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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by michealfarley Reliability: Athearn. If you remove the metal clip and hard-wire ..... [/quote] But Micheal, my point is that you have to make alterations to the Athearn BBs to MAKE them reliable - they are NOT that way out of the box, like most of the Katos !!! The main exception was the Kato SD40-2s with their poor pick-up design (which Kato doesn't use any more, for good reasons - it was as bad as Athearn's stupid metal strip!).
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