Accucraft Hunslet arrives

Gremlin · Post by **Gremlin** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:13 pm

My Hunslet arrived today, this is just after unpacking

Narrow Minded · Post by **Narrow Minded** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:23 pm

Very nice indeed! - first time I've actually seen one in that colour

tom_tom_go · Post by **tom_tom_go** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:11 pm

Fancy running at mine this weekend

steamie1 · Post by **steamie1** » Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:59 pm

Ooh Ooh more pics please. Is it sm32 your running on if so can we have some frontal shots...ooh ooh yes please

Gremlin · Post by **Gremlin** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 3:02 pm

PM sent Tom

I did take some video but my wifes camera records .mov but windows doesn't read that format.

steamie1 · Post by **steamie1** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 6:54 pm

ooh ooh bung it on You tube and then link it? failing that photos..Please...Greedy lot aren't we!

Chris Cairns · Post by **Chris Cairns** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 8:03 pm

I use Format Factory to convert these Quicktime files into another file format that Windows Movie Maker will work with.

http://www.pcfreetime.com/index.html

Chris Cairns.

Gremlin · Post by **Gremlin** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:17 pm

thanks for both suggestions, I tried the Youtube one and it worked so that's the easy route for now.
Here is the first run on rails, but does show a problem at the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3p4qIyZ0sI

steamie1 · Post by **steamie1** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:28 pm

Arhh well done! Thanks for all your efforts and much appreciated. Is it 45mm track by they?

Gremlin · Post by **Gremlin** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:32 pm

I'll keep tinkering, see if I can string a bit more together, never tried this before. It's running on Peco SM32.

steamie1 · Post by **steamie1** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 5:06 pm

I thought it would need 45mm to look ok but looking at it so far I could be wrong, nice choice, enjoy. Thank you for the time sharing the sights with us.

railwaygardener · Post by **railwaygardener** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:31 pm

Some photos and video of my Hunslet (on both gauges) are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/railwaygar ... 227710527/

Derek Pratt

Gremlin · Post by **Gremlin** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:39 pm

Hi Derek
glad to see mine isn't the only jungle out there.
Yours looks to run better than mine, did you have to tinker or is that straight out of the box? There is a discussion over on the 7/8ths lounge, there are a few people with a problem of the exhaust shooting up the chimney and a push is needed to get over this point.
I found it to be an incredibly messy runner so made a chuf pipe for mine, I understand Summerlands have the issue in hand.
David

railwaygardener · Post by **railwaygardener** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:57 pm

The Hunslet has just the mass needed to drive a flail through my undergrowth, which is as good a reason as any for buying one...

I was pleasantly surprised how smoothly it ran out of the box. On my Walmer Bridge layout it was very controllable, so the precaution of stationing gloved catchers at each corner was not required.

Unpleasantly surprised at how much yellow gunk was thrown out of the chimney. My Lawley is a bit of an 'oiler' but the Hunslet looks as if it has some chronic dribbling disease. Does a chuff pipe cure it?

Derek

Gremlin · Post by **Gremlin** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:43 pm

OK managed to get a bit more video clips together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpB5RbiNmmY

The chuff pipe solves the problem of the yellow oily slug crawling out the top of the chimney and a generally antisocial engine.

I am very surprised these have come over with the problems they have. I'm not one to knock Accucraft engines, I have a few and think they are great value and generally good runners.
I know Ian is aware of the problem and I'm sure will sort it out, just very disappointing at this stage.

Derek. I noticed on your video on the indoor track it does stall at one point and appears to have the steam going up the stack but does overcome it and restart.

tom_tom_go · Post by **tom_tom_go** » Sun Jun 23, 2013 7:31 pm

Despite the problems these locos are experiencing David brought his along today to run on my line:

It has certainly got me thinking about building my Riverdale coal fired Amy into 7/8ths!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sun Jun 23, 2013 7:33 pm

tried watching the YouTube video, it say's it's private, and won't let me watch it.

tom_tom_go · Post by **tom_tom_go** » Sun Jun 23, 2013 7:36 pm

I just noticed that myself before you posted so have changed the setting, apologies!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sun Jun 23, 2013 7:37 pm

cheers.

railwaygardener · Post by **railwaygardener** » Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:38 pm

My grease monkey ran well today on day 2 of the Woodvale Rally here at windswept Southport, despite the reverser being jammed in forward gear!

A cursory examination reveals no obvious reason, the mechanism just seems to be stuck. I'm reluctant to probe further, as I may well do more harm than good. A phone call to the dealer seems required. Bit disappointed now.

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