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A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« on: January 06, 2023, 06:38:47 PM »
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Looks like Scaletrains has got FVM wheelset production back up and running.

https://www.scaletrains.com/n-scale/parts-accessories.html

It appears that they're available now.

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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2023, 06:44:45 PM »
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And the price is decent

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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2023, 07:26:53 PM »
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which ones are the lo-profile?  it's been so long i forgot.....

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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2023, 07:30:11 PM »
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which ones are the lo-profile?  it's been so long i forgot.....

They're what ST is calling semi-scale. The "standard" appear to be Matt's "wide".
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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2023, 07:43:45 PM »
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Good timing for this post.  I have a big order with the operator ET44 GEVOs in this week.

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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2023, 08:23:57 PM »
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Hallelujah.  Just ordered a bunch of 3301's and 3601's.  If you click on semi-scale by axle length, you'll get directed to a page to select wheel daimeter (28,33,36") and 12 or 100 packs.

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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2023, 08:52:36 PM »
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Wow...

Great per set price on packages of one-hundred.

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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2023, 09:08:37 PM »
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That is some fantastic news that I have been hoping would take place. Thank you Scale Trains!!!!!

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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2023, 09:27:33 PM »
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OMG Awesome!
Been jonesing for these far too long
Tried every wheel on the market and nothing comes close to the overall appearance of the old FVM and BLMA wheels.
N scale isnt going backwards after all!
Thank you Thank you Thank you
That shapeways wheel paint template gonna get a real workout now
500 wheel order of 3301’s already in your mailbox guys!

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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2023, 10:27:44 PM »
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Wow!  I didn't expect to ever see these again.  The timing of availability seems to correspond with the ESM's wheel releases.  I wonder if these were made by the same manufacturer that is used by ESM, or maybe they were shipped on the same container?  Very interesting.  :D
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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2023, 11:40:37 PM »
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Looks like Scaletrains has got FVM wheelset production back up and running.

https://www.scaletrains.com/n-scale/parts-accessories.html

It appears that they're available now.

This is GREAT news!

Cheerio!
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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2023, 12:51:52 AM »
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As I'm lazy, I hope they add the resistor wheelsets eventually as well. Good to see the various axle lengths back, hopefully ScaleTrains (and ESM!) can keep up with demand.

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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2023, 01:49:51 AM »
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Wow!  I didn't expect to ever see these again.  The timing of availability seems to correspond with the ESM's wheel releases.  I wonder if these were made by the same manufacturer that is used by ESM, or maybe they were shipped on the same container?  Very interesting.  :D

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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2023, 08:48:35 AM »
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This is great news, hopefully it can help relieve the supply crunch on quality metal wheels we've been living with for however many years.

I wonder if the bulk packs will still have a few sets that have had the wheels have pop off?

ESM satisfies my modeling needs but quality options are always a good thing, glad they are back.

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Re: A week of wheels: FVM wheels in at Scaletrains
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2023, 04:26:54 PM »
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I wouldn't be surprised to find a few loose wheels, as I doubt that the design or manufacturing has changed.

I have used FVM wheels, and they're nice wheels, but I will probably stick with ESM.  The main reason I changed to metal wheels was for rolling quality, and the ESM seem to roll better.  As an example, I have a caboose, with ancient KD trucks, that generally resides in my staging yard.

Now, this yard isn't flat.  For various reasons, non intentional, the middle is lower than either end.  This caboose originally had KD ribbed-back wheels, with the flanges filed down.  It ran fine, but would stay where it was left in the yard.  I eventually installed Precision Masters plastic wheels, as they seemed to work better on some of my turnouts than the hand-filed KD flanges.  It would still stay where I put it.

With FVM wheels, it would roll to the center IF I gave it a slight nudge to get it started.

With ESM wheels, it will roll to the center from a standing start, no nudge needed.

Both FVM and ESM wheels roll better than most plastic wheels, look better to me, and seem to track better backing up.
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