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While not exactly a exciting goal, I been wanting all three Weeden Line Shafts.  It seems the No. 2 is hard to come by on eBay but finally scored one in fairly good shape and it is the older leaded leg version too.  I suppose the No. 3 isn't easy to find either but my brother randomly gave me his.  Looking at each of these models in individual photos, doesn't give you a good feel for their difference in size - so I am putting them all together.

Hopefully one day I can replace the one wheel missing on the top of my No. 3 but I need to figure out its size so I can see if any of the other more common accessory wheel's would make a good replacement.

Maybe one day I'll get lucky and get one of those strange No. 73 Transmitters!  Does anyone here actually have one or seen one in person?


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I'd be happy to find a No. 1 with lead legs - which I assume the base would be stamped "Weeden" like the other two.  That said, having all the variants would be a rather nice (and hard) collection!

Heck, it was hard enough to get these three ;-)

I couldn't resist seeing how many accessories I could get connected up to this No. 3 Line Shaft.  I ran out of belts, I still have two stamp mills and then my hoisting drum (though the drum would be to much of a pain to unwind its block & tackle).

I did get close, 7 out of 8 ain't bad ;-)

AWESOME!! I think that’s the most Weeden accessories I’ve seen going at one time 

Nice !