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Atten: The K4Kid

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  • Member since
    November 2002
  • From: "Steel, Steam and Thunder"Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • 1,177 posts
Posted by TheK4Kid on Monday, July 18, 2005 12:15 PM
Hi Randy,
Thanks for your reply.
I'll stop by Home Depot on the way to work and check out their paint dept.

  • Member since
    February 2002
  • From: Reading, PA
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Atten: The K4Kid
Posted by rrinker on Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:00 AM
I received your email, and attempted a reply but it did not go through. FOr some reason my domain is blocked by Verizon (geee I love those people, STILL refusing to offer me broadband).

I used yellow carpenter's glue - I had a bad experience using liquid
nails on my test section. After 3 days under weight it STILL didn't
stick. The yellow glue has worked great.
As for paint, I found a nice earthy brown in Home Depot's OOPS pile - I
think the OOPS paints are only about $4 a gallon. Takes a long time
waiting til you find the right shade though. But it beats the cost of a
custom mixed gallon of paint. Anything brownish will work, it's going to
get covered anyway. Just anything but pink!
As for Dana - yes, very familiar with them. I have to build me some
modified flat cars to haul the frames. The Reading Company Technical and
historical society has a nice string of frame flats they run on their
modular layout.
My father-in-law is a retired railroad guy too, Briefly worked for the
Reading (his father was a lifetime Reading employee), then Penn Central,
Conrail, and retired from NS after the buyout.


--Randy

Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's

 

Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.

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