Working on a Sunshine Models Linde Kit 95.2 Tank Car. In the RPC 14 the truck for the car is a Double Truss 70-ton truck. If I read Richard Hendrickson's truck listing correct Intermountain made

IIRC, methylene chloride is the solvent of choice for bonding acrylic; that must be why Tenax works so much better with ABS. Dennis

Tenax is methylene chloride so not all styrene glues are MEK. MEK is also far more flammable than methylene chloride; both are fairly volatile which is annoying to both one's respiratory system as

One is reminded of a famous quote from a well known photographer of steam era freight cars in his The Provocative Pen of Lucius Beebe in which Beebe refered to California stating "It is akin to an

Jeff, Wet sand the "run" and feather it into the rest of the body, it the safest thing you can do as most all strippers rely on alcohol as Tom mentioned... Start with 400 and work your way down

I have grit blasted many(more than 5 ) resin cars from various mfgs to remove paint/decals/weathering. I have used both alum oxide and glass beads at pressures up to 60psi in a Northcoast Hobbies

Before going over the edge on the banning of MEK-- It can also be used in the manufacture of Methamphetamine. It was "Red listed" back in 1988. For years (at least in our state) I've been signing

Jeff, Maybe you can sand the run down??? Ed Edward Sutorik

I got some last month in Bakersfield at a paint store that deals with commercial accounts.  They had gallon pints and most likely larger sizes.  So you can still get it in California you just have

Rather than grit blasting, I would first try blasting baking soda. I confess I have not used this media on paint however. Frankly I do not trust any chemical where resin is involved. Another less

THANKS VERY MUCH! For this timely information. I have a Sunshine ATSF dry ice car that I painted incorrectly and had planned to strip it. I hadn't got around to testing with my stock of Chameleon

The only other car I had to strip the paint off of was an older Westerfield in the gray resin and the Scalecoat stripper worked perfectly so some resins aren't affected. I guess in Scalecoat's

So, what is recommended for stripping resin models (besides grit-blasting)? I have an SC&F car that I need to strip (the Polly-Scale Armor Yellow has a run in it). Regards, -Jeff Sent: Thursday,

I had the paint job go wrong on a SMMW Tennessee Central car. I stripped it in Chameleon which seems to be less aggressive than Scalecoat's product. The glue on resin details - doors and running

Bill Welch wrote: Cast urethane doesn't take kindly to alcohol immersion, and the first listed ingredient in Chameleon is propanol. Some years ago we made some cast resin prototypes for a medical

I ruined two UP models, one Sunshine, one Westerfield, using Chameleon paint stripper. I would not use anything but Media Blasting to remove paint from Resin. Bill Welch

<Jack, < <Your note inspired to me to check out things here in Arkansas. Home <Depot does not carry it on their shelves. I stopped next door at <Sherwin Williams & picked up a gallon was I was

Last week I received Jerry Glow's replacement decal set for the Funaro & Camerlengo IC SS rebuilt boxcar (it's their kit 6270). I'd built the car a couple of years ago and was never happy with the

I thought I would take a stab a placing the FGE RBL's in historical context based on my limited scope of knowledge. One of the things that differentiated the FGE/WFE/BRE System from the other

A "return to" location could simply be a staging point for empty cars, and was most likely an interchange point as well. The cars may have been managed by an agent based there. These cars were