Need new MTH 4 wheel truck

Call and talk to Midge at MTH and leave her a message. Tell her what you need and item no. MTH will not respond to emails. 

Thanks,

 

I have left message and sent an email for Midge.

Al, if you would give me the SKU number on the box, I would look up the part number if there are parts available on the MTH website. LMK. 

The product number of car is 20-69109, CN Passenger 70 ft, but the parts schematic was greyed out on the MTH site. I was able to find other MTH 70 ft passenger car with parts schematic  and they look very similar. Looks like the part is DA-00000006, Black 4 wheel truck. Midge just got back to my email  1 hour turnaround, quick) and said they were out of stock and these were back ordered.

It's a very busy time at MTH, keep trying Midge. Failing that,  I'd try forum member Chuck Sartor. He has been great at finding MTH parts for me.

Al, that part shows up on my order form as "available". LMK by email if you want me to order it.

I have had several of these truck sets on order for five months through a MTH Service Tech,good luck.

Mikey

Midge has responded that MTH s back ordered on these trucks. Will search web.

Two suggestions to go with Waiting on MTH:

 

1 - do you use an auction site? (I wear one of them out, and it rhymes with "hay".)

There are parts and pieces and cars available there, and you may find the truck

that you seek, probably one in a pair. So? An extra truck never hurt anyone. Wrong

color? Paint it. Maybe find a car like yours at a nice price; truck or body swap.

 

2 - cheaper idea, and more satisfying: I fiddle all the time, so what I see of your

problem looks do-able. Maybe not, but here's what I would do: get some Walthers

Goo adhesive (all railroaders should have this wonderful stuff around), or get some

2-part epoxy like JB Weld at the hardware store (also good to have around).

Cut and file a piece of brass to the same shape as the original "flange" as you call

it, then sandwich it on to the truck with the epoxy or a good slather of Goo.

Let it cure a couple of days and see if your roller mount will slip on. No? File

and fiddle until it does. Use some more Goo or epoxy to actually hold the roller

assembly to the truck as an added strengthener. Paint all this black if it's really

ugly (voice of experience.)

This may not work (voice of...), but it may help you take control of some of the little

things that break on your trains, and that's always good.

 

If you don't have any brass scraps around, try any good hobby shop - RR or not -

for materials. Also good stuff to have lying around.

Found a MTH 2 rail truck set and cobbled together a new 3 rail truck. All is up an running.AL B