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BillD

May 02, 2008 06:59AM

Registered: 16 years ago
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Boy...talk about back to the future! Many of the early model railroaders (including Al Kalmbach) were printers and type metal was commonly used for making castings and weights back in the early days of the hobby! The trouble is, due to the almost complete switch-over to computer-based composting, where the heck does one even get type metal these days???

Bill Daniels
Santa Rosa, California

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Model R.R. content- brass casting	Sam	April 27, 2008 09:56PM
Re: Model R.R. content- brass casting	tomc	April 28, 2008 06:27AM
Re: Model R.R. content- brass casting	Sam	April 29, 2008 10:12AM
Re: Model R.R. content- brass casting	BillD	April 29, 2008 11:40AM
Re: Model R.R. content- brass casting	GeorgeGaskill	April 29, 2008 12:33PM
Re: Model R.R. content- brass casting	BillD	April 29, 2008 04:02PM
Re: Model R.R. content- brass casting	DaveM	April 29, 2008 05:08PM
Re: Model R.R. content- brass casting	Sam	April 29, 2008 06:49PM
Type metal	bobyar2001	May 01, 2008 11:31AM
Re: Type metal	GeorgeGaskill	May 01, 2008 12:54PM
Re: Type metal	BillD	May 02, 2008 06:59AM
Re: Type metal	Sam	May 02, 2008 11:06AM
Re: Type metal	GeorgeGaskill	May 02, 2008 01:17PM

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