Re: SP A50-6
Earl Tuson
FWIW, Pre-size Model Specialties offers a cast urethane kit for the A-50-6 in S-scale now:
http://pre-size.com/products/SscaleFreight_CarsPS593.php Earl Tuson
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Re: UTLX X-3, 6.5K tank car
Jeff Helm
Frank,
Thank you very much for this information. -- Cheers Jeff Helm
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Re: Question for fellow Truss rooders!
earlyrail
<Has anyone used these truss rods in 3D? <Gary Laakso Most are a little too new for me. My time stopped in September 1905 However, I did order the CB&Q stock cars doors to update my stock cars. Would be interesting to see something for the MDC oldtimers. Howard Garner
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Re: UTLX X-3, 6.5K tank car
Tom Madden
Criticizing business practices is prohibited. Criticizing products is not. In this case we’re talking about a product that has been OOP for around 15 years.
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Re: Sunshine long 8k dome is too small?
Frank is a single person business (Actually that's not true I met the head of the shipping and billing department at Collinsville RPM meet) and I would rather have him working on other things than the tank car dome, Just say'in ;>) Fenton
On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 2:26 PM Scott H. Haycock <shhaycock@...> wrote:
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Re: UTLX X-3, 6.5K tank car
Corey Fischer
Who is trashing them? So far I have seen reasonable critiquing which manufacturers should be open to. I don’t think that kit manufacturers should not be closed off from reasonable criticism simply because they could decide to stop producing.
On Aug 8, 2022, at 3:27 PM, WILLIAM PARDIE <PARDIEW001@...> wrote:
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Re: Sunshine long 8k dome is too small?
Nelson Moyer
Decimal place matters. The rounded off number was good if that’s any consolation.
Nelson Moyer
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Scott H. Haycock
Getting old-should have used a calculator!
Scott Haycock
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Re: UTLX X-3, 6.5K tank car
WILLIAM PARDIE
Here we go again. This is like the discussiona few weeks ago on the FW&D covered hoppers color. This I gather has effected the sales of this otherwise excellent model. I don't disagree that the information is good to know, however, when viewed on a layout who will notice the difference? This is coming from someone who if there is a nick on the side of his car can see it from a block away and it is on the other side of the car. My fear is that there is currently a very few manufacturers of kits in the hobby. The time and effort and expense involved in producing a kit is monumental. To have all this effort trashed after the fact is quite discouraging. Who needs the grief? Remember that Gould was virtually driven out of the business after producing the best engineered plastic tank car model ever only to learn after the fact that the prototype was never made. I don't want to lose any more kit suppliers. What will we buy to put on a shelf never to be built? Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: Frank Hodina <fhodina@...> Date: 8/8/22 4:12 AM (GMT-10:00) To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] UTLX X-3, 6.5K tank car Frank Hodina Resin Car Works
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Question for fellow Truss rooders!
gary laakso
Has anyone used these truss rods in 3D?
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/macomb-model-works
Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock
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Re: Sunshine long 8k dome is too small?
Scott H. Haycock
That was sort of my point. We make compromises in scale dimensions in other freight car details; mainly because the correct components aren't available, or can't be economically made, to scale.
But I admit that in this case, over 1/16'' would be visible. Sans the correct part though, I'd probably live with it, versus scratchbuilding a new dome.
Scott Haycock
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Re: SP A50-6
Ray Hutchison
The legos are a permanent part of the build?
(It looks like they must be)
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Re: Sunshine long 8k dome is too small?
Jim and Barbara van Gaasbeek
But it is the proportions that matter, as well as the absolute measurement.
Jim van Gaasbeek Irvine, CA
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Re: Sunshine long 8k dome is too small?
I don't disagree with Scott, for the amount of work that would have to be done. Fenton
On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 1:49 PM Scott H. Haycock <shhaycock@...> wrote:
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Re: Sunshine long 8k dome is too small?
Oh those pesky decimal places!! 😉 A handy rule of thumb is that one real inch is approximately 0.01” in HO (it is actually 0.01148”).
Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL
From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of "Tom Madden via groups.io" <pullmanboss@...>
On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 11:41 AM, Scott H. Haycock wrote:
Math is wrong. It's 0.069", more than 1/16".
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Re: Sunshine long 8k dome is too small?
Scott H. Haycock
Getting old-should have used a calculator!
Scott Haycock
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Re: Sunshine long 8k dome is too small?
Tom Madden
On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 11:41 AM, Scott H. Haycock wrote:
<!doctype html>Math is wrong. It's 0.069", more than 1/16". Tom Madden
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Re: Sunshine long 8k dome is too small?
Scott H. Haycock
According to my math, the difference between a 48'' diameter dome and one that is 54'' is .oo7''. Is this enough to visually matter?
Scott Haycock
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Re: Sunshine long 8k dome is too small?
Thanks, I understand. Fenton
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Re: Sunshine long 8k dome is too small?
Frank I too would love to have the correct size done if they become available
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Fenton
On Aug 8, 2022, at 11:15 AM, Tom Madden via groups.io <pullmanboss@...> wrote:
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Re: Pulpwood, Wood Chips: Uses other than Paper?
Hudson Leighton
Another use is the use of sawdust as bedding for cows.
-Hudson
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