3 1/2 ha riding car drawings/ for sale
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3 1/2 ha riding car drawings/ for sale
Anyone have a recommendation for a simple 3 1/2” ga riding car? Or are there any out there for sale?
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Re: 3 1/2 ha riding car drawings/ for sale
Check with Joe Tanski for the Bill Morewood-designed riding car for 3.5-inch gauge.
I have two. It is a great design.
I have two. It is a great design.
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Good luck finding Raybestose brake material. Gone with the Edsel! Good sound riding car design .
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Friends Models can do the couplers and the car ends as written up in the article, if anyone wants them.....
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Re: 3 1/2 ha riding car drawings/ for sale
3/4 scale riding car as used for the Raritan
Flat car kit & Drawing castings 8 cast iron wheels
4 Truck side frames alumimum castings
2 truck bolsters aluminum castings
2 spring plates aluminum castings
1 brake shoe Blank cast iron
cost$164.48 + 7.25 shipping
Note: car built out of angle iron with wood deck (builder supplies local)
3/4 scale modern style Knuckle working couplers (4 aluminum castings) $26.00 /pair
Tanski Model Engineering
8927 Notre Dame Dr.
Eden , NY 14057
Flat car kit & Drawing castings 8 cast iron wheels
4 Truck side frames alumimum castings
2 truck bolsters aluminum castings
2 spring plates aluminum castings
1 brake shoe Blank cast iron
cost$164.48 + 7.25 shipping
Note: car built out of angle iron with wood deck (builder supplies local)
3/4 scale modern style Knuckle working couplers (4 aluminum castings) $26.00 /pair
Tanski Model Engineering
8927 Notre Dame Dr.
Eden , NY 14057
Re: 3 1/2 ha riding car drawings/ for sale
Check out www.fairweatherfoundry.com, I have some of his trucks, they are great he also has couplers
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Suggest you consider a 1" scale set of trucks for your 3/4" loco...
They are a lot easier to balance on (especially as we get older)…..
They are a lot easier to balance on (especially as we get older)…..
Too many things going on to bother listing them.
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Thanks for all the help Gentlemen.
Bill when will you be around PLS?
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Labor day weekend. Saturdau for sure...maybe friday also.
If you like I can bring a 3/4" track car so that you can see. There will be many 1" riding cars there anyway so that ypu can compare stability. Brittany rides on a 1" car that I built for her that she pulls behind her 3/4 loco.
If you like I can bring a 3/4" track car so that you can see. There will be many 1" riding cars there anyway so that ypu can compare stability. Brittany rides on a 1" car that I built for her that she pulls behind her 3/4 loco.
Too many things going on to bother listing them.
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I second Bill on 1" riding car for 3/4" scale locomotive (or smaller) when you can operate on a multigauge track like PLS. Use an off-center connection to buffer beam on riding car that does not excert a side force on locomotive's tender.
Also, consider link-and-pin coupler, easily made from 2"-3" length of 1/8"x1/2" CRS. They are far less expensive than than cast couplers, they don't break in every derailment, and you never have to watch your locomotive zooming down the track by itself.
If you are physically capable of getting up and down from your car without passing out or faling over, there is nothing like lying-down on the riding car for shear realism watching flashing rods, rocking loco deck, ballast a blur. I ran my 2.5" gauge tenwheeler that way for thirty years and never experienced a greater "high" from live steam.
B&OBob
Also, consider link-and-pin coupler, easily made from 2"-3" length of 1/8"x1/2" CRS. They are far less expensive than than cast couplers, they don't break in every derailment, and you never have to watch your locomotive zooming down the track by itself.
If you are physically capable of getting up and down from your car without passing out or faling over, there is nothing like lying-down on the riding car for shear realism watching flashing rods, rocking loco deck, ballast a blur. I ran my 2.5" gauge tenwheeler that way for thirty years and never experienced a greater "high" from live steam.
B&OBob
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I also prefer use of steel links and pins instead of couplers in small scale. Much less headache.
But rhen I am not known for being a rivet counting model maker.
But rhen I am not known for being a rivet counting model maker.
Too many things going on to bother listing them.