Oops - 1/2 oz per inch - I was using 1 oz. - must have been the faulty calculator.
I seem to recall a standard of x base + y per 10 foot. That change or am I halucinating? :) ken On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Lee Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeffrey /Ken, > > The NMRA Recommended Practice (RP-20.1) for S scale specifies 2oz. + 1/2 > oz. per inch. Therefore, the 9.5 inch hopper would weigh 6.75 oz., not > 11-12 oz. I normally add about 1 oz. to my PRS cars, and this gives me > about a 6.5 oz. car for a 40 foot box car. > > Lee Johnson > Walnut Creek, CA > > > > On Feb 26, 2012, at 5:33 PM, ken garber wrote: > > > > > The NMRA standard specifies 2 oz + 1 oz per inch. For the 9.5 inch > hopper, the weight would then be 11-12 oz - a bit heavy? > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
