I've converted a couple of the gondolas and I just checked and found I had used Ace bolsters (not sure which anymore, could evenhave been the flatcar ones), although I ground off the plastic AF truck mounts down to floor level. Truck height is fine with those.On the flatcar I converted, however, I not only ground off all of the massive plastic but used sheet styrene to build a bolster andcoupler mount. It took quite a bit of styrene to build up a riser in the center of the bolster for the trucks. I generally like to usethe Ace trucks when I've used Ace bolsters--not really necessary, just a personal preference.And while there may have been earlier versions, the gondolas and flats I've done were all with the riveted kingpins--meaning enormous holes in the floor to be covered by thin sheet styrene. On the flatcar I used Evergreen scribed sheet for decking, asit not only covered the truck mounting holes but also the other assorted holes perhaps intended for load restraints. A convertedAF flatcar provides a nice variant on the AM and SHS flatcars, both of which are longer.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > Pieter, > Would it be too much to ask your method for doing your own gon > conversions. Do you use commerial bolsters of any kind, for example? > Apparently the Flyer T&P gon also works for another road, the COG, I believe. > > Thanks, > George Courtney > > --- In [email protected], Pieter Roos <pieter_roos@...> wrote: > > Hello Dennis; > >\ I prefer to do my own bolsters to convert flat cars and gondolas as I feel > >the Ace conversions for those cars make them sit too high. [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/
