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Pierre Oliver
Anybody know what's happening at DA?
Roaring silence from emails I've sent. -- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com |
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Allen Montgomery <sandbear75@...>
I was told by my area hobby shop that they are going to stop doing the lost wax castings(if that is the method they use). They supposedly are retooling to do their line in plastic. Alas, expect to pay more for less... Allen On Saturday, December 12, 2015 9:14 PM, "Pierre Oliver pierre.oliver@... [STMFC]" wrote: Anybody know what's happening at DA?
Roaring silence from emails I've sent. -- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com |
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Jack Burgess <jack@...>
If you are talking about DA/Detail Associates, their parts have always been injected styrene parts.
Jack Burgess From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 8:35 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Detail Associates? I was told by my area hobby shop that they are going to stop doing the lost wax castings(if that is the method they use). They supposedly are retooling to do their line in plastic. Alas, expect to pay more for less... Allen On Saturday, December 12, 2015 9:14 PM, "Pierre Oliver pierre.oliver@... [STMFC]" <STMFC@...> wrote: Anybody know what's happening at DA? Roaring silence from emails I've sent. -- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Pierre Oliver
I'm suspecting that my question is being misinterpreted.
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I know I'm not alone in being unable to contact the owners. I know there have been some health issues with some of the partners. Does anyone know if they are still in business? Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com On 15/12/2015 11:49 AM, 'Jack Burgess'
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Jack Burgess <jack@...>
I think that Dennis posted some information on them a month or two ago…
Jack From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 8:53 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Detail Associates? I'm suspecting that my question is being misinterpreted. I know I'm not alone in being unable to contact the owners. I know there have been some health issues with some of the partners. Does anyone know if they are still in business? Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com On 15/12/2015 11:49 AM, 'Jack Burgess' jack@... [STMFC] wrote: If you are talking about DA/Detail Associates, their parts have always been injected styrene parts. Jack Burgess From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 8:35 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Detail Associates? I was told by my area hobby shop that they are going to stop doing the lost wax castings(if that is the method they use). They supposedly are retooling to do their line in plastic. Alas, expect to pay more for less... Allen On Saturday, December 12, 2015 9:14 PM, "Pierre Oliver pierre.oliver@... [STMFC]" <mailto:STMFC@...> <STMFC@...> wrote: Anybody know what's happening at DA? Roaring silence from emails I've sent. -- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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DA also sold some etched brass, wire, cast metal, and even cast resin.
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Quite the eclectic product line. Whenever I've found hard to find items (AB brake set, box car ladders) I stocked up. :-) Tim At 12/15/2015 11:49 AM Tuesday, you wrote:
If you are talking about DA/Detail Associates, their parts have always been injected styrene parts. |
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destorzek@...
---In STMFC@..., <jack@...> wrote : I think that Dennis posted some information on them a month or two ago… ============= I did? Must have been a different Dennis. I think Tim is confusing Details Associates with Details West A lot of Details West track details are cast metal, which makes them hold up better to track cleaning solvents and the like. I can also recall way back in antiquity when they were doing Diesel loco fan details in white cast epoxy, but that was close to four decades ago. DA seemed to do everything in styrene except their formed wire products. Dennis Storzek |
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Jack Burgess <jack@...>
Before posting that email, I tried finding it on the STMFC Yahoo site but couldn’t. And then I thought maybe it was Dave Hussey who posted it but I still couldn’t find it. Now I’m thinking it was a dream. <g> But I did find another email which had an email address for DA but Yahoo deleted the end of the address. But I did pass it along to Pierre so he could contact that the member who posted the email with the contact info for DA.
Jack From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:19 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: RE: [STMFC] Detail Associates? ---In STMFC@..., <jack@...> wrote : I think that Dennis posted some information on them a month or two ago… ============= I did? Must have been a different Dennis. I think Tim is confusing Details Associates with Details West A lot of Details West track details are cast metal, which makes them hold up better to track cleaning solvents and the like. I can also recall way back in antiquity when they were doing Diesel loco fan details in white cast epoxy, but that was close to four decades ago. DA seemed to do everything in styrene except their formed wire products. Dennis Storzek |
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Mistaken on both counts, Dennis. Don't take my word for it -- crack open an old Walthers catalog from the early 1990's. I actually HAVE DA brass castings and etched parts and resin parts so I know what I'm talking about. Tim O'Connor I think Tim is confusing Details Associates with Details West |
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Actually both are correct, sort of. DA did some of their parts in both brass and plastic in parallel product lines...the brass ones used a lighter brown/beige packaging card...
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Craig Zeni Cary NC On Dec 15, 2015, at 4:42 PM, STMFC@... wrote:
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I think you're confused now Craig. All of my DA parts in brass & plastic are in the same tan/brown color packages. Details West used several different package colors for freight car parts, track parts, diesel detail parts, ... I just checked and found DA brass, white metal, plastic and wire items all in the same color packages. Tim O'Connor At 12/18/2015 04:00 PM Friday, you wrote: Actually both are correct, sort of. DA did some of their parts in both brass and plastic in parallel product lines...the brass ones used a lighter brown/beige packaging card... |
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D. Scott Chatfield
Tim O'Connor wrote:
I think you're confused now Craig. All of my DA parts in brass & plasticare in the same tan/brown color packages. No, Craig is correct. Initially DA's brass parts (which were made using their plastic parts as investments) came in nearly white packages, noticeably lighter than the tan cards used for the plastic parts. Scott Chatfield |
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On Dec 18, 2015, at 6:14 PM, STMFC@... wrote:
4b. Re: Detail Associates?Read it and weep, Tim :) http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/grills/IMAG0754.jpg http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/grills/IMAG0756.jpg Craig Zeni Cary NC |
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Mark Drake <markstation01@...>
And now we're worried about the color of the cardboard/paper package these items come in.... Mark L. Drake eBay ID member1108 |
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tjcataldo
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Pierre Oliver pierre.oliver@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:
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methinks thou dost extrapolate from slightly different shades of tan (quite common in DA packages -- also different shades of ink printing on them) to some nefarious scheme to color code packages I call both of those packages "tan" and all this began when someone said DA never produced brass castings. :-) Merry Christmas, Ho Ho Ho! Tim O' I think you're confused now Craig. All of my DA parts in brass & plasticRead it and weep, Tim :) |
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