--- In [email protected], "Bill Lane" <bill@...> wrote:
>
> I bet Billy wouldn't mind if you looked and bought here!
> http://www.btsrr.com/btsdet01.htm
>
>
>
> Thank You,
> Bill Lane
>
> Bill, I've got some of the BTS brake sets acquired at one of the
> conventions. They're beautiful for sure, but I'm specifically looking
> for...."currently unavailable in S scale".....the brakewheel, housing and
> release rod unique to the W. H. Miner Co. The brakewheel is 8 spoked, notched
> around the outer perimeter at each "spoke" and the housing is quite a bit
> smaller than an Ajax with more open area on the bottom edge. These had no
> ratchet on the prototype but were instead worm geared. The brake could be
> released either by counter clockwise unwinding or a quick pull outward on the
> release bar. The reservoir, and other underbody parts are not what I am
> looking for.
In actual use as a trainman, I hated these things, we called them "forever
brakes" because they took "forever" to get them wound tight!
I need them for specific boxcars being modeled....C of Ga. door and half
boxes.
Bud Rindfleisch
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