@harmonyards posted:my buddy Lou did some preliminary checking into SPG, as we do a lot of builds, but I wanna say the cost wasn’t awful, but the quantities scared us away??……anyways, if SPG would be a player in our hobby, we’d have nothing to worry about,…..
Pat
When I check about two years ago the minimum order was 5 motors and the cost was $95 a motor. I think ball bearings added 50 cents to the cost of each motor. I would assume that a larger, non retail, order would have much lower cost per unit. Like Pat said the SPG motor MTH used for a year or so were dead nuts identical to a Pittman 9000 series.
Lionel must be getting the Canon motors for a much lower cost than what they can get a SPG motor for, otherwise I would assume Lionel would have gone with the SPG motor.
