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My girlfriend bought an Athearn Blue Box Milwaukee Road SD40-2 on eBay that arrived damaged in the shipping box. Fortunately, the seller refunded her entire payment and told her to keep the locomotive as a courtesy. The dilemma was two broken drive link couplers, one on each end. At a cost of $4 per pair plus shipping, I decided to mill my own set of couplers. So, using two different sizes of styrene tubing on hand, I interlocked the two tubes with CA, cut to length, then milled a key notch and female receiving clasp for connecting the male knuckles on the flywheels. Saved me $10, and restored a free locomotive to working order.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 03:00:53 +0000

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