A couple of Coupling Rods

Another new product to upgrade your Mamod loco! These coupling rods replace the stamped out rods on the Mamod or MSS locomotive. Lasercut from 1.6mm Steel holes drilled and reamed for a running fit on the locomotive crank pins. Adds a little interest to the loco and look particularly good when steel wheelsets are fitted. Supplied in pairs.

New Buffer Beams and Lasercut Mamod coupling rods

A couple of new products have been added to the www.Loco-Plates.co.uk online shop. These new bufferbeams will add a touch of individuality to your Mamod or MSS loco. The bufferbeams are drilled as standard to raise the coupling height to 24.5mm above the rail head so you can use your loco with most 16mm rolling stock. Couplings are not included but we recommend using sprung steel turned buffers rather than the cheaper cast white metal items.

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I recently purchased this little loco from alistoyshed05 on Ebay, the loco is unlike any Mamod I've ever seen. The conversion from oscillating cylinders to slide valve cylinders has been meticulously carried out. The Loco is a superb performer, with lots of pulling power and control, easily pulling a very long train of heavily loaded open wagons and a rake of heavily built wooden 16mm coaches. Paintwork on the loco is a little tired, loco has already benefited from a set of nickel silver cylinder covers and will have side tank overlays added in due course prior to a partial repaint.

The photos below take a close look at some of the interesting modifications which have been carried out.

http://alan-briggs.fotopic.net/c1756356.html

There's also a short video of the loco running on youtube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGTALVtgycw

A new "About Us" page has been added to the Loco-Plates.co.uk website detailing the manufacturing process used to produce the CNC engraved Brass nameplates. This should give a little insight into what goes into each of our plates. The website will be updated shortly with more information about our current products and also some news about new and upcoming items!

http://loco-plates.co.uk/about us.html

I've added another couple of nameplate designs to www.Loco-Plates.co.uk. Inspired by the lettering used on Great Western nameplates, add some extra brasswork and a touch of GWR individuality to your 16mm locos!

Nameplates are supplied in pairs, choice of mounting options, simply attach to your loco with double sided tape, or for a more permanent fitting, purchase a set of plates with 1mm holes drilled and bolt to locomotive with a pair of 14 BA machine screws.

The Loco-Plates website has had a small update and a number of great new products added!

These cab fronts are a straight swap for your old Mamod cab front. The half cab back and half open cab design allow easy access to the displacement lubricator and gas filler (if fitted) The rolled roof sheet on the Manning Wardle inspired cab sheet conveniently disguises the pipework and the various upgrades in the cab and makes for a very neat installation. To fit these parts you'll need to drill out several rivets on your loco.

Parts are lasercut from 0.7mm mild steel sheet, supplied unpainted and lightly oiled for corrosion protection. Will require degreasing with cellulose thinners and priming and painting. Ferrous Oxide or zinc primer and car paints are absolutely ideal for this.

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In these days of mass media, RSS feeds, youtube, twitter and MSS text messaging...it's about time for Loco-Plates.co.uk to get it's own Blog site!

I imagine it's called a Blog site, whatever it's called this Blog will just be a way of publishing photos of 16mm garden railway loco's along with a short description. Hopefully it's of interest to some out there on the ol' internet!

It wont be updated daily, it'll just get an update when I feels likes it or have an interesting loco project on the go, or see something garden railway related that catches my eye!

Thanks for reading this and come back soon!

Alan