[modeleng] Re: Winson Jubillee

Harry,

You ain't talking about me are you????  Speaking of hammer and tong work,
there was that locomotive the young guy brought from Arkansaw to Mid-Soutgh
about 10 years back.  I have mentioned it before, but maybe not to everyone.
All of the valve motion parts were made from #9 iron wire and if they got
out of adjustment, the bloke used a pair of pliers to bend them back into
shape.  Even the Stephenson links were bent from wire and the wagon top
boiler was made from a piece of 6" pipe with half of another piece welded on
top of it at the rear.  Wheels were made from what appeared to have been
four spoke pulleys or gears!  The whole locomotive was rude, crude and
sociably unacceptable, looked like warmed over hell, but it ran like a bat
from out of!

Jesse

> At 07:31 PM 1/26/05 -0000, you wrote:
> >he was apparently a decent geezer but his frequent use of a hammer
> >resolve "minor problems" on his loco were a bit of a worry!
>
>      Sounds vaguely like a couple of folks in my club.  :-o

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