Dear Andre, Just so you know, if I had bought our line and had the deep pockets that MTH did I too would re-engineer many of our products. But, it is not fair for me to just give a general answer like that. What would I change??? 1. speakers in our SW1 2. change F unit gear box to be like that switchers. That is the gear rotates around an fixed axle. This would eliminate 36 bearings in a ABA lashup that each one generates noise (and more friction than a delrin gear on a steel axle). 3. Change 2-8-0 locomotive drawbar post from delrin to metal. 4. Make 2-8-0 smoke unit chamber twice as deep and use a nichrome element replacing the wirewound resistor. 5. revise headlight connection from foil contacts to anything else (to make the foil contact the pads of pcb on boiler front, they added foam rubber under foil. If the smoke unit is overfilled, the foam rubber deteriorates which is not a problem unless you remove the smoke front). 6. Make gear on 2-8-0 #4 driver wider. 7....
Even when Mike and I owned SHS, we were constantly re-engineering the tooling. Look at the first two runs of SW9 switchers, we retooled several aspects of the model. Or, the switches, I think they were updated with each run, So, I would applaud any improvement that Mike W and gang decide on the models we brought out. I think that would be a plus... Best, Don Thompson... --- In [email protected], "Andre Ming" <laming@...> wrote: > > Simply mentioned my discouragement upon reading that MTH intends to > re-engineer an already excellent product. > > Not intended to be a "gripe". Just expressed my concern. > > See 'ya. > > > Andre Ming > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ed > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:21 PM > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} mth update > > > > Hey Andre; > > Lets give MTH a chance...<snip> > > Pieter E. Roos > > > I was expecting it would be at least eight hours after the first MTH > catalog was released before the first gripes would surface. Boy -- was I > wrong with that estimate. > > Here are a few thoughts: > > 1. What if the MTH internal electronics runs those switchers equally as > well as the SHS approach? Or.....maybe even better? > > 2. If not, why not remove the MTH electronics and install a Tsunami > decoder. Selling off the MTH electronics will probably pay for the Tsunami. > Not a bad thing to consider. > > 3. Contine the hunt for an SHS switcher on eBay. They seem to appear with > some regularity and with a little paint and some decals, they will satisfy > most folks. > > 4. Is there really anything wrong with waiting until you have a product in > your hand before making comments about it? Seems like everyone has to be > 'first' to say something -- anything -- justified or not. > > Nothing personal about Andre', but just some thoughts for contemplation by > others. > > Cheers.....Ed Loizeaux > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > ------------------------------------ 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/
