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Today, Matthew, I will be main fixing my reverse-operating throttle servo on the Accucraft Beyer-Garratt #130 - 'Donald Pearse CME'.
The original servo having given up the ghost sometime after the loco came back from dear old pal Dave Mees of Abbeybach Engineeing Services, situated on a hillside near Llanrwst GC, he promptly sent me a new one which was of the wing flap variety - the arm rotates in the wrong sense.
After a call last weekend, he mole me a servo reverser set, which arrove yesterday, having been posted through the letter box of a puzzled neighbour three hice down the street. Removing the dummy water tank at the front, cunningly secured by six fine screws instead of the usual not-quite fitting hex-head bolts [a very worth-while Mees mod, he admitted with fetching modesty], revealed a veritable rat's nest of multi-coloured wiring, batteries, receiver and the hefty all-metal-geared Futaba servo that worked the front valve gear event. It was simply a matter of inserting the servo reverser mini section into the appropriate part of the loom, and checking that all was well almost two feet away in the cab.
It was.
If it were not for the fact that Mr Dunnyrail and I are presently sharing a humungous rainstorm - he in Sneots and me some nine miles distant - that preventing me from having a trial run - that must therefor wait until choosdy.
The original servo having given up the ghost sometime after the loco came back from dear old pal Dave Mees of Abbeybach Engineeing Services, situated on a hillside near Llanrwst GC, he promptly sent me a new one which was of the wing flap variety - the arm rotates in the wrong sense.
After a call last weekend, he mole me a servo reverser set, which arrove yesterday, having been posted through the letter box of a puzzled neighbour three hice down the street. Removing the dummy water tank at the front, cunningly secured by six fine screws instead of the usual not-quite fitting hex-head bolts [a very worth-while Mees mod, he admitted with fetching modesty], revealed a veritable rat's nest of multi-coloured wiring, batteries, receiver and the hefty all-metal-geared Futaba servo that worked the front valve gear event. It was simply a matter of inserting the servo reverser mini section into the appropriate part of the loom, and checking that all was well almost two feet away in the cab.
It was.
If it were not for the fact that Mr Dunnyrail and I are presently sharing a humungous rainstorm - he in Sneots and me some nine miles distant - that preventing me from having a trial run - that must therefor wait until choosdy.
