BLAST from the PAST
Gentlemen.......
Those of us with gray hair (or no hair) will remember the all-wood Strombecker kits from long ago.? Here is another collection of pieces and parts to make a freight car of your
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Ed Loizeaux
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#174792
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Re: Nimco wheels
Thanks for looking. Yes they are surprising large. But the size does
filling the extra space on an AF axle spacing.
Austin
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Austin Birkey <aftrainfun@...>
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#174791
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Re: Nimco wheels
Thanks for the idea. Another would be to cast a resin wheel. Not sure I
want to commit that much time to a single wheel when I have so very many
projects...
Austin
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Austin Birkey <aftrainfun@...>
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#174790
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FREE -- pay postage only.
First come, first serve.
Photos tell the story.
Email preferred.? Phone works.? ? Loizeaux? aht? SBC?//?Global? daht net? ? ? 1-650-962-1577
Easy Peasy to make me smile with this one.?
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Ed Loizeaux
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#174789
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Craftsman Special (for sale)
Gents......
Here is a home-brew kit of sorts.? I gathered all the pieces and parts intending to build a complete finished model.? But........other things had a higher priority and so it languished
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Ed Loizeaux
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#174788
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SHS truck body + Aurora body also (for sale)
Folks.......The pictures tell the story.? Never out of the box or bag.? New, mint, untouched by my hands.? Make me smile and they are yours.? Thanks......Ed L.
Email preferred.? Phone works.?
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Ed Loizeaux
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#174787
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Re: Finest Trucks Ever Made -- RRM (brass imported passenger by Boo Rim)
Hello Ed.? ?I hope you are well.? ? ?Will $100.00 for the 41-N-11 trucks bring a smile?
Andrew Parker
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Andrew Parker
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#174786
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Switched out the Reading team to Lehigh Valley tonight
Every so often I switch out my operating teams.
Anybody else change things up on their layouts from time to time?
Hugh
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Hugh Sinn
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#174785
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Re: What did I just get into!
Hey
GREAT STORY!!
Fun reading
Looking forward to the next chapter of the story.
Maybe pictures?
S scale man. Roger
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Roger Haag
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#174784
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Re: Glory Days of S
I imagine you are thinking of the clown in Copperas Cove TX who made sky-high promises and delivered almost nothing. His idea was to use high school vocational students to assemble the custom orders.
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JGG KahnSr
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#174783
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Re: Nimco wheels
Hey
May just have to plug it with a temporary brass wheel until a spoked wheel is found or fabricated most likely
I would be inclined to get a brass plug cut to diameter and then hand drilling out the
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Roger Haag
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#174782
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Re: Nimco wheels
Austin,
I just went through all my driver inventory looking for that 1.25¡± diameter and came up short. That is a very large driver. Sorry I couldn¡¯t help.
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Mike Swederska
Meramec Valley
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Mike Swederska
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#174781
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Re: What did I just get into!
I suspect your passenger car came from the same source as the other spliced AF coaches I got from you. Two of those had Nimco white-metal six wheel trucks (one high-rail sintered iron wheels, the
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JGG KahnSr
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#174780
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What did I just get into!
In the sale of used S train items (BBB), sometimes I find something I really-really need, but generally I can pass on most.? However, sometimes it's just 'a little something' that catches my eye, my
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Bob Werre
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#174779
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Re: Glory Days of S
The big let downs were a couple of companies that tried and always failed to make new entire train sets, making lots of noise but mostly just hot air at best!? Then we had several, one a Texas co
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Bob Werre
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#174778
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Glory Days of S
Not to be picky, but I have many fond memories of the Glory Days when various clubs all over the USA would take it upon themselves to produce kits for the rest of us.? The kits were adequate and
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Ed Loizeaux
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#174777
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Re: Sandhouse (was Riverton Stockyard
Just to give a flavor for how much effort was required to produce these "homemade" kits, the PVSGA sandhouse required two particularly difficult to construct parts: ?The sand spout, that was produced
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Dan Vandermause
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#174776
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Re: Nimco wheels
The diameter is the wheel tread is 1.25 inches.
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Austin Birkey <aftrainfun@...>
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#174775
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Re: Layout Progress
Because I¡¯m using Woodland Scenics O gauge roadbed, the spline width is about 2 3/4¡± thick. ?The spline itself is a combination of 6mm plywood strips and 7/16¡± homasote strips. ?I made things
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Ben
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#174774
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Re: Layout Progress
Ben -
What thickness are you using for the spline and how many layers are you going to "build up"?
Bill
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Bill Hawk
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#174773
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