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Removing road numbers from Kadee hopper cars

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Removing road numbers from Kadee hopper cars
Posted by cats think well of me on Saturday, April 15, 2017 12:08 PM

Hi all,

Anyone have any experience renumbering Kadee hoppers? They offer their gorgeous coal hopper in the Reading steam era roman lettering, and only with one road number. I'd like a few for my collection, and renumbering pre-painted cars would be much easier, and quicker, then lettering undecorated cars. 

Thank you in Advance,

Alvie

 

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  • From: SE. WI.
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Posted by mbinsewi on Saturday, April 15, 2017 12:17 PM

This comes up a lot.  Try doing a search in the community, on the right side of this page.  Some have had good luck just slowly going at it with a pencil eraser. 

You shouldn't have to remove all the numbers, just one or two.

You could always "patch" a number or two, if you don't mind the patched look.

Mike.

 

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