I am wanting to fix & or replace some of my old hand me downs.
My questions are these.
1, What is the best way to fixed bent dicast. On one of mine I have a bent roof & pilot & on an American flyer hudson tender I have a slightly bent front step.
2, Same American flyer tender only on of the rear steps is broken off. I do have a new step from port line but don’t know the best way to make a lasting repair to attach the new step.
Most of my trains are of the pre & post war era & a few of them are in need of fixing both mechanically & cosmetically. But they are mine & some day will be my boys. So I need to do some repair work.
If you folks have any suggestions on the dicast repairs I would appreciate them,
Next will be using the rubber stamps to fix missing or worn off lettering & numbers.
As Bob said, this diecast is very brittle at room temps…reminds me of what I used to know as pot metal or white metal, only stronger. My train shop won’t touch these types of repairs.
Another poster elsewhere in this Forum during the past two months wrote about getting a salvage loco shell, cutting off his bent cab roof and the salvage cab roof, and just replacing the bent roof. I can’t recall how he mounted the piece, but he included before and after pics.
Good luck with your forum search. Hopefully the guy will read this and respond, or someone else remembers his post.
Ed, Jerry Knott at Miss Edna’s has done quit a few “putting die cast sections together” with super glue. Works. I think someone several weeks ago used Marinetex, JB Weld or something like that.
Within the last few years one of the mags had an “how to” article on this. I think it involved making a form out of wood as to what the part should be and then heating the metal till mallable and tapping it into the form’s shape. I think body filler was the final action to smooth things out.
