Stan Ames said:
Dave
I have been and will continue to be polite and friendly. Model railroading is a fun hobby and I do not understand the hostility of your above message.
Polite and friendly huh.
I guess you have to be, even though you must be seething within not being able to impose your ideas/plans without having some battery fanatic put the kibosh on them. Perhaps you will now understand that your idea of co-operation and consensus did not match theirs. In future, perhaps you will listen and do the right thing even if it does gnaw at your better judgement. We are still prepared to co-operate on the socket design. You know the ground rules. We await your contact.
Stan Ames said:
You keep asking me to provide information concerning Bachmann. If you have a question about Bachmann why not ask them? They have a very good forum and I know the Bachman tries to answer questions posted there.
You did assist Bachmann with the (so called) Ames Super socket, did you not?
So why can't you answer even the simplest of questions that fall within your brief?
Cat got your tongue? Gagged by Bachmann?
Don't have the sway with the powers that be any more?
You say you were not paid for the consultancy. Why not? Did you have an agenda for someone else?
Perhaps in hindsight being paid for the Bachmann job might have been a better idea. That way no one could say you had an agenda for anyone else and there was no conflict of interest with your wife being the Lenz importer into the USA.
So why did you do it for gratis? To give something back to the hobby? Now that would be a noble position!!!!
Stan Ames said:
I have deep respect for the work you have done in the past which is why I contacted you for help early last year. I truly hope that the positive and constructive Dave will return in in the future, We miss him.
Damming with faint praise huh?
Stanley, sarcasm doesn't become you.
We have a saying in Australia Stan. "Dont come the raw Prawn with me matey".
You no more believe the above than anyone else does. So why say it?
Would it be for the same reason you wanted me to design an R/C interface for the Lenz DCC? I offered to co-operate on that too. I offered to provide the RCS codes so you could work it out. When you realised no one else was going to do it for you and you would have to do the work yourself, you declined. Fair enough.
Then I am asked to be part of the consultancy process with the socket proposal. All went swimmingly until you reneged on your promise to me in writing that you would ensure that screw terminals would be part of the proposal from the outset. I understand the actual battery wiring and charging circuits were a second part. But what you failed to understand is that, it would bevery difficult to add them in later unless they were provided for in the initial socket design.
Don’t forget, I have all of this in writing in E mails from you. I am not making it up.
Once again, let me repeat,
Provided you are prepared to accept that the socket MUST cater for all LS interests from the outset and not just be for DCC, then look forward to a long and lasting working relationship.
Don’t worry about what the big boys want. Let us get a proposal together that satisfies the average Large Scaler. The big boys will come on board then. If persuasion doesn’t work, there are other methods of getting their attention and co-operation.
Oh!!! And by the way.
Don’t expect any more fawning from the high ups at the NMRA.
Nudge nudge, wink wink. Say no more.!!!
Stan Ames said:
Stan Ames www.tttrains.com/largescale
That bear poop could have been in a perfect place about four posts ago! 
