Dan Griffin

Hi

is anyone on here able to identify these detail parts that i found on my layout. 

they have obviously fallen off something, and i have had a look at recently run items but its beaten me and i cannot identify what they have fallen off. 

by some miracle does anyone on here know what they are from?

cheers

Dan

this is my 'go to ' thread when i log on, always excellent pictures on here.

it is interesting to see the weathering on  J281 where the handrails on the 08 are white lower down where the shunters hands have kept them clean. 

excellent

Dan

Regarding the O2 tank. I have a Southern one, numbered 182. My loco does not pick up any current from the front drive wheels on one side. If you look at the model head on, its the right hand side. Is this normal or has mine got a fault? 
 

i have cleaned all wheels, wheel backs and added a very slight ammount of ‘electro-lube’ to the bearings but these wheels pick absolutely nothing up what so ever. 

5 hours ago, KDG said:

Are these available yet Gareth?

 they are all available in the shop. i saw them this week in individual boxes behind the counter. 

i have found a fault with my 73136. the holes for the buffing plate are not positioned correctly. meaning the buffing plate fouls the buffers on the right hand side looking at the loco face on. 

anyone else found this?

Hi all.

advice please

my 92, 92003 with sound, has been running superbly since purchase.

however tonight when running the pantograph raised, but will now no longer go down. The servo is working as i can hear it, and a test with F17 proves the other to be working . 
 

has anyone else had this? I am experienced in model repairs so i could have a look myself but don’t want to void the warranty.
I have not taken the body off mine yet to look if anything has come adrift.

can anyone give advise on this?

dan

On 08/02/2023 at 18:51, Michael Hodgson said:

So, you've just leaked that there's some unannounced announcements there Fran !

Let's see ...

...to go with the chaldrons,.... colliery engines, a working pit pony (with sound) .....

So long as its only sound and not function too! don't want Pit Pony deposits all over the layout! 😄

4 hours ago, adb968008 said:

What kind of work requires 2x Class 92 to double head ?

Thats some serious earth moving power.

 

it it because of the severe gradient's on the route. i believe, having read the book 'British Diesel & Electric Abroad', that the gradients wore the bogies and wheel out very quickly so the 92's were taken off this duty. 

Hi

A few years ago, i bought a Zimo sound decoder fitted with a 2 second stay alive capacitor for my Bachmann class 40 from the Peterborough show off a guy called Paul Chetter, and it runs nicely and sounds better! but i have only realised in the last week or so that the stay alive that was provided doesn't seem to work. It only came to light after looking at the stay alive inside my Accurascale 92. When I lift that off the rails the sounds carry's on for around 5 seconds. when I lift the 40 off, the sound stops immediately, showing the stay alive is not working. 

i have been told it is possible that the stay alive is not activated and i should alter a CV to turn it on. can anyone advise which CV i need to alter to try and activate it?

thanks in advance

Dan

On 11/01/2023 at 12:33, Dan Griffin said:

another to add to the list. 

 

i have had this come in to me for repair. the loco wheels turn freely from the motor and it seems the chassis around the worm gear has deteriorated. Hornby R number is R2664 Collectors centre special edition Royal Scott. 

 

 

Coincidentally, one of these with rot is currently on ebay so its not just a one off!

another to add to the list. 

i have had this come in to me for repair. the loco wheels turn freely from the motor and it seems the chassis around the worm gear has deteriorated. Hornby R number is R2664 Collectors centre special edition Royal Scott. 

1 hour ago, gpplumy said:

could only do so if they have made the dumb style removable which id doubt

 

IMO they will be removable. i cannot imagine them retooling the chassis plate just to include dumb buffers for this, more likely tooled up dumb buffers to fit the holes already moulding into the chassis plate. 

I am hoping that R30306 LT sentinel will be provided with buffers as it wears now, as they do not seem to be in the picture. 

Now this looks very good. 

wonder if i could Bluetooth some tunes through the speaker form my iphone! 😀

3 minutes ago, rovex said:

 

 

Number in the class - 2

Area of operation - London to East Anglia

Length of service in this form - 1951 when both were converted to B17/6 and the stream lining removed.

 

So the smaller the number built, the smaller the area of operation and the shorter the length of service is what is going to determine the models Hornby will make!

It leaves it open no doubt for Hornby to make them in numerous 'fictional' liveries 

5 minutes ago, rogerzilla said:

Isn't the Bachmann NRM one good enough?  I love DP1 but I don't understand this from Hornby.

Agreed. IMO they wont beat the Bachmann version in terms of finesse, or indeed price!

3 minutes ago, big jim said:

 only fools and horses class 91 called ‘Dave’ 
 

 

 

 

 

Surely it would be 50021 wouldn't it? 😀😀

19 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

Apparently Simon Kohler is extremely upset by the portrayal of his company in the media and not getting any support from other manufacturers to defend Hornby against these baseless attacks.

'His Company'? since when?

So i caved and bought a sound 92003. It is simply stunning. I did a quick review here. The haulage capacity of this loco has to be seen to be believed! 
 

Hello all.

i have just finished building the Hardy’s Hobbies 3D printed Hudswell Clarke 1800 Industrial tank and finished it off as the NVR’s Thomas.

it was a pleasurable, if not frustrating at times, build.

regards

Dan

On 24/10/2022 at 09:15, Re6/6 said:

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it seems to be working again now. 

On 24/10/2022 at 14:56, DaveF said:

 

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What an excellent picture, i have just repaired one of these models made by Kleinbahn. mine is red though. one of the only pictures i've seen of a real one. 

Simon, i have all these bookazines and they are excellent. a real 'go to' publication. thanks for your time putting these together. 

any hints on what might be upcoming in the future?

regards

Dan

23 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

  However I can't help thinking it might be more productive to make your views on content/value for money known directly to the editor and publishers of the magazine than to raise it on a modelling forum. 

 

I have no Axe to grind. and indeed, no issues with the editor at all. I uploaded my thoughts on here as i believe RMweb is Warners owned, as is Traction. so, i thought this is the best platform to raise it on.  

hello

Just a general question as per topic title. 

is Traction magazine sustainable as it is at the moment?

After buying every issue since the very early days and have a complete back run, i have now ceased purchasing Traction magazine, and the worrying thing is, working in the rail industry, several of my colleagues who were regular readers have also ceased buying it. 

talking amongst ourselves we believe the problems are:-

1, cost.

£6.50 per issue. Of course, I understand about rising costs but then in comparison, Trackside magazine is £5 and has 108 pages and is published monthly, MLI published Bi-monthly, 100 pages and costs £7.99. Traction is £6.50, 67 pages (10 pages of which are modelling) and is bi-monthly. Cost comparison for content makes Traction an expensive purchase.  

2, content. 

Traction has always produced good content and reproduced some cracking pictures over the years but take issue 271. There is an article on South Wales, but the pictures are produced in a small format which is less than a 6" by 4" print. this doesn't do the pictures, or the photographer, justice.

We also understand that content from the era covered in Traction is finite, so would it be better, and more beneficial, if Traction went quarterly? 4 issues a year, bigger issues (100 page +) and drop the modelling content (which is a reheat from BRM anyway) for better reproduction of people's pictures? This would ensure Traction survives the current climate of rising costs and could be better and hark back to the early days of the magazine when the content was brilliant.

just a few thoughts.