In the AM at the club's well-equipped work bench, I cut a rectangular piece of styrene sheet and secured it to the frame of my PW LIONEL Burlington F-3 A unit's chassis and reattached its electronic e-unit with some fresh 3M double-sided tape.
Next up was a newly acquired PW SF 2243P with a balky e-unit. Turns out a 60+ years old solder joint failed and a motor wire needed to be reattached. Once reattached, the old guy ran around the permanent layout for 10 minutes smoothly and quietly.
My test subject LIONEL offset vista dome shell received another coat of SCII white paint for the stripe--one coat just wasn't enough on top of the light green NP NCL applied previously. Hopefully, after it dries for the requisite 24 hours, I can apply the 2mm Tamiya tape mask then spray the NP dark green tomorrow. I'm hopeful this will prove a successful approach to creating the thin white stripe of the Lowey dark and light green livery of the NP North Coast Limited. Photos to follow.
Lastly, a club member had offered his business' machine shop services to remove the extrusion ridges from the aluminum shells of two LIONEL UP offset vista dome shells and brought one in to show me today. It looked good to go, so he'll have the second shell done and return both to me next Saturday. The two will be donors for my on-going GN Empire Builder paint project. Just another added benefit of being a member of a train club--meeting new folks and sharing talents.
