Many of us will remember the parts line under Custom Finishes by Bob Rzasa. It is now Custom Finishing Models: Custom Finishing Models Custom Finishing Models Custom Finishing

Thanks Chris, I'm glad the spreadsheet is useful to you. And those are some fine looking models! -- Eric Lombard Homewood, IL rericlombard at gmail.com elombard at uchicago.edu

Just wanted to add a shout-out to Eric for all the (very evident) hard work he put into such an informative resource. I especially liked the bar chart - though I didn't like seeing in such graphic

There's a company in England -Albion Alloys - which sells tiny diameter tubing. The smallest size I have is .4mm (.016in) OD, .2mm (.008in) ID. I use .8mm OD as coupling for .020 in. hand rails on

Dennis Storzek wrote: Thank you, Dennis. Good clarification on terminology. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

---In STMFC@..., <tony@...> wrote : Just think of the 1-1/4 inches as an identifying number, not a dimension. =============== "Trade size" is a accepted, useful, and descriptive term for this. When

Steve Lucas wrote: Good point, Steve, except for one thing. The 1-1/4 inch pipe dimension is a nominal dimension which identifies a class of pipe. It is NOT the pipe ID, as a variety of

Thanks, Al. I've been curious to see that. I will check it out. Jeff jppellas@...

If there was one piece of metal stock to be found on any North American car repair or RIP track, it was standard 1 1/4" inside diameter brake pipe. Which is why it may have been used for tank car

Tim O'Connor wrote: I have used hypodermic tubing for splices on a bunch of SP tank cars, because they only had dome walks on one side, meaning that you have to remove the ladder on one side,

Detail Associates 0.019” brass wire is D.A. #2506. Their stainlessequivalent is #3506. They also have SS wire in 0.010”, 0.012” and 0.015”diameters. 0.020” I.D. stainless hypodermic

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /Cutting_Stainless_Tubing.pdf Uploaded by :

I forgot all about it; thanks for the reminder! So, this morning I posted (pending moderators' approval) photos of the Sunshine B-5 underframe and my kitbashed version, to an album called "SAL B-5

Tim asked Tom to post photos but I also have one at the ready that I will post showing one side. The model is a 10K gallon AC&F Semet-Solvay kit forthcoming from Yarmouth. There are four sections of

Bill, In the quest for small and unusual materials for model making, don't forget the other Precision Scale, that is Precision Scale Model Engineering. I have used them for years and they have an

Bobby Pitts uses styrene rod he drills out on his tank car models. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Reply-To: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Date: Wednesday,

Ngineering.com sells several sizes on thin wall stainless tubing which I use in tank cars as couplings. To cut it, I tape the tubing tightly to a piece of wood and use a cut off disk to cut it through

Tom, I am unaware that Detail Associates had 0.019 Stainless Steel Wire. What is the Catalog # for this please? I use the same arrangement you do for the my joints. I have already ordered the plastic

Tom could you post a photo(s?) showing your splices with the tubing? I'm very curious to know what this looks like. Also what are you using for pipe brackets? And who sells the .020 ID SS tubing? Is

Al, Did you ever post these pictures? Scott Haycock The B-5 has an unusual underframe, with a single main cross-bearer centered under the door. The Sunshine UF replicates this feature, as does my