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Post by thecrazyscot on Apr 12, 2020 20:27:19 GMT -6
The company was founded in 1937 in Birmingham in the UK by Geoffrey Malins. Malins started off making steam engines which were sold under the Hobbies brand name but he soon started selling them under the Mamod brand name. The first models produced were of stationary steam engines. Much later the company also began creating models of road rollers, traction engines, steam wagons and other steam road vehicles. These models were aimed at the toy market, so were simple to operate and ran at low boiler pressures most Mamod Models run between 10 and 15 PSI of steam pressure and can also be run on compressed air as well. Mamod Models were not accurate scale models. Geoffrey Malins once said his first models where the worst he ever made. Most Mamod models use simple but effective oscillating cylinders, usually single-acting. Some of these engines have regulators either in the steam feed or exhaust but many others run unregulated (in the simpler models) or have a simple reversing mechanism to alter the cutoff, thus controlling the power/speed and direction of the engine. Early models had single or multi-wick lamps or vapourising spirit burners but in the mid-1970s the company changed to hexamine solid fuel which came in tablet form and provided low heat in a relatively safe form. Mamod are still in business to this day and models can be bought pre built or in kit form.
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Post by JCON on Apr 12, 2020 23:40:31 GMT -6
Good history!!!
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Post by thecrazyscot on Apr 13, 2020 6:48:52 GMT -6
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Post by JCON on Apr 13, 2020 10:58:31 GMT -6
Always fun to learn new stuff!!! I am really glad you came onboard!!!
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Apr 13, 2020 15:30:36 GMT -6
mamod.comCool web site. The certainly aren't cheap. I remember a few of these, when I was a kid.
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Post by thecrazyscot on Apr 13, 2020 16:12:15 GMT -6
mamod.comCool web site. The certainly aren't cheap. I remember a few of these, when I was a kid. New ones are not that cheep I must say, the SP range came out in the 1979 so is fairly new but the mobile steam stuff like the cars, traction engines, rollers and trucks have been about for a good few years. However you can pick up some of the 50's 60's and 70's models can be picked up fairly cheep on ebay especially if it needs work or restoration.
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