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Antonio. First off my Budds were first run. Perhaps subsequent runs got better but to answer your question:The stock wheel sets have stub axles mounted in acetal plastic tubes so that eight wheel electrical pickup is available for lighting. These stubs are cone shape. The IM are true neddle point axles, both BB & non-BB. I have both. The BBs have a slight rolling advantage over the non BBs but are not worth the premium price. I negated the lighting system when I installed the IM with a single wheel insulator. That was three years ago. Since then, there has been a few discoveries one of which is www.reboxx.com an after market vendor. Going back to mondotrains April 2004 post on Trains, he stated that IM makes the wheels for reboxx and reboxx installs them on any one of 17 different custom axle lengths. Where you go to reboxx, click on "PRODUCTS" and scroll down to "ROLL TESTER" read and then click again. Reboxx uses this device to test the performance . It measures the number of times the axles set freely climbs up & returns down the ramp. As a comparison it also measures the stock set. There are variables here depending upon which truck type the model car manufacturer uses. Call reboxx, 1-800-935-2195 and asked them if they have double insulated axle/wheels for the budds and what the roll performance is for both the stock & upgrade.
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