Having just been though rebuilding a few O Scale box cars I felt compelled to write some of the frustration of being a painter that is not responsible for the awful assembly job of almost ALL brass cars but is charged with the job of fixing it all because I am the last person to touch them! If you have seen what I have like cold solder joints or microscopic dabs of solder meant to hold a car together all you can do is just shake your head!
In my early days of painting a O Scale I had a Precision Scale X29. I have always stripped off the clear coat. In this case it was particularly thick. This was long before I had my blast booth. I had just made my dunking tank. I put the car in lacquer thinner and closed it up for the night were it sat **all night completely undisturbed**. The next morning there were PARTS laying in the bottom of the dunk tank! I can't make this stuff up! The clear coat was holding the car together! Now this car was owned by someone for ___ years, it came to me intact and self destructed just for my benefit. Trust me all of the below has happened to me! (:->) Here is when parts can and do fall off of cars: When I touch the box for the first time - still unopened. When I am fixing other parts that already fell off. When I am fixing a part for the 2nd+ time another part falls off When I dunk the car to strip extremely defiant paint. When it is in the blast booth making me drain and strain the blast grit to hopefully find the part. When the first molecule of paint leaves the airbrush headed to the car a part will magically fall off before your very eyes just to annoy. In the middle of painting the car. If I am really lucky the part slides down the just sprayed wet paint making me have to stop and strip the car again. At any time during decaling and weathering. Putting the completed car back in the box When you touch the box for the first time getting it back from me - still unopened. I am sure there are a few more instances I forgot. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/> http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! See my layout progess at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm Custom Train Parts Design <http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! <http://www.prrths.com/> http://www.prrths.com <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! <http://www.prslhs.com/> http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL
