jonnyuk

Had another look tonight, question what holds the bogies in place, I.e stopping the up/down/left/right movement. If it was not for the pickup wires (which I had to resolder tonight ) then the bogies would simply fall away. This can’t be right surely? Am I missing a screw that holds the Bogor in place and allows it to pivot?

i received my freightliner model yesterday and to my horror i have multiple problems it. 1: 2 buffers rattling around in the box 2: missing detail pack 3: Put the loco on the track and instantly got a grinding nose. Under inspection the non pantograph end driving bogie seems to have a lot of play in it and the wheels don't drive. I took the loco apart (moving the body) and the drive shaft from the central motor to the bogie tower had come out. No problem i though and put it back in. However it soon came out again and this is due to too much forward movement of the bogie tower. Has anybody else had this problem? i seem to remember someone mentioning a broken bogie tower but my looks fine, it's almost as if the drive shaft is a few mm too short. overall a nice model but i'm not blown away by it, the class 60 and 56 from Hornby are far better. thanks

Thank you for this, not really my location but can’t resist and I can use it for my intermodal traffic. The class 90 brings back great memories

cheers Izzy, i'll take a look.

i'm using a prodigy express, your thoughts on the speed steps seem logical, i assume i can change it to 28? Gives me something to try tonight anyway, i have to set i'm not waiting 20 seconds either, something else to try. thanks

from what i can gather the Zimo won't fit in a terrier. the Hornby chip is designed to fit in the terrier because the chip is wired to the pins and sits above the dcc socket. I have tried numerous resets but i'll do a few more, i had another play last night and no joy. i'm about to give up on it

to be honest i don't know what model it is (it came with another loco i bought, all i know is the manufacture code, 129). I have tried values of 0, 5, 10, 30, makes no difference to how long it takes the loco to stop.

Hi all, does anyone have some tips before i got and spend £20 on the Hornby chip thanks

Hi all, I’m having issues with my digitrak 6 pin decoder. I’ve put it in the Hornby terrier and I can’t get cv 4 to have any effect on stopping distance. It takes a good 40 seconds for the loco to stop. changing cv 2 and cv 3 does have an effect, I have done a factory reset and also turned off dc mode. can anyone suggest anything? thanks

I got a little note book as well, nice touch as you say. One disappointing thing that I need to speak to Hatton about, one of my wagons was missing the detail bag.

I got the last one I think. great spot !

Sorry about that, thought everyone was a mind reader....

i have a colas 60 and so was on my list, would of been nice to have an evening star to go with it, i can wait for that though, there will be other sales i'm sure.

Bagged my self a Hornby class 66 for £60. Had to settle for colas as all the other nice liveries are out of stock.

Well I spoke to Hornby today, said send them the chip and they will take a look at it. Fingers crossed they can sort it out.

Great idea, thank you for your input, I’ll give it a go tomorrow and report back,

i've got a Hornby tts class 40 chip, i put it in my Kernow Bulleid and as such have had to play around with cv settings. I got it to a good point of running but i suspect the start voltage was not right as the loco only started to move when i got to 7-8 (28 speed step). I changed cv2=10 and since then i've not been able to do anything with the chip, the loco does not move, i can't read from the chip or set a cv value, i also can't reset the chip by setting cv8=8. Have i busted the chip?

Sure I’ve read somewhere that occasionally they ventured into the southwest under lms days but I can’t find where I read it. i really do want the unstreamed line black lms version but given I model the south western region I’m really still just about holding off. Maybe I should use rule 1, it’s my layout and just get one because I like them.

well turns out i was having a "moment". I turned the tender over and gentle pulled the sides of the tender away from the chassis, the chassis then fell away. it's almost like there where little lugs holding the body in place as well as the screws. What threw me was the fact the tender body was suppose to fall away. anyway all sorted.

hi all, i'm having issues taking the tender of my LN. the tender body is stuck solid, there is no give or movement at all, it's almost like some numpty in the factory has put a beed of glue round the edge of the tender body and stuck it down. i have removed the visible screw, taken the rear bogie off and removed the hidden screw. is there anything else to remove? thanks

Thanks for the heads up. Picked up my second Hornby mk3 network rail coach, nearly the full set now

Not noticed that, makes me feel a little better (not much though).

Those 37’s where £90 in the sale of the century, missed out on the colas because I sat debating whether to get one, by the time I had made my mind up they had all sold out!

Dually done

Thank you for the info, gives me something to go on now, at least I know what search for now.