Sn3 Boxcar Build (Part 6)

I went for it and managed to separate the floor, weight, and stringers -- at the cost of completely destroying the floor.  I figured, of the two styrene parts, that one was easier to replace myself.  The stringers were plasti-welded to the floor and the weight was krazy glue'd to the floor.  Using the screwdriver I managed to carefully pry it away.

After a little bit of cleanup with a few files...

Bam.  Good as new.

I think I'm going to go off the marked trail here, and abandon the whole weight sandwiched in between the floor and stringers thing.  To do that however I need to know how much it weighed.

I love this little scale.  Bought it cheap from amazon.  Works for weighing cars or ebay packages.  Anyways, 1 ounce.  I can deal with that.

I measured the previous floor and it was 0.027".  Either I was squeezing too hard on the calipers or the casting tolerance was a bit off, but I assumed the intended width was 0.030".  I headed down to the basement to see what I had in stock.

What luck!  And with v-groove the same spacing as the original floor.  Things are looking up on this project.

I started by cutting a piece that was larger than needed and cementing it to the stringers.

After the weld cured for a few minutes, I trimmed it to fit.

I had purchased some peel and stick weighs for another project.  These are handy.  They come in quarter ounce tablets and can be snapped apart.  The adhesive backing seems good so far.  I've had it on the inside of a boxcar for about a year now (the 24' one I showed earlier) and I can shake the thing around like crazy and they are still stuck down.

Well, with that I continued with the instructions and glued the entire floor assembly into the body of the car, wrapped it up with some rubber bands as clamps, and set it back in the box to cure overnight.