My ventures of dabbling in Proto:64 has given birth to an idea that might be useful in Standard:64 as well... I've heard a lot recently about getting cars equallly weighted to help the trackability of P:64 wheels... but I'm wondering about the approach of weighting ONLY the wheelsets instead of the whole model? There should be some way to glue some sort of weight to the axle of freight car wheelsets... possibly in the sense of sheathing or encasing the axle with some weighty substance. The added weight would make the wheel less inclined to "climb" the rail during tense pushing or pulling operations (through turnouts, up or down inclines, etc.) where the flanges against the rail cause friction. But whatever this weight substance may be (lead? metal?), it could come in the shape of a half-round tube and either run the whole length of the axle (back of left wheel to back of right wheel) for more additional weight, or be cut shorter and just run a short distance on the axle for less additional weight.
My thoughts are that weighting the axles instead of the whole model would be the best approach to solving the rail-climbing problem, because weighting an entire model usually requires balancing the model on both sides or modifying the model in some way to receive the weights, and since axles are, by nature, already centered, balancing won't be a problem, and no modifications would be required to the model. Any thoughts? John Degnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seaboard Air Line 19000-19499 series, Class B-7 40' Single-Door, "Turtle-back" Box Car in S Scale AND HO Scale!!! http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/SALRoundRoofBoxCarProject.htm [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/
