I didn't respond to the posts regarding Dremel motor tools since I rarely use one. However, I do use my Micro Drill Press. I bought mine about 30 years ago for $125....steep but well worth it! They ar

It is interesting that Yahoo didn't find this even when "Cameron Drill Press" was put in the search engine. I purchased mine from a jewelry supply house but it looks like Cameron is in the same locati

I purchased mine over 25 years ago and was able to purchase a full set running from .004" to .050". The company is out of business but according to their 25 year-old catalog (do I need to clean out so

I have a Sherline mill also (but haven't taken it out of the box yet) but I would expect that the feed would be very different. The Cameron has a very nice feed which provides "feedback" to the operat

Note that Grandt Line makes a styrene Seattle Car and Foundry Hercules Patent Double Eye Beam Logging Bunk for narrow gauge use. Rio Grande Models includes a pair of standard gauge ones with their Yos

A very good modeler/friend 30 years ago was scratchbuilding an On2 boxcar. He installed all of the roof tie rods inside the boxcar, added Grandt Line 55-gallon drums inside the car, and then glued the

Mike... Pretty broad statement, don't you think? I have a reasonably large layout (20x20, double deck, fully sceniced, scratchbuilt buildings), it has been in an Allen Keller video and in magazines do

I have door seals for the Yosemite Valley Railway which means that the YV used them at least between 1937 (Yosemite Valley Railroad became the Yosemite Valley Railway) and 1945 (abandonment). Jack Bur

Note that Grandt Line and Tichy both sell sprues of rivets although some of them will be too large for HO. Jack Burgess www.YosemiteValleyRR.com

I have done exactly this for a steel water tank but the tank color was silver and the "black" rivets (scale size of course) and seams look very good. I am not sure that you could get the same results

Unlike the others, I don't like natural twigs to simulate logs....I can always tell that they are twigs and one of my standards is to make ensure that modeling source material is generally unrecogniza

According to the MR index of magazine articles, there was a plan for this car in the Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette: Hetch Hetchy RR Motor car #21 and #22 Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette, March

Finescale Modeler recommends Future floor wax all of the time. For example, the January 2004 issue answered a question regarding painting sequence as follows: 1. Paint. If you use glossy paints, you c

I've had one for many years. It does a good job but has a very small pattern (I don't know if different tips are available or not)....that makes it good for cleaning joints, solder, etc. but very time

According to the article on trucks in the December 2003 issue of MR, chilled wheels "faded from use in the 1950s, were forbidden on new cars after 1957, and were banned from interchange use as of 1970

The May 2004 issue of Mainline Modeler includes an article by Ed Austin about SP&S flat cars. A photo on Page 66 is of an SP&S series 32200-32239 41' flat car built for the NP (series 69000) by Standa

The power of the Internet comes through again!....someone on this list (thank you) forwarded my question about the Standard Steel Car Company flat cars on to Paul Hobbs in Australia (I was working on

I purchased an exceptional fine set of tweezers about 30 years ago from a jewelry supply company. They are made in Switzerland and have the name Vigor on them (along with B. Jadow Inc.). The model is

The advantage of extremely good tweezers is the very small "force" needed to hold a part in them. Good tweezers compliment your fingers and provide you "feed back" to how much pressure you are exertin

I think that the amount of editing which happens at RMC is in direct relationship with the quality of your writing....if you figure out ahead of time the points that you want to make and write a tight