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 Posted - April 08 2014 : 10:09:28 PM
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Over the past few years I have removed these trucks from old freight cars, now can't remember what manufacturer they were. They are fully sprung, have plastic wheels. Truck frames are metal and the horn-hook couplers are secured more or less permanently by "crimps" in the metal frame.
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Posted - April 08 2014 : 10:23:07 PM
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Posted - April 08 2014 : 10:34:06 PM
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quote:REVELL
Originally posted by waw47Â -Â April 08 2014Â :Â 10:23:07 PM
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Thank you!
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Posted - April 24 2014 : 3:02:01 PM
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quote:Over the past few years I have removed these trucks from old freight cars, now can't remember what manufacturer they were. They are fully sprung, have plastic wheels. Truck frames are metal and the horn-hook couplers are secured more or less permanently by "crimps" in the metal frame.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â April 08 2014Â :Â 10:09:28 PM
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Want to sell any of them?
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Posted - April 24 2014 : 4:35:37 PM
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Vince sorry but I sold those a couple days later. Next time I come across some I'll post them here.
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Posted - April 24 2014 : 5:30:38 PM
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quote:Over the past few years I have removed these trucks from old freight cars, now can't remember what manufacturer they were. They are fully sprung, have plastic wheels. Truck frames are metal and the horn-hook couplers are secured more or less permanently by "crimps" in the metal frame.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â April 08 2014Â :Â 10:09:28 PM
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The couplers could easily be replaced with Kadees. File down the "crimps" and remove the box cover and the horn hooks, drill a hole in the top and tap it for the Kadee screw and install the Kadee coupler and Kadee cover.
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Posted - April 24 2014 : 9:31:33 PM
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They're nice trucks, especially being sprung - but I gave them a push around my track checking them out and although the flanges aren't overly deep they bounced over my turnouts. I put a gauge on the wheels and although the wheels and axles are cast in one piece, they are out of gauge (too narrow) and there is no way to adjust them. I suppose you could replace the wheelsets but did not seem worth the effort, unless you're trying to keep a Revell car as close to original as possible.
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Posted - April 25 2014 : 12:17:28 PM
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quote:Vince sorry but I sold those a couple days later. Next time I come across some I'll post them here.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â April 24 2014Â :Â 4:35:37 PM
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Thanks for keeping me in mind Jerry. What I do is cut off the coupler perch and replace the wheels with N/S RP-25 wheels and axles. I body mount the couplers.
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Posted - April 25 2014 : 10:04:28 PM
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| THat's a lot of effort to ruin the Revell parts when there are plenty of trucks one could just outright replace them with.
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Posted - April 26 2014 : 7:59:54 PM
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Yeah, usually when I do a conversion on a car with talgo trucks, I just drop in Athearn trucks, body-mount a pair of kadee #14's, and chuck the talgo trucks unless they're older metal ones like these, which I save in a box.
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Posted - April 26 2014 : 8:56:54 PM
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quote:Yeah, usually when I do a conversion on a car with talgo trucks, I just drop in Athearn trucks, body-mount a pair of kadee #14's, and chuck the talgo trucks unless they're older metal ones like these, which I save in a box.
Originally posted by PRR 4800Â -Â April 26 2014Â :Â 7:59:54 PM
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Kadee #14 is a bulk pack of the #148 couplers, correct?
And I used to chuck all that old stuff - until I discovered there is someone on ebay that will buy it. Old talgo trucks, old wheelsets, old couplers, etc.
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