S Gauge American Flyer 312 4-6-2 PRR pacific from 1947 with smoke unit in the tender running in the garden with a contemporary American Fleyer freight train.
Regards
Fred
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Hello Mark,
Your remark reminded me of a change I had done many years ago (and I had not run my American Flyer for a long time until I added an S Gauge track in my garden). The smoke unit of my pacific did not work well and I tried without success to repair it some 30 years ago. Later I acquired a 322 and again later a 326 Hudson and I put the working smoke unit of the 322 Hudson in the pacific (and the non working unit of the pacific in the 322). I must say I completely forgot I had done that (too many trains?) until you noticed the tall tube.
Regards
Fred
Always good to see "free range" Flyer...
Rusty
banjoflyer posted:Hi Fred, another great run! Thanks for posting it. I don't recognize the tall tube at the front of the tender. Is it a modified filler tube for a smoke-in-tender or perhaps a version of that tender I've not seen before? This is the kind I usually see:
Mark
I remembered a friend working on a tender like that and discovered - that's my fingers in the photo, from a post about four years ago. It had a bellows-type smoke unit, needing repair. Another pic of the same tender with the shell off:
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Ace posted:I remembered a friend working on a tender like that and discovered - that's my fingers in the photo, from a post about four years ago. It had a bellows-type smoke unit, needing repair. Another pic of the same tender with the shell off:
Ace,
The bellows of the smoke unit in my 312 tender had the same problem; I tried to make a new bellows since further everything worked, but could not get it sealed well and then took the smoke unit from the 322 Hudson which is the same type but has a longer filler pipe. That unit still works. I put the non-working unit in the 322 Hudson since I also have a 326 Hudson which still smokes (video posted before some months ago):
Regards
Fred
I have repaired several of these but it seems the only real way to do it is to remove the fixed and moving end plates and mount them in a jig. You need enough space all around to wrap the new material while applying the glue at same time, a bit fiddly but worth the effort.
