@harmonyards posted:Dave’s 18009 Mohawk now sports a fancy new mount for the Pittman motor,..after machining the parts, the back end of the chassis gets treated in a blackening bath for that factory look. When I’m done installing the Pittman in Dave’s Mohawk, it’s off to Alex M for further upgrades,…..
Pat
Woohoo! Sorry, been a busy day for me this weekend so far. Ran around just afternoon, messaged Pat as a smiled at this thread showing up, went to the store, picked up some good stuff to eat, and just got an even more busy afternoon. No train stuff happened unfortunately, but seasoning of pork chops. Finished eating a bit ago, enjoying a Guinness while watching yesterday's preseason Steelers game. I happy I waited to read this until now.
It's great to see all the work that is going on, and Pat's workbench. Sort of reminds me of my late Uncle Eddie's shop were any number of things would be worked on, motors and such, but no trains.
You know what, speaking of Uncle Eddie, I feel that Pat, Alex, and others that do all these fantastic pieces of work probably have the same type of work like my uncle where some of the parts the were in originally in, somehow get set to the side and the engine works better. Yeah, I know that sounds somewhat silly because that is what is happening in most if not all of these projects, but my uncle would take things apart, and when it was put back together he had leftover parts. He'd operate whatever it was and it worked better. He told me that on two occasions, when was an old car he had where he had taken the engine apart, the other was my first car though that wasn't fully ripped apart, just something removed.
I can't wait to see more(sorry if I'm rambling, just so excited).
