Hello Captain Flack,
Thanks for your reply to my questions re the Krick Alexander, I have not received the kit yet
it should arrive in the next few days hopefully.
I have a new "Clyde twin cylinder steam engine together with a Miniature Vertical Steam 3" boiler", which as you probably know is different to the one suggested by Krick, their suggestion being their own 2 cylinder steam engine with a vertical boiler.
As I understand it the kit is designed around their own engine arrangement and I presume
will require some internal and possibly other alterations to suit my engine.
I am new to steam engines and as you will know they are a wee bit on the expensive side, I bought mine after reading a few articles
by Richard Simpson in "Model Boats magazine", he recommended this as a good buy for a beginner to steam in a very good article so I took the plunge saved the pennies up and bought one, similarly with the "Alexandra kit"
Given your own experience of the kit any advice you can give me particularly if you have fitted a different engine/boiler arrangement
to that recommended by Krick would be very helpful.
Not having received the kit yet it is difficult to ask any more really specific questions about it yet, I will no doubt have more questions
when I get the kit and if it is okay be looking for some help when it comes to different parts of the build,
as I will (knowing me) get stumped somewhere along the line.
Thanks all the best,
John.