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Re: easy off? stripping P2K cars

Ed Mines asked: "Is easy off an oven cleaner?" Yes. http://www.easyoff.us/ I use oven cleaner as a stripper of last resort to deal with particularly stubborn paint. "Any other experience stripping

By Benjamin Hom · #128487 ·

easy off? stripping P2K cars

Is easy off an oven cleaner? Any other experience stripping P2K cars? Ed Mines

By ed_mines · #128486 ·

Re: Traffic To Soft Drink Plants

Bob the #1 ingredient would be sugar, originally granular sugar in boxcars. In later years granular sugar in covered hoppers (though it would be late in the steam era) and/or corn syrup in tank cars.

By Douglas Harding · #128485 ·

Traffic To Soft Drink Plants

In the steam ear, what kind of commodities in what kind ofcars would have been delivered to soft drink production and bottling plants? I’ve found some evidence that concentrates were

By thecitrusbelt@... · #128484 ·

Re: Calipers & Micrometers

The link that Dave included shows all of the digital calipers that Amazon sells. The ones with more features than we need are more expensive. The 6" basic Mitutoyo is $125 plus shipping. They are sold

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #128483 ·

Re: Calipers

I'm certainly not going to argue with using quality calipers of older mechanical patterns; either dial or vernier scale. Digitals have taken over the manufacturing world for two simple reasons; speed,

By destorzek@... · #128482 ·

Re: Calipers & Micrometers

The savings is in not buying multiple cheap tools that break, wear out, go out of calibration, burn through batteries like a kid goes through Halloween candy, etc. Reminds me of an article on how to

By arved_grass · #128481 ·

Re: Calipers & Micrometers

Hi Bill, I have both micrometers and vernier calipers, and I'll admit that I don't use the micrometers for much. I'm always using the calipers, and generally they can make any measurement I'd do with

By Andy Sperandeo · #128480 ·

Re: Calipers & Micrometers

And they have solar powered digital calipers too! Great for outdoor modeling. :-) Tim O'

By Tim O'Connor · #128479 ·

Re: Calipers & Micrometers

Ditto. One pair at my workbench, another at my mini-mill, and a couple floating around the house. Good and cheap. I have the distinct impression that as the overall quality of other tools has gotten

By arved_grass · #128478 ·

Re: Calipers

All this discussion lead me to do some searching. I found this page comparing the various manufactures who offer calipers http://www.longislandindicator.com/p103.html Contains some great information

By Douglas Harding · #128477 ·

Re: Calipers & Micrometers

I think almost all manufacturers state that if you are not going to use adevice for a long time (month or more) you should remove the batteries. Just makes sense. Jerry Michels

By asychis@... · #128476 ·

Re: Calipers

Much the same road I took. I have a nice set of Brown & Sharpe dial calipers I bought about 20 years ago, 2nd hand, from a machinist. Labeled as Swiss made, they do everything I need them to

By Craig Zeni · #128475 ·

Calipers

Risking being branded as a luddite, I am a strong advocate for a quality stainless steel DIAL caliper over a digital caliper. Becoming familiarized with reading the dial is a short learning curve and

By Andy Carlson · #128474 ·

Re: Calipers & Micrometers

Fyi, Mitutoyo has a solar powered version digital caliper, so no problem with batteries failing. I don't see value yet for the price($120+). I have $35 dial caliper that seems to work for me. I also

By A&Y Dave in MD · #128473 ·

Re: 70 ton War Emergency Hopper kitbash

As Ed says, originally a kit. In addition, I stripped a decorated version in easy lift off and it kitted the RTR car. Regards Bruce Smith Auburn, AL

By Bruce Smith · #128472 ·

Re: Calipers & Micrometers

The PFM/Mititoyo HO Vernier calipers of old are extremely accurate and are of the highest Mititoyo quality. Mine has seldom left my modeling hand since my good wife gave it to for Christmas

By Denny Anspach <danspachmd@...> · #128471 ·

Re: Calipers & Micrometers

At 07:54 PM 10/26/2014, Dennis Storzek wrote: A quick google search does not tell me how Mititoyo's would SAVE mymoney, although they might save my

By A&Y Dave in MD · #128469 ·

Re: 70 ton War Emergency Hopper kitbash

Dick, The P2K 50-ton emergency hopper car model was originally produced as a kit. Regards, Ed Hawkins

By Ed Hawkins · #128468 ·

70 ton War Emergency Hopper kitbash

Has anyone fully disassembled a Proto2000/Walthers 50 ton war emergency hopper? I want to kitbash a 70 ton version, but I'm not sure that it's possible to disassemble the Proto2000 car without severe

By Richard Ryker · #128467 ·

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