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Indeed they would have, I wouldn’t have…..because I wouldn’t have known Honestly, most things to me in life are if it looks right it is right, and it works for me.

Found it, Sommerfeldt……

Here you go, I decided a few minutes with file, snips and one screw was easy enough. Horrible enlargements for you to judge the quality.

With that engine and those side reflectors I assume it is an American import.

That’s interesting, what make is it Charlie?

Go for it….

Might be a while yet, my APT project is on a very far away back burner presently…..but I will try and get the two components together in the next few days just for you There is a small screw “lug” on both components in just the right place to screw them together and with the two panto insulators cut off it will leave the four pot base looking right hopefully.

Don’t worry, Fran will send yours in a Jiffy bag

I wouldn’t worry about the chassis rot, Rails of Sheffield must value them very highly https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133958067528?epid=1356728713&hash=item1f3085e548:g:C~QAAOSweAxhsMeK

I bought a Sommerfeldt base and a Hobby Einholm panto, together they will look a close match I think, whatever really they’ll look 100% better than the existing panto.

Ask Dominic Cummings, he seems to know all the dark secrets everywhere.

We all know who won

Why such small boxes?

I pay at time of order, then it comes as a lovely surprise after one/two/three years to find an order coming for a brilliant model I don’t have to pay for, well that’s what it feels like by then

Before you do I’d suggest just buying a setrack oval and trying your new model at least, there certainly have been many more working models than cr@p models, not that that excuses the bad ones at all.

Just on the pantograph, over a year ago I started planning the upgrade of my original APT, one of the modifications I planned was a change of panto I searched (I think it was Peterspares in the end) for an alternative and found so many HO pantos which TBH are small works of art and work easily and properly and can be used for pick-up (not that it is needed nowadays) I bought one that looks similar to the supplied panto for about £12…..it is like comparing a Polk hand built model car to a Tonka Toy truck. Considering Hornby had/have access to Roco/Rivarossi which have many lovely modelled pantos what went wrong? Even when holding the HO panto against the Hornby version the scale difference is not apparent.

It’s a Chinese factory……what’s a weekend?

That’s quite a bit wider than they should be, as above information to adjust, sometimes you can do it by just twisting a wheel slightly while holding some pressure on in the direction you need, just be careful.

I use the buckeye type on a few fixed passenger rakes and have found there seems to be a “right way up” to the moulding, one way the printing on the top of the shaft is a bit rough other side it looks finished better. I haven’t seen anything in any instructions noting this though. They are good and useful but I wouldn’t say they are transformational. On some other rakes I have used the old fleishmann profi couplings as they have no “give” once coupling so no shuffling of coaches.

Would they swing clear if the hunt coupling was mounted the other way up? I bought some for normal carriages and noticed the centre part was slightly higher one way than they other (hope that makes sense).

14.5 mm

Have you checked the B2B on the APT?

Proper engineering

Does sound like a bit of a disaster, but TBH the join, interiors, coupling gaps would be acceptable if it were just a toy train, unfortunately Hornby are aiming at a higher market segment with the price.

Difficult to assess a recording of a recording but that does sound like the speaker has no enclosure, it’s very thin with no meat, subjectively I get better from my 14XX with a sugar cube in the bunker, and that’s really small.