[rodblakeman]

Hey Guys, back off, you are distorting what Brian reported ! He said;

"After running it I was cleaning the oil and water off of it and I went to do the smoke stack and paint came right off of the stack. I think that is really bad paint quallity for the price of the engine."

There is nothing there about oil staining or the inside of the stack, just wiping it off with a cloth and the paint came away!

Then another MLS member said that he had seen the same problem a couple of times.

Now you are all jumping in to defend Aster as you will not hear a word spoken against them.

One of my small Aster engines burned the paint off the stack and I just assumed this was normal with uncontrolled spirit firing. I have never had the paint burn off a gas fired loco but then I don't over fire it as it is easy to control. That however does not change the fact that Hans should listen with some sympathy to Brian's complaint.

You are all very quick to jump on the Accucraft bashing threads... but obviously have little time for anyone that registers a complaint about an Aster engine.

 

[rodblakeman]

Andrew,
I was not complaining or too worried, as I suggest above, I thought this was normal. I was just trying to give Brian some moral support against all the flack he was getting for daring to suggest a problem with an Aster. !! No manufacturer is perfect and we should all understand that. If you remember even the factory built T3 I purchased from you did not run initially but we fixed it. It does not mean to say that we start "trashing" the manufacturer or that we should try and hide any failure, just accept that these things happen sometimes.

It's nice of everyone to offer Brian suggestions on how to prevent damaging the inside of the smoke stack. I thought that his problem was with paint coming off the outside ? Apologies if I am wrong about that. /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/sad.gif