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 Posted - June 23 2010 : 7:44:48 PM
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I bought a Chattanooga engine & tender a week or so ago. It runs great, but I started tinkering with it & now I need an engine. I was trying to see if I could fix the smoke unit & evidently the shell had gotten brittle over the years & when I started putting it back together it started cracking & splitting with chunks falling out.
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Posted - July 04 2010 : 5:23:24 PM
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I might have an 0-8-0 boiler with the smoke unit in it. I will check to see if there any cracks in it.
I will get back to you.
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Posted - July 04 2010 : 6:29:07 PM
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I've seen that on quite a few old Chattanoogas, Jerry. My guess is it's the smoke fluid that makes the boilers brittle, either the original Tyco fluid, or things like 3-In-1 that people may have used when the Tyco stuff ran out.
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Posted - July 04 2010 : 7:17:51 PM
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i figure that the smoke fluide or 3-n-1 oil breakes down the plastic as well.
i don't care if the smoke unit works or not. if a big chunk wasn't missing i would have glued it back togethere. thanks AF kid.
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Posted - July 05 2010 : 1:20:31 PM
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Smokie, I sent you a PM with pics.
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Posted - July 15 2010 : 11:02:24 PM
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This guy is selling a TON of stuff, and has Chattanooga parts for steam engines - might be worth a look at his auctions - I'm checking out his stuff myself.
http://shop.ebay.com/micah7306/m.html?_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A3018&_ipg=&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14.l1581&_pgn=5
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Posted - July 16 2010 : 11:47:01 AM
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i bought another 0-8-0 that didn't run for parts. after it got here i had it running in under an hour. so now i still need a boiler. the one af kid has is different than mine.
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Posted - July 16 2010 : 2:00:51 PM
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| I have the boiler---no running boards, no smokebox front, no handrails---from an older Chat with the older handrails. If you can strip the usable parts off of the other and use this, you're welcome to it.
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Posted - July 16 2010 : 11:18:43 PM
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what do you want for it?
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Posted - July 16 2010 : 11:40:55 PM
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FREE I'll bet smokie Worse I needs is a set of wheels on tender Mine are cracked  & NTSB Inspectors don't aprove of it running 
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Posted - July 17 2010 : 12:26:23 AM
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quote:what do you want for it?
Originally posted by smokie - July 16 2010 : 11:18:43 PM
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Yours for the asking if you can use it, just PM me a snail mail addy...
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Posted - July 24 2010 : 12:39:29 AM
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hey shay, i got the boiler on wensday, which was my 39th birthday. thank you again. the shell worked out nice, but when i took the chatt back apart to replace the boiler, the bottum part that the boiler snaps onto has a bad crack in it now. so now i need one of those. figures.
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