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Tenders on Hornby Locomotives


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Hi everyone,

Does anyone know if it is true about the Tenders on Hornby Steam Locomotives being pernemently attatched to make it esier with the DCC sockets in the tender?
I hope it is not true as unless Hornby can change all of their steam locomotives

packaging to atleast the packaging where the box splits in two it will be allmost impossible to get it out of the box without breaking anything.
But, on the other hand people might like it because it will be easer than those plugs that they are using at

the moment.

Please help,

Jacob
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bocaj said: Does anyone know if it is true about the Tenders on Hornby Steam Locomotives being pernemently attatched to make it esier with the DCC sockets in the tender?

Jacob,

I'm not sure what you are asking. Perhaps people are using the

term "permanently attached" to refer to the wires and plug?

I do own locomotives that have a permanent drawbar connection, that pivots on both ends (along with wires from pick-ups on the locomotive wheels). These are usually tender-powered models.

All

the Hornby models I have seen lately are locomotive driven, the tenders are separate and they have plugs and wires to make an electrical connection for tender pickups or a decoder blanking plate. Is this your question?
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Greetings, young man. Trust you are in reasonable shape. WTD was refering to the current issue of Railway Modeller, it's in the letters page and includes a photo of the magic tool for joining the plugs together. I hope I haven't trodden on WTDs toes by

jumping in - the silence from Bucks makes me think he's walking the dog in the direction of a pub!!! 6100 said:I give up. To many pills today. I meant Mr as in model rail.
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greetings PP. Unfortunatley not so good as you can see from the muddle I got myself into. Still looked at my copy of railway modeller and low and behold. Many thanks PP maybe even wtd will forgive me as well.
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The muddle is no more than the usual one. Sorry to hear you're ruff (WTDs hound is back) - keep taking the pills.

Were you sitting there all ready for a reply from someone? If he's been to the pub WTD will forgive anything - after going there the

world is his friend!!!
6100 said:greetings PP. Unfortunatley not so good as you can see from the muddle I got myself into. Still looked at my copy of railway modeller and low and behold. Many thanks PP maybe even wtd will forgive me as well.
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walkingthedog said: In the RM magazine this month, Hornby intimated that in the future, loco and tender will be connected together in the factory. They have also made a simple tool to help connect and disconnect the plug.
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Prat said: WTD was refering to the current issue of Railway Modeller, it's in the letters page and includes a photo of the magic tool for joining the plugs together.
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Connecting the locomotive and tender in the factory doesn't necessarily

mean that they are permanently connected - no? A tool to insert and remove the plugs would be rather nice.

To presume a partial answer to Jacob's original question, then certainly the packaging would need to be adapted to suit the locomotive and tender

being attached at the factory. Several people complained on the old forum that with the socket, plug, and wire all connected it was difficult to put the locomotive back into the package for off-layout storage.
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Ozexpatriate said:walkingthedog said: In the RM magazine this month, Hornby intimated that in the future, loco and tender will be connected together in the factory. They have also made a simple tool to help connect and disconnect the plug._________________Postman


Prat said: WTD was refering to the current issue of Railway Modeller, it's in the letters page and includes a photo of the magic tool for joining the plugs together._________________Connecting the locomotive and tender in the factory doesn't necessarily


mean that they are permanently connected - no? A tool to insert and remove the plugs would be rather nice.To presume a partial answer to Jacob's original question, then certainly the packaging would need to be adapted to suit the locomotive and tender


being attached at the factory. Several people complained on the old forum that with the socket, plug, and wire all connected it was difficult to put the locomotive back into the package for off-layout storage.

I agree, it would be better having a tool

to put it and remove the pin.
Also glad to see you agree with the packaging, it realy needs a change to atleast the box spliting in two meathod anyway, especialy if they decide to go ahead with the pernmently joined tender.

Thanks for the help

Jacob
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