New Products from Wutter Vehicles and Details!

[Ken Ford]

Or... maybe an insert for MT boxes to shim them down to TSC size?

[Wutter]

Been a while since I've updated this thread, but have some products from last year that I think will be interesting:



http://shpws.me/Px1X
F-unit style numberboard framing to modernize E6, E7 and E8 locomotives, designed to fit Kato numberboard insert.



http://shpws.me/Px8h
Square cap sand filler caps for F units and other carbody builds



http://shpws.me/Pl9J
Dynacell air filters for GP11 and GP18 rebuilds



http://shpws.me/P8G2
SD38-2 Non-dynamic hatch



http://shpws.me/P98v
GP18 Non-dynamic hatch

[jmlaboda]

http://shpws.me/P8G2
SD38-2 Non-dynamic hatch

Usable on EMD GP38/GP38AC/GP38-2s as well...

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Paging @Wutter

Any progress on the etched metal kit for the Walthers PD hoppers?

[Peter Amling]

@Wutter

Any feedback on the TSC boxes? I’m close to ordering a bunch to start converting cars and wondered if anyone has any experience with these, positive or negative. This would be my first Shapeways purchase too.

[jpwisc]

@Wutter

Any feedback on the TSC boxes? I’m close to ordering a bunch to start converting cars and wondered if anyone has any experience with these, positive or negative. This would be my first Shapeways purchase too.

I’ve installed the Wutter TSC boxes on a few different cars already. They look great. I have to find the optimal spring amount to trip off. So far they hold well. Occasionally I get a coupler that stays open, but that happens on the prototype too.

[Wutter]

I’ve installed the Wutter TSC boxes on a few different cars already. They look great. I have to find the optimal spring amount to trip off. So far they hold well. Occasionally I get a coupler that stays open, but that happens on the prototype too.

A trick to make them even smoother, is to color the contact surfaces on the inside of box with a mechanical graphite pencil before closing it; in addition, scraping some graphite powder from the top of a #2 pencil after the box has been closed, into the front swing areas will help make it smoother as well. It's basically like a poor-man's Grease-em, but the coloring of the surfaces with the pencil helps especially because it knocks down any surface roughness on the inside surfaces, as well as fills the semi-porous plastic surface with graphite, which is a dry lubricant.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Hey Alvin, how are you?

Any hope on the etched PD kit? Now that Atlas may release these as a Trainman line item, you should have a better business case for them.

[Wutter]

Hi Dan,

I've been well, a little bit burned out from job searching that I haven't had time to do much design modelling lately. I have gotten further than the last time you've seen the etch design though, but its taking me a while to figure out where to add all the half-etch detail and fold lines.

[JoeD]

Nice work.  I am guessing that a Yale forklift was essentially the same in terms of appearance for a long timespan, but what is the timeframe for the forklifts?  Will they be available without the rollcage for those of us with a "pre-OSHA" layout?

(My general ignorance on Shapeways being what it is) If I understand correctly, "Extreme detail" has finer detail than "Ultra detail" in Shapeways-ese, English language notwithstanding,  is this correct?

Looks like an excellent model in any case.

Extreme and Ultra are in between awesome and cosmic cool detail at Shapeways. 

[nwline]

Alvin are your SD38-2 roof batches sized to fit a Kato SD40 body  or an Atlas body  ?

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Hi Dan,

I've been well, a little bit burned out from job searching that I haven't had time to do much design modelling lately. I have gotten further than the last time you've seen the etch design though, but its taking me a while to figure out where to add all the half-etch detail and fold lines.

I know how that feels. I been looking at new jobs recently too. Supposedly it gets better? Change always makes me nervous.

Any photos of the progress?

[Wutter]

Alvin are your SD38-2 roof batches sized to fit a Kato SD40 body  or an Atlas body  ?

They are designed to fit Kato shells, the outsides of the hatch are designed to be 0.1mm wider than the shell to allow for a little bit of extra sanding material in final fit. The inside will clear the mechanism no problem without any modification.