Everyone, Thanks for the many, helpful references and replies. As it turns out, it would appear that I was trying to re-invent the wheel... because unbeknownst to me, the BTS (Southwind) brass item is apparently the exact thing I was experimenting to build; I did not know that the BTS item was a 3-piece kit - an Angle Cock and Gladhand connected with a small piece of tubing. I was going to do the same thing by using a short section of very thin gauge wire and pulling the brass (solid or stranded) wire out of its plastic coating and using the coating as the air hose. Many years ago, I remember having some wire of this nature, that when the wire was removed from the coating, the coating, itself was extremely flexible. And it just seemed to me that this would have made for the perfect simulated air hose.
But, I see no need to bother since the BTS part already represents this approach. So I'll get a few of them and see if the tubing that comes with them is flexible enough for my taste. If not, I'll be on the hunt for some thin-gauge wire. Thanks again, everyone. John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Furmanak, Stan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:26 AM Subject: RE: [S Scale Model Railroading] "S" Brake System Parts John- Besides the very nice BTS brass and PBL plastic parts already mentioned, Des Plaines Hobbies has this as a newly available injected molded item but hasn't advertised it yet. If you only need the Angle Cock and Glad-Hand and you like brass, BTS may be the way to go. Item 02302 also comes with some spaghetti tubing for the air hose. The glad hand is cast with a long brass "wire" that slips up the tubing so you can bend the hose to a shape you like. http://www.btsrr.com/btsdet01.htm 02302 Air Hoses (Flexible) Pkg (4) $ 4.25Stan Furmanak Annville, PA [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/
