Here's the Loco prior to disassembly and repainting! The loco was in good condition however there was some burning to the paint on one of the side tanks and a bit of paint damage where the nameplate had come off and taken the paint with it. I was reluctant to repaint but it really will benefit from it!
At least I now know how it works now!
Valve Gear
This is a shot of the valve gear on the loco, cylinders are piston valve, rather than slide valve and the valvegear is eccentric but dressed up to look a bit like walsherts. What I do like about this loco is the simplicity of the various rods, they are all flat and stamped out of sheet, various brass spacers are used to give clearance. Unfortunately all of the rods are pinned together with the end flattened off to secure them. There are only a couple of bolts on each side so it's not deigned to be removed for maintaining the cylinders replacing parts etc.
Reversing Valve
Reversing is achieved by means of a reversing valve as per mamod. The difference here is the position and orieientation of the valve. It's controlled by a servo, a long linkage runs the entire length along the underside of the loco.
Gas Burner
Here's the gas burner, those slots are quite wide and there's a lot of them which must add up to quite a large area! I think I'll wrap some copper mesh around the burner to help to even out the heat. As the burner is quite large it's easy to turn the gas up too high! I'll think about fitting a secondary fine regulator on the gas so I can just use the valve on the burner for turning it on and off. There's a little sleeve over the tube, like on a bunsen burner for regulating the heat of the burner too.
Gas Tank
This is the gas tank, it's pretty large and has some nicely pressed ends, I like the way they are domed on the ends.
More pictures to follow!
