Looking at a few plans, it appears many prototype flats have a deck less than four feet above the rail head which is pretty challenging to achieve. The deck needs to be as thin as possible while still holding the coupler mounting screw. I'd say the same thickness as the HO car would work in S, just keep track of the coupler height to make it match NASG standard.
Pieter --- In [email protected], "ecphora123" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using the older Eric Stevens article from Model Railroader as a > guide to scratchbuild a flat car. He mentions in the text that flat > cars sit lower on the rils than other cars, so that the car floor has > to be adjusted to accomodate this. I understood from the article that > fo HO the floor should be no thicker than 3/32 of an inch where the > coupler mechanism is mounted.I have two questions: > 1. Which coupler would you use on this car for S? > 2. What overall thickness would be used for an S flat car floor? I > determined it to be about 1/8 of an inch where the coupler is mounted, > but I suppose that depends on the particular coupler that is used. > > I found a new term the other day on an O27 site----junkerism----That > being the modification of junkers. > > Thanks, Gene Cimino The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
