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5: Finished assembly of the weight kit.
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building a jigsaw puzzle. Once you have the layout of the metal
parts figured out, then you glue them down using the glue
that comes with the kits. Mostly, they fit between the interior
kit and the floor of the car, but some parts are stuck down in
undercarriage detail cavities, or up in interior kit detail cavities.
I was testing some other cars at the Suncoast Model Railroad
Club (
and found out that many clubs
don’t want plastic wheelsets running on their layout. In fact,
many DCC based layout clubs now forbid non metal wheelsets!
This started a search for alternatives. I took some of the cars
into a local model train store and we tried several different
types of wheelsets, all to no avail. I was pricing entire trucks
from several places and the price to re-wheel all of both trains
was starting to get expensive.
While I was examining alternative ways to do this, finally it hit
me. I e-mailed the folks at Adair Shops and asked them what
they used for metal wheelsets on their IHC cars. They said that
MRH-Jul 2013
