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Q&A with Inventor, Artist and Author Brenda Schweder

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Brenda Schweder is an artist, author, teacher, personality and inventor of the Now That’s a Jig! For years Brenda Schweder has been a huge supporter of Xuron Corporation.  Her objective praise of the Xuron # 2175 Maxi-Shear™ Flush Cutter has made believers of many annealed steel wire wranglers.  The 2175 or as Xuron 2175 and Now That's a Jig!Brenda calls it, “The Butter Cutter”, is the perfect balance of strength and precision.  Rugged enough to easily cut the hefty annealed steel yet petite enough in profile to get into smaller hard to reach areas.

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Choosing the Right Adhesive for Plastic Model Building

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Our last post on glues, cements, and solvents for plastic model building promised a part two – tips to help you know which adhesive is best for your particular project, as well as useful tools for precision placement of your adhesive.

First, let’s talk about the pros and cons of each adhesive …
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Restore Model Railroad Equipment Using Precision Tools

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Tom’s Corner

Tips, techniques and commentary from Master Model Railroader Tom Piccirillo

One of my favorite hobby activities is rebuilding old model railroad equipment that I have acquired over the years from friends, estate sales, and flea markets. I think it’s really cool to transform what appears to be a pile of junk into a high quality model. So, the time came to restore a beat-up O scale brass model of a Pennsylvania P54 coach that’s been in storage for about 35 years.

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Building A Model Trolley Pantograph

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Tom’s Corner

Tips, techniques and commentary from Master Model Railroader Tom Piccirillo

Back in the 1960’s, when I was a teenager, I used to ride my bike several miles to view the annual model railroad show at the Central Jersey Model Railroad Club in Westfield, NJ. Although I liked watching the huge O scale steam and diesel locomotives hauling their heavy trains down the main line, I found myself highly fascinated by the operation of the model trolley cars that plied their way from one town to another on the layout . . . over, under, and around the main line tracks. I was hooked. Modeling O scale traction was to become my life-long passion. Collecting electric current from the wire suspended over the tracks in order to power the cars was the ultimate in realism, and I had to prove this could work in reliable fashion, even in model form.

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FAQ: What Is the Warranty on Xuron® Tools?

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Xuron Corporation guarantees its products to be free of defects in materials and/or workmanship for the life of the tool providing the tool has been used as recommended by Xuron Corporation. Unless specified otherwise, Xuron® Cutters are not intended for use on any type of hardened wire.

At Xuron Corporation, we are exceptionally conscious of the fact that you have spent your hard-earned money to purchase our products and we want you to feel you have received what you’ve paid for (in quality and value). Our internal quality control process is comprised of multiple steps from incoming inspection of raw material to testing each tool before it leaves our factory. We are, however, human and mistakes can be made or flaws missed. This is why all products manufactured and sold by Xuron Corporation come with our warranty.

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