Evemodel couplers

[oldscout]

I have several of the 3 light signals that work pretty well just being carful of the little tiny wires

[dem34]

These are the ones pictured, both truck with couplers, I have been trying to install them on Atlas grain cars to start. The bolster pin from the old trucks just slip right through. I have lots of mt bolster pins that do the same thing.

Styrene washer would probably be the easiest solution. Drill a hole through some styrene just big enough for the original pin, trim around hole just enough to catch the hole in the truck.

[thomasjmdavis]

These are the ones pictured, both truck with couplers, I have been trying to install them on Atlas grain cars to start. The bolster pin from the old trucks just slip right through. I have lots of mt bolster pins that do the same thing.

Personally, I think I would just replace the old Atlas trucks with new Atlas trucks, unless I was trying to match a particular truck prototype.  I am assuming that there is something wrong with the Atlas trucks on your cars that is causing you to want to do this in the first place. 

But to use the Evemodels, you will need to either modify the car bolsters as sp org div suggested in the 2nd post of this thread, or modify the trucks as dem34 suggests above.

[John]

These things look like something that was made from worn out molds ..  I have to agree with the other post -- if you need new trucks and wheels buy OEMs or MT ..

[davefoxx]

H0?

@peteski,

No, HO.   As in "aitch oh."  No one says "aitch zero." 

DFF

[Ed Kapuscinski]

These things look like something that was made from worn out molds ..  I have to agree with the other post -- if you need new trucks and wheels buy OEMs or MT ..

Huh. I think you might be onto something.

A way for the factory to make some easy money off of old stuff hanging around.

Or maybe they're QC rejects.

[peteski]

@peteski,

No, HO.   As in "aitch oh."  No one says "aitch zero." 

DFF

I'm of European descent and I do, since that's what Europeans still call it.  It actually is "half zero" gauge.  I believe that Amuricans started calling the zero gauge "oh", and H0 "aitch oh".  . Plus you know that I'm "different". 

[davefoxx]

I'm of European descent and I do, since that's what Europeans still call it.  It actually is "half zero" gauge.  I believe that Amuricans started calling the zero gauge "oh", and H0 "aitch oh".  . Plus you know that I'm "different". 

@peteski,

Haha!  You know that I just like to bust your balls on this subject every now and then.   Oh, and "'Murica!" 

DFF

[peteski]

@peteski,

Haha!  You know that I just like to bust your balls on this subject every now and then.   Oh, and "'Murica!" 

DFF

No worries, I know it's all for fun.  I still have fond memories of you embracing the "H0er", umm, "HOer" moniker I crowned you with.  (There is another word more appropriate than "crowned", but my Polish brain can't think of it). 

[nkalanaga]

For any readers not familiar with US English:  Americans often call the numeral 0 "Oh" when pronouncing it as an individual character.  For instance, the major West Coast highway is US 101, pronounced "one-oh-one".  I've never heard it called "one hundred one" or one-zero-one".

[Maletrain]

Yep, we "Americans" really speak Aminglish. 

We use different words than Londoners for the same thing (e.g., "gas" verses "petrol" as automotive fuel)

Which is really just an extension of a language that was already messed-up before we crossed the Big Pond.

We use the same word for many different things (e.g., "gas" for petrol, for a physical state of matter, and musical meanings)

We use the same sound for many different words with vastly different meanings (e.g., "to", "too", "two" and "poll", pole", "Pole")

We use the different words for the same thing (e.g., "too" and "also")

So, context is all-important to understanding us in the US - if you don't already know what we mean, you will have no idea based only on what words we say. 

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Huh. I think you might be onto something.

A way for the factory to make some easy money off of old stuff hanging around.

Or maybe they're QC rejects.

I purchased a few trucks to play around with, along with the 52' gondola. Both are new tooling and not related to any other models. I believe this is the same factory that made those containers that flooded the market a few years ago. Those containers appeared to be the same tooling and printing as the JTC containers.

I think both the gondola and containers were a factory led R&D effort used as a proof of concept when seeking contracts.

[thomasjmdavis]

I purchased a few trucks to play around with, along with the 52' gondola. Both are new tooling and not related to any other models. I believe this is the same factory that made those containers that flooded the market a few years ago. Those containers appeared to be the same tooling and printing as the JTC containers.

I think both the gondola and containers were a factory led R&D effort used as a proof of concept when seeking contracts.

As a matter of curiosity- do the trucks represent an identifiable North American prototype?