Peters lived in the Cleveland area. He was very dedicated to S standards as he was one of the very early S scalers. I remember him carrying a group of trucks and wheels in his pocket. You got a lecture at every S meeting. He was very sincere about standards. We were lucky to have anything in S at that time. Cleveland Models was on the rocks as they had not paid most of his S material suppliers. I was sort of new at S having come out of years in HO and OO.
Peters health problems caused him to slip away from the group. Jack Sudimak should knoe more. John Armstrong ----- Original Message ----- From: shabbona_rr To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 8:21 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Comparing wheel treads. Don: That's right, his name was Jim Peters. He even made up a test car for me with Ace trucks modified to the proposed standards. It worked, too, but to this day, I don't know what ever became of it I guess I was kind of in the middle of that controversy, as well, after talking to A.B.Bradley, who was head of the NMRA Standards committee at the time (1980). The major feature of the proposed NASG standard was that, for the most part, wheels conforming to NASG standards would operate on trackage conforming to NMRA standards because critical tolerances of both overlapped to some degree. There were pros and cons to both standards, and, as you say, some of the debates got heated and even personal. My position was that, as a relatively new modeler in S, I would go with the wishes of the majority. I even did some work with Bradley and Peters at the time and learned a whole lot about wheel and track relationships, and saw certain advantages to each. To this day, I still use old Miller tie strip (NMRA) for yard tracks, etc., for more efficient operation (less coupler misalignment) of Kadee couplers Let's not get THAT started again! Bob Nicholson ______________________________________________ --- In [email protected], Don Thompson <don@...> wrote: > > I remember a conversation in the 70's about the first NASG > standards committee chairman who proposed the code 110 wheel for "S". > I forget his wheel, but I was told that things go so heated up over > the direction of standards that he quit S gauge. One reason for > considering the code 110 is that HO wheel contour tools could be used > to make S scale wheels. There was a real lack of wheelsets in the > 60's and by using the HO tool, the cost for new wheels would be > reduced as it would be easier to convince an HO mfg. to make S > wheelsets using the same tools. At least that is what I was told. > Don > PS I think the chairman's last name was Peters.... > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5747 (20101230) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5747 (20101230) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.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: [email protected] [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/
