Might I make the suggestion to make it a single ended car? As it already has a cowcatcher on the front, also I believe it would look amazing in the Texas Electric blue bonnet livery, dark blue, cream window sash with signal red trim! Keep up the good work!
That must be it---I've been using rosin core--never had a problem until now--that would explain why I had no trouble with the brass nut and the furnace tin--rosin has always worked well with that--I think I should re-solder and add some acid flux
Hey Steven, I just picked up an 'old' book 'The Model Railroader Cyclopedia' from 1949-1950 by Kalmbach Publishing. I thought easy fun reading, but it is a ton of railroad locomotives, cars and track detail. Maybe too much detail, but fun to research a particular engine or car.
Nice work. Good measurements. I usually use lock nuts to prevent loosening of screws. Not sure why the metal is so resistant to soldering.
This I know for sure. It is not tinplate. . My friend said it was steel, and you use acid Flux to solder steel, and I use rosin
Might I make the suggestion to make it a single ended car? As it already has a cowcatcher on the front, also I believe it would look amazing in the Texas Electric blue bonnet livery, dark blue, cream window sash with signal red trim!
Keep up the good work!
Dark blue is a color I've never done. Dark green, black, red, silver and orange. I will give that color some thought 😊
Cool project progress.
You need to use an acid type of flux to solder steel.
That must be it---I've been using rosin core--never had a problem until now--that would explain why I had no trouble with the brass nut and the furnace tin--rosin has always worked well with that--I think I should re-solder and add some acid flux
Good job
use some of your brass bar to make two nut / spacer combo and solder them in
Slap me in the face if you disagree, if you scuffed up the metal surfaces and added superglue along the finished solder.
I ""think "" I need acid Flux for this instead of rosin Flux. This is not toy train tinplate which is easy to solder.
Greetings from Wisconsin. Looking good there Steven.
Hey Steven, I just picked up an 'old' book 'The Model Railroader Cyclopedia' from 1949-1950 by Kalmbach Publishing. I thought easy fun reading, but it is a ton of railroad locomotives, cars and track detail. Maybe too much detail, but fun to research a particular engine or car.
I remember that book also when I was a kid looking at MR and Trains Magizne but never bought one. I think a lot of guys used it for model making