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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Technical Tips, Builds, and Help => Topic started by: komet163b on April 16, 2023, 03:19:59 pm

Title: Re: Working on a Marklin 4106 - must the base paint be heat resistant?
Post by: tenniV11 on January 02, 2025, 01:50:51 pm

Hi Wayne, what size do you have - simply measure the diameter of the boiler.
Normally they have a dark green, speckled gray color.
No heat resistant paint required.
Is there any color left on the base or is it completely gone?
Arnold

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Title: Re: Working on a Marklin 4106 - must the base paint be heat resistant?
Post by: rkarlsruher on January 02, 2025, 08:39:35 am

Good morning Wayne,
I’m new to this forum and appreciate your thoughts. I own a Marklin 4106 that is missing its smokestack. The flue pipe has a diameter of 20 mm.
Thoughts about where to find the complete part on this forum or who could manufacture one for me?
The first picture on the forum on login shows 3 engines. The middle engine is a Marklin 4106 and clearly shows the smoke stack and top end piece I am missing.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Working on a Marklin 4106 - must the base paint be heat resistant?
Post by: komet163b on April 16, 2023, 03:19:59 pm

  I bought a Marklin 4106 whose base and firebox were heavily
rusted with serious pitting.  I do not expect to do a perfect
job, just a modest resto.  I know the firebox paint (black)
should be fire resistant but is that needed for the base? 
If anyone knows of a good green spray paint that would be
a close match for the green base let me know.

Thanks,
Wayne