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 Posted - January 27 2013 : 5:01:34 PM
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not a 100% sure what it is except that its not running and its a Tyco/Mantua all metal pug engine...
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 5:13:53 PM
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Nice find there! Thats the next Mantua tank engine I want!
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 5:19:10 PM
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| I passed on the 0-4-0 Saturday with that lettering, that's the "little trains" era stuff from like 1956 isn't it?
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 5:59:54 PM
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| Not too sure, but I like the little guy, its a pug and I needed a pug yard unit so I like it, may even try to repaint it since its so banged up...
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 6:05:01 PM
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The picture shows the piston slide is not mounted at all.
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 6:24:00 PM
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You mean the valve guide Frank?
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 7:51:05 PM
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| I got them back on, and im going to try and either clean the loco up and paint it or repaint it to a nice new coat of colour, colours yet to be determined...
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 7:54:54 PM
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| You can have any color as long as its black - Henry Ford
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| I know that LOL!!! thats why im trying to decide on...black, black, or a black.....or gloss.....tho im thinking more flat....well except for the lettering...I havent decided how im goign to do this, been looking for the TYCO transfers and not finding any so may have to go hand painted on that....
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 9:33:57 PM
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quote:I got them back on, and im going to try and either clean the loco up and paint it or repaint it to a nice new coat of colour, colours yet to be determined...
Originally posted by Jim - January 27 2013 : 7:51:05 PM
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U.S. Flag... "Colours"? Recently from Canada, might ye be?
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 10:06:33 PM
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| LOL its the UK form LOL!!! but same thing, colours, colors.....:P half of one 6 of a dozen....;)
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Posted - January 27 2013 : 11:42:10 PM
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quote:You mean the valve guide Frank?
Originally posted by SCVR66Â -Â January 27 2013Â :Â 6:24:00 PM
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You mean the crosshead guide, Hyde? 
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Posted - January 28 2013 : 08:58:55 AM
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quote:You mean the valve guide Frank?
Originally posted by SCVR66Â -Â January 27 2013Â :Â 6:24:00 PM
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there is no valve gear on that engine. The valve guide would guide the operating rod for the valve gear. That is guiding the piston. In this type the piston is hung from above in a slide. So it is a piston slide or piston guide. In a crosshead the piston is supported from above and below with guide bars. There is a crosshead support that keeps the rods in place.
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Posted - January 28 2013 : 9:13:40 PM
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quote:I havent decided how im goign to do this, been looking for the TYCO transfers and not finding any so may have to go hand painted on that....
Originally posted by Jim - January 27 2013 : 9:19:20 PM
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Model Graphics has dry transfer lettering. A decent model train hobby shop usually has them.
It takes a bit of practice and patience to get them exactly right. I've used them a couple of times.
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Posted - January 29 2013 : 01:52:50 AM
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quote:In a crosshead the piston is supported from above and below with guide bars.
Originally posted by toptrain - January 28 2013 : 08:58:55 AM
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Not to get too OT and start a flame war, buuut... even Mantua instructions refer to them as crosshead guides. Note step 11.
http://www.hoseeker.org/assemblyexplosionMantua/mantua060bigsix2181958pg2.jpg
The crosshead is the part that the piston fits into, and the bearing surfaces that support it make up the guide. Those that ride between two bars are known as alligator crossheads, because the guide bars are roughly like the jaws of a gator. The single bar crosshead guide that suspends it from above like those on Mantua steamers is the Laird type:
http://yardbirdtrains.com/YB-Information-inst-M760.htm
I always wondered why Mantua only made the Laird type (not counting the Tyco Chattanooga). 
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Posted - January 29 2013 : 09:51:41 AM
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What does "OT" mean?, seriously.
Second, there might be a mixed bag of nomenclature depending on who built the locomotive. Seems I come across slightly varying terms in regards to trains, .....cars and airplane,... parts.
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Posted - January 30 2013 : 10:20:26 AM
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Nice. I have been looking for one too. the TYCO roadname only appered for a few years from 53 to 57. This one was called "Side Tank". Most of us know it as the "Little Six".
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Posted - January 30 2013 : 9:56:37 PM
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| cool! well im going to attempt to restore it to the original paint scheme, granted paint of then and now is different...but its worth a try, if not i will just paint it into my road colours...:) as for the OT question, its short for OFF TOPIC...(which we need to keep minimized ;)) who built it it was Mantua, thats the only name on it. anyways I have other questions which Ill dump into the building depo :)
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Posted - December 04 2013 : 11:05:16 AM
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Just an FYI - this is a VERY early version - notice that there are no steps to the cab. The steps first appeared in the 1956 catalog. I just got one too.
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Posted - December 04 2013 : 11:41:50 PM
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Those little side tanks are cool and the idea of not having to drag around a tender. Be interesting to know the difference in the personalities of the engineers who operated these little hot rods versus the guys who operated the big muscle. I got one of those a while back (eBay). Not as old as yours Jim. Mine originally had a Southern Pacific lettering. At first, I wasn't going to mess with it, and let it have that vintage look. Then as I took it apart to clean it up, one thing led to another. It's almost black; it's Brunswick Green with a Graphite smoke box. Black stack and frame. Light green cab interior and mineral red window frame and number plate and then brass on the bell and whistle. It runs pretty decent. It seems to me the tank car (Athearn, I think) is kind of interesting in that it reads "domestic water". I haven't seen another like that?
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Posted - December 05 2013 : 1:18:43 PM
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Nice paint job Barry.
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 5:33:07 PM
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| Looking great with the green, still working on mine though...
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 8:58:33 PM
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I had 4 boosters at one time.
Now just down to one and 2 custom engines in the process of being made on old booster frames
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Posted - January 07 2014 : 3:54:15 PM
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quote: quote:I got them back on, and im going to try and either clean the loco up and paint it or repaint it to a nice new coat of colour, colours yet to be determined...
Originally posted by Jim - January 27 2013 : 7:51:05 PM
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U.S. Flag... "Colours"? Recently from Canada, might ye be?
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Posted - February 23 2014 : 10:48:52 AM
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quote:The picture shows the piston slide is not mounted at all.
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Originally posted by toptrain - January 27 2013 : 6:05:01 PM
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I've noticed that too.
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