@harmonyards posted:It’s the luck of the draw where the vendor gets their raw material from……..not all zinc castings, or zamac castings are doomed to failure, …….I believe it’s the raw material vendor that either A. accidentally produces a bad batch of ingots, or B. don’t care that they produced a bad batch of ingots…….
Pat
I think whether or not one encounters zinc pest, IS the luck of the draw, along with how many steam locomotives are in one’s collection.
As a smaller operator, I’ve had probably no more than 6 or 7 die cast steam locomotives over the past twelve years ( I’m more of a diesel man), all Lionel. And in that time, have never experienced any zinc pest.
It’s likely and proportionate, that the more locomotives one has over a longer period of time, zinc pest will eventually getcha. 😉
