yep... i been "in the hole" (solitary confinement) in moderate jail for a long time. say, did Red Caboose ever finish that X29 kit they were working on? Tim "Rip van Winkle" O'Connor

Hello Tim, Actually we never thought of that but now that I have, there are a number of reasons. The biggest is the added costs both tooling and labor, we just took a $40 car and made it into a

Wow Tim, that message has to be a month old<VBG>. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI user NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS

Arnold van Heyst asked: "And which decal set can I use to make a car situated between 1947 and 1961? Hopefully a manufacturer number........." 1947-1961 is a broad brush for NYC lettering, as several

Why don't you guys with chemical allergies call up a company like Ellsworth Adhesives or a manufacturer of cyanoacrylate and ask them what they recommend. Ellsworth is a distributor with about 50

--- In STMFC@..., Tony Thompson <thompsonmarytony@...> wrote:>Baloney. Look at any number of whitewashed car photos and they always have ALL the lettering. Most cars don't have anywhere

Thanks, guys. Since posting last night I've done some further research, and it seems a product such as Loctite 403, a low odor, "low bloom" (not sure what exactly that term means) CA might be an

I thank you Tony, and my later 50's group will not have roof numbers either. Again thanks, Jim Peters Coquitlam, B.C. --- Anthony Thompson

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In electron microscopy, the most often used embedding agent (for the 1/400,000 in. sections) is an aliphatic epoxy mixture mixed on the bench and polymerized in an oven. Allergy to this epoxy has

I react the same way to regular CA. I don't experience the same problem with odor free CA. It's harder to find, by appears to work well. Gary

Frank Hodina is already on the case. I've been corresponding with him about possibly making patterns for a Sunshine mini-kit to convert the Athearn models into Rr-22s and Rr-42s and have a

John Fitts wrote: In addition to a serious respirator (3M makes one for about $30 at a Lowes or Home Depot) and the gloves already mentioned, you might try working in or just in front of a paint

John Fitts wrote: John, a small trick that might help is to find a small plastic box with a tight lid (e.g., pillbox) and dribble your CA into that. Keep the lid closed of course except for that

Already have a couple of undecorated cars ordered, to see if it can be done.

jim peters wrote: Sorry the slow reply, Jim, as I was out of town until tonight. The PFE Chief Mechanical Officer I interviewed said that the roof numbers were NEVER standard, and were NEVER

I wrote: I left out that there would/will be a "hoop" to hold the inboard end of the hose at the edge of my bench.

OScaleTrains Rick (not signing his real name) wrote: Baloney. Look at any number of whitewashed car photos and they always have ALL the lettering. Well, bologna again. There have been

Schuyler: As having lived with various types of allergies all of my life (almost 60 years), including asthma, you and the other gentleman are indeed having an allergic reaction. Not to get into

Tim O'Connor wrote: Listing everything Nehrich doesn't cover would be a big job. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705