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Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
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Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:53:36 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, David Laswell wrote:
   In lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, John Neal wrote:
   Here is a little trolley that I built yesterday to run around the Christmas tree this year:

In-home, floor level use is probably fine, but if you ever run that on a layout you better hope that it doesn’t take a spill, or the silver paint is likely to get uglified. I was never really sure if they were painted or not, but recently I was cleaning some silver-tone parts that I had on cars that were displayed in Owosso, and after a bath in warm soapy water followed by getting scrubbed with a toothbrush, when I went to reassemble the cars I discovered that I’d scrubbed a noticable amount of paint off of the cheese wedges and grille tiles.

Whoa, thanks for the heads up. Our tree is in a carpeted room, and I doubt I’ll ever run the thing except around Christmas time. It’ll probably spend most of its life on display.

Sad to hear about the scratching issues, Dave. I will remember to be less fastidious!

JOHN



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  Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
 
(...) The painted silver parts can take a certain amount of abuse (I mean, the stuff doesn't flake off when you rub it, so...), and simply tipping over probably isn't enough to do much damage unless it's at high speed on, say, some sort of natural (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)

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  Re: Christmas Trolley in Metallic Silver (drool)
 
(...) In-home, floor level use is probably fine, but if you ever run that on a layout you better hope that it doesn't take a spill, or the silver paint is likely to get uglified. I was never really sure if they were painted or not, but recently I (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, FTX)

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