AMEN!!!!!!! Stan
--- In [email protected], "pickycat95" <pickycat95@...> wrote:
>
> It seems to me if I put down $200 to $300 for a toy locomotive it ought to
> last longer than 5 to 10 years. I have had only one cracked gear in my
> sizable stable of AM locomotives and am hopeful that the cracked gear is a
> great exception and not the rule.
> Ben Trousdale
>
> --- In [email protected], "Ed" <Loizeaux@> wrote:
> >
> > > > At this point, I'm considering dumping the entire mess on eBay and
> > > > going back to HO or O scale
> > > > Matt Hogan
> >
> > As plastic ages, it outgases, becomes brittle and cracks quite easily.
> > Happens all the time when plastic parts are press-fitted to metal parts.
> > Happens in all scales even on expensive imported brass models. Usually it
> > happens five or ten years later -- you just got it sooner. Perhaps you got
> > an old model that had been sitting in the warehouse for many years.
> >
> > Or, perhaps a bad batch of plastic pellets were used to make the gears in
> > the first place. Who knows? Lotsa possibilities.
> >
> > AM is good about fixing problems and it would be worthwhile giving them a
> > chance.
> >
> > The saddest part of all this is that the problem is totally preventable by
> > using splines or flats on the metal shaft. The extra cost to do this is
> > minimal and should have become an industry standard 30 years ago.
> >
> > Good luck....Ed Loizeaux
> >
>
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