Sides of mth low-v truck snapped off

Never liked those oversized clown shoe trucks. They took out part of my 3rd rail once.

Try GG with a clamp. Apply another application the next day. That might work.

MTH...

Thanx.

JB Weld is your friend. 

Mitch

Hello Steve  (P)

I agree with you on the MTH Low-V Car "Clown Shoe Trucks" -- 

A decade ago I laboriously ground and trimmed down quite many of the, my own,  MTH Low-V Truck sideframes to more scale sizes and proportions -- the sideframes were actually the proper 6'8" length as the prototype motor-truck ones.   I took photos of the conversions back then -- as I wanted to convert my MTH Low-V's to TWO RAIL with insulated scale wheels --  and as you can see the differences in the before and after photos.  It was well worth the effort visually and operationally.  As well as allowing the car bodies to sit the prototypical proper lower height to the rail heads.  See my photos below !

BELOW --  Two of the MTH Commonwealth "motor truck style" sideframes as reworked to scale proportions,

BELOW -- at left a trailer with a Baldwin 6'0" trailer truck and at right the scaled down MTH Commonwealth 6'8"Motor truck sideframe.   Shows how the reworked MTH truck looks in proportion to an O-Scale  scale-proportioned  Low-V Baldwin sideframe trailer truck

BELOW -- Re-worked MTH Commonwealth IRT Truck 6' 8" sideframe with scale wheelsets

BELOW -- Reworked MTH sideframe at left with scale wheels,  and original "thick, bulky" Clown Shoe MTH Low-V Truck at right with oversized wheels

BELOW -- Left, original MTH Low-V and Clown shoe Truck,  and at right MT Low-V with scaled down truck with scale wheels, scale carbody at right sits a scale lower height to the rail head

BELOW -- MTH re-worked sideframes bolted to hand made brass top plate with wood stiffener and spacer underplate , new truck bolster, eliminating the thick heavy solid metal truck sub-block !

I figured you as yourself an excellent scale modeler and builder, would appreciate the magnitude of effort to make this scale conversion for both operational and scale appearances sake.

Regards - Joe F

Good stuff Joe, I believe we have been over this in the past. I only have this MOW unit which spends all it's time on the shelf.