Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

Quote from: St Paul Steam on October 19, 2022, 08:50:20 pm

Rest easy Bruce, I haven't heard of any boiler issues with the latest batch. I had one from 1968 and it was sound as could be. Jim is right in the fact that these are difficult to work on (Jim & I both had our hands deep into them) 1st & last time I'll ever do that again.😉

Thanks, given this is a brand new item, and cost NZ$5,500 and 3 weeks to deliver, I do not expect to send it back to Germany via Australia under warranty for many years, if at all.

I have another big plant due here in a few days that is equal to this, it is a lovely Marklin 16051 steam plant, which I am going to convert from methylated spirits to gas. That will be fun with these 2 side by side!

Cheers,
Bruce
NZ

Convert it to gas by just using a ceramic burner? That's what most of us use to fire up our 16051.

The D32's are more 'toyish' when sat side by side next to a 16051, but then a lot of German steam collectors looks down their collective noses
at the 16051 as being a poor modern engine compared to the original it was sort of designed from (the 4158/7).....but I like mine immensely.