Dan: Testor's Liquid Cement for plastics should work for you. One of its ingredients is MEK, a solvent for working with ABS. This wasn't always so, I had problems with earlier Testor's LC, but the latest stuff seems to work very well.
In 1983(?) S Gaugian published a couple of articles on making F-7 A and B units from AM FP-7 shells, and in 1987, a couple of articles on working with Wabash Valley F-unit shells. Bob Nicholson _______________________________________________ --- In [email protected], "danvandermause" <danvandermause@...> wrote: > > Are all of the American Models cars cast in ABS plastic rather than styrene? > Are all of the AM locomotives also cast in ABS? What solvents/adhesives have > worked well with AM bodies? > > I am getting ready to do a lot of surgery on AM passenger car bodies, both > streamlined and heavyweight. I have had mixed results using Plastruct > (orange label) adhesive for ABS. > > Dan Vandermause > Ellicott City, MD > > > --- In [email protected], "Rusty" <thebrassbasher@> wrote: > > > > 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/
