I use glass beads in my blaster
I would not advise it though
I use Sodium Hydroxide in solution with water to strip paint.
I would not advise this either.
I use diluted Nitric Acid as an overall brass brightener.
This stuff is only EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to mess with if you do not know what you
I'm trying to add a second story to the joint here, 1200 square feet. I'll
have a helix. Radius will be 60 inches, 2% grade, and the only hidden track,
well sort of hidden anyway, depends on which side of the room your on. It will
not be stacked vertical. I've been there, done that,
Mine are welded using a Thermatic process developed originally by an engineer
employed by NASA. He, not me, was a very gifted individual and I think over the
years has many patents attributed to his work. I feel honored having met him
when I was quite young.
James Rustermier.
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I own American Flyer. I don't own SHS and I have no plans on buying Flyonel
or MTH. I have bought SHS to give away to little relatives though. There is
this 6 year old grandkid that I am waiting until he is 10. At that time I'm
giving him the AF and a brand new BB gun. He can set the AF up
I have a very nice unpainted ALCO S-1 by Overland for sale. It runs very nice.
I was going going to detail if for WP but decided that I already have more
irons in the fire than I need! The Rio Grande never used the S-1 so out it
goes. $325 and that includes Priority Mail shipping. Contact me
Gone!
James Rustermier
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SWM UP factory painted baggage car, painted and lettered, number 147. $225.00
and that includes Priority Mail shipping. Contact me off list.
James Rustermier
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The boxcar is sold.
James Rustermier
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UP boxcar, semi AM kit, some of the parts are brass, I don't remember which
ones but I do remember that the car has a brass weight and not the steel
weight that came
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The BO boxcar is now sold. I'll be digging around the dungeon here today and
see if I can uncover other gems to sell.
James Rustermier
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The CS boxcar is now sold
James Rustermier
--- In S-Scale@yahoogroups.com, James Rustermier ashpan.clinker@... wrote:
PRS 50 foot boxcar, ACE roller bearing trucks, non magnetic wheel sets.
Kadee 802 couplers. $32.00 and that includes shipping. Contact me off the
list.
James Rustermier
is a large empty room.
The new layout, if there is one, will be HO only.
James Rustermier
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a SP 4-4-0, minor paint addition to factory model, blacken the wheels. The
lead truck is one of my castings. The factory lead truck
SOLD.
James Rustermier
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SWM UP 2-8-0 with a couple of modifications. hollow marker lights and hollow
number boards, the Fireman and engineer have been repainted. $750.00. Contact
me off list. I suppose I need
The missing ladder is in the box. It fell off one day and I never got around to
reattaching it. It wasn't that high on my priority list!
--- In S-Scale@yahoogroups.com, James Rustermier ashpan.clinker@... wrote:
I believe attaching photos when posting to the list about some topic
I built up 6 sets of A-B units using my own frames, AM drive components,
and Superscale shells. I cut the rear walls out and built up flat ones using
styrene material. Some of them I cut out the screen area and installed see
through brass screen. One I did as an F-2 with three portholes in
I asked for and received a return on my SAL boxcar.
Speaking of trucks:
I received the SP Daylight passenger trucks from River Raisin. I am
extremely happy, I don't think $70 is out of the question for them. As usual
Dan takes a small deposit up front and bills for the final amount when
I'm buying them. Why? In S scale I like them. I don't buy much plastic. I
have 10 plastic cars, they are all PRS. No SHS, no AM, no AF, no any other
plastic, especially urethane. I don't pay $40 for a box of sticks though. I
also don't buy any pre printed wooden reefer kits. They are all
If you are into American Flyer and stand ins for marker lights will do, then
they would probably work ok. As far as the real railroads. I have never
seen any thing like these being used. I have a somewhat small collection
of the real marker lights. You know, the ones used on the:
That NYC operation had special vents to let the air out when the water trough
intake was dropped into those water pans and the tender was cruising at 80 MPH
and low altitude. Tutherwise there would be a split at the seams. The rest of
the world usually just stopped under the spout of a water
Tom:
If the 10 0 cars you have are square corner instead of W corner cars they
are rare. When J. Verser (PRS) decided to make the 10 6 W corner car I
think he had Joel in Vacaville modify the end slide mold of the 10 0 square
corner car. The only square corner cars in existence today are
In the real 1:1 world the boxcar car has what looks like a round corner!
Hiding inside that corner is a vertical channel that goes from the floor area
to the roof. It's folded into a W shape so if you saw and end view of it it
would look like a W. A stronger design element than previously
There is a JAMES RUSTERMIER, but then there just may be a JAMES WESTERMEIER. I
know, it's a little confusing. That is also me, CONFUSING
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Brian:
I may have some extra Northeastern Andrews truck castings that I could part
Some guy in Florida is selling these on eBay
:
This has the strangest icon for an attachment. So strange it isn't an
attachment at all.
J Rustermier
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Attached is Dale, Don and Joel DeWitt. all 3 are model railroaders.
Taken at the 2006 NASG convention in Pontiac at Joel's
Being somewhat incompetent I have stored my Scalecoat in the Scalecoat jars
they are sold in. I've been doing this for years with no problems. Maybe it's
the reducer I use, Xylol. maybe it's that I replace the the O2 with CO2 after
I open the bottle, or it could be the plasma vortex's around
The reality is that I have received my money back for the purchases of the
2010 convention cars and I have already sent that, and more to DesPlaines
Hobbies. If Harley keeps things straight I'll be getting my 6 cars some time in
the next few weeks. What I am actually looking forward to even
I have several kits on eBay with more to be listed later. Payment through
Paypal isn't required. Some have kind of rare items included, or they are
somewhat rare kits themselves. I also combine shipping.
I also no longer make brass universals to replace the faulty ones Ajin used
in some
I had a halve dozen of the Sunset GP's when they first were brought in
from Japan. The first thing I did was toss out a couple of the drives and
started making my own using NWSL parts. That was back in the last century
before Overland came out with the F units. Once River Raisin sold the
If it hasnt hit your computer yet it soon will. Yahoo has decided to change the entire format for Groups. Goodbye to the photo at the home page, welcome to the new look. You are not going to like this format.On the good side it quickly shows who posts the most to the list per
@yahoogroups.com, ashpan.clinker@... wrote: If it hasnt hit your computer yet it soon will. Yahoo has decided to change the entire format for Groups. Goodbye to the photo at the home page, welcome to the new look. You are not going to like this format.On the good side it quickly shows who posts
You should have seen a shadow box on the bottom of each thumbnail telling you who the album belonged to based on there membership tag. Im ashpan.clinker and at last look mine was the second thumbnail since I am currently the the second oldest to add,delete, or change an album
PBL is not releasing the price of the model.
There is a NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT of $250
PBL states in there online order form that It will be similar to pricing of
other recent models
Not sure what that all means but brasstrains.com is importing a BO 0-4-0
dockside in HO for $1,750.
J.
I currently have one each of the REX; 0-4-0, 0-6-0, 2-4-4, 2-6-0on my work
bench. I'm taking out the drivers and replacing them with 110 drivers and to
the NASG specs. I'm also building my own idler gear boxes from brass and will
be using can type motors.
I'm down to an Overland A-A NYC
As an owner/moderator of a Yahoo group all you have to do is click on the photo
in the header. My groups use to have a guy with hands on a laptop, no more. You
can't change the photo to one that is in one of the groups albums but you can
upload a new photo from your computer. This of course can
ehsauers1@... wrote:
Rusty,
Will you be selling these gear boxes? Drivers? I have a rex 040 kit that
needs scale drivers and repowering.
Thanks
Ed Sauers
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I've purchased many products from North Yard in NZ. Mostly the diesel drives
for SW, NW and RS's. They have excellent products!
I'm not a fan of plastic driver centers and nickle plated brass driver tires
though.
About 12 years ago I used some of Alan Gibson's (England) plastic driver
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