A quick and dirty approach would be to use craft store latex rubber mold material or even plasticine modeling clay to make a quick mold of the journal on an SHS switcher truck, then cast in 5 min epoxy.
I too plan to follow Matt's technique on the S12 trucks. I have found the engineering plastic on my model's trucks particular tough! Pieter Roos Sent from my iPhone On Oct 3, 2013, at 10:30 PM, "Andre Ming" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi George! > > Thanks for taking the time to reference that article. It is also posted at > the NASG website under "Scale". And, yes, that's the article that got me > thinking about what to do with the truck sideframes on my AM Baldwins. > > If I take Matt's approach, I would also like to replace the cast-on roller > bearing detail with journal (friction) bearing detail. That's what my > question refered to. > > Andre Ming > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 9:26 PM > Subject: {S-Scale List} Correct S-12 trucks > > There is a article in the files by NSRC119 entitled AM Baldwin S-12 from > March 29th. It shows what he did to make the S-12 trucks more prototypical. > Hope that helps. > > > > George Courtney > > > >
