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Re: NC&StL 36' XM-32 rebuilt boxcar
Chuck Cover
List,
I am still looking for information on this car. I would like to either kit-bash it or if someone has a Sunshine kit #97.2-97.6 and they would be willing to trade for another Sunshine kit or sell it to me. I thought that I had one lined up to purchase, but I have not been able to contact the guy again. Thanks in advance. Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM
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Re: Red Caboose stamped steel flat car stake pockets
Armand Premo
Andy,I would like a couple.Regards,Armand Premo 
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 5:01 PM Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote:
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Re: Digital Caliper Recommendation
mopacfirst
I have a plastic analog (dial) one made by General, which had HO and O scale divisions on it. From the looks of the letter and number style on it, I wonder if it's German. Have had it for maybe 15 or 20 years.
It no longer has the O scale divisions on it, because I got confused every time I looked at it to try to take a measurement, so I took a black Sharpie and colored over the O scale numbers. Crude, but..... As an engineer, I generally don't want to see numbers that are too accurate, that are more accurate than I can reproduce or that I need. So wherever the little pointer lands, if it says something is around 6 scale inches, for example, I'm happy with it. If I was machining something that needed close tolerances, or I needed to stack several things whose tolerances needed to add to a specific value, that would be different, but for my modeling, in general, this is the proper degree of precision for me. Ron Merrick
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Red Caboose stamped steel flat car stake pockets
Andy Carlson
Hello- I have lots of Red Caboose stake pockets offered for purchase. From Red Caboose's SP F-70-7 flat car. These are the pressed steel type with 4 rivets per pocket. Each sprue contains 24 stake pockets. I am asking $2.75 per sprue. Shipping of $4.80 by USPS 1st class postage. I accept checks and money orders. With a small fee PayPal is welcomed. Contact me off-list at <midcentury@sbcglobal> if interested. Thanks, Andy Carlson Ojai CA
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Re: Digital Caliper Recommendation
steve_wintner
It's not ideal, but the conversions 3.5 mm =12 inch and .011 = 1 inch are carried around in my head, for use with my various digital and dial calipers.
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Re: Photo: FGEX 35754 With Potato Load (1943)
Eric Hansmann
Bob,
The note on the inside of the door looks like cleaning instructions.
Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bob Chaparro via groups.io
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2020 11:12 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Photo: FGEX 35754 With Potato Load (1943)
Photo: FGEX 35754 With Potato Load (1943) Photo from the State Historical Society Of Missouri: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/42655/rec/6 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Small placard reads "Cleaned". Also a route or destination car tag reads "19..." Another view: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/38276/rec/11 Anyone have an educated guess as to what is the document tacked to the inside of the door? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Digital Caliper Recommendation
Jon Miller <atsfus@...>
On 10/17/2020 11:22 AM, Gene Semon
wrote:
PFM had a dial caliper in plastic & metal versions years ago that measured in in HO scale. The only PFM one I have seen (not saying there were not others) was not a dial caliper, was metal, and is going for in excess of $100. Low cost metal dial (or digital) calipers can be had at Harbor Freight. Twenty bucks and if you can get a monthly handout usually 20% off. eBay eBay
item number:
272740496214
$6.80, looks to be
the same as HF?
-- Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI User SPROG User NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS
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Re: Digital Caliper Recommendation
Peter Hall
The best I’ve found is a digital caliper that will convert Metric to Imperial with one button. That comes in handy many times.
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Thanks Pete
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Digital Caliper Recommendation
I seem to have misplaced my inexpensive digital calipers and two weeks of sporadic searching have only turned up the empty case. So I am in the market for a replacement and wondered if there was by any chance a version of digital calipers that would automatically convert the measured reading to a specified modeling scale value such as HO feet and fraction thereof. Checking Amazon I did see on calipers that said readouts were in fractions of inches. Perhaps the scale could be set so that you could select 3.5 mm/foot, 4 mm/foot, 1.9 mm/foot, 7 mm/foot or whatever ratio you desire.
Preferably the price of said magnificent instrument would be reasonably affordable to those of us who are poor or just cheap. -- Ken Adams Still in splendid Shelter In Place solitude, about half way up Walnut Creek
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Re: Thinking of you
Larry Smith
Disregard this email as it is a scam and not from Marty
On Saturday, October 17, 2020, 11:42:15 AM CDT, Marty McGuirk <mjmcguirk@...> wrote:
I hope you're doing well and surviving the scourge.please can i count on you for a request.
Thanks, Marty
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Re: Thinking of you
Steve SANDIFER
Sure
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Thinking of you
Marty McGuirk
I hope you're doing well and surviving the scourge.please can i count on you for a request.
Thanks, Marty
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Re: Photo: B&M Boxcar 70096 (1933)
Benjamin Hom
Bob Chaparro wrote: "Photo: B&M Boxcar 70096 (1933) Photo from the Los Angeles Public Library: https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/turnabout/id/2635/rec/30 Use the slider to enlarge the photo. Description: 'The Yale Puppeteers unloading their car in New Hampshire in summer 1933.'" B&M 70000-70499, 500 cars, USRA DS boxcar. Ben Hom
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Photo: Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Boxcar 175 (Undated)
Photo: Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Boxcar 175 (Undated) Photo from the State Historical Society Of Missouri: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/37155/rec/8 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Link-and-pin coupler. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Photos: Lackawanna Boxcar 12098 (1956)
Photos: Lackawanna Boxcar 12098 (1956) Photos from the State Historical Society Of Missouri: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/12050/rec/2 https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/12861/rec/3 Scroll on the photos to enlarge them. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Photo: FGEX 35754 With Potato Load (1943)
Photo: FGEX 35754 With Potato Load (1943) Photo from the State Historical Society Of Missouri: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/42655/rec/6 Scroll on the photo to enlarge it. Small placard reads "Cleaned". Also a route or destination car tag reads "19..." Another view: https://cdm17228.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/imc/id/38276/rec/11 Anyone have an educated guess as to what is the document tacked to the inside of the door? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Photo: B&M Boxcar 70096 (1933)
Photo: B&M Boxcar 70096 (1933) Photo from the Los Angeles Public Library: https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/turnabout/id/2635/rec/30 Use the slider to enlarge the photo. Description: " The Yale Puppeteers unloading their car in New Hampshire in summer 1933." Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Uncoupling Lever Brackets
Cal Scale also maked eye bolts but they are steel and stick to my tweezers. But inexpensive and I use them where I can.
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Re: Wanted IM 10'6" AAR boxcar Have for trade a RCW Mini-Kit 3.01 Illinois Central Single-Sheathed Boxcar Series 176000 - 176999
George, I don't have any extra IM cars but I might have a couple of Branchline 10'-6" IH cars. Would they do? Fenton
I have a new unbuilt Resin Car Works Mini-Kit 3.01 IC Single Sheathed Boxcar Series 176000-176999. This kit is sold out at RCW and includes an undecorated Accurail Body and underframe, Resin detail Parts, Precision Design decals, Tahoe Model 40-ton ARA trucks and Tichy k style Brake Hardware. --
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Re: Uncoupling Lever Brackets
Kenneth Montero
Barker's Trains, an Ebay seller, makes other parts - and also is a retailer for a variety of other manufacturers' parts, some of whom are no longer in business.
Barker also makes a variety of uncoupling lift bars, but I only could find them when I went to the eye bolt link that Chuck provided (some of the other parts shown above the eyebolt part listing) or go to the "advanced" link on Ebay.com and insert "Barker's Trains".
To get to its main listing for other manufacturers, go to
https://www.ebay.com/str/barkerstrains .
Ken Montero
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