A bad case of CRAP

[Barney]

The worst ever ! from Grandt Line Products Or whatever they call themselves Now! Has Quality control gone out of the window Compared with the excellent range from MasterClub (below )
Barney

[finescalerr]

Grandt created the tooling for those NBWs about 50 years ago and the quality was poor even fifteen years ago. I know the guys who bought Grandt Line and they always have done their best to produce quality products. Maybe it's just time to retool or, if that's too expensive, eliminate the parts from their catalog.

By the way, both photos show the same sprues.

Russ

[Ray Dunakin]

That's disappointing.

[Les Tindall]

I changed to Master Club nbw's and rivets a couple years ago after being disappointed in the Grandt Line products.

[shropshire lad]

I recently bought some modern day  Grandt Line 0 scale strap hinges and they definitely are crap compared to the old ones I have had for years.

[Cor]

I buy now from tichy
https://www.tichytraingroup.com/Shop/tabid/91/c/o_nbw-rivets/Default.aspx

Cor

[Barney]

Yes I have used Titchy and they are pretty good and available here in the UK
Barney

[Lawrence@NZFinescale]

I drew up an NBW yesterday for a friend in a coupe of minutes, copied and scaled to produce a few hundred in various sizes, and printed in around 30 minutes for what is probably a lifetime supply.

They were generic, but you can do exactly what you want very simply.

[finescalerr]

Lawrence, does that mean you 3-D printed a variety of NBWs? If so, and since we are familiar with the quality of your work, some guys on the forum might want to place an order. -- Russ

[Lawrence@NZFinescale]

Lawrence, does that mean you 3-D printed a variety of NBWs? If so, and since we are familiar with the quality of your work, some guys on the forum might want to place an order. -- Russ

It does and you could.

But it's literally minutes and with the number of printers in the world today you could do your own, or find someone in your local hobby circle that could.  That way you'd get exactly what you want.  I'm happy to share the .stl with anyone who wants it (too large to attach here), but you'd be stuck with the sizes and choices I made (though you could scale the file).  My nuts are all hex and lack washers (Historically railways didn't seem to use washers much).