I think we have ALL been miserable about the brake shoes! Bill Winans
----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew_Malette To: Andre Ming ; [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 9:00 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} PRS Kit Questions Andre Ming wrote: > Are metal wheelsets available that will fit the PRS trucks? I'd > like to have metal wheelsets on all rolling stock if possible. I believe that the metal wheelsets are SHS. > > Also, no doubt these kits will need weight to be added. > Recommendations? A cheap source of weights? How much weight? > Lead. You can get scrap lead pretty cheap. Hammer it out flat and then cut it up into squares. Then cut off what you need, weighing it as you go. Use contact cement to glue it in. > FWIW: After several years of modeling inactivity, re-educating my > fingers to do small-piddly modeling has been "interesting"! For some > reason, installing brake shoes on a prototype GP38 doesn't require > quite the same finese' that installing a PRS brakeshoe requires! > Hope my S scale car knocker's won't look too closely... gonna' have > a boxcar running around with a brake shoe missing. That's a Bad > Order car for sure! (SSsshhhhh! Don't tell anyone!) > Ah yes, those bloody brake shoes. They just don't seem to quite go in easily and then if you press on them and you are on a slight angle, snap goes the mounting tab. I try to ream out the holes in the sideframes with a drill just slightly larger than the hole. Don't ask me which number because I just test fit. I had to actually drill out a 0.020" hole in a couple of them and then fit some 0.020" brass wire to be able to mount them. I am glad that there is someone out there who can share the misery. cheers, Andy Malette [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
