Question about Walthers "New River Mining Company" kit

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Because they do do a better job. Maybe Walthers could learn a thing or two from them? [:o)]

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Dave

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Sometimes procrastination pays off.

This thread prompted me to take another look at my New River Mining structure which has been collecting dust on a hillside for years. I had been planning to do some lighting and upgrades.

So with the discussion here about these gussets I did some digging tonight in my kitbashing parts and found a bunch of angle bracing that was left over from some Micro Engineering girder bridges.

Girder by Edmund, on Flickr

Thats them, top-left, in the darker gray plastic. To the right are some 8011 brackets from Tichy and below are the original Walthers ones previously discussed.

I believe these longer gussets look more appropriate as a stabilizer for the leg or support for the floor beam. Note that the upper end of the gusset lines up with the molded floor beam underneath.

Girder2 by Edmund, on Flickr

There’s still plenty of clearance. To me the kit supplied ones just look too small to be any kind of effective brace.

Girder3 by Edmund, on Flickr

I was able to put two on the single support column which makes that look more believeable, too.

Girder1 by Edmund, on Flickr

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Thanks for all the replies to my question.

As some people have noted the instructions for New River Mining kit are rather sparse (no instructions other than some poor diagrams).

At this point I may just punt on these support braces except for the one single leg column which does not have much support otherwise.

Thanks.

Doug

Edit to add: It’s time to move on to the next structure kit build: BTS Signal Maintainers Storage

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Looks like if you cut the kit ones as needed for the ends, you have a half brace left over to add to the side of that single leg, even if they don’t show that in the instructions. It definitely needs that though, it just looks wong with bracing for one direction but perpendicular to that it could just fold up.

–Randy