Is this sacrilege to do this to a new kato fef?

[draskouasshat]

Well, I'm getting close!
I took the mechanism to work to hit it with the grinder since i forgot my dremel at home. The fun part will be trying to keep it from shorting!
Now if only kato could see how good this looks!
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Now it's time to work on attaching the pilot!
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[mmagliaro]

By golly, that does look good!
The Yulim shell was a nice one. 

[draskouasshat]

By golly, that does look good!
The Yulim shell was a nice one.

Thanks max! I'm more excited to see how well it pulls!  It's got some heft to it now!

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Since otto got on my case about the white wheel treads! 

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[up1950s]

Does the center line of the steam chest exhaust pipe line up with the center line of the exhaust stack ? I think most ridged's do , if not all ?

[draskouasshat]

Yes, its honestly a perfect for richie

[superchief]

looking good Adam!!!!!!! what a neat project..... your right PLEASE pay attention KATO!!!!!! from your SSFF......slobering Santa Fe fans

[draskouasshat]

Thank you Gordon!

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Here's where i do allot of my work. In a hotel room on the road working the real railroad.
I still have some work to do with the pilot. I don't like the proportions of it so it will most likely get replaced with something like i put on my old kato gs4 Santa fe northern conversions.

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[peteski]

Very cool!  I would be lost without my complete home workshop.  I'm amazed how guys like you can do all that modeling in some far away hotel room.