When all you have is a hammer, everything's a nail...
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Re: When all you have is a hammer, everything's a nail...
A few of us "Friends of the Duck" have been speculating on the market value of this particular locomotive. Now, Pete isn't looking to sell this locomotive, but just suppose it was to go up for sale? It's all aluminum, has a 24 volt motor, and makes for a generally simple, easy to transport engine for a hobbyist. Offer a speculative fair market value for such a cute little electric drive loco. We'd all like to hear the range.
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OddDuck
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Re: When all you have is a hammer, everything's a nail...
A train you have to run behind kinda defeats the purpose, so I took the last few days, scrounged around the shop, and found enough stuff for a riding/engineer car. She ain't much to look at, but I now have something else that needs detailing. No welding involved (sorry Dick...) and I stole the trucks off my hopper car project for this. Not bad for two day's work.
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OddDuck
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Re: When all you have is a hammer, everything's a nail...
Well, it finally ran! Better than I expected. Took it down to the Silver Lake and Ossipee RR yesterday, and after getting some assistance wiring it up (thanks Jeremy...) off it went! I have video, however I am at home on vacation and on my cellphone so I am having difficulty sharing the link to the video. It's on both my Odd Duck Foundry facebook page and the Odd Duck Foundry youtube channel.
Biggest problems with it is the drive ratio and the lack of a controller, had to basically wire it directly to 24 volts with an on/off switch, and it was SLOW. But it tracked well, no derailments, and had no problem pulling me along even without the battery being on board. The riding car worked well also.
Biggest problems with it is the drive ratio and the lack of a controller, had to basically wire it directly to 24 volts with an on/off switch, and it was SLOW. But it tracked well, no derailments, and had no problem pulling me along even without the battery being on board. The riding car worked well also.
"If you took the bones out they wouldn't be crunchy!" -Monty Python's Flying Circus