GP9 Project

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Made a little progress. I had to cut up a new AN chassis for a better fit. The 1st chassis was just to confirm this would work and it had cutout errors. It still sits a skosh too high, but there's not much room to play with underneath. The compormises made by Atlas to the RC chassis in order to accomodate their drives and DCC were many. But, I'm happy with where it's going.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

But, I'm happy with where it's going.

There's what's important,

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Got lucky on cooling piping as I mentioned in another thread. These piping assembles were donated from a 3rd Rail NP Z5 shell I bought on EB for parts. Little did I know they would be used on a diesel projuct, but they are close to perfect....even the little tabs on top of some of the brackers can be shaped to duplicate the UP installation.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice salvage and re-purposing of parts!

[86TA355SR]

Nice work, Butch. You’re certainly busy with the many projects you are working on.

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Thanks guys. I have a lot of projects going, but I don't get as much done as I would like. It seems after a couple of hours I get drawn to something else or just don't want to concentrate that hard.

I contacted CMR 3D as they have an HO "B" insert kit to see if they would do one in O. They seem interested yesterday or at least asked the right questions, but waiting to hear if they want to take this on.