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new kadee boxes - jim currie - 08-11-2025
has anyone else found that the new engineered plastic boxes are harder to install? they are harder to glue together I have resorted to touching the edges with a hot soldering iron.
Jim
RE: new kadee boxes - Charlie B - 08-11-2025
(08-11-2025, 08:40 PM)jim currie Wrote: has anyone else found that the new engineered plastic boxes are harder to install? they are harder to glue together I have resorted to touching the edges with a hot soldering iron.
Jim
Jim I don't glue them most of the time but I have discovered that styrene glue no longer works, in fact I am beginning to think CA won't work like it used to. I only have about 25 cars left to assemble and most of them have the coupler pockets that take a screw. If they keep making things better in the hobby we will all be playing solitaire with a deck of 51
Charlie
RE: new kadee boxes - jim currie - 08-12-2025
(08-11-2025, 09:41 PM)Charlie B Wrote:(08-11-2025, 08:40 PM)jim currie Wrote: has anyone else found that the new engineered plastic boxes are harder to install? they are harder to glue together I have resorted to touching the edges with a hot soldering iron.
Jim
Jim I don't glue them most of the time but I have discovered that styrene glue no longer works, in fact I am beginning to think CA won't work like it used to. I only have about 25 cars left to assemble and most of them have the coupler pockets that take a screw. If they keep making things better in the hobby we will all be playing solitaire with a deck of 51
Charlie
your right about ca not working . what i needed them glued for was changing couplers in Walther's track cleaning car found out you can't remove trucks so I needed the boxes in one piece.
Jim
RE: new kadee boxes - cnrglen - 08-22-2025
Sorry I didn't notice this until now. I've had to use the soldering iron trick for HOn3 couplers in the past which are derived from N scale couplers. I guess the HO ones are made from the same material now.
On the other hand, I have a life time supply of the old styrene ones for #5 sets that went into stock kit coupler boxes
RE: new kadee boxes - jim currie - 09-01-2025
(08-22-2025, 07:16 PM)cnrglen Wrote: Sorry I didn't notice this until now. I've had to use the soldering iron trick for HOn3 couplers in the past which are derived from N scale couplers. I guess the HO ones are made from the same material now.
On the other hand, I have a life time supply of the old styrene ones for #5 sets that went into stock kit coupler boxes
you know i thought i did too, so I pinched some and now I regret that.
Jim