DUSTING OFF AN OLD MAMOD STEAM TRACTION ENGINE WHICH HAD BEEN STORED UNDER THE STAIRS FOR 40 PLUS YEARS, CLEANING IT UP AND GETTING IT TO RUN
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@billdyke9745 Жыл бұрын
I remember this kind of thing from my youth in the early 60s. Out of my price range, but hey... Health and safety? Who needed that? 👍
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Never done us any harm....apart from Jimmy Jenkins down the road who burnt the kitchen down ( or so your mum would tell you when you asked for one )..........you were always told of a kid down the road who met with a terrible tradgedy when your parents wanted to put you off something you were badgering them for 😄
@astravanmk2 Жыл бұрын
Those earlier variants with the exhaust choke run so well. Those whistles are colloquially known by enthusiasts as the “The burn yer finger’s whistle””
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
I thought the whistle had been swapped with the safety valve but the picture on the box shows it in the finger scorching position that its in........we made of sterner stuff back then 😁
@astravanmk2 Жыл бұрын
@@TweedsGarage yes indeed can’t imagine a toy nowadays that allows kids to play with matches, flammable liquids, oil and boiling water at the same time. How marvellous it must have been to be a child back then.
@1961kickboxer6 ай бұрын
Nice tickover.
@shedbythetracks Жыл бұрын
Thanks for a "Fred Dibnah" edition of Tweed's Garage. Here's to you and yours having a good upcoming year. Spring is coming and we both need to be out from under our wives feet and on the road. Cheers
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Oh don't you worry Randy, they'll throw us out no matter the weather if we become too much of a nuisance, Happy New year fella
@barneyleadhead2596 Жыл бұрын
Love a bit of Mamod action 🙂 Saved hard and bought myself a Mamod train set back in 1985. Ran the loco until the wheels went wobbly on the axles, then peined the centre of the axles to tighten the wheels and had a few more years out of it. Given the amount of Mamod mods available mine were minimal - fitted a Shirley safety valve bought from a work colleague for a pound (likely around 1990 as an impoverished apprentice), did some slight mods on the cylinders after reading an article by Peter Jones and then added a Goodall water filler valve and it ran a treat despite still being fired on the original meths tablets! Stripped it down over 20 years ago to fit new wheels and it never got put back together. All the bits are in a couple of big tins so maybe it could be a 2023 project 😄 Best Wishes for 2023 Allan 👍
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a plan Barney, could be the start of a 16mm gauge garden railway ( they are popular with the garden railway crowd ) and yes any financial outlay on an apprentice wage is always a big deal. Happy New year
@ShopKatIndustries Жыл бұрын
What a nice little machine! Great video. Cheers from Canada, and Happy New Year!
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Happy New year to you too
@sploop_boop3415 Жыл бұрын
Clicked for the mustache stayed for the amazing content. I found my new relaxing channel. Great work Mr. Tweed, I look forward to seeing everything else you do.
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Welcome aboard 🙂
@gbentley8176 Жыл бұрын
I have one too and it works. Happy New Year .
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Happy New year Mr B
@AdeSwash Жыл бұрын
Awesome Mr Tweed, loved the hat routine at the beginning of the video, very clever! I have only recently found your channel, and love your stuff. I have a couple of Mamods that I bring out and dust off occasionally, and get them boiling up, they are great toys from the past era, much better than all this modern digital stuff that all the youngsters get sucked into today, burning your fingertips was just learning curve for kids of the last generation, but these toys taught us well - all the best for 2023 :) Best Regards. Ade
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
You can't beat the smell of warm meths in the morning 😁. Happy New year
@laurengrace1602 Жыл бұрын
Great video, popped up in my recommended and glad I ended up watching! Hope you have a happy new year!
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Thank you Lauren and a Happy New year to you
@glenmiller3783 Жыл бұрын
Happy New Year, I remember my little stationary steam engine with saw mill blade, They would never sell these anymore, to many safety issues due to a lack of common sense.
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
I don't know why, they only just had enough power to chew threw a wafer of balsa, you would of been very unlucky to loose a limb 🙄 😄 Happy New year Glen
@AllenORourke1954 Жыл бұрын
Great stuff Allan, a happy new year to Mrs Tweed and yourself...
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Thanks Allen and a Happy New year to you
@Cap7597 Жыл бұрын
For some odd reason, I had no clue you were doing this. Great work and feed! Looking forward to watching the past and future vids. Cheers from across the pond (this is Rodney by the way, fellow member of the HC)
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Hello Rodney, glad you found it. Now i know you're watching i'll have to do a video of " uses of lard around the home workshop " 😆 Happy New year to you and the family
@Cap7597 Жыл бұрын
@@TweedsGarage Hahahah. Yes!!!!
@EA-5810 ай бұрын
And a old Wilesco D16 😍
@TweedsGarage10 ай бұрын
It's an unusual one being electrically heated , unfortunately the boiler is shot.
@asciimation Жыл бұрын
I have a couple of these and a couple of the stationary engines. I am missing the steering rods for the traction engines but one of them does have the trailer with the logs on it. Unfortunately I am one log short of a full load.
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Aren't we all Simon 😆, Happy New year
@frederickbowdler81692 ай бұрын
Try brasso or similar on backplate just a thought maybe it will have more friction?
@453421abcdefg12345 Жыл бұрын
Ha Ha! Allan, this brings back memories of when my friend set light to the carpet with blazing methylated spirit running hid Mamod, the flame, being invisible, got quite a good hold on the nylon carpet, and we had a hell of a job trying to explain to his mum why there was a large burn mark in the middle of the living room carpet, I still have one in a box in the barn, maybe I will dig it out and have try on the stone floor this time! Happy New Year to yo! Chris B.
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Ooh nylon carpet and flames, i should imagine that being a serious slippering offence if caught. Happy New year Chris
@453421abcdefg12345 Жыл бұрын
@@TweedsGarage Yes it was for my friend Bruce, I did not see him for a week! The problem was being meths we did not see the flame until the nylon carpet started to get away, I think we pulled an arm chair over the hole, but the smell was a give away! I wonder how much damage was done over the year with these Mamods running around rooms crashing into furniture. Chris B.
@hammerandhatchetengineerin49673 ай бұрын
Mind you don’t catch your mustache on fire!
@TweedsGarage3 ай бұрын
It has been singed on occasions
@rockcrusher4636 Жыл бұрын
Missed 5 don't get the notice. Cheers.
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Hi Crusher, yes it seems to be a regular thing with KZbin that effects a lot of channels, just check in once a month. Happy New Year
@union310 Жыл бұрын
Many a happy burned finger as a child
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
Teaches one a bit of common sense 🙂
@union310 Жыл бұрын
@@TweedsGarage My first discovery in engineering was waiting down the safety valve down to get extra speed out of an engine my dad built 😳
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
@@union310 ah the recklessness of youth
@union310 Жыл бұрын
@@TweedsGarage Paid off though, I look after the engineering in departments two factories now and teach apprentices in the old fashioned methods adapted for modern times. Engineering needs to be fun
@TweedsGarage Жыл бұрын
@@union310 good to know apprenticeships are still going in some places, well done Sir 👍