Model Railroading > Suggestions for adding weight to Athearn turbine tender

HO scale, friends turbine tender seems awfully underweight

 any suggestions  appreciated









 

Ed Stewart
Jacksonville, FL

Lead shot of you get the thing apartor a hatch open. Don't know how the thing is put together.

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Ed,

According to the instructions with the Ulrich lighting upgrade kit for the Athearn turbine, there are four screws that hold the shell of the tender to the underframe.  Took a look at mine, and the screws are located as follows:
on both sides of the coupler boxes.  Once the screws are removed the shell should come off of the frame for access to the inside of the tender.  Useful if you also want to change the bulb for the back up light.

Hope this helps.

Bob

What's the most economical place to purchase bulk shot?

Ryan Wilkerson
Fair Oaks, CA

You can get a lot of buckshot later in the summer in the farmer's watermelon patch.

Norm

Norman Orfall
Helendale, CA
TIOGA PASS, a private railcar

RyanWilkerson Wrote:
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> What's the most economical place to purchase bulk
> shot?

My first guess would be Walmart.  Over the net I'd look for free shipping.  

Larry

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Befriend someone who reloads shotgun shells (for trap, skeet, or sporting clays).
A bag of lead shot is around $50 these days.
You could also pick up spent lead shot on the ground at a trapshooting range (best done when they're not shooting!)
I also bought a package of square lead stick-on weights a few years ago @ my LHS.
Phil

Thanks all, 4 screws and stick on weights

Ed Stewart
Jacksonville, FL

Stop by a Sportsmans Warehouse or similar and buy shot by the bag. Any place that sells reloading stuff for firearms will have all sizes of shot.

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calsubd Wrote:
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> Thanks all, 4 screws and stick on weights

Ed, try getting used lead weights from a local tire shop. 

RFandPFan Wrote:
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> calsubd Wrote:
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> > Thanks all, 4 screws and stick on weights
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> Ed, try getting used lead weights from a local
> tire shop. 
Thanks but I have the stick ons already !

Ed Stewart
Jacksonville, FL

I use the stick on ones as they already have adhesive on them and are much easier to use than used weights. Its always good to ask this forum about how to take things apart properly.
Also for all who want a tender for there turbine the Athean one will be out in Sept they say for a list price of 99.00 as on ebay they have been going for 135.00 when they show up. Also
they are redoing there standard UP turbine with and without tender.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/16 08:36 by BAB.

aronco Wrote:
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> You can get a lot of buckshot later in the summer
> in the farmer's watermelon patch.
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> Norm                         Norm, In 1998 we were stopped second out west bound at Lugo on the Cajon Sub.We stopped at the little road crossing at MP49, Water Reasources Road. The guy who lived in the house on the North Track side right next to the crossing with the short chain link fence had a nice little watermelon patch growing. It was just before dawn and was still almost dark. My engineer decided that after watching those mellons grow larger and larger with each trip that it was time for him to harvest one. He climbed off the engine as I went down into the restroom to take a leak.As I climbed back up into the cab I looked out the window to see how the project was comming along.There was Bob with his hands on top of the short chain link fence about to shoot over into the garden. About 30 feet away was the home owner coming out to water his plants before heading off to work. I thought"Oh S**t" and shouted out "Bob". The home owner looked up at me and waved. Bob took his hand off the fence and stepped back just as the home owner saw him and he told the home owner how he had been admiring his gardenig for the past couple of months. Amtak number 3 came by and Bob climbed back up on the engine with a "Thanks, that was a close one''.I guess that if I hadn't shouted out,"Bob" I could have gotten enough buckshot to weigh down my Athearn Genesis turbine tender that morning.

And how many of us older folks can say the same about those wonderful mellons?   Had my close call in the dark of the night but the farmers John Deere popping down the road from his house gave us a head start out of there.

BAB Wrote:
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> And how many of us older folks can say the same
> about those wonderful mellons?   Had my close
> call in the dark of the night but the farmers John
> Deere popping down the road from his house gave us
> a head start out of there.

When I was a kid the old Italian farmer protected his tomatoes with a pepper gun
 

Ed Stewart
Jacksonville, FL