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upfan3

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is there another way besides glueing your containers to a maxi well car to keep your containers from falling off
 
Drill small holes in the bottom of the container and glue wire pins into these holes. Make corresponding holes in the floor of the well car. The pins will keep things in place. The pins don't need to be very long, only 1/10" long or less.
 
kenw said:
Drill small holes in the bottom of the container and glue wire pins into these holes. Make corresponding holes in the floor of the well car. The pins will keep things in place. The pins don't need to be very long, only 1/10" long or less.
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ty btw can u do it to tank containers without harming them
 


You can also glue in magnets to the containers (top of bottom container and bottom of top container). This will keep the containers locked together, the weight from both containers with small magnets should be enough to keep the containers in the well if the pins of the bottom container are lined up with the holes in the well car
 
If your containers are flying off then I would tend to guess that either your trains are running to fast, or you have some pretty bad (wobbly) track that might need some attention...
I have a 40 platform container train that I have ran and never had trouble with the top containers flying off....no glue or magnets...
 
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