keithp1707821843 Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Anyone know the difference between the 'new' R8072 Left Hand Point x1 Blister Pack, and the old R8072 pack?Is is just packaging?Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 It's a left hand point with the same number so it's the same left hand point. Like you say different packaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Previously the Hornby Point just came in a Cardboard sleeve.So, Hornby have gone the opposite way to the current way of thinking and started to introduce a Plastic Package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Spare Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 I think blister packs are not a new introduction: I seem to remember such packs being in use at least 10 years ago so this 'new' point may in fact be 'old' stock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 I recently got some Express points and they were in cardboard sleeves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithp1707821843 Posted February 26, 2020 Author Share Posted February 26, 2020 I only ask as my points arrived last week in cardboard, and I thought have they introduced a new improved version.Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 I also bought some Hornby points recently, they were in Cardboard. Maybe as GS says, the blister packs are older stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBfan Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Or it could be new stock and the ones in cardboard sleeves old stock. it will take a while for all stock to come in the new packing. Peco have used plastic sleeves for years. i do`nt know what all the fuss is about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Spare Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 The "fuss" is that, with universal effort to reduce the amount of single use plastic, Hornby might just have recently regressed from card sleeves to a blister pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Does seem a strange choice. Having said that John West have started to sell tuna etc. in plastic tubs instead of tins. However the plastic is biodegradable so maybe the Hornby plastic is the same. If the plastic is new and isn't biodegradable then I think we should make a fuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 If it says "new" on the package, possibly it dates from the change to the PECO style of point, from the older Style of point? That is, the first introduction of the R8xxx points? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithp1707821843 Posted February 27, 2020 Author Share Posted February 27, 2020 If it says "new" on the package, possibly it dates from the change to the PECO style of point, from the older Style of point? That is, the first introduction of the R8xxx points?So are you saying this is a new style?If so - bit unfair to just introduce it without notice. I would have waited another couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 I think what is being said is they were new when they were first introduced but now they are actually old R8xxx stock. The SKU numbers should give you a clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 Maybe they did wait a couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 The point change happened some time ago now... Previously, the point operating lever was attached to the point, and the point motors clipped on to the side of the point. The R8xxx type of point is similar to the PECO style of points. No operating lever on the point.A newer, similar to Peco, Point motor mounts under the point. Or in an adaptor, above the baseboard. Someone will know when the R8xxx series points were introduced... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 They've been like that for years haven't they. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Spare Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Mid to late 1990s would be my estimate, possibly linked to the production move from Austria to China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffnut Thorston Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Shews how long it's been since I purchased a Hornby point! 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithp1707821843 Posted February 28, 2020 Author Share Posted February 28, 2020 The point change happened some time ago now... Previously, the point operating lever was attached to the point, and the point motors clipped on to the side of the point. The R8xxx type of point is similar to the PECO style of points. No operating lever on the point.A newer, similar to Peco, Point motor mounts under the point. Or in an adaptor, above the baseboard. Someone will know when the R8xxx series points were introduced...Might be being dim here, but on the points I have there is a lever on each side. So when you say Previously, the point operating lever was attached to the points.... what do you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 They used to have a cranked lever on one side that operated the tie bar. /media/tinymce_upload/98f3b805531bcd6e578f396ec9698e16.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Spare Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 The R61x/R62x-series points (and their forerunners) had a cranked lever at one side as shown above.The R80xx-series points - whether in a cardboard sleeve or a blister pack - do not have the cranked lever, just a pin moulded in to each end of the tie-bar to link with a surface-mount point motor operating arm (and a hole in the centre of the tie-bar to take the pin of a point motor mounted directly under it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithp1707821843 Posted February 28, 2020 Author Share Posted February 28, 2020 Ok got it - thanks.Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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