Ebay deal- came without one journal or, more likely I lost it. (Early edition). Any ideas where to get some spares? Thanks- Mike
Detail Associates or Details West (or both) makes/make journals for early EMD trucks
I’d replace them with the journals available from Detail Associates.
Square type: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/229-2805
Slope Type: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/229-2806
Hyatt Roller Bearing: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/229-2804
Walthers shows them as out of stock, but you should be able to track some down somewhere.
Looks like Details West has the square and slope types too.
Thanks; looks like a plan. Mike
Since LifeLike had BIG inventories of parts before Walthers took over, that I personally know were shipped to Walthers when the Baltimore warehouse was cleaned out, and since the E unit has been made off and on in numerious runs for many years, I would bet a call to the Walthers parts department will yield the correct replaement part.
I do not understand why people start out assuming original parts from the manufacturer/supplier are not available? True, they might not be, but logic says that would be the first place to ask/look, not the last place.
I have had great success getting needed Proto parts from both LifeLike in years past and from Walthers more recently. Same is true for other brands, Athearn, Intermountain, Broadway all have good parts departments. Only Bachmann has been only hit and miss in the parts department and even they try hard to be helpful and will sell you what they have.
Because of the costs, putting these kinds of part inventories on web sites is not practical, so you must call, email, fax or write the old fashioned way (God forbid anyone should have do that or wait that long) to reach the small staff of people at these companies who manage the nity grity details of parts.
Sheldon
Sheldon,
My suggestion of the DA and DW parts is based on the fact thatthe LL/P2K journals DO fall out. Once the replacement parts are attached, the odds of losing them again is greatly diminished. I’d personally rather not have to deal with hunting for the parts again, even if the manufacturer/distributor has huge stockpiles of them. My philosophy is if it breaks once, fix it so that it will not do so ever again.
Besides, the D/A parts look 10X better.
I’ve done this conversion. You will need to scrape off some of the molded on detail on the Proto trucks with an Xacto chisel blade to make them fit. The Proto trucks are made of delrin, so plastic glue won’t work on them. I cut some small groves in the side frame with a #11 blade so the C/A had something to hold onto.
Experiances vary - I have 6 Proto E-8’s, for some 6-8 years now, never lost a journal.
Sheldon