineering chassis. It comes as a kit and I'm just in the process of painting it. Hopefully it will be assembled and fitted by the weekend.
But what responce did you get from Mamod? Putting new running gear on it is actually replacing more than half the original loco
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It is indeed Paul. I tried ringing Mamod a few times, I never got through. So I decided that the Roundhouse chassis would be a suitable replacement. The gears appear to be far more robust so I will give it work out.
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You'll have to let us know how it goes, it's bound to be a populareal conversion
Rhinochugger
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Well, that's a b****y poor response from an outfit that's just launched a new model, and has been given such free publicity from the CFR.
I can't see many people streaming to their door after this
Shame that you'he had to go to the expense of changing the chassis - the MFA motors usually give good service, and I can't think that it was overloaded with that train
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Well, that's a b****y poor response from an outfit that's just launched a new model, and has been given such free publicity from the CFR.
I can't see many people streaming to their door after this
Shame that you'he had to go to the expense of changing the chassis - the MFA motors usually give good service, and I can't think that it was overloaded with that train
I have to say that I agree - they should fix it, replace it or at the very least give you a significant refund for your costs in rectifying the problems with it yourself, Casey..... did you try emailing them?
Jon.
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Roundhouse chassis installed in the Boulton.
Mamod chassis, motor and gearbox.
Well, that's a b****y poor response from an outfit that's just launched a new model, and has been given such free publicity from the CFR.
I can't see many people streaming to their door after this
Shame that you'he had to go to the expense of changing the chassis - the MFA motors usually give good service, and I can't think that it was overloaded with that train
I don't really have a beef with Mamod. I understand that they can be very busy at times and can't answer the telephone. They are within east driving distance for me and I could have taken the Boulton to them. However I've had experience of these motor/gearboxes failing before and I'm not sure that another one wouldn't suffer the same failure. So I decided on the Roundhouse chassis, the gears are far more substantial and are similar to my other Roundhouse locomotives.