to all. I had the pleasure of being allowed to drive an Accucraft Garret at Sinsheim. A beauty in any language. I wonder if anyone has noticed that for some reason many models seem to get the "simplified Walschaerts" valve gear upside down. eg the K-27 and the K-28 models have the radius rod at the top of the die block when the loco is the direction usually run. On the two mentioned locos this is of course forwards. The prototype would be at the bottom of the block. The Garrets usually had the second engine (the one under the cab) also with the radius rod at the bottom when running forwards even though compared with the front engine it runs backwards. The model from Accucraft has one up and one down. Aster seem to have got it right on some of the engines I have seen except the Garret which is also one up and one down. The engines run super and the valve gear can easily be corrected by moving the return crank 180° where needed. They were so set that the comparatively straight line of the valve gear when set at the bottom when running in the direction usually run to avoid wear.!
Now the question. Does anybody know if there is a reason for the "slip up" or is it intentional, and for which reasons? I must admit I have not met anyone who has noticed this point in the modelling world and as said the engines all run first class and I further realize this can be classed as "Rivet counting", but I'll take the risk. Bert [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://postfix.45mm.com/pipermail/sslivesteam/attachments/20070123/66d95531/attachment.html _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
