Legacy H10 windows.

Wow; I dunno what it looked like before, but that looks great. 

Mark in Oregon

"Necessity is the mother of invention"  Nice work Rick.

Rick,
This little tool might come in handy when doing windows.

I guess I'll have to keep pace and put some windows in mine.

somehow I didn't notice there were no windows until you pointed it out. Thanks Rick, I'll have to try this on mine.

I'm surprised that there is no "glass" in the (front-side) window frames - as there should be. Why do you think that is?

MELGAR

That looks really great...  thanks for sharing...

Good Job RICK, Now I gotta do mine too.

All the more surprising considering the recent re-release of the Legacy 4-4-2 E6.  They didn't forget about crew comfort on it.  Still, I'd trade missing panes of plastic for the swinging bell gizmo, a curious omission on the E6.

Bruce

MELGAR posted:

I'm surprised that there is no "glass" in the (front-side) window frames - as there should be. Why do you think that is?

MELGAR

You have to ask?  Cheapening the product, simple!  There has to be a reason that with all the features they delivered this one at a reasonable price.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

MELGAR posted:

I'm surprised that there is no "glass" in the (front-side) window frames - as there should be. Why do you think that is?

MELGAR

You have to ask?  Cheapening the product, simple!  There has to be a reason that with all the features they delivered this one at a reasonable price.

GRJ,

I didn't really have to ask but thought it might have been an omission on only a few models... Was just surprised of penny-pinching to this extent. I had a look at my old MTH Premier H10 with PS2 from years ago - which does have glass. Thanks.

MELGAR

gunrunnerjohn posted:

MELGAR posted:

I'm surprised that there is no "glass" in the (front-side) window frames - as there should be. Why do you think that is?

MELGAR

You have to ask?  Cheapening the product, simple!  There has to be a reason that with all the features they delivered this one at a reasonable price.

I think it's mostly Lionel following the original Tmcc model rivet for rivet ( or lack thereof ).

The same reason the vl Niagara uses the original Phillips head drive rod screws as the ccII.

I don't see what money was saved if I could glue some plastic windows in there in 5 minutes after the locomotive was already assembled. Especially after they had to spend an hour getting a whole spool of wire going to all of the features under the shell.

For whatever reason, the Tmcc h9/10 was one of the few if not only scale Tmcc steamer that lacked windows back in the early 2000s.

The was an easy enough mod for someone who's all thumbs like me.

I'd like to do the neolube to the smoke box as well, but I'm about as good at staying in the lines as a kindergartener.

The window was cut n paste, something a kindergartener (like me) does well.

Windows tend to fall inward, get dusty, fingerprinted, etc.

Maybe the windows cut at the factory did not fit correctly, so they were not installed.  My Heisler windows fell inward and were not fit correctly.

I DON'T DO WINDOWS.  My two H-10: Pennsylvania Lines and Western Allegheny look great without them.

Sincerely, John Rowlen

My Legacy B6 has the side "glass" 

It has a swinging bell and whistle steam. If no cab window glass is what it takes to get those features for $700, fine by me. It was an easy enough fix. No sense complaining about it.