{"id":3458,"date":"2022-06-05T13:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T20:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2022-06-05T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T20:41:25","slug":"salvaging-the-best-type-of-scale-craft-wheelset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"Salvaging the best type of Scale-Craft wheelset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019m reaching the end of my supply of Scale-Craft wheelsets, I set out to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plastic-axle-1.jpg?resize=621%2C429&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3459\" width=\"621\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plastic-axle-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C707&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plastic-axle-1.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plastic-axle-1.jpg?resize=768%2C530&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plastic-axle-1.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, my preferred type of wheel has an axle size that just fits inside a piece of 5\/32\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plastic-axle-2.jpg?resize=482%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3460\" width=\"482\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plastic-axle-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plastic-axle-2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plastic-axle-2.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plastic-axle-2.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scale-craft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Plastic-axle-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C884&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}