Thanks Keith!
Please have a look about for any scrap, unwanted Mamod/MSS parts that you no longer need - regardless of condition.
Monday 16 February 2015
Ready to roll!
I'd like to thank Keith Wilson for the kind donation of a set of wheels. They do need a little work to be perfect and useable, but that is exactly what I want for this little project.
Friday 13 February 2015
Picking up the batten!
I am proud to say that the parts stock for getting this engine built is moving very quickly - quicker than I expected!
Yesterday I received two parcels of goodies from Matt Nunn and my good friend Doug Roberts.
Matt was kind enough to go rummaging through his scrap pile on his layout and kindly send me the parts below for a very tiny sum (postage costs really) and Doug sent the items shown in the bottom picture.
Many thanks for your help and support guys and don't forget to have a look in your spares/parts boxes for any broken, warn out, butchered or rusty unwanted Mamod/Mss loco parts, thank you.
Tuesday 10 February 2015
More developments...
Yesterday I received one of the more crucial parts for the loco, a boiler!
Peter Jones (aka superbiker_uk on mamodforums) has kindly donated this boiler. He advises that it will need some remedial work to make it a working pressure vessel, but that is something that I can do.
Thank you so very much Peter, you are a star! :-)
Tuesday 3 February 2015
The first steps
Hi everyone,
The Charity Loco has stepped up a gear, we now have our first parts for the build kindly donated by Kevin Gregory. Thanks Kevin, your generosity is very much appreciated! :-) Kevin has donated some original parts as well as a few nice upgraded parts that will make this whole project necessary.
Please don't forget that there are still a lot of bits and pieces left required to finish this little money raiser, so please check your tool/parts box and your scrap pile for any Mamod/MSS parts. Anything is welcome regardless of condition, be it warn out, rusty, butchered, broken, or just the wrong colour.
Thursday 29 January 2015
Putting out the feelers
A couple of days ago I put out the feelers on trying to get some parts together for building this little loco. I posted on several forums and also a traders group of facebook. With mixed results to be honest! A couple of good friends have agreed to send over some bugs and pieces to get me started, they know who they are!
Then I thought why not ask some retailers? This morning I put together an email and sent it off to a few retailers, not expecting much to happen and to my surprise I was offered a few bits and pieces from a few sources.
The first one! I'm organising a charity event.
Hi all,
This is a new one for me on two counts, it is my first blog and my first post on a blog (please bear with me!).
This is where I will keep you all up to date with regard to a charity event I am organising, but using a steam model to do it. Those of you who know me will know that I enjoy tinkering with live steam and in particular Mamod steam locomotives and getting to run 'just so'.
The objective of this event is to create a Mamod/MSS based steam locomotive to carry out as far as possible, a timed run for as long as possible. The loco itself I am looking to build will hopefully cost as little as possible and I am looking to anyone who can spare that odd part, whether it be broken, warn out, rusty, damaged, modified, butchered, anything as long as it is essentially whole. I have acquired a strong knowledge base for these engines and know how to make them tick. My mindset is literally repair over replace, as its more fun! So if you have any parts lying around in your toolbox/parts bin that you no longer need, please give me a shout!
Once I have built the locomotive, I will be looking to gain sponsorship for the timed run. Basically I will set it up so that sponsorship is by the minute, and whatever the run finishes up at is what the time will be. The only stipulation on the run is that the loco must remain 'in steam' or have a pressure inside the boiler to count as a continuous run.
In terms of frequency, I would like to start this as an annual event and hopefully increase as popularity demands.
The charity
The chosen charity is going to be the M.S Society, Multipul Sclerosis. The reason being that my late mother was a sufferer for approximately 30 years and it took any decent life she would have had away from her. Growing up watching this happen to my parents was soul destroying.
I feel that I would like to give something back to the charity that both my parents were part of and supported mum in such a big way throughout her life, and this is how I want to do it.
So please, if you want to support me with parts for a build or sponsor when the event takes place, contact me to make arrangements.
Thank you.
mamodcharityrun@gmail.com
YouTube Channel
This is a new one for me on two counts, it is my first blog and my first post on a blog (please bear with me!).
This is where I will keep you all up to date with regard to a charity event I am organising, but using a steam model to do it. Those of you who know me will know that I enjoy tinkering with live steam and in particular Mamod steam locomotives and getting to run 'just so'.
The objective of this event is to create a Mamod/MSS based steam locomotive to carry out as far as possible, a timed run for as long as possible. The loco itself I am looking to build will hopefully cost as little as possible and I am looking to anyone who can spare that odd part, whether it be broken, warn out, rusty, damaged, modified, butchered, anything as long as it is essentially whole. I have acquired a strong knowledge base for these engines and know how to make them tick. My mindset is literally repair over replace, as its more fun! So if you have any parts lying around in your toolbox/parts bin that you no longer need, please give me a shout!
Once I have built the locomotive, I will be looking to gain sponsorship for the timed run. Basically I will set it up so that sponsorship is by the minute, and whatever the run finishes up at is what the time will be. The only stipulation on the run is that the loco must remain 'in steam' or have a pressure inside the boiler to count as a continuous run.
In terms of frequency, I would like to start this as an annual event and hopefully increase as popularity demands.
The charity
The chosen charity is going to be the M.S Society, Multipul Sclerosis. The reason being that my late mother was a sufferer for approximately 30 years and it took any decent life she would have had away from her. Growing up watching this happen to my parents was soul destroying.
I feel that I would like to give something back to the charity that both my parents were part of and supported mum in such a big way throughout her life, and this is how I want to do it.
So please, if you want to support me with parts for a build or sponsor when the event takes place, contact me to make arrangements.
Thank you.
mamodcharityrun@gmail.com
YouTube Channel
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