No smell with the Sauereisen high temperature cement, that's what it's made for. The
problem is the only way you can get a small amount is to buy a sample package of all
their products, which at the time was close to one hundred dollars. I don't remember what
the smallest quantity of the cement alone was but it ran into the hundreds of dollars so I
opted for the sample kit to see how it would work. The material has a short shelf life so I
didn't what to have a gallon of it spoiling on the shelf.
As you can see from the pictures, I had planned on dismantling and restoring those
original toggle switches. New long rivets have to be fabricated, in most cases new switch
contacts and often the dropping resistor is burned out. I could not find enough cadavers to
justify the cost of the replacement materials. As it turned out, everyone that had them
thought that they were worth their weight in gold, even though they didn't work any more
and the ceramic was chipped off the resistor.
I did experiment with several other coatings and they all did outgas producing a strong
smell in the cab when the dropping resistor was in the circuit on the slow speed. The
worst one was when I used Plaster of Paris mixed with CA, that one almost did me in. I
tried porcelain mixed to a slurry but that has to be fired to harden it or it just crumbles
when air dried.
Denny G
