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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

Part 2.... Throttle was finished also.... IMG-20200622-WA0040.jpg Inspired of the great work from Anthony #Eccentric Engineer , we build a starter valve , soldered of 6 parts. IMG-20200622-WA0027.jpg At the moment im building the power reverse, wich is working well...tested a few minutes ago... Scre...

Hi folks, i hope you all are healthy ! One good thing during the corona time is the fact...you have time to go in basement shop. So we did some progress on our #611. The cap fills up more and more.... Some work on the Butterfly door...no castings IMG-20200622-WA0034.jpg IMG-20200622-WA0032.jpg IMG-2...

Hey Guys, because of Corona? We planed a visit at your beautiful country for May....but i think we cant come. Here in Germany it's crazy at the moment, felt like living in a Zombie movie. No Toiletpaper , no noodels, no Desinfection. It's so sad,we wanted to visit the club at Canton....but now...not...