What did you receive today?

[Fishmanoz]

By circuitous means, my 08 arrived today. It joins the Easterner set which came direct having been ordered prior to Hornby being stopped from any delivery to Australia by SMS their local wholesaler.

As nothing has yet reached these shores for SMS to then supply via selected retailers, they will be two of very few TT:120 items here to date, maybe the only two.

The Easterner is already HM7000-fitted. No problem for non-TT:120 supply, as long as you don’t mind paying the £50 flat shipping rate when the RM small parcel cost is only £11. And they try to charge that on each item order. Something Hornby really needs to fix in my view.

[Too Tall]

My Hornby Water tower, which I weathered nicely I thought, is too big to fit any suitabkle location on my layout.

Today I received its replacement, a very nice small platform water tower from MS Models which is modelled on one in Yorkshire. Even the platform location next to a tunnel matched my layout ! Unfortunately the real one is on the opposite platform to mine, meaning the door is the tunnel wall end, Currently I am printing a door for the other end hugging_face

Also fresh of my 3D printer, an N gauge vicarage for near the church.

I downloaded the 3D file for it but spent a lot of time having to make it suitable for printing and adapting it to my preference.

[taunmarc88]

My 08 arrived today, looking forward to running her in tomorrow.

[Rallymatt]

Today’s delivery was the replacement 08, run in perfectly on DC, very smooth, and beautifully detailed and everything in tact. Gaugemaster Ruby 6 pin decoder fitted and about to do some programming to more realistic speeds

[South Coast Flyer]

This could be an abject failure or stroke of genius - going to try a forced perspective at one end of the layout

I’ve been looking for a modern station to dominate the scene so thought I’d try this Faller Wintersberg kit in Ho out

[Rallymatt]

SCF, fortune favours the brave 😁

[number1]

Today I received 2 mobile tankers, 1 Toad b brake van and a free Hornby mug, luckily no damage to any of it as DPD kindly delivered it over a 6 foot gate!

[Mr Jolley]

Twelve radius 4 curves, a brown brake van, various half and quarter bits of track and a mug. All very well packaged and delivered with care.

[Dave the Busker]

In today: fencing, line side cabinets and grit bins smiley

Out today: broken down Falcon disappointed_relieved

[Rallymatt]

Nooooo Dave…. Dare I ask what ailment Falcon has gone down with?

[Dave the Busker]

It had been running fine all morning. I put it in reverse for a moment to line it up for a photo to post of the things that had arrived today, and the motor instantly seized up. No movement forwards or backwards, or with a 9v battery test.

[Rallymatt]

This is sounding worryingly common…. That’s pretty much how mine have seized up. My initial thought is low quality Chinese motors…

[Dave the Busker]

I've had Blink Bonny do the same. If the factories in China had given Hornby anything even less reliable I'd be asking if they'd got these motors off Arthur Daley

[taunmarc88]

My Blink Bonny was the same too, it’s just come back so I’ll be testing her out again today.

[Rallymatt]

Trigo..and it’s looking very good. Could be just a fluke but the motor ‘sounds better’ less growly than previous models…. Hopefully that could indicate an upgrade or better quality batch?

[South Coast Flyer]

Good news RM hopefully good running locos are the future grinning

[Daedalus]

Trigo sound fitted.

Fed up waiting for the app so got an Arduino Mega 2560 and Motor Shield for ~£20 and DCC++Ex in a browser window and it worked out of the box.

Currently chuffing around the track.

[Baz657]

Trigo (complete with sound) arrived today. Powered up and connected to Bluetooth straight away. There were a couple of Bluetooth updates but they only took a couple of minutes. Then did the reccomended running in one way and another. Half hour each way in half speed. Even took a video as it was going well.

So far very impressive.

But then went to run at full power and there was a sound that I can only describe like a mains fuse popping. Bluetooth triangle thingy now red. Loco dead.

I’m guessing a call to Hornby CS in the morning.

[Rallymatt]

If the decoder looses BT connection it will show red rather than blue. I’d do usual IT procedure, turn both off the on again. The pop has been reported on switching on usually, it’s not any indication of anything problematic. It’s worth checking that your controller device BT is stable

[Baz657]

Oh well. I guess I'll be seeing how quickly the repair teams work. Posting her off today.

[PeterM67]

Today I received:

Trigo with DCC pre-installed.

Flying Scotsman with DCC pre-installed.

The GBRF class 08.

Whilst I can't run these until my Blink Bonney set arrives I opened them up to visually inspect the trains in case of any issues.

The 08 and Flying Scotsman appear perfect from a visual perspective and the couplings seem at the correct height and work appear to work correctly.

However when it came to Trigo as I very carefully opened the plastic inner container I was greeted by the sight of the front buffer assembly falling off. I'm assuming insufficient glue was used during manufacturing.

Anyway I'm annoyed and am tempted to return Trigo to Hornby for them to sort out.

Other than the bumper issue the Trigo looked fine.

[Railbob]

PeterM67,

If I were you I’d send it straight back for two reasons, one it lets them know about QC issues and secondly if you botched the repair it’s on you and not them, so if they stuff up the repair they have to fix or replace.

Railbob

[david_watts1]

2 painted 3d printed telephones boxes and post boxes from an ebay seller.

[PeterM67]

Don't worry Railbob it will definitely be going back!

I took a photo earlier of the problem. The buffer assembly appears to have 2 lugs that match with holes on the loco body and then a bit of glue holds it in place. However one of the lugs is missing so I guess it wasn't held very securely and it fell of in transit. Any attempt at self repair would most likely quickly fail and really it needs new buffers.

[Rallymatt]

Not easy to tell in the photo but it look like the main adhesive area is the flat section on the frame and the buffer beam itself. The holes are more than likely just for locating during assembly rather than provide all the strength.

If you can line the buffer up ‘dry’ and there are no other breakages it would be a painless repair. I would scrape the glue away with a craft knife and ensure the surfaces fit together nicely then a couple of small dabs of Superglue. I know it’s not ideal but it would mean your loco is up and running almost immediately. There is the view (which I also support) that errors/damages need to be fed back… it’s a balance.