Hornby Thompson L1

[Helmdon]

Afternoon all, 

 

looking at adding one of these to the stud, needs to be BR early emblem. Browsing around the usual sites pulls up a couple of perfect ones for (comparatively) silly money, but then the second hand end of things almost all of them seem to be missing their front buffers (with a pair of round holes in the front buffer beam).

 

Was there something intrinsically wrong with the models that has caused them all to fail in the same way, and can replacements be sourced? I've found the buffers themselves, plus springs, but not their red housing (is there a technical term for that, never had to think of it before...)?

[31A]

Hi Helmdon,

 

The Hornby L1 is a very nice model, I've got 4 and quite pleased with them.

 

Suitable buffers can be obtained from various makers of loco components, for example:

 

https://www.wizardmodels.ltd/shop/locomotive/ls29/

 

https://www.wizardmodels.ltd/shop/locomotive/lnersr-locomotive-buffers-4909/

 

http://www.lanarkshiremodels.com/lanarkshiremodelsandsupplieswebsite_128.htm

 

 

 

 

[Helmdon]

53 minutes ago, 31A said:

Hi Helmdon,

 

The Hornby L1 is a very nice model, I've got 4 and quite pleased with them.

 

Suitable buffers can be obtained from various makers of loco components, for example:

 

https://www.wizardmodels.ltd/shop/locomotive/ls29/

 

https://www.wizardmodels.ltd/shop/locomotive/lnersr-locomotive-buffers-4909/

 

http://www.lanarkshiremodels.com/lanarkshiremodelsandsupplieswebsite_128.htm

 

 

 

 

Brilliant, thanks a lot - that has given me some confidence to proceed. Still in the foothills of abililty but I ought to be able to cope with attaching castings such as those.

[micklner]

The L1 loses its Buffers ,because Hornby made its Bufferbeam to the scale depth as a result there is only a very fragile thin piece of plastic to hold the Buffers on.

 

You can get Hornby sprung Buffers of a similar design via ebay e.g B1 version which are the correct colour, and made of Plastic, simply glue them on.