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Hey Guys,

glad you like.

All the best
Chris

Hey Friends, after a while, time to post some new impressions of pur 611. During Corona , we did good progress. At the moment we mounting all parts again. We still had to pickel the stainless steel boiler,necessary for a first steam test . Have a look.... IMG-20201229-WA0015.jpg IMG-20201229-WA0014....

Hey Buddy,

great achievments, glad to see that you started a new model. Im so envious of your casted parts.
We still need such good parts here in Germany. Power further so, will follow your progress with highest interest.

See ya...

Chris

Guys,

thanks a lot for all the help, here and on PM.
This Board and all the members are so helpfull , im proud to be with you guys.

All the best,

Chris

Hi Guys,

im building the J 611 at the moment. After finishing the power reverse, i would like to build the Nathan DV 7 lubricators. I searched and still searching for dimensioned full scale drawings...mayby someone can help me out???

All the very best and stay healthy

Christian from Germany

Hi Guys, some power reverse news. I mounted the power reverse under the boiler, after some minutes of meassuring the right position was found to fully configure the control in both positions. The connections rod between piston rod and steering is only a test rod...all the nice lever are still missin...

Hey Buddy,

Andy, if you are close to us during your next Germany tour, let us knowing it early. So we can plan something.
Would be great....i really hope that we can come over at October.

All the best
Chris

Part 2....

some short footage of the power reverse....

https://youtu.be/GxBc_mWVtTU




Regards

Chris

Hey Guys,


today, i tested the power reverse of my J. It works great.
All Paets are self made, no castings. It has a flat slide.
All the best,

Chris

Hey Peter, yes, glad that we can meet and work together in our shop. But nevertheless it was so so sad that we both can't met in May this year, because of the Virus. We hope so much that we're able to visit the USA in October, hopefully we can arange a meeting with you and Duncan....finger crossed!!...

Hey Guys, here some old school footage of german live steam scene. At min 40:00 you can see Asteamhead's class 44, not finished, i think it was one of the first roll outs . It was a Milestone, one of the first Oil fired engine's here in our area , at this time 2-10-0 or decapods were so rare. He, my...

Hey,

thank you,

no castings at all....only wheels are casted.

Regrads
Chris