Post by GTS on Dec 22, 2018 17:06:49 GMT -7
Please let me assure you all, that I'm not whining or complaining, rather, just passing on info.
Dave632 & I mentioned this vendor on ebay in this thread nitroslots.com/post/53737/thread . I received my cars (2) yesterday but did not have time to deal with them until this morning.
Anyways, I hadn't bought from this vendor before and didn't realize they would ship the 2 AW 4G chassis in a padded envelope 
. I've always received such things in a box or extremely well wrapped. This was just the two cars in their AW bags in a padded envelope. One of the cars had a shoe bent and almost off, spring was intact. When I tested the cars, the one with noticeable damage didn't run as it should, had a high pitch whine and really slow, 8.327 seconds on the track. The other one ran normal at 1.203. After pulling the large idler gear out I found that the motor was the issue. Just visually looking at it, it appears the commutator plate is pressed on crooked. Now, I think the shoe got bent in shipping but doubt the armature issue happened in shipping but don't know anything for sure. I will plan on letting the vendor know that IMO they should ship a little differently but I mainly wanted to let y'all know they ship that way in case you thought they would ship differently. Maybe it's not a concern for some but I thought the padded envelope was risky to say the least. YMMV
. I've always received such things in a box or extremely well wrapped. This was just the two cars in their AW bags in a padded envelope. One of the cars had a shoe bent and almost off, spring was intact. When I tested the cars, the one with noticeable damage didn't run as it should, had a high pitch whine and really slow, 8.327 seconds on the track. The other one ran normal at 1.203. After pulling the large idler gear out I found that the motor was the issue. Just visually looking at it, it appears the commutator plate is pressed on crooked. Now, I think the shoe got bent in shipping but doubt the armature issue happened in shipping but don't know anything for sure. I will plan on letting the vendor know that IMO they should ship a little differently but I mainly wanted to let y'all know they ship that way in case you thought they would ship differently. Maybe it's not a concern for some but I thought the padded envelope was risky to say the least. YMMVEDIT: forgot to mention that the same chassis with the bent shoe also had badly bent rear axle with severe wheel wobble. Could have happened during assembly I suppose but the shipping method is definitely suspect.
to follow up on this: just now received an email that the vendor volunteered to be shipping out a new chassis today. He said I could keep the other one for parts.
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