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- From: dermer@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Marshall Dermer)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.railroad
- Subject: Re: Improving HO ConCor superliners
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 04:24:04 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <1992Dec26.215207.18013@newstand.syr.edu> cwebster@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Chris Webster) writes:
- >For Christmas, my signifigant other gave me a HO Amtrak Coach/Baggage
- >Superliner. It's a nice car, but needs some work, as does most of my
- >equipment. I know how to handle adding weight and that someone makes
- >the correct trucks and diaphrams, but what can I do for interiors
- >on this and other superliners? Can I tint the windows somehow? |Is
- >that prototypical? Suggestions for adding kadee couplers?
- >
- >Thanks for all your suggestions.
-
- I have ConCor Heritage coaches. I have added Kadee couplers, metal wheel
- sets, wipers and lights, and diaphrams. Additionally, I made interiors
- mounted on 1/8" thick fiber board. Most of the interiors consist of seats
- made by gluing a strip of 3/32" X 4/16" balsa to 2/16 X 7/32" stock and
- then cutting 6/16" wide seats.
- _
- Seat ========> | |
- | |
- _________| | <====== Side View
- | | |
- |_______ |_|
-
- The finishing touch is a pair of Red LED warning lights at the rear of the
- last coach. They are connected to the current via a bridge rectifer and a
- 1000 OHM dropping resistor. (I thank my wife Judy for driving me to Union
- Station in Chicago several months ago so I could see how the warning lights
- are mounted.)
-
- The parts I used are:
-
- Walthers Diaphrams 2/ Pk 933-429
- Oregon Rail Supply Red LEDs # 110
- NWSL 36" Wheelsets 6 /PK 053-71184
- Athearn Wippers 140-90200
- 1 K OHM Resistors Radio Shack 271-023
- 1 A Silicon Bridge Rectifer Radio Shack ???-161
- Kadee Coupler Conversion Bolster #508
- Walthers Car Lighting 2-Bulb Kit 933-717
- (Three such lights per Heritage Coach is ideal.)
-
- --Best,
-
- Marshall
-
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