If you want more detailed mechanical information about the models wander around my website. I have several pages that cover the gearboxes, engines, hulls and modifications to same.

One other bit of information; I used to represent Maier here in the US in the early 1980s. I had very limited success due to the models being deemed
too expensive, lack of understanding of what hey were. Remember this was pre - internet ( as we know it) and traditional advertising was prohibitive
for a part time hobby business.

As to others still in existence? Maier once told me he sold only a handful to customers here in the US. Of those I have only my original purchased
1976-77 and my second which I purchased from a former customer of mine some 5 years after selling it; these are the only two sold to folks here in the US
that I know of. I'm sure there are others but I don't know them. In Europe they still pop up however in their original form they are very dated.
It seems that fewer and fewer are interested in glow powered models. The other examples I have as well as the parts, gearboxes and etc have all come
directly from Germany. I really don't know any other owner.

Most all the examples I've come across have had some form of violence visited upon them due to the owner not taking the time to understand the proper setup and lubrication of parts. You have to understand these models are not for the impatient; you'll never hear me recommend one to anyone who doesn't have experience. I didn't when I got my first one and it was a good 3 years before I figured it out. I wasn't happy for those first years; I never even painted it I was so po'd until I got it running right. There was no one to turn to and I was too proud to cry uncle and ask Jochen....not a good thing.

Jerry