What cars did the SP use to ship the oil into San Luis Obispo for Loco fuel for steam engines?

CLEAR silicone is not an adhesive (usually so warned on the label) but has an uncanny ability to simply grab onto a surface, fingers of silicone locking into any crevice, or irregularity. . The objects so joined can be resilient to mild stresses, but when separated, the silicone just peels off. This characteristic makes it quite useful in mounting new can motors in brass locomotives, and I have done so for about 20 years. . Flat featureless or painted surfaces are a recipe for failure. It is also pretty inert, probably the reason that it is commonly used to seal aquariums, and probably exactly why it has so poor adhesive qualities.

The blue Barge Cement in the small consumer tubes holds as well as the old yellow (only now available in bulk amounts). The blue is not as easy to work (more stringy-ness), but it is certainly manageable. As Tony Thompson avers, contact cements properly applied, like Barge, GOO, or Pliobond, provide incredibly strong lasting adhesion, virtually all failures that I have experienced (I have used them in modeling since the ‘50s) have been substrate failure, i.e. peeling paint, deteriorating or poor surface preparation, etc. Non destructive separation does not become an option.

Canopy and Kwik Clear: Sleeper adhesives that are incredibly useful for modelers. I do think that too much may be asked of these adhesives inasmuch as they are simply not the strongest.

Denny

Denny S. Anspach MD
Sacramento CA

On Jul 2, 2017, at 8:39 AM, STMFC@... wrote:

10b. Re: NYC Steel Boxcars was NYC S98656
Posted by: "Don Burn" burn@... don_burn
Date: Sun Jul 2, 2017 4:51 am ((PDT))

Anyone have comments on the accuracy / quality of the BLI model?

Reasonably good and an easy way to get a very common car on your layout but....weird truck mounts and the trucks themselves are pretty ghastly...very flat and with the wheel ribs *printed* on the backside of the wheels. That weird mount makes it more work than should be necessary to swap trucks. Andy Sperandeo figured out a way to do it (I think that's in the STMFC group files); when I used one of the BLI cars as a basis for a DL&W car I pitched the entire floor and used a Tichy underframe. And with that DL&W car the only parts of the BLI car I actually used were the body and the doors. The rest went in the trash as part of either upgrading or matching prototype details. I still couldn't match the oddball DL&W dreadnaught ends but that's another story all together...

Craig Zeni
Cary NC

On Jul 2, 2017, at 12:20 AM, STMFC@... wrote:

And, of
course, what do you think about the term "Turnout"?

Mike Brock

A turnout discussion? On a freight car list? Now that's a switch.

I'll get my hat and show myself out.....


Craig Zeni
"Bother..." said Pooh as he chambered another round.

I thought it was clunky and did not buy any as I have a stash of Westerfield kits.

The Westerfield site indicates that the NYC cars in the 2900 series kits are
to be reissued:

http://www.westerfieldmodels.com./118401.html


Terry Link
Bramalea, Ontario
www.canadasouthern.com

Anyone have comments on the accuracy / quality of the BLI model?

Makes sense as the styrene Broadway Limited release would have killed sales of a resin kit. Maybe it will be available again at some point/

Liquid Nails Clear Silicone ADHESIVE. http://www.liquidnails.com/en-US/products/green-glue-LN207?wt.mc_id=ln17ps-b&wt.tsrc=Paid%20Search&gclid=CJfXkuK_6tQCFUK4wAod3nAA3A

Having worked for Liquid Nails, it is an adhesive. Just about every manufacturer of caulks and adhesives makes a similar product.

Kent Hurley
KC, MO
nvrr49.blogspot.com

I have used Dap clear silicon adhesive to stick plastic miniature switches to homemade metal  snap switch machines for well over 10 years and have never had a failure. I think clamping the items together is the reason for success. It also works well glueing figures to the layout, just peal them off if you want  to move them.