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I've wanted a Garrett ever since the first time I saw one. After alot of looking, I've come to the conclusion that the only way I'll ever get one is to build it. Three to four thousand dollars for one loco is way to rich for my blood. This is my first scratch built loco. Almost everything I've ever attempted has usually turned out to be an initiation by fire, so why should this be any different? No little, simple loco for me. That would be too easy.[:D] I bought the Buddy L before I had read anything about them, just because it was cheap. The thing turned out to be a piece of junk as far as I'm concerned. It had trouble pulling even one car around my track. Derailed constantly, and turned over everytime I went around a curve at more than a dead crawl. So, it went into storage, figuring that maybe someday I could use the parts to scratch something. Well, the day has come. I bought a couple of LGB 2-6-0 powered steam trucks. Got the Buddy L out of storage, got out the tools, made a big mess all over the RV ,and proceeded to see what I could build. I guess the hardest part was disassembling, and starting to cut on, something that I'd paid a hundred plus bucks for. It took awhile to figure out how to build the bend in the middle part. I ended up sliceing some sections off a pvc pipe fitting. Cut some short lenghts of pvc pipe than fit in the slices off the pipefitting. With the pipe length glued to the motor block and the fitting section glued to the bottom of the cab I had one joint. Basicly did the same to the front of the boiler. The fuel tender is the tender from the Buddy L. I shortened it till I got the lenght I wanted and screwed it to one of the motor blocks. The water tank is the piece from the tender that I cut out to shorten it. This was screwed to the other motor block and built onto with styrene and pvc pipe. It still has along way to go, but it's running, so I thought I'd throw a couple or three pictures up here to show that the Buddy L loco is not completely worthless. [img]http://usera.imagecave.com/capt_turk/G_Scale/100_0164.JPG[/img] [img]http://usera.imagecave.com/capt_turk/G_Scale/100_0165.JPG[/img] [img]http://usera.imagecave.com/capt_turk/G_Scale/100_0166.JPG[/img] I'll try to post more pics as it comes closer to being finished.
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