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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
Love your version of Thomas. I know several people who have made their own. What I still don¡¯t understand is why one of the company¡¯s making S equipment didn¡¯t see this as an opportunity to
By Ted Zanders · #171118 ·
Re: Custom Decal Recommendation
I simply cannot say enough good things about Circus City Decals. He is beyond excellent in every way. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since
By Bill Lane · #171117 ·
Re: seeking advice from mechanical/engineering types!
This has been a good creative excercise and I thank you for the ideas.? All make sense in some way but there are only so many ways this can be accomplished in the critically narrow space I have--here
By Bob Werre · #171116 ·
Re: Custom Decal Recommendation
Roger, The owner's name is Billy Brillinger.? Email is "billy at pdc dot CA".? The email is also in Ed's post above. I can also highly recommend him...quality, price, service are all top
By Brooks Stover · #171115 ·
Re: Looking for the assembler of 'S' scale switches. I thought I had
That address does not want to work for me... <scaler164@...> wrote:
By Richard Haley · #171114 ·
Re: seeking advice from mechanical/engineering types!
Harbor Freight sells a small 12v. cable winch with a remote, which should easily lift your door.
By John Hutnick · #171113 ·
Re: Looking for the assembler of 'S' scale switches. I thought I had
John Wickham is my go -to guy for all of my custom made turnouts. John D
By John Degnan · #171112 ·
Re: seeking advice from mechanical/engineering types!
My first suggestion would be to simply add more weight to the counterweight so that the door actually has just barely over the amount of counter weight needed to OPEN it. Going this route,
By John Degnan · #171111 ·
Re: seeking advice from mechanical/engineering types!
Perhaps contact a garage door repair place.? To help lift, they might be able to rig up one of the of those spring arrangements like are used on sectional rollup doors.? But the bulk of the long
By Charles Kinzer · #171110 ·
Re: seeking advice from mechanical/engineering types!
Bob, Consider a small electric winch with a detectable cable to and from the lift panel. You could drill a hole through the lift up panel and install a small steel plate with a thread hole. Then
By Michael Lytle · #171109 ·
Re: seeking advice from mechanical/engineering types!
Pulleys and a cable attached to the door so you can pull from base of stairs to open the door easily with your existing counter weights. I had to come up with a door up to my railroad room as well
By JJundt · #171108 ·
seeking advice from mechanical/engineering types!
Over the past 20-30 years that I've "been work'in on the railroad--all the live long day" and basically having a blast in creating the monster.?? I'm starting to have regrets over 2 things other
By Bob Werre · #171107 ·
Re: Looking for the assembler of 'S' scale switches. I thought I had
Also John Wickham:? scottw90@...?
By Woody Mitchell · #171106 ·
Re: Looking for the assembler of 'S' scale switches. I thought I had
Richard, Roger, and All Empire Trackworks will have a table in the dealer hall at the NASG Convention in Harrisburg, July 17-20th. There's still time to register. Go to nasg.org for details. Jamie
By Jamie Bothwell · #171105 ·
keeping it fun
All this talk about getting young people started in the hobby made me think of my age. As I have entered into my seventh decade of life I am realizing something that I just never understood as a
By Mike Swederska · #171104 ·
Re: Custom Decal Recommendation
How do you contact Billy? Thanks, Roger Nulton Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 7:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [S-Scale] Custom Decal Recommendation Ed, Billy is making the decals
By Roger Nulton · #171103 ·
Re: Looking for the assembler of 'S' scale switches. I thought I had
Richard, Is this it? <https://www.empire-trackworks.com/> https://www.empire-trackworks.com/ From the NASG website, Roger Nulton
By Roger Nulton · #171102 ·
Re: SHS Cabooses Interior
I didn't buy the caboose new, but are you suggesting someone did all that electronic work from scratch? Jace Kahn ________________________________ Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 10:07 AM To:
By JGG KahnSr · #171101 ·
Re: Today¡¯s S Scale project
I took a couple of pictures of the drivers in the NWSL quartering tool to show what I was talking about in my last post. To make a point for those who have not ever used this tool. The important thing
By Mike Swederska · #171100 ·
Re: Custom Decal Recommendation
Ed, Billy is making the decals for the BN and MN&S 4750 hoppers and Family Lines for the 3000 version for me.? He does great work and I like the decal film he uses. -- Ken Zieska 1/64th Scale
By Ken Zieska · #171099 ·