MoPac_Eagle
Well Known Member
I am trying to weight my cars to NMRA standards but I am running out of weights and don't know were to put them on some cars. I have already replaced couplers and I am working on the wheel upgrades.
Go to an automobile tire store. Scour their parking lot front, back, and sides, you will find many weights. Newer ones nowadays are made of steel, so you cannot easily reshape them. Use these in boxcars.
If you find lead tire weights, you can melt them in a metal soup can set into a small backyard fire. (Safety glasses, long pants and sleeves, heavy duty gloves.) Make a mold out of almost anything, I used a piece of steel angle iron to make long triangular weights which go under logs.
Which cars are you having trouble with? Flat cars, tank cars, boxcar or reefer with non-operating doors?
Go to an automobile tire store. Scour their parking lot front, back, and sides, you will find many weights. Newer ones nowadays are made of steel, so you cannot easily reshape them. Use these in boxcars.
I order a whole box off of ebay for cheap moneyGo to an automobile tire store. Scour their parking lot front, back, and sides, you will find many weights. Newer ones nowadays are made of steel, so you cannot easily reshape them. Use these in boxcars.
If you find lead tire weights, you can melt them in a metal soup can set into a small backyard fire. (Safety glasses, long pants and sleeves, heavy duty gloves.) Make a mold out of almost anything, I used a piece of steel angle iron to make long triangular weights which go under logs.
Which cars are you having trouble with? Flat cars, tank cars, boxcar or reefer with non-operating doors?