Except, Tom, all he has is the tender. Free rollin, maybe...until the gears, shafts and pins wear, then it's continual futzing.
The tender isn't worth saving. You'd have to fill the slots, make a frame, buy new (complete) trucks and then find a locomotive that needs it.
Dave
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--- In yardbirdtrains@..., Tom Knowles <tomk@...> wrote:
The Chattanooga mechanisms are very free running as they would have to
be to be pushed by the terrible tender and also take a train anywhere.
They are useful for harvesting parts such as valve gear (some came with
no gear) or siderods. They often have broken valve gear hangars when
bought unseen, but the links are still useful.
I believe I show a remotor project of one...putting a can motor with
flywheel in the Chattanooga's chassis, just for fun, in the photos
section of Yardbirds. With the metal frame and free mech this actually
runs pretty darn good. One must also reduce the flange size for best
use, I do this holding the yet-to-be-powered mech against a belt sander
with a little skew t5o it to spin the drivers and take the flanges of a
little at a time. I then dress the flange profile after the unit is
powered. XCrude, but effective...I thought, "what the heck, these are
throw-aways, and I had been buying them up cheap for parts so why not
try a few off the wall things with 'em?".
As for the tenders, they look to be copies of the typical Tyco "long
haul" tender with slots in the sides to hold the afore mentioned
four-wheeled unit robbed from their Diesel line. I find them useful as
line-side junk, work train uses or cut up as rivet-detailed parts for
other weird tender projects.
The freight pilot and steps look pretty good on the front of Mikados.
The air pump isn't too badly detailed and comes right off with nippers.
One is on the kit bashed articulated NC&StL pusher engine that has a
plastic boiler so the thing glues right on...
A left-over smoke unit from one is going into the base of a small
line-side power house as animation.
Pretty good deal at ten bucks or less when you think about all the
possibilities!
Tom Knowles
On 3/22/2013 2:31 PM, kbkchooch wrote:
Best to relegate that turkey to the boneyard. They run bad on a good
day. If you had the engine, you could always pair it up with a regular
tender to , in effect, make a dummy put of it.
I've been known at shows to have a coal drag with 2 consolidations on
the front, and a mid-train or a rear end "helper, which is really a
dummy. One in Western Maryland and 1 in B&O.B-) Pics are in my photo
album, Karl's Kustoms.
Cheers,
Karl Bond
--- In yardbirdtrains@..., "trainsnwrcs"
<idioticyahoo@> wrote:
No battery. Track power. The locomotive wheels picked up power from
the other rail, there was a wire between the engine and tender.
The loco was a 2-8-0, later due to inability to keep the lead truck
consistently on the rails, a 0-8-0.
Look for a 2-8-0 or 0-8-0 in the pile....no motor and more
inportantly, no gear on any axle.
That will be the one.
Look on HO Seeker for drawings/instructions.
Dave
--- In yardbirdtrains@..., Alan Kilby albyrno@ wrote:
Dave,
Thanks for the info. it looks rather toylike except theres
nowhere to put a battery.There are several locos with burnt out or no
motors in lot,one an o-6-o which would likely work but would look
funny pulling a long haul tender, not as funny as 1 of the many 0-4-0
saddle tankers in lot though,might be a good candidate to give to my
son,says he doesn't like trains but he sure likes to run them,there is
also a gallon freezer bag full of kemtron,cal-scale cary,detail
associates,psc and who knows what other detail parts in packages I
haven't looked at yet,also got the balboa 4-4-0 and I started
assembling it last night other than drawbar spring and insulating
washer,bell,piping to whistle it looks like everythings there being
loose parts in a box I am surprised.Bottom cover plate was warped and
driver axles were binding which I corrected by drawfiling cover.
Alan
