thanks Jace! Lots of good words from many S scalers... Bob N highly endorses the ProtoMax from Walthers and I've ordered them. I love those hoppers!
John A. Albee, Realtor [email protected] Prudential Snyder Real Estate #1 Brickyard Drive Bloomington, IL 61701 Mobile 309-830-6097 Office 309-665-0787 www.johnalbee.com From: JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:51 PM Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Kadee 802 Don't get discouraged, John; I've been assembling small springs as long as I've been in model railroading, starting with MDC/Roundhouse HO truck kitsa good fifty-seven years ago, and I STILL--unlike Paul--lose the occasional spring. That is why Kadee includes a few extras in the package.There are various tricks, such as the assembly jigs others have mentioned, or the thread trick, or doing the assembly in an enclosed area, but I generallyjust sit down at the workbench and go to it. It is vexing when a spring pops out of the draftgear and goes sailing into a black hole (shag carpet in thework area doesn't help) but if I can't find it in a few minutes I use a spare. There are enough in the package that over time I accumulate quite a fewextras (I don't lose springs rather more often than I do). And I sometimes find those missing springs when I am scrabbling around, looking for somethingelse that went flying away (and for which I do NOT have a duplicate).And I use just the point of something like the Xacto #11 blade stuck in the end of the spring. If you haven't been doing a lot of such things over the years,the deft touch necessary does come with experience. Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > Nice reply Paul . I hope your kind is very limited on this list of otherwise > great people. > > > John A. Albee, Realtor > From: Paul Vaughn <[email protected]> > All: I have put together 802s for some time and never lost a spring. With all > the 'I can't do it' on this list it makes me wonder if the complainers can > even put together any type of kit from any manufacturer. The trick to > assembling 802s is you have to smarter than the 802s. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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/
