Brake Hoses that really attach - anyone try this?

While magnets are a cool idea they are not necessary because Hartford Products sells brake hose sets that can be connected together in the prototypical way.  I have many of these brake hoses installed on my cars.  It is rather fiddly but they can indeed be connected.  By the way, the glad hands and angle cocks that come with these sets are the best looking castings you will find.  The look way better than the Ozark ones.  Here is a picture of my heavy duty flat car with the hoses installed:



Unfortunately I do not have a better picture right now but if you look closely you will see that the angle cock valve handle is in the closed position.  I modified the castings so the valve handles are movable.  If I want maximum authenticity I will link the hoses between cars move the valves to open and then leave the valve closed on the last car.

Here is the picture of the kit from hartfords site:

As you can see it comes with angle cocks with a short length of "pipe", valve handles, hose clamps, glad hands, mounting brackets and rubber hose.

Regards,

Eric

I will have to check out those new Ozark ones  Llyn, as far as wear is concerned It's not really an issue for me because I only connect them on "special occasions"  Most of the time I just "let em' hang"/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/blink.gif  They don't wear when they are connected because they actually sort of lock together.

Gary,  the thresher is a custom built product meant to be a companion to die cast farm tractors such as the Case Millennium steam tractor that Ertl produced some years back.  They are made by a guy in Minnesota.  The scale is 1:16  The thing is, real threshing machines came in all sizes, and this is a model of a small one, so it passes for 1:20 scale.

For a video of the threshing machine being pulled by my 1:20 scale custom live steam tractor have a look at this:



If you want to find out how to get your own threshing machine contact me offline.

Regards,

Eric