Questions, Answers & Tips - 4
company that made the kit and beg for a replacement part.
Intermountain is good at supplying parts, but I didn’t want to
wait on this one, and I wanted to try something different.
What would a railroad have done to repair the line? One
possibility is to replace the damaged line and weld it in
place. Another type of repair is to wrap a leaking line in a
sealant material.
The second solution gave me an idea, so I got some black
thread from the sewing kit. The thread was just a tad larger
in diameter then the original line. With sharp scissors, I cut
a piece of thread to length. Taking liquid model cement like
Testors Plastic Cement, I let the thread soak up the glue, put
4. Glued
black thread
replaces
a dam-
aged brake
line on an
InterMountain
covered hop-
per kit. James
J. Eager photo.
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