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Replacement Metal Wheelsets...What to use? Kadee, Proto 2000, Intermountain?
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I'm brand new to this form and one of the first things I encountered was a question of how to re-wheel Tyco cars. If you MUST do this and now and then Collectors must, I start by using a 16th/inch drill bit in a pin vise and giving about 5 to 8 turns in each journal. I then install Proto wheelsets. Couplers can also be replaced in the existing draftgear. With a knife, clean off the two flanges at the end. On the pin start with a Kadee 208 red washer, add the insert from the Mantua version of the McHenry couplers or, make your own with a 16th inch piece of 'Antenna Tubing" from an r/c car, Kadee #5s and the centering spring. Purists may not like it, but it works and my Schlitz & Budweiser cars can stay in service.
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