Try to avoid any that are not unless you can match up complementary boards.Īs you get close to meeting the two ends of deck boards that you are laying from each end, start laying out those you want to use to finish the remaining open section in advance. Try to pick “interesting” boards, color, grain, "knots", but also stay with the straight ones and Run beads of CA down the tops of the side sills and the interior stringers and glue down your deck boards. Sand and test fit until they fit, but again, don’t sand too enthusiastically, reversing the process does not work very well.Ī dab of Goo on the end and a bead of CA on the surface o the stringers towards the underside of the decking that you did at each end locks each stringer into place. Make sure they fit with minimal friction you don’t want to bow these into place. Their placement can vary both in spacing and in size. Depending of the car and type of truck bolster, These can be spaced equidistant or not, but should be symmetric. With these two operations completed your car frame is set and you can insert the interior stringers.įlip over this assembly and now you can drop in your four 4" x 12" x 38' stringers (Fig. Repeat from the other end of the car frame. Now, pick out 4-6 "nice", straight deck boards and after laying down a bead of CA on the top of the end sill and about the distance of what would be ~3 deck boards down the side sills, glueĭo this at each end and be careful not to disturb your nice square frame! Press these boards down firmly and try to not glue yourself to the car. One caution about wood, you can trim it later, but it's hard to lengthen it if you've cut it too short early on. You can trim the excess later or if you are very careful, align these forĪn overhang. ![]() These are cut close to, but a bit longer than the needed width. There ~80 deck boards supplied pre-stained to deck this car. I use a band saw and a heavy utility knife as needed and sometimes use a 4" belt sander for finishing. One thing you have to carfe about is that these are not basswood they are a hardwood, probably birch, so cutting these can be a Widths (5-8") and a useable thickness (~2 ½") for this car in 'O' scale. There's a commercial model building source of these, Doctor Ben's Rustic Lumber, but you can buy a case of 10,000 pretty cheaply. Individual boards and not those nice and smooth scale boards, but something that provides random widths and having a rough, worn surface that ages the appearance to add some surface character. And, unless you use two sheets back-to-back you don't get the visual effect of boards from the underside, for those that do look under their cars. Scribed sheet is really too neat and tidy looking. Don't worry about putting the other 4 beams in just yet these go in much easier after the decking is in place! ![]() This Goo step is to just set up the frame for the I trust my eyes, but you can verify square using a small machinist or carpenters square or by measuring the diagonals these should be equal in length. A small dab on the ends of the side sills will serve to assemble the frame and allow you to adjust it at your leisure to get square. This step since wood glues and ACC are notoriously weak for this kind of joint. The use of Walther's Goo is recommended for If you feel creative you could assemble these parts using simple or complicated lap joints, but that is not always practical so we'll make do with a butt joint. One of the fundamentals here is to take a pile of sticks andĬome up with a credible, generic truss-rod flatcar. One part of this is to not worry about the length being exactly 38' your car can be shorter, longer, narrower, whatever you would like it to be. Make sure that these paired pieces are exactly the same in length, and if not, sand them to match! Also, at this time make sure that the interior beams also match the length of the side sills. You need to find the two 6" x 12" x 8 ½’ end sills and the two 6" x 12" x 38’ side sills for building a box (Fig 1). Scratch Building Wooden Freight Cars Tutorial by Martin BrechbielĬonstruction begins with building a box which serves as the perimeter frame of the flat car.
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