broken trucks on gg1 18356 need part source. Or I melt it down. Several of my GG1's also have a pantograph problem. Anyone have similar problems with lionel's GG1's?
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Lots of people do for that series. there was a manufacturing defect with the zinc used for a lot of them.
See thread here: https://ogrforum.com/...estoration-in-brass?
As mentioned in that thread, a hobby store owner is working on trying to get a replacement part designed, but it is not yet available.
So if you are in as much of a rush as your post suggests, you might just want to melt it down. (though I'm not sure why any of us needed to know that detail, unless you are promising pictures of the process as you do it)
I talked to someone at York last October. He said he was making the pieces and they would be out around the first of the year. Now of course he is not answering his emails. I guess it was more difficult than he thought to produce.
Perhaps a diorama-GG1 falls off bridge and bursts into smoke flames. utube would love it.
Don't melt it! 😕
Use a hack saw! 😵
Yes there is a prototype too! A yard ice melter🔥💨☃️ I don't have permission for the real photos... Try "GG-½" searches, etc.
You might consider a silicone mold packed with JB Weld for making side frames until better gets done ? High heat stuff and you could cast right into it with solder, lead, brass, etc.
I don't know how involved that GG version may be, some side frames just hang there. (scale one, right?)
Pants acting up was a complaint by some. Get them were you want them and leaving them unplugged was the most common tactic if I recall right.
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You could sell it to me for cheap. I had originally encouraged Bob Stevenson to do some castings, but we stopped short when Hennings said they would do it. Bob has his own foundry, and has done some beautiful lost wax castings for me.
The secret is to create a mold that either expands when cured or at least doesn't shrink.
I have a set of Wolfer castings without a body, and someday I will marry them with a broken Lionel.
Just looked at that year old thread. You have to read quite a bit to figure out what happened. Happy reading.
