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Gloat and brag
Gloat first...
Don't know if I mentioned this but a couple of weeks ago I picked up a 2-8-2 Mikado work in progress from the estate sale of long time GGLS member and former IBLS west coast secretary Dick Thomas.... It's a rolling frame (pilot truck,drivers, trailing truck) with the saddle/cylinders/valves finished and mounted, plus all the unfinished casting to complete it, (rods, link blocks, bla,bla,bla) this is from the Railroad Supply castings and all work to date is "Class A". I won't say the price, but it was less than half of what the castings alone cost. Brag next... My birthday was also last week (don't ask how old.. too old)... and I was bitching to my wife that I had to weld up a stand for this beast and wasn't looking foreword to it, I just have a 20 year old funky welding mask for my MIG. Sooo.. my B-Day comes and in with the sixpack of MicroBrew she also gives me a 12 inch square card board box.... I open it and ... damned if the woman didn't hit the welding store and buy me a top of the line Jackson Boss auto dimming helmet, even sprung the bucks for the big window... For those of you who weld and don't have an auto-dim all I can say is go buy one! Man it sure is slick... I zapped that stand together in record time. And the brag ain't about the helmet, it's about having a wife who buys you cool stuff like this. :-) --.- Dave "You can tell the rich live steamers, they are the ones with two or more unfinished locomotives in their shops". |
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