The S/Sn3 Buyers Guide (Bill Wade's predecessor to Bob Nalbone's 1/64 Scale Modeling Guide) also had an article on building an FA-1 from the AM FA-2 which was quite good.
I've contemplated splicing the AM plug door boxcar to make either a 50 ft boxcar or early steel REA express reefer, but haven't tried it yet. Pieter E. Roos --- On Thu, 3/24/11, shabbona_rr <[email protected]> wrote: > From: shabbona_rr <[email protected]> > Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: 'bashing' question > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 12:39 PM > 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 > > > [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/
