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Reply to "Non-functional wheel sets?"

Ok, first off, the wheels on your car in the photo are ribbed back and are friction bearing wheel sets.  The wheels in your other two photos are modern roller bearing wheel sets(in fact the one photo is SO modern that they have bar code labels on them, that has only been happening for maybe 5 years or so), meaning that those journals will have a tapered roller bearing pressed on them before they are used.  Anyway, a decent representation of the older friction bearing style of wheelset would be to use a wheelset that has blunt ends on the axles and then glue a small disk on the ends to represent the collar that would have been there on a friction set.  In real life, the collar would have been about a half inch wide and maybe 5/8" tall.  The problem is going to be finding wheels that actually have correctly shaped axles rather than just a straight rod for an axle.

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