I picked up some passenger cars recently. Some had been detailed with these air and steam lines. I assumed they were Precision Scale item but looking through both the Passenger car and Steam loco catalogs nothing jumps out at me. Does anyone know of a source for these. I also checked Scale City for Keil line but many items have no photos.
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@Norton posted:I picked up some passenger cars recently. Some had been detailed with these air and steam lines. I assumed they were Precision Scale item but looking through both the Passenger car and Steam loco catalogs nothing jumps out at me. Does anyone know of a source for these. I also checked Scale City for Keil line but many items have no photos.
@Norm Charbonneau refers to eBay item 392328380904.
Thank you Carl. I looked in air lines, steam lines, tender details and didn’t find them there. Now I see them under “plumbing”.
Pete
@Norton posted:Thank you Carl. I looked in air lines, steam lines, tender details and didn’t find them there. Now I see them under “plumbing”. Pete
Good grief, but I'm glad you found the items. Keil Lines' last catalog c. 2013 had a limited number of illustrations, which don't include what you are looking for - Marty at Scale City actually does a better job of showing what the parts are: http://oscaledirectory.com/pdf/keillineproducts.pdf
Des Plaines Hobbies has a similarly wide variety of such parts - but again, illustrations are limited.
You can find them in the PSC catalog as Barco Steam lines.
Wiseman Model Services also offers them in brass... I always prefer brass over diecast if available.
That Wiseman part looks better as it doesn't need to be modified. The PSC part I showed was what I used for my M1a/b projects a while back. Since Santiago's post will be sent to the abyss, look up Wiseman BS-227. Also look at BS-261.
Thank you Norm and Santiago. I was actually away from the computer and missed Norm’s post. I have them both bookmarked now, safe from future vaporization.
I didn’t know they were called Barco but that wouldn't have helped finding them in the PSC catalog.
Pete
It took me a bit to find those in the PSC catalogs too. I used it here:
https://ogrforum.com/topic/3rd-rail-m1b
The Wiseman part looks better though. Not sure if PSC has an equivalent.