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So last I heard they were going to make there own but it would be fully decided by the end of Aug
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And that the couplers and trucks will be protoypical
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To my understanding this was Boswer decision.
I'm glad to see another truck and coupler option out there.
After all the problems I had with the Z Manufacture when I made my car and why I havnt come out with another car yet
MTL won't sell there to manufactors
AZL work but the bolster pin is different for MTL and Pennzee and Uncle Will which mean you have to go to MTL for bolster pin and they won't sell them.
I talk to Uncle Will he would sell me trucks and couplers and even bolster pins but I'm don't trust Boswer after all the problems I had with them when I was going thought Pennzee to get the car painted and pad printed( I had to fine my own Pad Printer and Painter).
Which leaves me to hope Intermountain comes out with trucks and couler so I can use there trucks and couplers to do another car without problems. I got my cases from them and they where great to work with.
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I don't think it Uncle Will saying no.
To my understanding this was Boswer decision.
I'm glad to see another truck and coupler option out there.
After all the problems I had with the Z Manufacture when I made my car and why I havnt come out with another car yet
MTL won't sell there to manufactors
AZL work but the bolster pin is different for MTL and Pennzee and Uncle Will which mean you have to go to MTL for bolster pin and they won't sell them.
I talk to Uncle Will he would sell me trucks and couplers and even bolster pins but I'm don't trust Boswer after all the problems I had with them when I was going thought Pennzee to get the car painted and pad printed( I had to fine my own Pad Printer and Painter).
Which leaves me to hope Intermountain comes out with trucks and couler so I can use there trucks and couplers to do another car without problems. I got my cases from them and they where great to work with.
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I asked Uncle Will, he told me Bowser owns the trucks and couplers and he distributes them for Bowser
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Looks like the first thing I’ll be doing on my long awaited pre-orders will be to replace those trucks/couplers.
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AZL--For Z?? My question is: why does MTL/Kadee supply the other two scales but not Z when thier product is supposed to be superior?- and making a lot of modelers, consider changing out AZL units- adding to original costs.
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Fred wrote: Kadee supplies the HO cars----Micro-trains supplies the N scale cars----
AZL--For Z?? My question is: why does MTL/Kadee supply the other two scales but not Z when thier product is supposed to be superior?- and making a lot of modelers, consider changing out AZL units- adding to original costs.
For reasons known only to Micro-Trains, they will not sell their Z Scale trucks and couplers to anyone else on an OEM basis. Furthermore, Micro-Trains forbids other model manufacturers from selling their rolling stock fitted with Micro-Trains trucks and couplers. The only option other manufacturers have is to either use AZL, or make their own. Full Throttle does not have the capacity to offer them on an OEM basis. The only option the modeler has, if they want Micro-Trains trucks on all of their rolling stock, is to do the upgrade themselves, at additional cost.
Don't ask why; this has been Micro-Trains policy since early 2008.
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The only option the modeler has, if they want Micro-Trains trucks on all of their rolling stock, is to do the upgrade themselves, at additional cost.
It would be great if someone would simply manufacturer something close to MTL truck/couplers that worked with magnets but using an original design of their own. Simple enough, however then we all have another coupler in the mix. As it stands, Z scale has no standard.
What needs to be done is for the Z scale community to adopt a standard coupler. Since it appears MTL is the coupler most everyone is happy with, I believe, in the spirit of competition, that MTL should license their Z couplers to other manufacturers on a per truck basis. Say, $2.50 per truck. This would raise the price of the competitions cars by X factor, and MTL makes a few dollars in the process.
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with this policy.
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economics not what we want but it works for them as we still buy the cars.
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