The Atlantic and Southern Build Thread Continued, Part 4

[ACL1504]

Dave,

I don't think I'd sell enough to make it worth my while. I stopped painting brass for customers as it took to much time away form my own layout and model building.

Tom 

[deemery]

How did you make those?  Cut the acrylic on a tablesaw or bandsaw? 

dave

[GPdemayo]

.....My friend Jim Miller, now deceased, and I saw a car like this in the hobby shop for around $20.00. We decided to make our own.....

Tom

And you say I'm thrifty.....

[Rick]

Tom, I see I have a lot of catching up to do with this thread.

[Vietnam Seabee]

I'm wondering if the Judge has applied for dual citizenship to this forum...I hope he resumes his Saturday Reports here which previously appeared on the RR Lines Forum...
terry

[ACL1504]

How did you make those?  Cut the acrylic on a tablesaw or bandsaw?

dave

Dave,

Jim Miller cut the material on his table saw. He had some kind of special blade that cut the stuff. The material was also used to make display cases for models. I have no idea where Jim got the material.

Tom

[ACL1504]

.....My friend Jim Miller, now deceased, and I saw a car like this in the hobby shop for around $20.00. We decided to make our own.....

Tom

And you say I'm thrifty.....

Jim was tighter than you for sure. Me? I'm a big spender.

Tom 

[ACL1504]

Tom, I see I have a lot of catching up to do with this thread.

Rick,

Well, seeing this I now realize I'm way behind on this thread as well. I stopped posting to this thread when Jimmy D. shut it down 2+ years ago.

I get it going again. Thanks for stopping by.

Tom 

[GPdemayo]

.....My friend Jim Miller, now deceased, and I saw a car like this in the hobby shop for around $20.00. We decided to make our own.....

Tom

And you say I'm thrifty.....

Jim was tighter than you for sure. Me? I'm a big spender.

Tom

Thank you for that.....and so we don't forget, half the battle is admitting it. 

[ACL1504]

I'm wondering if the Judge has applied for dual citizenship to this forum...I hope he resumes his Saturday Reports here which previously appeared on the RR Lines Forum...
terry

Terry,

Bill started the stories on this forum many years ago. You can find all his stuff in the thread below.

https://modelersforum.com/index.php?topic=4128.0

Tom

[jbvb]

The finer the teeth, the smoother the cut in acrylic plastic.  The test car body would be easy to do with a hacksaw. Clean up the edges with a large file or sandpaper on a block.  Remember to put a wood block below it when drilling the truck screw holes.  You could glue on Kadee coupler pockets using one of the methylene chloride solvent cements that works on both acrylic and styrene.

[ACL1504]

The finer the teeth, the smoother the cut in acrylic plastic.  The test car body would be easy to do with a hacksaw. Clean up the edges with a large file or sandpaper on a block.  Remember to put a wood block below it when drilling the truck screw holes.  You could glue on Kadee coupler pockets using one of the methylene chloride solvent cements that works on both acrylic and styrene.

James,

Miller did buy a new blade to cut the acrylic. The blade had extremely fine teeth. Miller also glued Kadee couplers to his but I wanted mine without. I use mine as a single push car to check track and turnouts.

Tom 

[Vietnam Seabee]

The Judge's Saturday reports...holy smokers...82 pages...call me when dinner's ready!!

It will be enjoyable reading for sure

terry

[Bernd]

James,

Miller did buy a new blade to cut the acrylic. The blade had extremely fine teeth. Miller also glued Kadee couplers to his but I wanted mine without. I use mine as a single push car to check track and turnouts.

Tom

Tom what thickness? Approximate length and width of a 40-foot boxcar?

Bernd

[ACL1504]

James,

Miller did buy a new blade to cut the acrylic. The blade had extremely fine teeth. Miller also glued Kadee couplers to his but I wanted mine without. I use mine as a single push car to check track and turnouts.

Tom

Tom what thickness? Approximate length and width of a 40-foot boxcar?

Bernd

Bernd,

We measured it from an Athearn 40' boxcar. However, we made ours 41' just to be different.

Width is 10 HO scale feet and thickness is 1/4". 

We made four. I still  have mine but when Jim passed it wasn't in his train stuff. I think he gave the other two away for a prize at one of the NMRA Sunshine Region meets here in Fl. Jim was in the Sunshine Region for 45+ years. I joined the NMRA back in 1972 for one year and had my fill. Since then I've been a GDI - Gosh Darn Independent.

Tom