Mornin', All - forgive the slightly OT-ness of this post, but I had to share this new-found tidbit with all you Asterites/Asteroids out there.
Now that my little track is done, and I'm beginning to run stuff again, I am going through my roster carrying out essential pre-running checks, like we all do, I guess. I found that the axle-spring hanger castings on each side of the pilot truck of my Aster/LGB White Pass loco were each missing a retaining screw.
Apart from asking two very supportive gentlemen intimately concerned with Aster products for a couple of spares, I meanwhile had a look around my possibles boxes, and found that the thread, and almost the size of the missing Aster screw, was identical to that used by Aristo-Craft to hold their flexi-track to the ties. Moreover, they have a small but useful built-in washer-type cross-head.
I'm sure that many of us who use Aristo-Craft flexi track have gazillions of these little screws, and wonder what the heck to do with them after taking them out to bend the track.
Now you can use them to replace missing Aster screws, where it doesn't show, of course, colouring them in with a dab of black paint to hide the shinyness.
tac
www.ovgrs.org
Now that my little track is done, and I'm beginning to run stuff again, I am going through my roster carrying out essential pre-running checks, like we all do, I guess. I found that the axle-spring hanger castings on each side of the pilot truck of my Aster/LGB White Pass loco were each missing a retaining screw.
Apart from asking two very supportive gentlemen intimately concerned with Aster products for a couple of spares, I meanwhile had a look around my possibles boxes, and found that the thread, and almost the size of the missing Aster screw, was identical to that used by Aristo-Craft to hold their flexi-track to the ties. Moreover, they have a small but useful built-in washer-type cross-head.
I'm sure that many of us who use Aristo-Craft flexi track have gazillions of these little screws, and wonder what the heck to do with them after taking them out to bend the track.
Now you can use them to replace missing Aster screws, where it doesn't show, of course, colouring them in with a dab of black paint to hide the shinyness.
tac
www.ovgrs.org