Pat Wilkinson, an HO friend of mine is producing aluminum roller track gauges. He has offered to produce them in other scales as well. I'm posting snippets of his post on the J6-layout list with his permission. I've blind-copied Pat, but he is not on this list, so any questions/concerns posted to the list and not to Pat's address may not get answered as quickly as you'd like.
Mark Plank --- <snip> This item coming from a switch building clinic that Tony Sissons did on Rick Bell's RPM Clinics Group: I have worked out a deal with a local machine shop who is also one of my customers to produce them for us. They will be made from aircraft quality aluminum. The catch is that I need to buy them in lots of 100. I am going to sell them in sets of (4) for Code 83 and any other size that I can get orders for 18 sets. The cost will be $36 for the set including 1st class postage to the continental U.S., those of you living across the pond or north of Lake Erie will have to pay the cost of whatever shipping method you wish to use. <snip> They tell me that production time will be 2 to 3 weeks for them to fit it into the production schedule. I need to know how many of you want a 4 roller gauge set and what gauge and rail you want it in and that you are willing to buy them. Once we determine what track gauges we have enough interest to produce I will add a page for these gauges on my website @ www.etchntech.com so you can pay using a credit card or PayPal. I do not want to take any money until we have a commitment from those of you who really want these because I do not want to take money from 12 of you and then have to mail you checks because someone has changed their minds. Once I have collected the payments for the minimum sets of track gauges I will order them. I will post a count of how many we have orders for this Friday night and again Sunday night. Please feel free to email me with any questions you have and if you want to email me offlist so we don't create a lot of traffic for everyone else then feel free. The roller gauges are for ME rail and will look like this <http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/oBfhSG78rcwRD-AaAZCwwvZVWcDLMl9o1dGVd-GYp2PqT68GXUlfFDzJz5FQRISNortrBQiVZzia5niuOJY/RollerGauge.jpg> - if the link wraps, either copy the missing lines into the browser, or go to <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/files/> and look for file RollerGauge.jpg. [I'm planning on taking down the file in a couple of weeks.] --- A followup post listed the S scale "orders" (all standard gauge, no narrow gauge orders yet, impressive in that this list is focused on an HO layout): Code 125: 1 Code 100: 4 Code 83: 3 Code 70: 1 Cod 55: 0 --- A followup post talked about the advantage of lucite being cheaper. Pat replied, "But they also melt really quick if you solder a little too close to them. Been there, done that. I could make the same type of gauges out of acrylic for a lot less but they wouldn't roll and tend to melt also. The aluminum are not going to melt and you can solder an inch away and be sure your track is in gauge." -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com ------------------------------------ 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/
