I'm assisting a friend with a Flyer project - he has a prewar diecast 3/16ths O gauge New York Central caboose. He wants to convert the O gauge link trucks to S gauge link trucks. Unfortunately, the S gauge freight car link trucks have a coupler arm that's too short. After some thought I suggested that perhaps the trucks from an aluminum streamlined Flyer passenger car would have coupler arms that would be long enough to use under the diecast caboose. From my friend Art:
"THESE TRUCKS SEEM PROMISING FOR A CUSTOMIZATION FOR WHICH I'M'
PLANNING. CAN YOU, WITHIN 1/8" PROVIDE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE
CENTER OF THE TRUCK MOUNTING RIVET AND THE HORIZONTAL SHAFT
ON WHICH THE HOOK IS MOUNTED?"
Does anyone have either an aluminum Flyer passenger car or some loose link trucks for an aluminum passenger car they could measure so we could determine if the passenger car trucks would work for this conversion?
