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Originally posted by greg773:
What I don't get is, you have a product that your coustomers are foaming at the mouth to buy. Why would you let a manufacturing delay go on for so long? Do what you gotta do and get your product to market and make that money!


They probably don't have enough orders. Waiting until they get enough orders so that they can justify the minimum build/buy with manufacturer of the engine.
quote:
Originally posted by greg773:
What I don't get is, you have a product that your coustomers are foaming at the mouth to buy. Why would you let a manufacturing delay go on for so long? Do what you gotta do and get your product to market and make that money!



Well in all fairness to MTH, thats what Lionel did, and the amount of failures and defects is rediculous. When their products finally do arrive, and if there isn't post after post of "this is wrong" and "that doesn't work" MTH will be the winner. I'm currently running tmcc, and if MTH maintains a level of new product reliability, maybe I'd just as well add DCS versus upgrading to legacy. My most recent legacy steamer had an incorrectly assembled gearbox....totally unacceptable. I'll take a faulty smoke unit or a bad board (to a degree) but a bad gearbox,gimme a break!
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Originally posted by yankspride4:
Wouldn't it be great if part of the reason for the delay was the MTH was furiously working on upgrading the steam sounds to be more like Lionel? The wait would be worth it IMHO.

Unlikely, but one can hope.

Ron
Ron, my PS3 European steamers sound fantastic, particularly the Bavarian, they already are excellent.
According to the conversation I had with MTH this week, Imperials will be delievered first followed by premier later this year. Tooling has been sent to a new casting company in another country-China???-from Korea?? and the "bugs" need to be worked out with the new machine setup procedures,---shot size, compression timing, overall cycle times, etc. If I understood correctly, Big Boys were in the mix for delivery. This information is displayed here from what I remember without writing anything down so don't hold it as gospel truth. They are making an honest attempt to get out the products that they advertised. No new steamers are in the near future until backorders are filled and production gets back on a regular schedule.

Frank
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