Red Star Railway's Comments
10 February 2010
Hello again,
Well, that was quick.
VERY shortly after I posted my previous comment this evening, I received an email from Sasha P. in Novosibirsk (talk about a place where they get mega-quantities of snow). He said he had seen news on TV about our snowstorm, and offered to send a rescue team from Novosibirsk to help us dig out (very funny, Sasha -- you DID say that you enjoy your discount, didn't you?).
He also asked: "Chris, while you are buried in snow, are you working in your studio? After all, you can not do anything else -- correct?" In other words, "Chris, you haven't produced much recently. Are you DOING anything while the snow keeps you indoors?"
OUCH! Point taken.
The honest answer is: yes, I have been busy.
Once I found a source of bearings for the defective IHC SD24 power bogies, I set to work making castings for a new batch of 2TE10U diesels. To date, I have made side, front end, and rear end castings for fifteen 2TE10U sets, and I may increase this batch to twenty sets (I have never made so many models in one batch). This will be enough models to satisfy back orders and to make some models for inventory.
I am also working on castings for Proletarian Series wagons for several customers.
TEM2 --I am not making castings for TEM2s yet. Recently the 18mm x 24mm can motors used in the TEM2s have been in short supply, so I have deferred production of further TEM2 until that problem is resolved.
I am also working on N scale wagons.
So: Sasha, the answer is Yes -- I am busy. I really need to hire a second person to work with me, but I can't afford to do so. So please be patient!
Best wishes,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
10 February 2010
Dear Friends,
Well, it happened again.
As per my previous comment, last weekend we were hit with a snowfall of 24"/60cm. All by itself, this was the largest snowfall in this area since 1979. By the time I finished shoveling snow out of our driveway, I would have been perfectly happy if I never saw snow again.
Well, guess what?
Beginning late yesterday and still continuing now (it's about 20h25m in the evening), we got hit with ANOTHER snowstorm. It hasn't stopped yet, so I don't know how much this new storm added to the snow which already was on the ground. Frankly, at this point I don't even care. I'm snow-shocked.
Late last night and early this morning I did try to make a dent in the newly fallen snow by going out every hour or two and shoveling out the driveway. After all, I reasoned, it would be easier to shovel a little bit at a time than to wait until the whole show was over. And for a while it worked. But then the winds picked up. Picked up a lot, in fact. From mid-morning on, the snow was blown almost horizontally by winds that averaged 30mph/50kmh and gusted up to 50mph/80kmh.
At that point I said "To hell with it" and retreated into our snug, warm, little house, where I spent the rest of the day watching the news reports about the snowstorm on TV and staring numbly at the ongoing blizzard outside.
Okay, I can already hear the comments from people in the American Midwest, Siberia, the Russian Far East, and other places where snowfalls like this are routine. Consider yourselves warned: don't even THINK about sending me emails telling me that I'm a wimp when it comes to dealing with snowstorms.
I already KNOW I'm a snow wimp. I am perfectly HAPPY being a snow wimp. I like living on Delmarva for many reasons, one of which is because we get very little snow even in a "tough" -- by our standards -- winter. I consider it a manifestation of common sense that I choose to live in a place where I don't HAVE to deal with lots of snow.
And I will defend to the death my First Amendment right to free speech when it snows this ridiculously much. I will bitch. I will whine. I will yell. I will make obscene gestures at the snowdrifts piled up outside our dining room.
Ever since that first big snowfall in December, LaDon has been telling me that we should move to Florida. Hurricanes notwithstanding, at this point I'm almost ready to agree with her. I think Miss Champagne Hoover the Boston Terrier already agrees. After all this snow, she has only a 2m x 3m shoveled-out space outside the dining room door to "do her business" while a 4-1/2' / 1.4m snowdrift looms over her.
I surrender. Enough. Make it go away.
Weary of snow,
Chris White
6 February 2010
Dear Friends,
Well, it happened again.
Usually this area receives only one major snowfall per winter, with total snowfall for the entire winter rarely exceeding five inches (12.5cm). This winter has been quite different. On December 19 we got 20 inches (50cm) of snow. At the end of January we picked up eight inches (20cm).
It seems that these were simply a warm-up for the main event.
Beginning late yesterday afternoon and ending late in the afternoon today -- a period of slightly less than 24 hours -- we were hit by the biggest snowstorm this region has experiences since 1978. By the time it was all over, the depth of the snow reached 24 inches -- 60cm!
As if that wasn't bad enough, the wind blew at speeds of 35 mph (56km/h), with gusts up to 50 mph (80km/h). This blew the snow into drifts -- between our house and the house of our next-door neighbor, the snowdrifts are more than five feet deep (about 160cm).
ENOUGH SNOW, ALREADY!
Cheers,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
31 January 2010
Dear Friends,
Several people -- ten people, actually -- have expressed concern that my recent "Red Star Comments" about snowfall in Delaware have been deleted, fearing that this may have resulted from further hacking of my website and email.
Okay! Calm down!
I felt that my comments about the recent snowstorms in Delaware were of limited interest. When the snow melted, the story ended, right? So when the snow melted, I deleted the Red Star Comments on that subject.
On the other hand, yesterday we received 8" (20cm) of new snow. However, today the roads are mostly clear of snow, and many are dry. So -- no problem.
Enough said.
Cheers,
Chris White
RSR
30 January 2010
Dear Friends,
If you have not read my previous comment dated 29 January 2010, please do so now. This will bring you up to speed on my problems with the power bogies I employ in my TEM2 and 2TE10U diesel locomotive models.
In short: I'm sitting on 200 pairs of power bogies for my TEM2s and 2TE10Us that I can't use because they lack bearings on the worm drive shaft. When I posted my last comment, my post office had informed me that a parcel had arrived from Eastern Europe which presumably contained samples of bearings which might solve the problem.
Today I received the parcel. I examined the three types of bearings sent in the parcel. I identified one type of bearing which appeared suitable. I fitted this bearing to my defective bogies. I tested them thoroughly.
It works. It works well, and it works smoothly.
I think we are back in the TEM2 and 2TE10U business. Stay tuned.
Cheers,
Chris White
RSR
29 January 2010
Dear Friends,
You may be aware that production of our TEM2 and 2TE10U diesels has been stalled due to problems with the power bogies. For the full, horrible details, please refer to my previous comment dated 22 November 2009 (below).
Some weeks ago, I located a possible source for the required bearings. The individual who has the parts said he would send me samples of several types bearings -- three types of bearings, twenty of each type. If one type is suitable, then I will order enough (and then a bit more) to fit out all the deficient bogies.
At which point I would be back in the 2TE10U and TEM2 business. Hallelujah.
Just before closing time this afternoon, I received a voicemail on my cell phone from my post office informing me that a parcel had arrived my contact (I had explained the situation to the folks at the post office, who kindly offered to call me when the package arrived). I'm not expecting anything from my contact's country other than the bearings, so this has to be THE package.
So, here's the situation. As I type this it is 21h00m on Thursday, 28 January. I'm in my studio. Eight kilometers from here, at the post office, there's a package containing parts which may finally allow me to produce Zavod1 diesels again. And I can't get them until tomorrow.
You may say, "Okay, so what's the big deal?" Well, it IS a big deal. When I spent thousands of dollars to stock up on the mechanisms used to power my Zavod1 diesel locomotives, I thought the results would be positive: no more delays waiting for mechanical parts to arrive; smoother and more predictable production; and better service for my customers.
In the harsh and horrible real world, exactly the opposite happened. With my stock of mechanisms unusable, production stopped. With a lot of money tied up in the mechanisms (okay, so laugh -- for ME it's a lot of money), I couldn't afford to secure mechanisms from other sources. And all the while, I have to offer lame excuses to customers for delays in producing their TEM2s and 2TE10Us.
By any definition, that's damned poor service. And you can say or think what you will, but the truth is: that really bothers me. I take this seriously. This kind of poor service is NOT what I had in mind when I opened Red Star Railways on 1 January 2000. Quite the opposite. It bugs me. It robs me of sleep.
So, the next twenty-four hours will tell the tale. I hope -- REALLY hope -- that the parcel at the post office contains the parts which will open the way to Zavod1 production again.
I don't believe in luck -- I think that you create your own luck -- but I would be grateful if you would light a candle for me, or just think a kind thought. Maybe my karma needs to be shined up a bit. If you could help, then you have my humble thanks.
I will keep you informed. I hope the news in the next Red Star Comment is good.
Best wishes,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
22 November 2009
Dear Friends,
A number of people have written to me, expressing interest in ordering our ZAVOD1 TEM2 and 2TE10U diesel locomotive models. I have been extremely slow in producing the required models. For that, I offer my apologies. But it has nothing to do with the introduction of our NClubRSR N scale models, or other projects. The problem lies in the power bogies.
Last year I purchased more than 200 SD24 diesel models by IHC. For a number of years I have used the bogies from these models to power our TEM2s and 2TE10Us. Until recently I have been using parts from models bought before I did the "big buy," without problem. With the new batch of 200 models, there is a major problem. Most of the models have no bearings for the worm gear shaft in the top of the gear tower on the bogies. No bearings = no running.
The importer does not maintain stocks of spare parts -- at least not as many as I need! -- so I have been tracking down broken units with bearings, and also old stocks of bearings made by Mehano for other, older models. As I get the bearings, I fit them to the bogies, build the models, and fill the orders.
What really frustrates me is the fact that I invested several thousand dollars in buying these models because I did not want production to be delayed due to lack of drive components. Now I have huge stocks of power bogies -- but I can't use them until get replacement bearings!
And here's the final irony: the dealer from whom I purchased the models is now out of business. His address is unknown. Boy, there's a surprise, right?
I can't decide whether to hire Tony Soprano to find the guy and "whack" him, or just buy a bottle of vodka and quietly drink myself into oblivion.
Such is the life of a cottage-industry model railway manufacturer.
Best wishes,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
22 October 2009
Dear Friends,
My friend and N-scale partner-in-crime Jouni Rautiainen of Espoo, Finland, reminded me today that I had not posted any news about the introduction of our first N scale products at the Great Scale Model Train Show at Timonium, Maryland, on 10-11 October. So here we go.
The best way to describe the experience of introducing our N scale line "NClubRSR" is to cite two numbers: 101, and 0.
When the train show opened at 09h00m on Saturday, 10 October, we had 101 N scale models on display at the Red Star Railways stand. We now have 0 -- zero -- N scale models in stock.
Here's another number: 46. We sold 46 N scale models in the first hour after the show opened. It was like being run over by a train.
More detail: we went to Timonium with 101 N scale models: 53 type 12-119 open wagons, 4 type 13-4012 platform wagons, 8 type 13-401 platform wagons, and 36 type 11-270 box cars. These are the first four types of wagon in our NClubRSR line. There will be more -- we are working on them now.
But first I must produce more models of the original four types. I am working on this now. Please note: I am also working on HO scale models for customer orders, so I can not devote 100% of my time to N scale work. Maybe I can clone myself?
My friend Yevgeny Kushnir has agreed to photograph the N scale models when we have produced enough of them to support a new page on the Red Star Railways website. That's when we'll roll out the NClubRSR page -- when we have enough models in stock, ready for sale.
So that is where we stand today.
A couple of guys have written to me asking why I always say "we" and not "I". Good question! Yes, I own Red Star Railways. My name is on the business license. And if something goes wrong, the "authorities" come looking for me! But Red Star Railways could not exist by my efforts alone. Indeed, I wasted three weeks of my life trying to create the masters for N scale Russian wagons, to no result.
Other people have contributed far more than I to our N scale project. Jouni Rautiainen, a founding member of N Club Finland, created the brass etchings that formed the basis of our master models used in mold-making. Without Jouni's pioneering work, Red Star Railways would have no Russian-prototype N scale models. That's why I have named our N scale line NClubRSR -- for N Club Finland and Red Star Railways.
And what are models without lettering? Working with Jouni, James McDonald has produced magnificent decal lettering for our N scale wagons. For years I've been privileged to work with James McD and his talented wife, Sherill Gross-McDonald. Their work enhances Proletarian Series goods wagons, Zavod1 locomotives, PassazhirRSR coaches -- and now NClubRSR models.
Salutes and thanks to Jouni, James, and Sherill!
Cheers,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
11 August 2009
Dear Friends,
Last week I learned (via the Yahoo groups 5Foot list) that Dmitry Zinoviev has published a book of photos from his well-known website "Steam Engine IS." Titled "The Best Pictures of Steam Engine IS (in and before 2008)," the book has 22 pages and presents 44 Russian and CIS photos which were voted best by visitors to the parovoz.com website. All photos are in printed in color on glossy paper. Most are printed two photos per page, while the last page contains six photos. The cost of the book is US$20 plus shipping.
OKAY, STOP THAT! I can hear you saying, "Oh, yeah, right, twenty bucks for a photo book with 22 pages and 44 photos! No way!"
ENOUGH! Shut up, sit down, and listen to Uncle Chris.
I am not a big fan of railway photo books. They usually contain the same old photos of the same old railway subjects which have been photographed over and over again, like many photo books in the past. I'm not interested in the same old stuff. I'm interested -- passionately and fanatically -- in the railways of Russia, the CIS, and the other nations which derived from the USSR. That's where "Steam Engine IS" comes in.
I have followed Dmitry Zinoviev's "Steam Engine IS" website for over a decade. It is the only website -- let me say that again for emphasis, the ONLY website -- that I check every day. "Steam Engine IS" has become a large and very happy part of every day of my life. Long may it be so!
But the reality is, websites die. On the day that parovoz.com vanishes, we fans of Russian railways will be immeasurably poorer.
When I finished looking through Dmitry's book, I realized that it was something special. Here, in hardcopy form, is a compilation of photos from the "Steam Engine IS" photo gallery -- something tangible to keep, to enjoy, and to remember. And how were these photos selected as "The Best Pictures of Steam Engine IS"? Dmitry Zinoviev didn't select them. The people who visited his parovoz.com website voted for them.
This is what makes Dmitry's book special. It brings together the traditional railway photo book with the democracy of the internet. It's a hardcopy book which you can hold in your hand in years to come and enjoy as you sit in a comfortable chair, but it is the product of the internet age which you can treasure long after parovoz.com is gone.
Selfishly, I hope that day never comes while I'm still living. I hope parovoz.com goes on forever. And I thank Dmitry Zinoviev for his years and years of work.
Bottom line: stop bitching about twenty bucks and twenty-two pages. I'm thinking about which of my kids I'll give this book to when I die. It might help them understand their father's passion for Russian railways.
Buy this book.
Okay, I'll shut up. You can stand up and talk now.
Best wishes,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
19 January 2009
Dear Friends,
As we move into 2009, I finally discovered why some people had trouble contacting me via email in 2008.
Here's the situation. From time to time in 2008, friends and customers contacted me via telephone to ask why I hadn't responded to their emails. When this happened, I checked my email inbox and saved emails to search for the missing messages, and every time I had no record of any such email. I made cure my security software was up-to-date, and periodically I ran unscheduled scans for viruses, worms, and other such nasty stuff. Never found even one thing.
Finally, I asked my friend Paul Heller to help. Paul owns a computer security company. He specializes in detecting worms, spyware, and Trojan Horses in commercial computer systems. From his office, Paul had one of his employees remotely access my little home computer and check it carefully. The result: I found that I had been hacked!
Paul tells me that the hacker was from Indonesia. He said that Indonesia has become a hot spot for hackers trying to gain access to credit card processing systems in order to "launder" money from illegal enterprises. Apparently the hacker found my little website, saw that I accept payment via credit card, and assumed that he could access my credit card process by hacking into my computer.
The hacker must have been badly disappointed. My credit card processing system is totally separate from my computer. In any case, I do not keep any business records on the hard drive -- not even mailing labels. Long ago, I decided that the safest way to maintain records for an ultra-small business is to do it the old fashioned way -- by pen and paper, with copies kept in a locked filing cabinet! So the hacker got nothing for his efforts.
However, in the process the hacker screwed with my email. As a result, some incoming messages were either deleted automatically or never delivered. After Paul made and applied a patch to fix the problem, I had my ISP re-run all my email from 2008. I now have a stack of emails in my inbox that I never saw before, and some of them are more than six months old. So I am working on answering them now. So, if you sent me an email and never received a reply -- you will, soon.
I must say that this experience has almost made me revise my views on capital punishment and the death penalty. Hackers are the scum of the earth, and I wish they could be strung up in the public square. However, since they spread viruses (of the computer type), I'd be satisfied if hackers could be injected with a biological virus as punishment. How about Ebola?
Back to work.
Best wishes,
Chris
Red Star Railways
7 June 2008
Dear Friends,
Last year I posted comments about Micro Mark's CR300 casting resin, noting that it really is almost water-thin and takes detail very well. Well, Micro Mark strikes again.
Looking for a water-thin casting resin with a longer cure time, I decided to try Micro Mark's CR600 resin. Like CR300, CR600 is almost as thin as water and takes detail equally well. However, it has a cure time much longer than CR300 or Alumilite regular casting resins -- in my experience, at least thirty minutes or longer. Again like CR300, CR600 castings are white in color.
The longer cure time is an advantage when you are making castings which are likely to trap air bubbles deep inside a mold. I have had a high reject rate when making castings for restaurant car table-and-chair castings and sleeping car interiors for PassazhirRSR coaches -- the molds for these castings are very deep, and tend to trap air pockets in spite of my strenuous efforts to dislodge them. With CR600, however, I find that I have more time to probe for air bubbles and air pockets. More working time means fewer air pockets, which means fewer rejects. So even though I pay full retail price for CR600, it is worth paying the higher price because of the lower reject rate.
As an experiment, I tried using CR600 to produce underframes and roofs for PassazhirRSR coaches. I came away with mixed feelings. The castings came out without defects, but in my opinion the CR600 castings are lighter in weight, less dense, and less hard than castings made from Alumilite regular casting resin.
Bottom line: Alumilite regular casting resin is still my choice for most castings, especially those requiring structural strength -- coach underframes, roofs, and sides, for example. On the other hand, if you have deep molds that tend to breed air pockets and which do not require as much structural strength, try Micro Mark CR600.
I wish somebody would tell Micro Mark boss Tom Piccirillo that I'm touting his fim's products. When I met Tom several years ago at the Great Scale Model Train Show at Timonium (Maryland), he told me that I should check out his firm's line of resin casting products. Okay, I did. I'm using them, already. Do you expect me to go groveling to Micro Mark, already . . . ?
Life is interesting, isn't it?
Best wishes,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
www.redstarrailways.com
18 May 2008
Dear Friends,
Yesterday I needed 0.75mm (.030")styrene sheet for the current batch of PassazhirRSR coaches, so LaDon and I drove 45km to the nearet hobby shop -- but we arrived shortly after the shop closed (what kind of hobby shop closes at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday???). I was annoyed.
I had a choice: I could think like an American modeller, or I could think like a Russian modeller. An American modeller would sit back and bitch that the hobby shop was closed. A Russian modeller would figure out another way to find the material that he needed.
On the way home, we visited a hardware store. AHA! The store had a wide range of signs -- "For Sale," "For Rent," etc. -- all printed on plastic sheet. The printing was on one side only, leaving the back side smooth and clean. I bought two signs.
When I got home, I found that the signs were printed on styrene plastic. It bonds using ordinary liquid plastic cement, just like styrene from the hobby shop. The thickness was spot-on 0.75mm (.030") and was consistent throughout the sign (yes, I measured it with digital calipers). At US$4.29, the price was very competitive with what I would have paid at the hobby shop.
So if you buy a PassazhirRSR passenger carriage model, the floor of your model may have started out in life as a plastic "For Sale" sign! And if you need styrene sheet for a modelling project, check out the signs at your local hardware store.
Best wishes,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
Re: Cheap Screws
14 May 2008
Dear Friends,
ALL RIGHT, NOW STOP THAT! Just because this comment refers to "cheap screws" does NOT mean that I'm getting ready to make any off-color remarks. This comment is about precisely that: cheap machine screws.
For a long time -- a looooooong, looooong time -- it has seriously irked me that modellers have to pay such ridiculous amounts for the little machine screws we need to assemble and repair our models. One vendor markets five little brass screws in a packet for US$1.25. Another sells twelve screws for US$2.98.
This is bullshit.
Of course, if you're really determined -- and prepared to tell a few lies -- you can buy screws in quantity from McMaster-Carr or some other industrial supplier. The problem is, industrial suppliers sell parts in such astronomical quantities that no one person could run out of parts in his/her lifetime. There has to be another way.
There is.
Go to your friendly local Radio Shack store. In their parts cabinet you will find machine screws, matching nuts, and assorted washers in reasonably-priced packets containing a realistic quantity of parts. For example, take 2-56 machine screws. Radio Shack item number 64-3010 is a packet of 42 2-56 machine screws -- fourteen each in lengths of 1/4 inch, 1/2 inch, and 3/4 inch (for our more enlightened metric brethren, that's 6.35mm, 12.7mm, and 19.05mm respectively). The screws apparently are made from steel. One packet costs US$1.99. Similarly, a packet of 40 2-56 nuts (item number 64-3017) costs US$1.99. The parts are made in Taiwan, and are made of steel (at least the 2-56 nuts are, according to the package).
Of course, some people are never satisfied. When I told one guy about this deal, he started whining that the 1/2 inch and 3/4 inch screws were too long to be useful for him. I told him, "So cut them to the length you need." To which he replied, "But it's so hard to cut screws, and the threads will get messed up." Somewhat annoyed, I told him, "Before you cut the screw, run a nut up to the top of the screw just below the head. Cut the screw. Then run the nut back off the screw. On the way out, it will restore the threads." And if you cut the screws with a Dremel cut-off disk, it's even easier to restore the threads.
So there is hope out there.
Disclaimer: I do not work for Radio Shack, and never have. Nor do I own stock in Radio Shack's parent company, the Tandy Corporation. I'm just a satisfied customer who got very happy when Radio Shack provided a way to beat the machine screw rip-off.
Best wishes,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
13 August 2007
Dear Friends,
I previously posted a comment about Micro-mark's CR-300 casting resin. Based on experience gained since I made that posting . . .
PLEASE NOTE -- the mix ratio for CR-300 is much more critical than for other supposedly 50:50 resins, especially when you're casting small quantities of resin. With CR-300, it's much more important to measure very carefully -- the CR-300 needs as close to a 50:50 mixing ratio as possible for successful casting.
I went back and edited my original comment about Micro-Mark CR-300 casting resin to include this information.
Again: based on my experience, I consider Micro-Mark's CR-300 to be an excellent product, and I recommend it highly. You just have to be more careful with the 50:50 mix ratio than with most casting resins.
Best wishes,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
13 July 2007
Dear Friends --
This is going to sound a little contradictory. After all, I am a dealer for Alumilite resin casting products. However, once again I have discovered a useful product, and I would like to share this information with you.
Several people have told me that Micro Mark casting resin really is "water-thin." So, I gave it a try. This week I ordered Micro Mark's CR-300 Quick Cure Casting Resin. I also ordered Micro Mark's CR-600 and CR-900 casting resin, but I haven't experimented with these products yet. I can tell you that I received my resin the day after I placed my order -- full marks (no pun)to Micro Mark.
I used the Micro Mark CR-300 to cast partitions for a batch of PassazhirRSR coaches. I can report that the Micro Mark CR-300 really is almost water-thin. Castings made from this resin were almost completely free of air bubbles. The CR-300 took marginally longer to set up than Alumilite, but the lack of air bubbles was a plus. The CR-300 castings are much lighter and less dense than those made from Alumilite regular, but as long as they are not load-bearing, I see no problem.
One note: I have found that the mixing ratio for CR-300 are much more critical than for other casting resins that use a 50:50 mix ratio by volume. Especially when you are mixing very small quantities of resin, i.e., 1/2 teaspoon Part A and 1/2 teaspoon Part B, you need to measure VERY accurately.
The bottom line: I will continue to use Alumilite casting resin where strength and rigidity are required. On the other hand, Micro Mark's CR-300 definitely has its uses. I speak as a satisfied user.
The item number for the CR-300 is 81544. You can access the Micro Mark website at www.micromark.com.
Best wishes,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
18 May 2007
Dear Friends,
Like most model builders, I'm always looking for new and better products. Since 1973 I have used more types of superglue than I can count. Recently I started using Maxi Cure, and I am very impressed with this product. It is a very thick ACC glue -- thick enough that when you place a drop on a surface, it stays there. It takes slightly longer to cure than most other superglues, but the bonds it forms are amazingly strong.
For example: when I was assembling the body shells for the current batch of 150 PassazhirRSR coaches, I used Maxi Cure to join together a side and an end of a coach. When I examined the parts an hour later, I saw that the alignment was not good. So I tried to separate the parts by bending the end away from the side. The Maxi Cure joint did not break -- but the side of the coach did!
This superglue is TOUGH!
I buy Maxi Cure from my local Hobbytown USA shop here in Dover, Delaware, USA. Friends have told me that other shops also sell Maxi Cure, so possibly you can find it elsewhere. Maxi Cure is distributed by BSI of Atascadero, California, USA.
Please understand one thing: I do not sell Maxi Cure, and I have no way to buy it for sale. But it is a wonderful product, and I hope people who read these comments will find a source for Maxi Cure and have fun using it.
Best wishes,
Chris White
Red Star Railways
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