Maybe it is time to change it again, perhaps to metric? Bill --- On Sun, 1/23/11, scale S only <[email protected]> wrote:
From: scale S only <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} Scale S standards To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, January 23, 2011, 11:19 AM Hi all -- I am just glad that I got into scale S AFTER the changes to the standards had been made. I have not had to adjust any of the wheels’ gauge on any of my locos, though the rest of the rolling stock has needed tweaking. When I started, I knew of no sources other than the brass importers, American Models, and Don Heimburger’s “S”cenery Unlimited. Fortunately, my first standard gauge loco worked with the Shinohara flex track that Don sold, so I made my own rather crude track gauge to match from a chunk of sheet brass which I am still using to this day, at least 30 years later. I still mostly eyeball guard rail clearances and the like, but my track works very well, thank you. It also tells me if a wheelset is out of gauge, even by just a hair’s thickness... Thanks to all who made this possible! Bill Winans Prescott Valley, AZ Bob: I think you just restated a misconception that probably started the fight in the first place. Bradley wanted other scales based on HO, other scales wanted to have some basis in a mathematical reduction from the prototype. Using the HO track gauge at the time and scaling it S did not produce track that was 4' 8.5" in dimension. NASG chose to change to new standards that recognized 4' 8.5" as our track gauge (0.883). Change is a fearful and burdensome thing, avoided by most people. In this case I think NASG made a very courageous move in 1981 with the new standards, which BTW would common frog with Sn3, something existing (and Bradley's proposed) standards for S would not. It seems to have withstood the test of time quite well. Sometimes if we can get past our initial fear of change, it actually works out. Now, about that DCC... <GRIN> It's 8 below zero here so stirring the pot might actually create warmth...! Jim Kindraka [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/
