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Nice cars - rotten couplers
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<p>I work around my patience by working in batches of 4 to 10 cars each. I think I converted about 200 cars so far. Half of which sold handsomly on ebay. I estimate I have about 50 RTR cars remaining to convert when they fail, luckly they have the newer metal spring on them and not the crappy Bachmann 1996 couplers everyone loves to el-cheapen a kit with.</p><p>You know, if I was Athearn and I sit looking at my sales figures seeing all that money going to Proto 33" wheels and to Kadee Couplers... I would want to negotiate with these two companies and include these items for a few dollars into each of thier products and build it right the first time, matching the gauges and standards out of the box. Stop wasting the customer's time trying to save a dollar or two on a kit. The bottom line, revenue might actually improve.</p><p>Im not a tree-hugger, but our landfills are choked with these crappy plastic couplers and wheels... 500 years after we are dead and gone, the people are going to sit and ponder those items and wonder what the hell they were used for while the Prototype couplers in real life trains have long since oxidized and returned to the earth.</p>
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