--- In [email protected], "Michael A Scivoletti"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Folks
>
> The problems is NOT the lack of real modlers, but I believe a LACK
of Time.
>
> Michael in Northwest Jersey
> Still looking for the BETTER turnout then the GOOD onees out there.
> _______________________________________________
Michael:
It isn't even a lack of time - it's the increasing complexity of the
things we do with it.
For instance, this thread about DCC has consistently talked about the
necessary steps to make it layout compatible, and doesn't even take
into consideration the time to install it in the first place. I'm not
knocking DCC, just pointing it out as one example. There's other
things, like sound systems, etc.
Then there's the expense. A modeler needs a second job just to afford
all the things "necessary" to keep his layout "current", in the eyes
of who? I know what an Alco sounds like, I worked on them and let my
imagination fill in the gaps
If we're not trying to get the latest gizmo to work as it's supposed
to, we're on the computer talking about it. When does anyone have time
to Model, anymore.
Your comment obout a better switch - these converted Atlas switches
are doing a fine job, and are "DCC compatible", especially with a
simple frog polarity switching mechanism (there's those two ugly
words, again, "simple" and "mechanism", indicating [1] it does not
require expensive and complex electronics and therefore not time
consuming to install or master and [2] operation is flawless, and if
not, easy to fix)
Enough blather, your comment about switches caught my attention. I am
well satisfied with the Atlas switch conversions I use. I wrote to
Atlas suggesting the possibility of an Atlas Code 100 #6 switch in S.
Since they already had the frog and points, a die for an appropriate
tie strip and proper rail lengths should be the only expense. Their
rather frosty response indicated that they would not even consider the
possibility.
Your comment plus comments on the list and in my Inbox indicate that
there is an interest in such a switch. There is nothing "wrong" with
the current switches on the market, they are of exceptional quality,
at least as far as I can tell, except and especially the cost factor.
Maybe if someone with a little more authority than myself contacted
Atlas, or maybe one of our manufacturers took up the challenge,
perhaps a lower cost mass-produced switch would be possible.
My only suggestion is, that whoever, NASG or whatever, only ONE person
work with the manufacturer rather than a whole bunch of people going
off like a firecracker in a henhouse during the process. Plenty of
time for that AFTER the product is released, and history has proven
that never is everybody going to be completely satisfied (read,
"Shinohara #6")
Bob Nicholson,
who will now think of all the things he "coulda', woulda',
shoulda'" said, if only he hadn't already hit the "Send" button
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