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The flag would have been somewhat like this... Three soldering irons! I am unable to use one without getting clumps and lumps of solder in all sorts of unexpected places... I have the greatest admiration respect for those who can (solder that is)...

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Not a model, essential for a smoking modeller, it was badly listed and hiding out of the french ebay and went for #7.00... (It also needed a good work out with the Autosol Polish)

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Thanks - it certainly looks the part however I am no expert on the different varieties of SECR coaching stock... I was hoping there was someone on this forum who might know As a topic, however, there may not much that can be said...

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As no one has yet started a topic on the forthcoming SECR Birdcage coaches, I thought that I might have a go. My interest in these is that they were used on the Guildford to Horsham branchline. At some date they were replaced but it would have to have been after the late 1950's. I remember seeing them, I belive three in all, sitting at the south end of platform 2 waiting to depart. They were usually hauled around that time by an M7 tank. Does anyone know if these coaches were of the same type that Bachmann are proposing to release? Not that it will make any difference to my desire to acquire them. For Whether or not these are the same - they will surely fit the part. My only niggle is that Bachmann will not be producing them in BR(S) green... Which I do wish do they had proposed to do... I am eagerly looking forward to seeing what the the pre-production models look like..

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It would indeed have been cheaper, but on this occasion due to a perceived supply problem, all that appeared to be available was the Hornby chip installed X version of the 2Bil. This chip clearly does not work very well on DC, unless you only ever want to run it in one direction. But even then, It also suffers a performance hit on DC - slow running characteristics were muchimproved once the chip was removed. I am sure that the chip was not defective. As designed it appears to work on DC 50% of the time

Thanks, this helps - I have removed the offending decoder and replaced it with a Bachmann blanking plug. All running characteristics have been vastly improved - it now runs superbly well in both directions on DC. It seems DCC does not really get on that well with DC - performance is better with the chip removed...

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The 2 Bil (R3162X) arrived on Friday. It is being run on a DC layout even though it has a decoder on board, and seems to run very well in the forward direction (power car first). To get it to go in the opposite diredtion from rest is another matter. It won't - you crank the power up to full blast and give it a gentle push and - nothing. It sits there like a lump of lead grinning at you with a 2 Bil toothy smile. (I imagine that the 2 Bil face could have been the inspiration for Spongebob ) However if I drive it forwards and then reverse it, it will run very well - even slowly. It has been run it in in both directions and the problem still persists. I am thinking of leaving it running overnight but worry it might wind up damaged in some unexpected way... Sould I remove the decoder? Would this help to make it perform as designed expected? Do the Hornby models need a blanking chip? I notice it came without one - the few Bachmann models that came chipped all came with spare blanking plugs... Has anyone else experienced this problem?. Other than it's a lovely model but I still do wish Hornby would leave modelling EMU's to Bachmann and company...

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