The staff at Brick Model Railroader has an important announcement regarding the premium instructions set to be released for sale today, April 21, 2017.
We have encountered an unforeseen problem regarding the ball bearings used in the freight car trucks. Essentially, the metal Lego axles that would sit in the bearings are too large to be installed properly without ruining the bearing. Therefore, we are not able to install bearing in the Technic bricks either.
The BMR staff does not want to deliver a product that we feel does not meet our quality standards, and we also do not want to deliver a product that is not what we said we would deliver. We would like to humbly ask the Lego train community for more time until practical and workable solution is achieved.
We apologize for any inconvenience this causes and we apologize for not being able to launch the premium instructions today.
We appreciate the continued support of the community, and we hope we haven’t let anyone down.
Cale Leiphart and Glenn Holland
Brick Model Railroader Staff
I completely understand.
I’ve found that there is a large variance with the individual bearings where some work extremely well, some are a little tight and some flat out do not work. I wonder if sanding down the Lego axels will work? You might have to include the correct axels in the kit as well.