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Posted: **Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:26 pm**

Pendo Pilot:62638 wrote:
jez kirkwood:62625 wrote:Just ordered meths burner, water top up, uprated safety and regulator :D
Isn't this always how mamod fever starts? Next will be boiler upgrade & next thing you will be in the help me section asking why your uprated pistons have blown apart. :twisted:

Bloody addictive though & that one is looking superb. Theres just something about mamods, love them or loathe them. I have 3 RH & 2 accy steamers & yet every now & then I gas up (yes more mamod fever mods) the thing & just see if the wind / thermal conditions / lunar alignment are good for the best mamod run ever! Usually followed by a few hours in my shed staring at it, willing it to actually work!
One day mine will steam freely, it has proved it will do good with enough psi!

I personally believe that Mamod/Janets run on small psionic-phase drives...when the driver's happy, it fuels the engine. When he's moody or anxious, it translates across to the engine as well. Daft?

Posted: **Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:33 pm**

dougrail:62710 wrote:
Pendo Pilot:62638 wrote:
jez kirkwood:62625 wrote:Just ordered meths burner, water top up, uprated safety and regulator :D
Isn't this always how mamod fever starts? Next will be boiler upgrade & next thing you will be in the help me section asking why your uprated pistons have blown apart. :twisted:

Bloody addictive though & that one is looking superb. Theres just something about mamods, love them or loathe them. I have 3 RH & 2 accy steamers & yet every now & then I gas up (yes more mamod fever mods) the thing & just see if the wind / thermal conditions / lunar alignment are good for the best mamod run ever! Usually followed by a few hours in my shed staring at it, willing it to actually work!
One day mine will steam freely, it has proved it will do good with enough psi!
I personally believe that Mamod/Janets run on small psionic-phase drives...when the driver's happy, it fuels the engine. When he's moody or anxious, it translates across to the engine as well. Daft?

Nope, that's never worked with me

It's always been the other way round!

Posted: **Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:00 am**

Latest progress - started cutting out the new footplate, still got a lot of filing to do! This is cut from 3mm steel plate which should give a bit of extra weight...

Posted: **Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:20 am**

What is actually -left- of the original engine?

Posted: **Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:35 pm**

OK so the beast runs!!!!!!
Still got lots of work to do, but here's a short vid of her doing a circuit of the garden this afternoon. Off like a rocket at the start then she slows to a halt on the baloon loop.........only to start off all by herself just as I walk accross...........
I have had her running slower....honest!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=882tQYry ... er&list=UL

Posted: **Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:01 pm**

Hmmm......

The penny's just dropped about Maud Foster. Lived between High Ferry and Grand Sluice, didn't she?

Posted: **Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:45 pm**

By way of explanation - I grew up in Lincolnshire...

Peter in AZ

Posted: **Mon Jan 02, 2012 9:25 pm**

Confused I googled it and came up with a windmill.

She works well on the video great engineering.

Posted: **Mon Jan 02, 2012 10:51 pm**

Sir Clothem Cap:64194 wrote:Confused I googled it and came up with a windmill.

You are closer than you realise!

Posted: **Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:01 pm**

Maud Foster is a windmill which forms part of the drainage and reclaimation works near Boston, Lincs.. There were quite a few more down in the Parts of Holland down around Spalding. Maud Foster was also a signalbox on the GNR I cannot remember whether it was on the Boston-Lincoln line or the East Lincolnshire Railway. The latter I think. There is also a place called Mavis Enderby in that neck of the woods and we will draw a discrete veil over Hannah-cum-Hagnaby!

Peter in AZ

Posted: **Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:27 am**

ahh got it now, I just didn't have the local knowledge

Posted: **Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:17 am**

Well it's over a year since I posted anything on this thread - for most of that time Maud has sat on the shelf above my workbench. A few weeks ago however my nine year old decided that she would like to spend some time in the workshop with me learning to use some of the tools etc. We needed a project to work on and Maud was an obvious choice. We changed the original plan slightly and used more of the original Mamod parts. Maud is nearly finished, just a few more details to add so here's a couple of pics......

Posted: **Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:40 am**

That's looking great.

Interesting to see that you still have a riveted boiler back plate, obviously been very lucky not to have had a sight glass plastic failure yet.

Chris Cairns.

Posted: **Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:23 pm**

Nice work! I like that

Posted: **Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:25 am**

Well done!! Always liked Haywood-esque locos!

Posted: **Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:58 pm**

Maud on test this morning....... terrible sound quality, but she ran very well, happily managing six circuits between water & meths top ups. Next job is to increase the fuel capacity .
http://youtu.be/IzErw7dNppU

Posted: **Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:40 pm**

I like that very much

Love the Heywood look to her too - meths fired?

Posted: **Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:02 pm**

dougrail:80269 wrote:I like that very much Love the Heywood look to her too - meths fired?

Yes, meths fired standard MSS burner. I fitted a brass baffle plate between the frames at the front and blanked the two side vents in the frames which has improved performance massively. It could just do with a larger tank............but I'm working on that.

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:43 am**

I like your gentleman's estate loco.Is the regulator dummy?I can't see a steam pipe coming from it.

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:01 pm**

The regulator is fully functioning - it's not very easy to see the pipe in the photos, it's a standard MSS valve with a new handle.

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Finally joined the Mamod club.....