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DERAIL ASSOCIATES STEPS

WILLIAM PARDIE
 


Decades ago Detail Associates came out with a variety of delrin steps for freight cars.  I thought that this was one of the best advances of the century and installed them on many of my freight cars.  I now find that many of them have become brittle and break at the slightest touch.  Is there any coating that I might apply to the remaining cars in order ti preserve rhem?

Thanks for any help.

Bill Pardie


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Mark Vinski
 

That's not good to hear. I still have a stash of them in their original packages. Were yours painted?
Mark

Tim O'Connor
 

Bill

I've always found those parts to be fragile -- handle with care! "Painting" them with a flexible acrylic paint
(any brand) might help because it forms a "sheath" around the part if applied all over the item (i.e. the paint
sticks to itself but not to the part)


On 12/15/2022 7:42 PM, WILLIAM PARDIE wrote:


Decades ago Detail Associates came out with a variety of delrin steps for freight cars.  I thought that this was one of the best advances of the century and installed them on many of my freight cars.  I now find that many of them have become brittle and break at the slightest touch.  Is there any coating that I might apply to the remaining cars in order ti preserve rhem?

Thanks for any help.

Bill Pardie


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Tim O'Connor
Sterling, Massachusetts

WILLIAM PARDIE
 

Hi Mark:

Yes!  They were painted.   They had to mat h the car.

Bill Pardie



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-------- Original message --------
From: Mark Vinski <mvlandsw@...>
Date: 12/15/22 4:03 PM (GMT-10:00)
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] DERAIL ASSOCIATES STEPS

That's not good to hear. I still have a stash of them in their original packages. Were yours painted?
Mark

Ted Larson
 

Try thin super glu




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Ted Larson
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GN in 1965

Clark Propst
 

You might try coating them with ACC.
Clark Propst
Mason City Iowa

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