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Update February 2024
Hope you all have had a great holiday season with your families. Wisconsin is white with snow and 14” of ice on the lakes here near Shawano
We are having another record year for TinMan sales. Much appreciated by all. We have been doing our best to maintain our selling prices and now find we just cannot hold those prices on many items. We still offer free shipping but the costs for shipping has in some cases doubled. That plus service has deteriorated with UPS along with significant price increases and add on charges. USPS is getting a big portion of the UPS business, due to pricing, but their delivery service has become much worse than normal. Lots of complaints regarding shipping times from all service providers, even fed x. I just don’t know where things are heading this year, but it doesn’t look good. Many of our customers are on fixed incomes and like us are struggling with ridicules inflation and trying to make ends meet. My crystal ball has gotten really cloudy and does not seem to predict things very well anymore.
Oh, almost forgot! Hats are back in stock and due to many requests will be available for sale soon. Much nicer looking than the first batch.
Transformers are a major concern for us at Tinman for safety which is why most all our transformers now come with grounded 3 prong plugs. I wish I could figure out what to do with hundreds of old style cords with good but used 2 prong plugs! If you can use some let us know and we will throw a few in with your orders free. We recently added a GFCI power plug to our transformer test bench. Any reconditioned transformer which opens the GFCI breaker is rejected and goes in the recycle bin. Should you add one to your layout’s input power connection? Don’t think so problem issues are extremely rare, even when we intentionally short circuit the outputs. Will continue to use on our production bench for transformers.
Had a couple of requests for a kit to convert a traditional AC transformer to convert one of the outputs to dc. If you need one, give us a call. Works great.
Coming soon will be a new group of very reasonably priced transformers. Yup we are trying to do our bit.
Help! K line at one time made a very good external whistle control, need a sample which we can use as a model, hope can be added to our line. Supposed to work well without the power loss of the Lionel units. Anybody got one, or a schematic we can copy?
Believe it or not we are working on a brandy new O27 remote control switch! This switch will have a huge LED indicator to indicate switch direction as well as of course a no de-rail feature. In the process now of perfecting production techniques. You won’t believe it’s origin when it is finally available!
YOU DON’T GROW OLD FROM PLAYING WITH TRAINS, YOU GROW OLD WHEN YOU STOP PLAYING WITH TRAINS!
tinman@tinman3rail.com 262-914-0057 or Christine 262-417-4237