A while back I spent some time trying to get a coil sprung suspension to add rolling quality to a particular Sunset steam loco. I had lost the factory springs when the engine was apart for painting. I had high hopes, and made a serious effort with some NWSL springs in this pursuit, but I was never satisfied with the results. In the end I found that blocks of a Papermate desk eraser cut to fit the space where the original springs were located served the purpose just fine and this loco has many satisfactory hours of operation on these erasure blocks. They are all but invisible in the completed assembly, and as such do not detract in any way to the locos appearance.
Bob
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