Weaver Troop Sleeper's

Its a well known problem. Atlas has made replacement floors available in the past. They're probably sold out until they get another run of troop sleepers imported.

Yeah i thought i was the only one with that problem? thanks for the updated information?

The floors in these cars are well known to be afflicted with zinc pest. Probably more Troop cars have the problem than not. Atlas did make a run of replacement floors. As I recall, you had to transfer the details to the new floor. (The details do not have the problem.) Contact Atlas to see if they have any left in stock, and if not, when are they likely to have more available. Take the availability date as an estimate and double it! Just the way things are these days.

Short term, there are 3 options: Make a crude substitute from sheet styrene, find a good floor and make a silicone mold and resin castings, or find someone to 3D print you some replacements. Any of these will get back up and running.

BTW, check all your troop cars and remove any warped floors you find. That will prevent damage to the shell.

Chris

LVHR

Superglue together two layers of .06 styrene; it will be sufficiently rigid.  Don't try to save any part of the old floor, it will just crumble.  If I were you, I would also add some two-part epoxy to reinforce where the truck side frames join the cross bolsters; it won't show.  Once a truck comes apart, it will be harder to fix.  

If the frame starts to warp, it will eventually split the plastic shell.  Fortunately, it will break pretty clean, so you can glue it back together.

The replacement floors are on back order with Atlas. There is no ETA that I have seen.

Al

The last time Atlas had zero floors in stock on the website, I emailed them and they had them. I purchased two. This goes back a couple years though.

@lehighline posted:

Short term, there are 3 options: Make a crude substitute from sheet styrene, find a good floor and make a silicone mold and resin castings, or find someone to 3D print you some replacements. Any of these will get back up and running.

Might want to look at Ed Bommer's solution and creation of a replacement floor that was in OST a while back.

Thanks Guys, i'll try some of those suggestions

Gentleman Jim