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steamyjim
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| made-in-england wrote: | Yeah he was saying he has made two condensing cylinders (one for each of the working cylinders exhaust i assume) To stop bits of crap flying out the chimney all over the pretty-ness of the loco!
His George england he was telling me used to be an SL3 |
Ah I see, an exhaust trap 
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silverfoxsteam
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| steamyjim wrote: | | made-in-england wrote: | Yeah he was saying he has made two condensing cylinders (one for each of the working cylinders exhaust i assume) To stop bits of crap flying out the chimney all over the pretty-ness of the loco!
His George england he was telling me used to be an SL3 |
Ah I see, an exhaust trap |
That makes sense now. Mind you, when I saw it it looked just like it had been out in the 'North Wales liquid sunshine' as we say! 
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made-in-england
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:57 am Post subject: |
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He said Condensing Cylinders so I just took his word for it 
Im thinking about the new mamod loco after seeing it but im not too sure. I could get a very nice Jensen for the same price or less 
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| made-in-england wrote: | Yeah he was saying he has made two condensing cylinders (one for each of the working cylinders exhaust i assume) To stop bits of crap flying out the chimney all over the pretty-ness of the loco!
His George england he was telling me used to be an SL3 |
A slight play on words:
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SillyBilly
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| made-in-england wrote: | | His George england he was telling me used to be an SL3 |
*starts the dremel*
Now where did my SL5 'Prince of Wales' go????
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Spokesmann
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Excellent images, I had a look around up there on Saturday afternoon . . . too busy steaming on the Sunday . . . excellent work.
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