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Post by shamoo737 on Oct 3, 2016 13:51:11 GMT -5
Doug, it's it still crunchy, or it's it stale by now.  |
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Post by gerd on Oct 3, 2016 17:32:15 GMT -5
My way of dealing with it: buy a new complete GP38-2 with a popular road name like UP or BNSF for $90, swap the shells and sell the UP or BNSF shell on eBay, they go for $30-40 which makes it a better deal and possible cheaper than AZL's suggestion with returning the broken chassis. And especially worth for international customers....
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Post by shamoo737 on Oct 3, 2016 18:36:39 GMT -5
Gerd, you know this rule has your name on it. |
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Post by ztrack on Oct 3, 2016 19:48:17 GMT -5
Ok, that makes more sense, but what about Doug. He didn't keep his frame, but its documented in this forum of his problem. I think we should be able to send back the motor or the frame. Some of us didn't keep the damage frame. It's ok John, I have some N-scale frames lying around I'll just smash them to bits and put 'em in a zip lock....AZL will never know the difference.   (Just kidding...I checked and discovered I do still have the crumbled frame.) I know many of you contacted me about the chassis issue and I have been logging them. If Doug has already contacted me, then he is good. We will cover him. I will be reaching out to all of those who are on the list once we have the replacement chassis and are ready to start shipping the replacements. Rob(K) Oh and PS.... I will know if they are N scale chassis... Don't even think about it.  |
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Post by DAZed on Oct 3, 2016 20:36:49 GMT -5
My way of dealing with it: buy a new complete GP38-2 with a popular road name like UP or BNSF for $90, swap the shells and sell the UP or BNSF shell on eBay, they go for $30-40 which makes it a better deal and possible cheaper than AZL's suggestion with returning the broken chassis. And especially worth for international customers.... That is sort of what I was suggesting above. There's one glaring problem with that, and it's why I haven't already done it. Take my UP for example...I really would like to have one with the painted fuel tank and gray trucks, so buying the existing loco is tempting. But, since it is another UP, it likely came from the same production lot. And thus, might have been made with the same faulty material/process. I would say, some high level of probability more than just "might have been". You might think "I'll just be careful", but if you have to put a decoder in it like I do, you're gonna have to put a basic level of stress on the frame that is enough to trigger the "fault line". If you need one with black trucks and black fuel tank, (shared among most roadnames) and you ask around enough to develop a pattern of which were bad and which weren't, then you probably have a better shot of your idea working. And of course, maybe the frames produced over many months were just all thrown into one big box and there's no real correlation. That's incentive to just plunk down the fifty bucks and be happy that you have a nice shiny new mech.  |
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Post by gerd on Oct 5, 2016 19:11:06 GMT -5
I had at least 10 Undecs in my finger and 2 frames were no good. So if they were done in one batch it's not necessarily batch related, rather process "variation"...
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Post by toronado3800 on Oct 15, 2016 20:05:39 GMT -5
That is decent. Free would be nice, but any cheaper and folks might break frames to upgrade.
So, I have one of the $100ish GP38's in a zip lock. While I was trying to swap couplers the frame broke on me. I am somewhat accomplished in HO having done a couple 3D printed well cars and made a poor man's spinning rotary snow plow but throught "wow, Z is brittle". Is that the type of issue this swap was created to cover?
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