i had a MU hose fall off one of my Lionel diesels and I can't find it. Does anyone know where I can buy one or material to use to make one?
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The PSC glad hands are all the same, just turn them the opposite direction.
The ones shown on the GP35 above:
PSC 56197 ....bracket, hose, and glad hands included...(1 size hose, not the bigger hose)
The ones I prefer:
PSC 5650 MU bracket
PSC 5676 glad hands
PSC 48387 .045 rubber hose (mu hose)
PSC 48388 .055 rubber hose... (main res hose)
The brackets to the right (outside the packages) are the ones I prefer... just a tad bigger than the ones I used on the GP35, but either will work.
PSC doesn't not have a website, I fax my orders in with CC#, and they still take forever to fill. Still well worth the wait in my opinion.
In general, the material that has been used since time began for model RR hoses and cables (BTW, they are MU cables, so far as I know) is electrical wire. Plain old black (usually) solid electrical wire, stripped a bit on one end and flattened (apply small hammer) to imitate the connection, then shaped to hang or whatever appropriately.
Obviously the gauge of wire used would need to be eyeball-appropriate to the modeling scale.
