I've tried splicing some AM cars but mine turned into dismal failures. I have taken PRS box cars; I cut the 6 panel sides off a 50 ft and then added them to a 40 foot that i cut the 10 panel sides off of. I then added height and ribs to the ends to make the D&RGW 40 ft 12 panel side boxcar. A lot of work but it turned out just fine, and is unique in S scale as far as I know. The PRS cars are styrene and not an ABS plastic so MEK works wonders for plastic welding the parts on. I've also worked with the older American Flyer plastic cars. I discovered there is a lot of inconstancy with their plastics. The black plastic seems to be very oily, some of the gray plastics are very hard. I don't have much experience with the red or yellow plastic cars that AF had. I did scale out one of their 40 ft gondolas. It was green plastic and worked fine but I had to use super glue to assemble the parts. If you plan on splicing up some of the AM passenger cars I know a;" List Lurker", that will be very interested in the results you have.
J. Rustermier --- In [email protected], ken garber <garber.ken@...> wrote: > > Some of my upcoming projects are major carbody modifications - the fool > that I am. > > I did it from time to time when I was in HO - some better results than > others, but with the large body size of S rolling stock, I'm wondering if > anyone had any 'sure-fire' method to splice two carbodies together. I have > an idea or two but would like to hear from the maSSeS. > > Thanks for the comments. > > > ken > > > [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: [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/
