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Tower Hobbies

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I wonder what is going on with Tower Hobbies, I just bought the last 2 x ASC6211 30 Degree caster blocks in white.

Now it is showing not carried,

https://www.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXFRHE&P=7

I see parts have gone from mid November to late November then to mid December then to late December and now

some parts are showing early January. :?:

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The pissed off Associated- likely for not paying their invoices. That’s why MIP left. Ive heard from another supplier they aren’t paying them as well. Associated have been reportedly shipping the bulk of their stock to Horizon Hobbies who they are back to dealing with after several years of begin apart
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That's a shame as I've been using Tower before the internet was invented :(
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I started out with Tower as my source in the mid 70's. I bought from the big catalog, money order, shipping to FPO address.

It's a shame to see them go so far down hill. Nowadays, I spend most of my hobby money with the smaller sources.
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Post by XLR8 »

Same here. Dad and I were into planes in mid '70's and Tower was nearly as close as the nearest hobby shop so we got almost everything from them. Also bought my Sand Scorcher from Tower when they first hit the catalog. For the sake of their employees, I hope they are able to sort everything out.
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The loss of Traxxas would have been huge for them. Now losing mip and likely others- I don’t see them surviving. Back in the day they had kyosho, Futaba, etc all exclusive. Now they have what Arrma? Yikes.
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Hi,

Does anyone else do Team Associated parts that I can deal with?

I tried Horizon Hobby but no Team Associated parts are coming up.

Dealing direct with Team Associated the postage is expensive.

Cheers, Dave. :)

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A-Main is my favorite lately 8)
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I think this topic fits in with this one.

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Thanks for that, I found the parts on the Horizon site, I'm blind!

Still no Asc6211. :cry:

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Hi GoMachV,

I see Amain and Horizon Hobbies have Asc6208 RC10 front arm mounts.

Cheers, Dave. :)

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yeah, that is really a shame. I love tower hobbies for the amount of information you can get from the descriptions, and the site is decent to navigate. this is a tough industry to survive in, and everything is like a house of cards, lose one card and everything crumbles. I wish them all the best but we shall see.

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tamiyadan wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:44 am
as for Great Planes they screwed many of us independent hobby shops in the 1990s and into the early 2000s so to see them burn is delicious.
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Technically he's correct, they undercut all the mom and pop shops.
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