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From: STMFC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:STMFC@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Patrick Wider
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 1:05 AM
To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [STMFC] Re: Couplers, Coupler Pockets, and Trucks

SGL, you don't mind if I call you "S"?

Amen to everything you said!!! My eyesight is getting so bad
I'm lucky if I can see the derailed car in a long string. I
wondered how the heck you could see the truck sideframes
moving around. You must be a young snot!!!!! <g>

Pat Wider

HO, Pat, and my club's got VERY good track work, laid almost
exclusively by one man

who's got Very

High Standards. But even on very good trackwork there are

occasional

joints that don't

PERFECTLY

match, and switchwork with high numbers, where equalization

does help, and id visible.
Mostly, the

trucks that do have the equalization are the Dan Kilgore

trucks, which

have pretty

wimpy springs. I

don't have trackwork of my own (except for the small amount

I've laid at the Club).

I do believe there's a market, small, maybe, for a line of

Really Superb Scale Trucks.
Springs with

appropriate visual density, low spring rates, all the parts
(brakeshoes, etc) and that if

these were

available at a not-too-stratospheric price, changing out

trucks would

be as common as

it used to be

to toss the x2f's as far as one could, and replace with Kadees.


SGL

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