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 Posted - August 11 2007 : 8:55:54 PM
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Hello
First off let me say this ...this is a great forum !
and kudos to Tony Cook for the Tyco resource pages and
AHM pages ...they are excellent !
How did I get here ?
Well it started out with a 20 buck Ertl farm set that I bought
my 8 year old back in early June of this year.
My mother inlaw was cleaning out her basement and the kid came home
with a box of old Tyco trains ...the stuff was rough to say the least.
He annoucced to me he was "going to set it up around the farm set"
I knew by the condition of this stuff it would never work.
So I explained to him to give me a chance and Ill put a table
up downstairs and we will try to set it up.
I went on ebay and bought a Model Power Metaltrain Set for 50.00
and the carpenter foreman at the place I work built him a nice
4x4 table with legs and a drawer for storage.
I brought the track to work and he nailset it down on the table.
I later on bought him a Mantua 060 switcher and some other
misc cars. He is having a ball !
Last week the same guy who built the table presented me with a
large box of 70s era brown box Tyco trains.
They were his back when he was a kid and no interest in them.
The stuff is nice all boxed but some of the couplers are lazy
and I need the coupler box that holds the coupler on the front truck
of a Tyco diesel.
Oh and BTW I have been O gauge guy for the last 23
years and Im going blind the last month working on this stuff
Sorry for the long post
Bob
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 Posted - August 12 2007 : 01:34:21 AM
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| Welcome, looks like you're off to a good start.
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 Posted - August 12 2007 : 02:38:33 AM
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Welcome aboard Bob.
Most often, Parts for the older HO trains will have to come from a piece someone is parting out.
If you could discribe or post a photo of the coupler box or the locomotive I could look to see if I might have one.
The lazy couplers are usualy due to broken springs and are usually easily replaced. I may have a few couplers laying around.
Ray
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