THE SUMMERLANDS CHUFFER

Accucraft W D Baldwin

Dave Mees has come up trumps again on the Accucraft W D Baldwin (well he is one of the official Service Agents).
He has fitted a standard Accucraft Chuffer (as per Edrig etc.) and reports that it works very well. You can see a clip here. Dave reports that the smoke-box is not removeable as it forms part of the boiler barrel - but the chimney is fine at the minimum internal diameter of 9.5mm. Dave has supplied the following fitting notes:

1) Remove tanks -2 x M1.6 and 3 x M2 bolts.
2) Remove smokebox ring - 2 x M1.6 bolts.
3) Remove chimney with needle nose pliers.
4) Remove existing exhaust  - ditto the pliers.
5) Fit standard Accucraft Chuffer after
  feeding chimney nut and washer onto
  Chuffer inside the smoke-box.
6) Bend chuffer to clear chimney.
7) Reverse steps 1 to 3.

Here is a clip of Dave Mees' Accucraft Baldwin fitted with a standard Chuffer.

Roy Wood and I have now fitted Chuffer to his WD Baldwin so here are a few additional notes.

1) We didn't have a nut spinner for the tiny M1.6 bolts, so we made one out of a piece of 1/8" K&S tube by just squeezing the end. It needed re-squeezing every now and then but worked OK. The one tight bolt was started with small pliers.
2) There are five bolts to each tank. Two holding straps to the boiler cladding and three underneath each. The pipes all pill out from the front of the cab - all except the big one which unplugs from the top of the tank (we found this out after!).
3) There are two bolts holding the front smoke-box ring - at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock, but we found it was also held by the front two lamp bolts catching on the heat shield plate inside. Remove these bolts and ease it out.
4) The chimney is easy to remove - we used normal long nosed pliers and then fingers.
5) The old exhaust unscrews easily, but the hole is very difficult to find - it is there - honest!
6) Once screwed in, it is easy to bend the chuffer pipe to ensure it has the slot free to sound.
7) We found it difficult to re-fit the smoke-box front bolts. Leave the first loose to get the second one in. We started both with pliers and then used our home-made spinner.
8) Do the whole job on a tray - it is very easy to drop these bolts!!!!
9) The whole job sounds more difficult than it is - it took us less than an hour and that included tripping over each other and searching for dropped bolts!