Hi George; I have used the plain, flat bolsters which Ace once sold, as well as building up a bolster from plain flat styrene. I use a Dremel tool to grind away the the AF truck mounting before adding the styrene. The flat Ace bolsters do not have to compensate for AF mounting, so they add less height. The styrene bolsters can be even lower, you just have to make the wheels clear the floor and the couplers come out at the correct height.
As Tom indicates, there are a number of good prototypes that can be made from the Flyer gon. It is a T&P car, although the version with the ribbed ends should have grabs, not ladders, on the side. If you change the ends to Dreadnaught type, the car becomes an AAR standard gon used by C&NW, ACL, CofG and others (or a T&P car with the side ladders). Ace sold stamped metal Dreadnaught ends which can be cut down for the gon, or maybe a badly damaged boxcar model can provide the ends. Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 12/6/11, Thomas Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > I have converted three AF gons, > leaving two of them the same length as the original and > splicing the third to make a 52' gon. In each case, I > ground down and sanded away the gross details of the Flyer > underbody castings. After that was completed, I > borrowed a technique recommended by Bob Nicholson. > That is to use ACE hopper bolsters. It works well: I > have a C&NW heavy duty gon, an ACL K9 gon, and a 52' CGW > gon. The gons may be Flyer's best item for easy > conversion to a prototypical model. > > Tom > 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. ------------------------------------ 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/
