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I can't be bothered to think about a scratch build making it even worse.... and my order from dream steam ain't here so I can't even play trains :( If its 45mm then thats cuz they have no wheels in yet (either end of this week or beginning of next they are hoping), if its anything else I found thei...

I think when I rang him an answer phone said he was on Holiday, not sure when that was until though, could be next week but sure it was early August...

Having had mine do this after just 6 fire ups I would Listen to Mike if I was you. I had the exact same problem and Mike said to take the jet out, fire gas backwards through it, reinstall using PTFE take, give it a 5 second count of just gas before you light it. and hey presto, it worked, no messing...

SNR:57059 wrote:280 miles

Impressive stuff Whats the furthest distance in one day?

P.S. I hope you have a comfy saddle, lol Also I hope the weather is nice for you, nothing worse than crap weather when you're cycling.

Wow, I just played this back on a computer with sound, totally awesome sound at half speed

i think you just have to accept these things are luxury items and will cost what they cost, the demand is not massive and as such the price will always be high. Besides, its cheap compared to some hobbies that are about :D Not bad looking engines these two, but i think I would rather have some other...

I didn't have the advantage of sound however it looked absolutely amazing from here. Very nice

Awesome going How far is the round trip?

Well a big thank you to Mike O. for his help on this one. I would never have beleived that doing something the same as you thought you had already done it could fix it for you :) Anyway, did what it said in the instructions and what Mike said, and low and behold, this time it fixed it. I am thinking...

Some of the Leaders have a problem with the superheaters springing up to the burner once they have been warm afew times. One way to solve this is to take the superheater out and bend it away from the poker burner. The other way (and I know a few who have done this sucessfully) is to get the loco up...

Hi peeps, I wonder if someone can help? I have an Accucraft Leader which fired up correctly the first half a dozen times or so. AFter that its been nothing but a pain to light with it only lighting out the front of the boiler near the chimney. The only way to stop this is to cover one of the air ven...