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Re: Draft of a new driver wheel
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:52:58 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ben Fleskes wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Teunis Davey wrote:
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Being this , was any AFOL planing to start making some new steam train
wheels? In RED,BLACK & GRAY. As I would like to get some . I’m guessing that
they won’t be cheap. As A mould would have to be made. Perfect design BEN !!
Many thanks , Teunis.
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To answer your question, Yes. Based on some ‘inside’ information, somebody
is making train drive wheels. I’ve heard they will be available for purchase
certainly before christmas.
It leaves me wondering, how much would you pay? What is a fair price?
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well... something more than what I am getting parts for out of the 3033’s I
bought on sale ( about 1.2 cents a piece) and something less than what I paid
for my last service pack of larger drivers. I can’t find the number for it
offhand, service packs are hard to search for... but it has two pair and they;re
the larger drivers... it MIGHT be this one:
Nope, those are the smaller black spokers, these are the larger red ones... it’s
either this one
or this one
part 4180c04 is the part number I think but Peeron doesn’t have a pic
These larger drivers are the ones ues in 7750:
The packs are hard to find, and I was happy to get the one I did... I paid 30
Euros for (and thought I got a pretty good deal on it) at LegoWorld from Henry’s
Brickjewels...
(BTW the 7750 inventory is wrong, it omits these wheels of which I speak!
http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/inv/sets/7750-1?withpics=no )
So, somewhere between 1.2 cents each and 10 euros or so.. Does that help?
OK more seriously these things can’t be cheap, there are tooling costs to
recoup. The demand is probably inelastic up to a point at which point it turns
elastic. To see what I mean...
I’d pay 5 to 10 a pair without even blinking but I bet that requires a huge
production run to recoup your costs so I’d be resigned to paying somewhat more
than that I guess. Price them at 50 a pair and I’d be thinking pretty hard about
how badly I wanted to build big electric locomotives (remember, these spoked
drivers would be good for large european electrics too!) and big steamers...
So you need to find the knee in the demand curve. Maybe price them really high
and lower the price over time till sales stop increasing?
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| In lugnet.trains, Teunis Davey wrote: <snip> (...) To answer your question, Yes. Based on some 'inside' information, somebody is making train drive wheels. I've heard they will be available for purchase certainly before christmas. It leaves me (...) (20 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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