Hello to Everyone, This turnout business has been being kicked around and around. I would like to thank all the people who have sent words of support. Not all the mail has been kind, one person even threatened to publish his biased review in the Dispatch if I didn't send him a turnout.
Enough, already. For every person who claims my turnouts don't work, I can show letters from customers who are very happy with my products and some of those include people who run brass. Obviously, one person's testing is not going to satisfy the Doubters anymore than a Doubter could test my turnouts fairly. What I am going to propose is a test of all S gauge turnouts for a comparison like we have seen done in Model Railroader. This testing would be out in the open and away from any bias with the results published in as much of the S gauge press as possible. The testing would involve the running of trains, not pushing trucks through the turnouts. And certainly not just measuring turnouts to one set of standards, which as little bearing for the vast majority of S gauge equipment. All S gauge equipment will be represented - Flyer, Hi-rail and scale. All turnout manufacturers will have their chance to show the S world what their turnouts can do. To keep the testing above board, I would hope the testers would be from all aspects of S. I would welcome the NASG to sponsor the testing - maybe it could happen at the NASG convention in Baltimore this summer. I would hope we wouldn't see set ups like ASG track with a SHS turnout - track and turnout should match within reason. I trust there are those among us who know how to set up a controlled test to eliminate bias and could oversee the whole process. Let me be the first to state that Tom's Turnouts will be there for testing. I also want to say I will not submit my turnouts to any individual for testing because of bias. Groups where the testing is open and honest will always accommodated. Come on NASG, let's do it, Tom Stoltz Tom's Turnouts & Trackwork Revolutionizing S gauge, One turnout at a time www.tomsturnouts.com <http://www.tomsturnouts.com/> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
