Live Steam in the Garden! - Regner Konrad

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Live Steam finally arrives on the Blagdon & Butcombe Railway!
A short test run of the recently acquired Regner Konrad, my first Live Steam Locomotive for the G Scale Garden Railway. A superb little machine, that handles the tight curves and un-even track of the B&BLR with ease. Though only powered by a simple 1 cylinder oscillating engine, she is a smooth and powerful runner. Being a geared engine, she can crawls along a very realistic speed, perfect for the railway.
Here we see the Konrad, light engine, on one of her first test runs on the railway. Massive Thanks for Jon for purchase and showing me the ropes on how to operate her.
Hope you enjoyed!
 
Callum glad you are enjoying Konrad. Do miss him some. Little tip, when he is loosing Steam like in the vid from the Safety Valve, knock the Gas Down a tadge. Will give you a longer run and cut down the Burner Roar a little. Glad to see the vid of Konrad on your line.
JonD
 
dunnyrail said:
Callum glad you are enjoying Konrad. Do miss him some. Little tip, when he is loosing Steam like in the vid from the Safety Valve, knock the Gas Down a tadge. Will give you a longer run and cut down the Burner Roar a little. Glad to see the vid of Konrad on your line.
JonD
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I sure do indeed. Really is a superb little machine! Thank for the tip, was wondering if you could help me figure out that roar. Will make sure to do so next running session. Just need to get some stock behind her now ;)
 
SDJR7F88 said:
I sure do indeed. Really is a superb little machine! Thank for the tip, was wondering if you could help me figure out that roar. Will make sure to do so next running session. Just need to get some stock behind her now ;)
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Where the burner goes to the boiler you will see the air hole in the burner, there may be a collar on it attached with a screw.
Loosen the screw and move the collar across the air hole, you will have to experiment with the position of it but it should reduce the roar/whistling. Remember the collar on a bunsen burner at school, same idea.................:)
 
Alpineandy said:
Where the burner goes to the boiler you will see the air hole in the burner, there may be a collar on it attached with a screw.
Loosen the screw and move the collar across the air hole, you will have to experiment with the position of it but it should reduce the roar/whistling. Remember the collar on a bunsen burner at school, same idea.................:)
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Good Tip, but best to make a mark in the setting that works as it is so very easy to loose all combustion by tampering thus. This is Callum's first puffer and he will not want to cause worse problems. The Roar will never dissapear entirely as it is a feature of Gas Fired Locomotives.

However I once Videod a Loco on the Harz Shunting at Wernigerode, the Blower was louder than any Model Gas Burner I have ever seen. It was going constantly due to the nature of Shorts Shunts.
JonD
 
SDJR7F88 said:
Live Steam finally arrives on the Blagdon & Butcombe Railway!
A short test run of the recently acquired Regner Konrad, my first Live Steam Locomotive for the G Scale Garden Railway. A superb little machine, that handles the tight curves and un-even track of the B&BLR with ease. Though only powered by a simple 1 cylinder oscillating engine, she is a smooth and powerful runner. Being a geared engine, she can crawls along a very realistic speed, perfect for the railway.
Here we see the Konrad, light engine, on one of her first test runs on the railway. Massive Thanks for Jon for purchase and showing me the ropes on how to operate her.
Hope you enjoyed!
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Is your track and point work LGB? Does the Konrad run over your points in all directions without any problems? My garden layout is all LGB and I have had to shim the catch rails on all my points to enable my Roundhouse Criccieth Castle and Little John to run without derailing.
 
Stephen Roberts said:
Is your track and point work LGB? Does the Konrad run over your points in all directions without any problems? My garden layout is all LGB and I have had to shim the catch rails on all my points to enable my Roundhouse Criccieth Castle and Little John to run without derailing.
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That's an interesting problem you have there. I too have LGB track and points and I run twelve Roundhouse battery locomotives, Criccieths, Harlechs, Little Johns and Bulldogs. All run through the points and crossovers without any problems. No shimming was required. Have you checked the back to back measurements of your wheels?
 
Stephen Roberts said:
Is your track and point work LGB? Does the Konrad run over your points in all directions without any problems? My garden layout is all LGB and I have had to shim the catch rails on all my points to enable my Roundhouse Criccieth Castle and Little John to run without derailing.
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I used to run her (him) on LGB, Trainline and Peco Points with no problems at all. The Wheels coarse enough to cope. Accurate Gauging helps. When we tested her on Callums line she romped through all his LGB R1 Points just fine.

Hope you do not mind me replying to this Callum. But wanted to put my experience on record with Konrad.
JonD
 
Finer scale wheels have been a long known problem on pointwork. Thin shims seem to be the answer

http://www.modell-werkstatt.de/vorsatz-radlenker-fuer-lgb-weichen-radius-3

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stockers said:
Finer scale wheels have been a long known problem on pointwork. Thin shims seem to be the answer

http://www.modell-werkstatt.de/vorsatz-radlenker-fuer-lgb-weichen-radius-3

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It's not necessarily finer scale wheels - my LGB 2-4-0 US fatboy used to smack the end of those check rails every time. It didn't de-rail, but it was the main reason for ditching the points - :punch: the check rails are too short, and the wing is insufficient. I'm surprised that LGB haven't done something about it.
 
I dont have the 2-4-0 but I have never met this problem with any of my LGB stock. Just the Piko camel which does have thicker flanges than the LGB profile. (the old alloy wheels from Piko, that is)
 
PhilP said:
Jon, the link to them is in Alan's post..
PhilP.
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Oops missed that, must stop spead reading sorry guys.

I do not have the derailment problem with my R3's but certain Locomotives do have Shorting Problems at slow speed. To resolve this I put some Electrical Tape on the track just beyond the frog. I wonder if some of these would resolve that issue? Anyone else have my shorting problem?
JonD
 
Frank Gallagher said:
Alternatively bend the skate upwards at the outside edge slightly.
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Already done that, it is just one point that has this problem which is slightly annoying and it only happens with the odd Loco. Typically my DR Wangerode type Shunter which is the Pilot for the location where the recalcitrant point is located. Think that a spring job might be to relocate this particular point to nearer the front of the baseboard so that I can get down to eye level to see what is going on with it. If no sucess with this, at least it will be easier to replace the Insulating Tape when it gets worn off. Which should happen less frequently as the point will not be on the through route which does see more traffic.
JonD
 
That's a well known problem with Peco points Jon, but I have never heard of it on an R3.
Girly nail varnish seems to be the treatment for Peco points - seems to work.
 
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