So i just cut and paste the 3 Zpubs into a new electrum 2of3 and it recognized the previous transactions. however, when i went to send it doesn't give me the option to sign. I get it, electrum doesn't know anything about the HWs now, any ideas on how to work this out?
What you made is entirely a "
watch only" wallet.
For the wallet to be recognized by a hardware wallet, it has to be setup with the hardware wallet itself like I've instructed.
Or do the above if you want to use separate wallet files for the two hardware wallets.