Another source for music wire is guitar strings,they are sold by diameter,if you know someone who plays guitar ask them for the old strings next time they change them or go to a music store and tell

Details associates packaged a lot of their brass wire about 20 years ago which were from a bad batch. Wire from these batches would break when brought to any near a right angle. Since the DA packaging

Great stuff, Tony, and I thank you. Very informative and well-photographed. I have several of those placards which I will share with the group when I have time to photograph them. In the meantime,

I am a huge fan of the phosphor bronze wire that Tichy sells. Not as prone to fatigue, stiffer than brass yet much easier to cut and work with than piano wire. Craig Zeni "Bother", said Pooh as

I use .010 Detail Associates Stainless wire. ______________ J. Stephen (Steve) Sandifer mailto:steve.sandifer@... Home: 12027 Mulholland Drive, Meadows Place, TX 77477, 281-568-9918 Office:

Or try .008 brass from a different source. Brass work hardens as it is drawn into wire; what we typically use for model building is rated "half hard". IIRC, the hardness of the finished wire is

That's a good question, so I took a look last night. It seems the Soo was quite enamored with this design, but only for a very short period of time; 1927-1930. Unfortunately, they only bought five

Thanks Tony & Randy, So the better choices seem to be either .01" brass or .008 music wire (I assume that is stainless or something of that sort). Or to muddle along with a high failure rate using

It would be nice if the solution was that easy Nelson, but no, it is brass - from DA. Rob -------------------------------------------------- Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 5:45 AM To:

Rebuild. Hi Eric, Your post made me aware of this CV car and got me to Sunshine where I found CV 42000 as well. Sunshine offers two kinds of trucks: TP 40 black plastic cast side frame, non-sprung

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I'm wondering if you're using brass or phosphor bronze. The latter is somewhat brittle, compared to brass. I've bent grabs from both, and brass is quite malleable without heating, while phosphor

Marty, Funny you mention the Sunshine Decal Lettering on the New Kits. I have found several of the new 100 series Auto car kits have over sized lettering for the Rail Road name, " Automobile" and

Jerry Glow has recently produced an HO scale decal "Dangerous" placard that may be useful as well. This is based on a Pennsy example, similar placard to that posted in the blog. Regards, Peter Ness

Great stuff, Tony! Thank you very much. George Melvin Readfield, Maine

Too big. I do know they were 8000 gallons. :-) Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Eric, Thanks for the tip - I haven't dug into my kits yet, but plan to this summer. Although I haven't studied the bodies -- honestly I haven't taken the parts out of the tissue paper - I did look

Rob You might try .008" music wire from Small Part Inc, it holds paint better than brass and should not break. Randy thompson@...> wrote: -- Best Regards Randy [Non-text portions

I've put together a pair of posts on tank car placards for my era of 1953, in my modeling blog. The first is about the prototype placards, the second covers some modeling applications. If you're

Rob Kirkham wrote: No, they're being deformed beyond their limited capacity. One bend isn't fatigue. If it's ordinary brass, yes, softening it will work. Our brass wire is cold drawn,