What you need is those old cast white metal flat car end castings. Doesn't Huff n' Puff still sell them? The pocket surrounds the coupler and you can thread the metal below the coupler and run a screw only as far as the top of the coupler box, or you could epoxy the box in there.
Arden G., Lodi, CA ===================== 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 > > 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. > > Thanks, Gene Cimino [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/
