Newer Trains Fail the Drop Test | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum

Rusty TraqueOGR Forum Member

Dennis LaGrua posted:
My $600 cell phone has been dropped dozens of times even on concrete floors. It has a few scratches but it still works perfect. Is is possible to engineer some ( but not all) drop protection. They got to beef the new stuff up a bit but that will hurt the replacement market.

Your cell phone is a rectangle that has less mass, no free standing parts and is essentially a solid object. But, as you say it has a few scratches, so therefore didn't quite survive unscathed.

I can drop my old Bell pushtone phone from my desk with the same results.

Seriously, do we expect the train makers to drop their products onto the floor from workbench height before shipping to see if they don't break, then pack them up?

Or maybe drive over them with a Humvee like they do for the Atomic Beam flashlight...

Rusty

3/4/182:19 PM

SuperChiefer84OGR Forum Member

Dropping one of my new Legacy SD40's would cause catastrophic damage. I don't plan on any drop tests, that's the stuff of nightmares for me haha.

3/4/182:26 PM

MoonsonOGR Forum Member

Cute, DKDKRD. wavey

3/4/185:37 PM

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