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Help with Mantua slope-back tender please ...
I have a Mantua Shifter 0-4-0 with splope-back tender, and would like to add a decoder. I cannot figure out how to get the body shell off the tender frame. I found some diagrams on the internet that showed three screws attaching the body to frame from the bottom.
Jewlers files/needle files, etc.
I'm looking for a better brand of needle files. I have several files now, but do not know the brand names of them. I think most were purchased at a train show a few years back, and are off-brand made in China types. I have one file that is noticeably higher quality and works much better than the others, but again I don't remember the make of it, or where I got it. Perhaps some of you folks that use needle files regularly, and have a preferred brand can point me in the right direction.
22 Stories Up - Building the Barre Branch in Paper
A continuation to story I began to tell in Modeling 22 Stories Up, this blog is intended to follow my progress of the actual layout's construction.
Atlas Gold Series DCC programming problems
Recently my brother purchased an Atlas Gold Series Diesel loco which comes factory-installed with DCC and sound. After changing some of the sound CVs, we found that the loco would not respond when applying the throttle. Sounds worked fine, but no locomotion. In DC mode, locomotion was fine. Resetting to factory defaults did not help.
Newbie Needs Guidance on Laying and Connecting Turnouts
I am in the process of designing and building my first HO layout in many years and am slowly learning how to solder track without destroying the ties, etc. Am building with atlas code 83 flextrack, atlas and walter/shinohara turnouts -- and have two questions about installing turnouts:
1. What is the preferred way to connect the turnout to the rest of the track? Should the rails be just connected with joiners? Soldered? With gaps to the track on either side? I have seen many comments about removing and reinstalling turnouts -- which might be tough if soldered in.
Vintage Vehicles suitable for 55n3
You need vehicles to flesh out the model world. I found these vintage vehicles suitable for Scale55 and 55n3.
The 1920 Mack truck is a Matchbox, Models of Yesterday. The other cars and trucks are Lledo, Days Gone By. The steam tractor is unknown and the IHC tractor is an Ertl 1/60. These are vehicles from my S scale days that were really too big for S.
What is 55n3:
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Harold
Adhesives terminology - ACC vs CA
I have some confusion about the use of the term "ACC" when used in a discussion or article about the use of a cyanoacrylate adhesive (CA). Where did the acronym ACC originate? It does not, IMHO, derive from cyanoacrylate. Is/Was it an acronym derived from a manufacturer of a cyanoacrylate product ? Perhaps I have not had the experience in the modeling arenas to have been exposed to this acronym. Is it a gel type formulation of CA ? Is it like the Slow Jet adhesive (as manufactured by Jet Glues ? (Not to be confused with Jet Blue )
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Recommendations for Free or VERY cheap portable image database software (windows)?
Hi,
I would like to find a free or cheap image cataloging program that allows keyword searching and is very portable. Some minimal image resizing, rotation, and export functionality would be nice but not required.
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