Beginners Ask Trains Making your cars’ wheels more free-rolling

Making your cars’ wheels more free-rolling

By Steven Otte associate editor | June 27, 2021

Ask MR: Don’t use lubricant; “tune up” those sideframes instead

A “truck tuner” – a double-ended reamer sized for the job – is used to clean and reshape the sockets in an HO scale truck sideframe assembly

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