HO Wheelset Up-Grades

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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AGAIN!

I’m impressed. I yanked my Athearn 72’ talgo three axle plastic truck- passenger cars out of retirement just because, well I was bored. Normally I run just my Walthers Budds with up-graded IM ball-bearing & non-ball bearing wheel sets.

But what the heck. Lets see just how good www.reboxx.com up-grades really are.

Reboxx makes 21 different axle lengths(0.088 tread all metal) one-wheel insulated
for at least 20 different passenger car manufacturers…
In addition, they make 23 lengths for two wheel insulated and 26 lengths for 33"
plus wheel sets for steam loco tenders.

These Reboxx guys have taken most of the guess work out of metal wheel up-grades.
Go to their site, click on products, click on wheelsets and you got your “what size axle length question answered”. No more drop outs.
Also note the roll test number and the spread between stock and their replacement.

The shipping cost for my three packs enough for six cars, three bucks.

Now it’s fun to run my Athearn old beaters because of the superior roll.

Antonio & Don; my biggest regret. Three years back when I upgraded my Budds to IM’s
I didn’t know about two wheel insulated upgrades for the GSC trucks on the Walther
Budds and I had two scrap my expensive light bars.

Mondotrains of this forum posted a comment about a year ago that IM’s were made
by Reboxx. I discovered that the packaging, pricing, langauge is almost identical.

But IM’s only come in one axle length.

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It’s good that you found metal wheelsets to suit you. I was under
the impression that most equipment ( trucks,wheels,axles ) had
to be standard to fit the rails??? I have used Kadee since the
inception and had very little problem. I think that sticking to one
“brand” is best anyhow. NOW, the bigger problem I run is couplers
and coupler heights. One thing at a time.

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That should be much less a problem now with the Kadee #4x series of couplers. They have made coupler life wonderful again.

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No, only the distance between the outside of the wheel flanges has to be standard to fit the rails.