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Seems like I'm always doing train repairs at Christmas    I have some tenders with non-operating couplers I acquired and am replacing them with trucks with operating couplers - putting together train sets for the grand kids    After removing the riveted trucks, I really don't want to go back to rivets.  I've seen many different posts with varying ways of attached trucks - from rivets to screws to brass paper binding brads.  Just wondering what a good best practice is?

Happy Holidays!

John

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Oddly, I took this photo some weeks ago of a cheap Lionel project tender frame that I am upgrading to Post War trucks. It is a method that I have used before - this truck mounting issue is case-by-case, with many solutions. I like this one - cheap and easy.

These PW trucks were missing the central mounting post already. Two pieces of wood from latex paint stir sticks attached with a rubber cement (I used Goo), drilled, 2 wood screws from the hardware store (these could be shorter).

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They'll never know:

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