After muttering that he was struggling to get the motivation to head back to the workbench after six months enforced break, imaging my surprise when a video shot by Andy Strathie pinged into my inbox the other night showing our fourth Garratt galloping around the test track at the Greenock and District MRC HQ.
Himself tells me that he's not entirely happy with it yet.
The front power unit is running about 50% faster than the rear, which he is putting down to a variation in the motors rather than anything mechanical in the chassis department.
I recall that we had this happen on our K1 and ended up re-motoring it.
More fettling required with this one, I suspect.
Marvellous work. I gather the real ones do that if not set up correctly.
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