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Post by slowfreight on Mar 20, 2017 20:02:26 GMT -5
Just venting here, but I bought a lighting kit to add to one of my 2 Amfleets that didn't come with lighting. While these are gorgeous models, the lighting kit said see the car for instructions on disassembling. The car included an exploded view and no clue how to explode the car. I don't know how they assembled these cars at the factory, but I could barely get it apart prying the vestibule traps out to a crazy angle. And once I put everything together, the interior bulkhead magically went cockeyed on one end and now the floor won't sit right. Of course, the only way to fix is to pry the car apart again and guess what went wrong.
I'm never buying another unlit one again.
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timberley
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Primary Railroads: VIA Rail Canada, AMT (Montreal)
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Post by timberley on Mar 21, 2017 6:55:13 GMT -5
I feel your pain....I bought the lighted versions of these, but had to open them up anyway to paint the interiors. The design is really terrible. The bulkheads are the same size and profile as the interior space (as they should be) and glued to the floor, which is okay on normal Walthers cars - but not on something with a more tubular cross section! After fighting with one, I believe my method on the others was the remove the ends (which was also tricky, because you have to avoid breaking or losing the corner stirrups), and then that allowed me to flex the sides enough to squeeze them over the bulkheads. Some sort of instruction from Walthers would really have helped.
Not well thought through. It's one of those cases where you want to be very sure you got all the interior stuff right and done before you close it up, never to open it again! But of course if you run into a problem as you describe above...
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Post by backshophoss on Mar 21, 2017 18:38:31 GMT -5
Beginning to think the "better" fix is to detach the bulkhead from the floor and glue it to the bodyshell.
run the glue bead from window to window across the roof. NO glue from window to floor level to allow some
bodyshell flexing when the floor/frame is put back in place.
Did that when working on "American View" due to the bodyshell cross section of the Viewliner shell.
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