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.

http://smartweburl.com/bufferbeams

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