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Hugh Odom

December 08, 2005 03:51AM

Kevin,
I'd guess the $100 is for a used whistle being removed from an engine about to be scrapped. Hopefully $400 buys you a new whistle. BTW, I believe the whistle is a copy of a Nathan.
There used to be a website called "Voice of the Iron Horse" about steam locomotive whistles. IIRC, he had a feature on procuring one of these $400 whistles. It had some noticable manufacturing defects, so the author decided to re-work it, which involved some brazing, machining , and polishing. He ended up with a very nice whistle for less than you'd pay for a genuince Nathan.

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Strange stuff from China	Fred	December 06, 2005 07:12AM
Re: Strange stuff from China LINK	Hugh Odom	December 07, 2005 04:20AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Kevin Bush	December 07, 2005 05:29AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Fred	December 07, 2005 09:38AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	stuart olson	December 07, 2005 04:09PM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Rick Steele	December 07, 2005 05:30PM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Mark Kasprowicz	December 08, 2005 03:48AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Hugh Odom	December 08, 2005 03:51AM
Re: Strange stuff from China LINK	Linn W. Moedinger	December 08, 2005 05:27AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Hugh Odom	December 08, 2005 06:51AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Kevin Bush	December 08, 2005 06:52AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Hugh Odom	December 08, 2005 08:10AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Kevin Bush	December 08, 2005 10:26AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Michael Allen	December 09, 2005 04:57PM
Re: Strange stuff from China LINK	Hugh Odom	December 08, 2005 08:58AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Kevin Bush	December 08, 2005 10:30AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Larry Travelle	December 08, 2005 08:26PM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Trevor Hartford	December 10, 2005 04:02PM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Hugh Odom	December 11, 2005 07:54AM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Trevor Hartford	December 11, 2005 08:23PM
Re: Strange stuff from China	Trevor Hartford	December 11, 2005 08:41PM

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