Butler Henderson

The reported issue seems to be on dcc - mine hasn't been run much since decoder fitting it. It was run in on dc. Were the "test mules" laps on dc only? If some users have no problems on dcc then maybe details of what dcc systems are in use where failures have occurred should be sought. Some dcc systems can put out higher than normal voltages. That can be capped by using a different power supply or using a string of bi-directional diodes in one leg of the track connection so is it a case of handling upto x volts is okay but beyond that is where failures occur? Or are the dcc systems in question capable of puttiung out a current beyond that the springs can cope with in the event of a momentailly short before the dcc system trips?

Given the Genesis coaches, P and Barclay all have pre-orders which will be fulfilled we are told then some off spring must be in the pipeline to exist after the closure.

What you need to watch is length okay for your curves on those alternative couplings.

Purchased the preserved 9466 model which I found has no etched number plates with it. Bachmann have confirmed that none are supplied.

The duplicate toolings were made by Dapol as they did not have access to the Kader toolings. They previously had made duplicates of some of the Airfix toolings before they acquired the originals. One exception was the container for the conflat of which the tooling was lost. Dapol had duplicated the conflat and had a new container tooling, both of which they sold to Hornby with Dapol then tooling up a further container to use with the Airfix conflat. Source: Ramsay's British Model Trains catalogue

Also they use a different section of rail to other code 83 makers which I found joins code 100 in height far better. Tiling point to code 100

The pointwork is slightly flexible so careful laying and pinning is advisable. The track is in Anyrail which is free to use up to a certain number of pieces so you could have a play with that to see how it fits together.

And they should be thankful in all probability that it was delayed long enough not to be a DJM model.

Take a 18, 19 or 20 as appropriate and trim the plastic shank to fit the 363 mount using the supplied tension lock as a guide.

6 pins unless the relatively rear cabled type are a bit tricky to hard wire - 8 pins are the easiest provided not the direct plug type. Just possibly a need to watch the overall size of the decoder for fitting in the model. Also if the decoder is one that amy misbehave due to the presence of a TV interferecne suppression capacitor on the Sentinels that is unfortunately buried under the motor requiring a almost complete strip down of the model to remove.

Very limited and slightly strange - some plastic deail strips for example are 50% off but others of similar in stock quantity over 30% off. The sheer number of second hand March station canopies is a bit baffling - all over 30% off

Rather Rapido come up with a free replacement than a 3D print as my experience of such is not good with any stress applied to them, even moving contact strips would I can imagine result in the 3D print splitting.

The Hornby 4 pin was so they could use their existing poor 8 pin decoder with a new plug easily added. Completely barking, at least they are starting to use 6 pins etc. On all of my locos with 4 pin sockets I simply stripped out most of the existing wiring and hard wired a decoder which made for a far neater installation.

Or then again maybe not - seems its wired as a cross over cable rather than straight through

Thinking of redoing the light wiring on mine with added white and red LEDs to the respective headcode displays. The white headcode LEDs connected to F0 instead of the cab lights. The cathodes of the red LEDs and cab lights also connected to appropriate F0 feed. The red LEDs anodes connected to the switched output of a relay and the cab light anodes to the switched output of another relay. Then both connected to the appropriate F0 feed. The relays being worked by F1 and F2 with a 1N4001 diode in reverse across the coil connections to suppress the relay and protect the decoder. Would need the 10k resistors on the main PCB shorted out and replacement 10k added to the six LED cathode connections. As such the rear cab light could be switched on if desired and red rear headcode displayed as necessary.

Dapol having livery inaccuracies is all too common so I wouldn't hold out on that

And it transpired my order of Sunday 14th was packed 4.15pm today

Another update email - 4 day despatch delay.

More info on the issue and link to a power shell script for the fix https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-shares-script-to-update-windows-10-winre-with-bitlocker-fixes/

Scary link - could put people off ordering

Mine was equally big enough - deleting it and recreating it as I noted above caused the error to cease

34,500 made apparently 1976-1978 according to Pat Hammonds book, "the wrong quality for the time". The one Hornby loco that I thought was even worse was the 1984 Princess Royal 4-6-2; Pat notes the incorrect wheelbase, use of the A1/A3 pony truck, Fowler tank valve gear coupled to Black 5 cylinders and slide bar, plus the isssues with the tenders including those with the tender body off the Duchess being fitted atop the 9F tender chassis.

Pat Hammond doesn't mention which model the tender came from in Vol 3 of The Story of Rovex other than it was an existing 14ft wheelbase chassis. It was notable in being the first steam loco model to have glazed cab windows but those hardly mitigated its short comings. Pat noting the front bogie wheel was 2mm too small and a spoke too many, the driving wheels were not accurately spaced and had three spokes too many, loco body too long, cylinders too deep, no daylight under boiler, front bogies set back too far, tender c 2ft too long, and a chimney unlike the prototype.

It was catalogued for 1974 but did not actually appear until early 1975

There is a red blind at one end on mine and a white at the other end