Ron H posted:Getting ready to work...............
Was there zinc pest somewhere in that video (if so I missed it, sorry), or was this accidentally posted to the wrong thread?
As to the original topic, while it was not heavyweights, I seem to recall seeing something that looked like the sort of "clean" break like can be seen above (i.e., no obvious evidence of all the cracking under the paint, just a broken detail piece) on the SP "Shasta" cars from maybe 7 or 8 years ago now (I forget the exact date at the moment, but they were the ones marketed with the PA/PB-1 units).
One of the cars showed this on one truck with a single broken piece right out of the box (so no significant time from manufacture date), but it was only one car, and I chalked it up to probably taking some abuse (like all the trucks thrown in a big drum before assembly, or some other impact at the factory). I exchanged the car set that had this problem and since I was able to get a non-broken one, I considered myself a happy camper at the time. I think I'm going to have to drag those cars out to take a look at them and see if they are still ok in the near future.
If I saw such a thing on any item I was attempting to take delivery on today, I think I'd just bail on the purchase altogether rather than seek an exchange. This 80+ year old problem re-invented in the modern production is not acceptable.
-Dave