Re: {S-Scale List} Quick MILW Question

2013-10-06 Thread Pieter Roos
Hi Andre; I don't know about the diesel scheme, but the Milwaukee the older full name in the herald ca 1953.   Pieter E. Roos From: Andre Ming lam...@cebridge.net To: S-Scale@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 6, 2013 12:22 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List}

Re: {S-Scale List} Hinged or solid points to throwbar

2013-10-06 Thread Jamie Bothwell
Michael, I have elected to go with soldering the rails to the throw bar, but I don't have years of in use experience. Therefore I would also like to hear from anyone who has had such in place for some time. Jamie Bothwell Curious in Bethlehem, PA On Oct 5, 2013, at 6:26 PM,

Re: {S-Scale List} Quick MILW Question

2013-10-06 Thread Andre Ming
Hi Pieter! Thanks for your input. I may have found a picture that shows the transistion from the early gray/orange scheme w/older herald to the black/orange w/newer herald. Seems to have been the mid-1950's. Here's the pic of a freshly painted early version of the later scheme The picture

Re: {S-Scale List} Hinged or solid points to throwbar

2013-10-06 Thread shabbona_rr
Jamie: The only switches where I soldered the point rails to the throwbar is where I had formed the closure rails to put constant pressure on the throwbar to keep them from stressing the solder joints and pullinf them apart. I wrote this up in the 1/64 Modeling guide a year or so ago. I can't

{S-Scale List} trucks by Gus II

2013-10-06 Thread Bill Lane
I spent the day with Gus measuring a REAL PRR car. More on that later. Gus mentioned he will make trucks similar to those I recently posted for anyone for $100.00 each with you supplying the basic components. Reply directly to me if you are interested. I will connect you with Gus. Thank

Re: {S-Scale List} Hinged or solid points to throwbar

2013-10-06 Thread Jim Cheryl Martin
Jamie, Michael...I think the hinged vs soldered throwbar probably depends on whether the point rails are hinged or solid, along with the rail size. My turnouts are made with code 83 rail with solid point rails and soldered throwbars. Code 83 rail doesn't put up a lot of resistance and the few

RE: {S-Scale List} Hinged or solid points to throwbar

2013-10-06 Thread David Heine
If you wanted to get fancy, you could rig up an automatic system to test a set of points soldered to the throwbar and let it run for a thousand cycles or until it breaks. I would think number of operations is the best metric. I was going to mention about the size of rail and whether the

RE: RE: {S-Scale List} Hinged or solid points to throwbar

2013-10-06 Thread pickycat95
Dave, You must besome sort ofengineer to think up an idea like that.Ben Trousdale ---In S-Scale@yahoogroups.com, s-scale@yahoogroups.com wrote:If you wanted to get fancy, you could rig up an automatic system to test a set of points soldered to the throwbar and let it run for a

RE: Re: {S-Scale List} Hinged or solid points to throwbar

2013-10-06 Thread pickycat95
I soldered all my points to the throw bar and all the points werehinged for bothcode 100 and code 125 rail. I made the hinges for 125 rail out of SHS insulated joiners and for 100 rail out of PECO insulated joiners. The throw bars weremade of PC boardwith a gap in the copper foil.

Re: Re: {S-Scale List} Hinged or solid points to throwbar

2013-10-06 Thread John
Does all this add up to a group of S gaugers where some are hinged and others are unhinged?? John Armstrong - Original Message - From: pickyca...@yahoo.com To: S-Scale@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 11:56 PM Subject: RE: Re: {S-Scale List} Hinged or solid

Re: {S-Scale List} Hinged or solid points to throwbar

2013-10-06 Thread scale S only
Hi Ben-- I have had that happen too, but a bit of plastic “rub strip” glued to the tie side keeps the assembly from walking too far to be obnoxious.I also solder a tie bar of inverted rail across the points (or another piece of PC strip) the next tie space over from the throwbar towards