Reply to "Kadee Conversion - 3d printed pilots for MTH SD90MAC"

Rich MontagueOGR Forum Member

@luvindemtrains posted:
Hey Rich,
I'm glad you brought this thread back up. I will be trying my hand at 3-rail scaling a few of my diesels in the near future. Is the unit you posted made by MTH or Lionel? If it is an MTH product, do you know if these pilots will work on other MTH models such as the SD40-2?
Dave

Dave,

That’s an MTH model. No, these pilots won’t work for the SD40-2. The frame and pilot contours are very different. Having converted a couple of SD40-2s, I can tell you there’s no good or easy solution for converting them. Even when I was done I wasn’t happy with the appearance. The MTH tooling is old tooling and inaccurate in a lot of ways. You might consider instead ordering the Sunset Third Rail model, which should actually make it into production later this year, according to Scott Mann.

4/5/218:34 AM

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