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Rob, if worse comes to worse, send it to Dennis in NZ. As he said he's repaired six (6) of these in the past for the same problem.

Hi Rob, I will be seeing you at Cabin Fever and I look forward to that.
Unfortunately I am not the right person to fix your boiler. 

If it were me I would get a new boiler. 
Ministeam has them as does Matthias Brenner (station500 on eBay)

https://www.ministeam.com/products/wilesco-01662?_pos=1&_psq=boiler+wilesco+d409&_ss=e&_v=1.0

If you are set on a repair you should show it to Bruce (St Paul Steam) 
He will be at Cabin Fever somewhere near me. He may be able to help.

Gil

I believe you need to do a major disassembly, do it the right way. There is a boiler end cap right behind that sight glass ring, you'll end up un-soldering the boiler end cap while soldering the ring back on. Not a pleasant job, but the only way to do it correctly as I see it.

Bonjour Jim,

On mine, as you can notice it on the other post, I have never been able to fully open the throttle.

I think with some adjusting, you well get it running much slower Raphael.

As I've probably said before .... that DOOR is simply superb!

I have a door I could possibly give a similar treatment, but only on the side that is inside the shop and certainly not on the side that is inside the house, so yes, your Lady is certainly very understanding ... INDEED!!!

Just out of curiosity, what is the meaning of the 20 & 13 at the top of the door? Is that actually 2013 for the year that you became afflicted with this Mad Malady???    ;c)

Yes, that's when I Googled toy steam engines to find out what was then an unknown little steam engine that had resided on top of a kitchen cupboard when I was growing up and my Dad used to take it down once every year or so and get it going. Found out it was something called a 'Mamod' looked them up then on eBay and my socks where blown off.....and the rest as they say is history!