If you have worked on multiple Scale-Craft trucks you have likely noticed that there are several types of wheelsets. My favorite type has a ledge visible on the outside part of the axle.

Also, you may have noticed that a fair number of Scale-Craft wheelsets break with age. Years ago, Temple Nieter sent me a pair of S-C trucks that he had rebuilt with new white plastic axles. As I’m reaching the end of my supply of Scale-Craft wheelsets, I set out to do the same.

Fortunately, my preferred type of wheel has an axle size that just fits inside a piece of 5/32” plastic tube. (Not all types of S-C wheels will fit inside this!). Simply cut tube the the correct length and insert the half axles (having already removed any remnant of the original axles), and you have a very usable wheelset.

I’ve separated out a good supply of these and have begun using them in S-C and also Nason trucks. This truck seen in the final photo is Nason and had the original Nason wheelsets, but they were not usable for operation. I bet close to half of the Nason wheelsets out there are well under NMRA standards for tread width, and that results in them derailing often on my layout. For disclosure, S-C wheelsets are also just under NMRA standards, but close enough and very consistent so that they do work fine.