Some CZM members are making their first modules and need wiring
harneses. Are the kits with instructions still available for
purchase?
Thanks,
Robin
--- In Z-Bend_Track@..., zbendtrack@... wrote:
Stu:
There has been a short delay.....
I always thought when you retired from a company, you just filled
out a few
forms and headed through the doors to retirement.
Oh no.
For the last 4 weeks I've worked harder, and longer hours, than
ever at the
office. "You've got to finish this and that project before you
leave" ...or
worse..."here's another special project we'd like to have you do
before you
leave."
Well, Friday is my last day. So I'll have more train time very
shortly.
Cables? I have over $800 in "stuff" for cable assemblies on hand.
From the
very start, it was never my intention to make any profit ...and I
never
did....and won't start now. It was just a z-friendly effort to
help model train
people find parts they probably didn't know where to buy.
Actually, any ZBT cable can be built up with one stop at Radio
Shack (or Dick
Smith). But you probably wouldn't like the price much as mine.
I've been
buying in multiples of 100 (or more) and with only one shipping
charge to your
door it was cheaper to get the stuff from me.
Its five years of soldering that was my undoing. Too many "F"
letters. What
started out as Fun and a Favor turned into a Factory operation. In
my N
scale days, everyone knew how to solder, but not so in Z as I found
out. Charging
5 bucks per hour for my soldering time didn't help much either (all
my own
train time was spent soldering for others because I priced my time
too cheap).
But after two miles (4.7 kilometers) of soldered cables and five
years, I just
got tired. Sorry. I've got some modules I'm dying to build in the
days
ahead.
What I plan to do is to get the entire family involved in
a "bagging"
operation and make up bagged "sets of parts" available (at cost) in
a number of
ways/outlets complete with printed instructions. And hope to at
least get most of
my parts costs out.
But the extra workload at the office derailed me and that goal.
Patience, please. One of my goals is to publish all my parts
sources so
anyone can get the same components I buy, directly, at the "one
each" price. I'm
pretty careful and picky on what I've been buying to insure zero
problems when
it all plugs together, and over years of use.
Bill Kronenberger
Houston
I understand the gentleman who was making the cable harness for
the module
has moved on
in this endevor. Does anyone have a list for part numbers for the
shells and
power connector
shell from digikey, mouser or the like.
