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Re: Lacquer Thinners

It may be a "Texas thing," but I can buy gallon-sized cans of lacquer thinner at Home Depot. Along with Naphtha, MEK, and lots of other good organic solvents. Jerry Michels

By asychis@... · #114672 ·

Re: Device often seen on single sheathed house cars-what is its name?

I don't think this is the part I am referring to Dick. The fitting I am speaking of had no ability to keep the door tight against the side. The function of the strap I am talking about was to keep the

By Bill Welch · #114671 ·

Re: Advertising Photos of Freight Car Roofs

Don, I have had similar problems with Yahoo. What I do to correct is to close the image file and start over again, which usually gets rid of the yahoo hiccup. Last night I found I somehow missed three

By Douglas Harding · #114670 ·

Re: Model Shapeways UTLX underframe

Steve, My plan for the couplers is as follows. Trim the end off of a #58 or similar coupler (should even work with a Sergent) by cutting parallel to the shaft, through the hole. This will get the

By Bruce Smith · #114669 ·

Re: Delaware and Hudson cement boxcar

All, The following articles should help anyone trying to model the D&H or B&O converted cement cars from the 1930s. D & H 40'SS Cement hopper boxcars (Tichy) - Mainline Modeler June 1994,

By Larry Sexton · #114668 ·

Re: Advertising Photos of Freight Car Roofs

Gene, is there a way to obtain these as a single ZIP file. The Next and Previous, and many of the links themselves that Yahoo provides are all scrambled and get stuck in a loop. Thanks. Don Strack

By Don Strack · #114667 ·

Model Shapeways UTLX underframe

My underframe arrived this week. It is interesting to think about how it was created. Has anyone figured out how to mount a coupler in the draft gear? It won't fit a Kadee or an Accumate.

By Steve and Barb Hile · #114666 ·

Re: Advertising Photos of Freight Car Roofs

Gene Green, Thanks for posting the roof photos. Could you please contact me off-list to answer a question? allencain@... Thanks, Allen Cain

By Allen Cain <allencain@...> · #114665 ·

Re: Advertising Photos of Freight Car Roofs

Hi Folks, As Dan has discovered, I posted a number of ads and a couple of magazine articles for freight car roofs in an album in the photo section entitled "Roofs, freight car." I have posted only

By Gene <bierglaeser@...> · #114663 ·

Re: Lacquer Thinners

At Accurail we just did a custom job where we had to use Scalecoat II to match the color; the folks at Weaver recommended common paint store naphtha for thinning. Dennis

By soolinehistory <destorzek@...> · #114662 ·

Re: Device often seen on single sheathed house cars-what is its name?

They're related to the door rub strips used on double sheathed cars to keep the door from scuffing the car siding, in the case of a single sheathed car they attach to the sheathing and angle out

By soolinehistory <destorzek@...> · #114661 ·

Re: Delaware and Hudson cement boxcar

The MM article includes a photo of the roof: looks to me like a Hutchins. (The "carlines" have that distinctive bolt toward the outer end.) Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

By al_brown03 · #114660 ·

Re: Device often seen on single sheathed house cars-what is its name?

Beats me John, it just a little strip. I though gussets usually tied things together and reinforced the connection. Bill Welch

By Bill Welch · #114659 ·

Re: Delaware and Hudson cement boxcar

Hello Jim; Actually, the article by Greg Smith in Vol 2, No.1 of the B&O Modeler on the M24 cement cars contains more information than I have seen in the articles and photos of the D&H cars. In

By Pieter Roos · #114658 ·

Re: Device often seen on single sheathed house cars-what is its name?

Sounds like you are talking about a "Door Rail" or a "Side Door Bottom Guide" which is defined in the 1931 CBC as an iron bracket attached to the side of freight cars having sliding doors to guide

By Rhbale@... · #114664 ·

Advertising Photos of Freight Car Roofs

Gene Green, thanks for posting to Photos section Great stuff, especially the Hutchins. Dan Sweeney, Jr. Alexandria, VA

By Dan Sweeney Jr · #114657 ·

Re: Delaware and Hudson cement boxcar

Agree with you there Chuck. I got the photos from Ron and they are very impressive models. Top class modelling and weathering there. I found the photos of the OMI model of the car. But they are quite

By rckwallaby · #114656 ·

Re: Device often seen on single sheathed house cars-what is its name?

You mean the gussets? -- John

By John · #114655 ·

Re: Lacquer Thinners

I have a gallon of KleanStrip. I use it to clean my brushes (not airbrushes). It's no good for anything else. I couldn't find the "good" stuff I had always been using (i.e., a "hot" lacquer

By John · #114654 ·

Re: Device often seen on single sheathed house cars-what is its name?

Door rail? Pierre Oliver

By Pierre <pierre.oliver@...> · #114653 ·

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