Does any one have any open trolley plans that I could copy and convert to etching template? I'm looking to build an N scale breezer- but don't have any plans...
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Nick Kibre
nkibre@...
Oct 4, 2001 6:24 pm
I think there's some breezers in Carsten's trading planbook. I'll check and send you a scan if you want (but I probably won't get to this til next week--have...
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estatebuyer@...
Oct 4, 2001 8:49 pm
... I have that book too- but don't think that there are any 'breezer'plans in it-the Monterey grove book sounds like a better bet. Kato makes a toy like train...
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Nick Kibre
nkibre@...
Oct 4, 2001 10:44 pm
... well I know I've seen them in at least one other place so I'll dig a little. (maybe the railhead pubs, aka traction prototype and models planbook?) ... ...
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estatebuyer@...
Oct 5, 2001 1:44 am
... the ... to ... or ... probably ... keep ... I was thinking of etching the side panels/posts-using passenger car ends and using seated passengers and...
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Nick Kibre
nkibre@...
Oct 5, 2001 3:26 pm
hey, I found some breezers in the traction planbook, around p20 in my edition. maybe we're not actually looking at the same book. there's three with similar...
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Nick Kibre
nkibre@...
Oct 5, 2001 3:28 pm
it's kind of tricky to get a camera close enough to anything as small as an n-scale trolley (let alone autos, wagons, etc) to get a good view while keeping it...
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Alex Postpischil
albabe63@...
Oct 5, 2001 4:01 pm
FWIW, my first thought was the same as yours - a pinhole camera. Second thought is a macro lens for a 35mm SLR camera... -alex- ... ...
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Alex Postpischil
albabe63@...
Oct 5, 2001 4:05 pm
I, too, am interested in the open cars. Could you post the scans (when you make them!) to the files section of the list webpage?? Additionally, I'd be...
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tractionman2000@...
Oct 5, 2001 9:32 pm
received my shipment of Sommerfeldt pantographs today, and installed one on the lead (motor) car of my Kato 10-363 (4car EMU). A quick cutting of a brass...
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Robert F. Hamilton
trllyfan@...
Oct 8, 2001 11:12 pm
Nick, A pinhole camera is probably the best way to go, but you may have to make your own. A mini-cam using 8mm film would be ideal. Since pinhole cameras...
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Nick Kibre
nkibre@...
Oct 10, 2001 7:11 pm
I should be able to get a pinhole lens for my old Pentax SLR. there's supposed to be a good camera shop in the area, I'm going to check it out soon. also, we...
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estatebuyer@...
Oct 15, 2001 12:51 pm
Why won't the nice Modemo trolley run up the hill that the Bachmann Brills, PCCs, and Kato Trolleys go up so nicely? I know that the Ncat-N-trak module I am...
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Alex Postpischil
albabe63@...
Oct 15, 2001 1:09 pm
Cliff- Start by checking two things: whether all wheels make contact with the track (on the hill, but also in general) and the weight of the piece. There's a...
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Nick Kibre
nkibre@...
Oct 15, 2001 3:22 pm
one thing you could check; does the trolley run if you put it on a constant slope? if the trouble is only on the transition from level to slope, that sounds...
my daughter & I were killing time in a sav-on last night (waiting for a train, of course!) and I came across a miniature of the Wright bros plane (no name on...
Nick, GLEIS-Tech Gröbli in St. Gallen, Switzerland has a page full in their catalogue but I couldn't find any planes on their website http://www.nm-bahnen.ch/...
A new group was formed this week for those interested in commuter modelling. Some of the members of this group are interested in this area of the hobby, so...
Hello all I'm sure that this must have been covered 'to death' on this list already, but, I couldn't latch on to anything while searching through the archives....
As someone else mentioned, check with PE Model Supply for poles. NCat has data sheets that also tell how to make your own. FWIW, I don't like the brass shoes...
Alex Postpischil wrote>As someone else mentioned, check with PE Model Supply ... Nickel silver shoes. Alex, I am a bit confused, so please excuse this (even to...
The shoes are really HO scale shoes, round non-rotating wheels. The hole drilled for mounting makes it like a lollipop, not a wheel & axle. There is a groove...
... Supposedly yes, but last year I told him I needed to get some trolley poles and was told that he wasn't able to make them at the time, but could in a few ...
I have about 50 enthusiams a minute. This is one. Sure beats horse manure. I don't know how many of you have seen the proposed t-track standards by Jim...
Cliff- You must be looking on a different East Penn page: PE Model Supply P.O. Box 83811, Portland, OR 97283-0811n/a Manufacturer of HO Eclipse Fenders, ...
