Hi Jace; As best I recall, there were three plain metal bolsters (with different coupler/truck spacings), conversion bolsters for hoppers, gons, flats and maybe tank cars, plus the floor for box/stock and reefer cars.
Some of these were offered in a very tough metal-filled resin as well as metal. For the flats and gons, I prefer to remove the AF truck mounting and use a plain flat bottom bolster as I think the Ace conversion parts leave the cars sitting too high. FYI, the flat car is based on a C&NW prototype and the gondola matches a T&P car, both from the 1931 Car Builder's Cyc. Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 7/27/10, JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> wrote: > From: JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> > Subject: {S-Scale List} Ace Parts > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 11:36 AM > > Don Heimburger had a good supply of older kits and parts > from an estate, priced attractively. > Needless to say, I stocked up. Among the purchases > were both some Ace Bettendorf kits and the AF conversion > bolster #2012 for hopper cars. I'd bought an > already-converted AF hopper early in my S scale buying stage > so was familiar with the idea; not long after I got home, I > used one of the conversion bolsters on a spare AF stock > hopper and all worked fine. Then I tried another > bolster set on an AF covered hopper (with the odd heavy > plastic circular business) and found that by grinding away a > bit at the rear opening I could use the #2012 for > that. Lastly, I tinkered with an AF gondola and > succeeded in installing the #2012 there. Didn't work > on the cast-metal AF flatcar I'd bought, however. I > think I'd seen in a posting that Ace made a different > bolster conversion for the flatcars. How many other > Ace conversion castings were there? > > And I don't recall whether I got an answer when I asked > some time ago after an early purchase of Ace archbar trucks > (also true of the Bettendorfs, although not of the > roller-bearings), that there is obvious provision for brake > shoes, but none included. Did Ace ever offer brake > shoes for the scale trucks? I am guessing they were an > option for scale modelers, as there would have been no > clearance for AF flanges with them. > > Jace Kahn (who now has, if not a lifetime supply of S scale > trucks, at least a sufficient number for a long time--and is > not planning on supplanting his excellent SHS and AM rolling > stock with > lots of converted AF cars) > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get > more from your inbox. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
