Today I received the box car from MR.
The instructions are very summary and are saying nothing how to instal the doors.
I guess that those doors must be glued in place because there is no slots for the doors.
Does anyone have any advice?
The MR 90th boxcar is an Accurail kit. I believe the Accurail instructions say "cement from inside." Remove any flash and you might want to scrape away any paint from the two surfaces that would meet. Then you just take liquid cement on a brush -- making sure the doors are right side up first! Sometimes I find the doors still pop off in which case I add a tidbit of styrene to reinforce the joint site -- again inside -- making sure it does not interfere with the floor, and use the brush to flow the cement on all surfaces.
Just remember NOT to pick up the car with your thumb or fingers ON the door
Dave Nelson
southernpacificgs4I guess that those doors must be glued in place because there is no slots for the doors.
My guess is that you can either cement the door in the 'open' position or in the plugged closed position, and you'd cement it from the back and reinforce it with putty or solvent-softened sprue in the latter case, as noted in other posts.
If you wanted for some reason to be able to display the car with the door in either the 'closed' or 'open' position, you might rig up some small magnets glued to the inside of the car side, acting on a thin piece of ferromagnetic material on the back of the door. You'd have a frame across the door opening on the inside with the magnets to hold it on 'closed', temporarily removing or folding that frame when the opening needed to appear 'empty'. But that's probably more overkill than a movable door in a HO special-edition car would warrant.
Hello,
Thank you for the information.
I will post the outcome when I have assambled the car and eventually upload a photo.
The car looks cool, but not sure whether I can stomach the nearly $30 asking price for a built-up.