96RAF Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 I have just been browsing the last page of the service sheet downloads page 400-450 and spotted a number of glaring errors. No doubt there are others. e.g 4-4-2t has item 1 as the motor when it is obviously the front bogie, P2 TTS has tender pickups item 11 wrongly described, P2 DCC doesn't have them. Pony truck wrongly identified, etc, etc. it looks like there is a job for life for someone editing these sheets and reporting back in detail to Hornby. don't volunteer me i have far too much to do battling petty bureaucracy here trying to reclaim overpaid property taxes (paid on my behalf by the developer - not that i had any say in the matter). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Proofreading is an endagered ocupation, if not actually extinct I think.... Just reading magazines, and the mistakes are blindingly obvious at times... My "favourite" is whole sections of text being vapourised at the end of a section....sometimes caused it seems by an illustration "eating" the text. Desk-top publishing.....is this to blame? That and "the wrong word, but pelt correctly"....a sign of the dreaded Spill Chuckers in use.... Interesting that errors are in the Service Sheets. Possibly something to do with "Printed in China"? That said, there were the odd Service Sheet error, usually followed by a note to dealers, in the 1950s and 1960s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyMac1707817969 Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 It was not all perfect in the old days, remember the 6 fingered dad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VESPA Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Why can't the loco be the name search for the service sheet instead of having to search through a pile of numbers to find what you want ?. Why are all the older locos service sheets now not available and we have to resort to some nice chap in Australia ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 It was not all perfect in the old days, remember the 6 fingered dad! Which was a Hornby Dublo illustration in a Catalogue..... 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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