MAMOD TRACTION ENGINE,WILL IT RUN AFTER 40 YEARS STORED UNDER THE STAIRS?

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

[@billdyke9745]

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]

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]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@1961kickboxer]

Nice tickover.

[@shedbythetracks]

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]

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]

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]

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]

What a nice little machine! Great video. Cheers from Canada, and Happy New Year!

[@TweedsGarage]

Happy New year to you too

[@sploop_boop3415]

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]

Welcome aboard 🙂

[@gbentley8176]

I have one too and it works. Happy New Year .

[@TweedsGarage]

Happy New year Mr B

[@AdeSwash]

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]

You can't beat the smell of warm meths in the morning 😁. Happy New year

[@laurengrace1602]

Great video, popped up in my recommended and glad I ended up watching! Hope you have a happy new year!

[@TweedsGarage]

Thank you Lauren and a Happy New year to you

[@glenmiller3783]

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]

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]

Great stuff Allan, a happy new year to Mrs Tweed and yourself...

[@TweedsGarage]

Thanks Allen and a Happy New year to you

[@Cap7597]

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]

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]

@@TweedsGarage Hahahah. Yes!!!!

[@EA-58]

And a old Wilesco D16 😍

[@TweedsGarage]

It's an unusual one being electrically heated , unfortunately the boiler is shot.

[@asciimation]

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]

Aren't we all Simon 😆, Happy New year

[@frederickbowdler8169]

Try brasso or similar on backplate just a thought maybe it will have more friction?

[@453421abcdefg12345]

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]

Ooh nylon carpet and flames, i should imagine that being a serious slippering offence if caught. Happy New year Chris

[@453421abcdefg12345]

@@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.

[@hammerandhatchetengineerin4967]

Mind you don’t catch your mustache on fire!

[@TweedsGarage]

It has been singed on occasions

[@rockcrusher4636]

Missed 5 don't get the notice. Cheers.

[@TweedsGarage]

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]

Many a happy burned finger as a child

[@TweedsGarage]

Teaches one a bit of common sense 🙂

[@union310]

@@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]

@@union310 ah the recklessness of youth

[@union310]

@@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]

@@union310 good to know apprenticeships are still going in some places, well done Sir 👍