Re: C&S RPO 11: More details

Posted by Keith Hayes on Nov 20, 2018; 2:21am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-RPO-11-Linn-Moedinger-s-Shapeways-Print-in-Sn3-and-Hon3-tp12427p12685.html

Al, I posed the car with #9, which currently has a hitch-in-its-get-along that I have yet to need to diagnose. The coupler on 9 may be a bit low. Also, the car is at a point where the track starts downhill to the right. That said, I do need to balance the desire to have the car at the correct height per the folio and get the couplers to align per the standard. This may require an underset coupler.

This is, in part, why I elected to install the couplers with a screw rather than gluing the box together and then gluing the box to the body. I cannot speak for you all, but in the 5 years I have had the layout, I bet I have had about six couplers fail for various reasons. I think I take reasonable care of the models, but either a portion of the coupler fails, or my resistance to apply a lot of cement to the box fails. Either way a bad order car results. Screws will make the repair more speedy, I hope.

In other news, I ordered some brass wire and chain from Clover House and it arrived today. My local hobby shop does not seem to find scratch building supplies to be a profit center. I was very pleased with the prompt service from Clover House and their 10-links-per-inch chain will be PURRFECT for safety chain in Sn3!