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Can I get a pm please on where you sourced them from? Thanks

That worked form me just now . Thanks

All credit to anyone that gets sponsored making money, or rather something towards costs, making informative YouTube videos. I’m not jealous of that so will watch anything that interests me. It’s no different to magazines or tv having paid adverts. It’s always been like that.

I’ve not done water transfers in 40 years and I remember hating it. YouTube and internet helps now though. I’ll get some to do my blue grey water tender for flying Scotsman

You make it look easy!

They absolutely should not be consumables. Someone needs to send hornby all this information. At least there are “easy” options for us fiddlers. I have sausage fingers and bad eyesight and I can change these without my silly magnifying glasses.

You only need 2 screwdrivers and a soldering iron to do this.( on this model anyway). You don’t need to remove gears.

At 24 hours both still going but in the morning at 35 hours, both had stopped working with the hornby controller dead. I get an output from the constant output on back but the controller voltage is dead. I used the hornby controller as I read it had overcurrent protection. the oe hornby class 08 is shorting, and the carbon brushed 08 still works. you can see one of the metal brushes has failed, and the other is very burned. and the carbon brushes still look as new so a 24-35 hour life span as predicted by @Rallymatt Im not going to run the brushed motor to destruction as I’m going on holiday and I expect it will run for days.

That is what I saw in practise . I tried 2 sheets of plastic behind magnets and they stayed to touch/scuff.

Some more updates 2 genuine Hornby motors but one has the carbon brushes fitted. running both in reverse, at a a high power, and will leave running the next couple of days, to see how long they last. Or at least see how much wear on the carbon brushes over 30-40 hours of use IMG_8011.mov

Even though some sellers say carbon brushes on AliExpress they aren’t. I have some carbon brushes motors rated to 15v but the shafts are too short. They are designed for a gearbox bolted on the end. I have transplanted the carbon brushes into Hornby motor and it works fine. I might run 2 side by side none stop to see how long they last and how much wear on the carbon brushes. But not easy to test stop starts over time and running non stop I expect temperatures a bit different to usual usage

Yes a 15k in heat shrink that will connect through a small rectifier chip to the DCC power eventually

That’s an 0603 and led in a peco buffer. I looked at Whww tail lamps and I think they are smaller again. I need to see these fibre optics

A cheap £1.50 fix . How much usage was on the failed brushes ?

First time cutting up a model train. I wanted to do the br blue/grey water tender for the Flying Scotsman. 2 William Whitelaw (cheap used off eBay) tenders basically chopped in half and glued together, including the bogies so I could have standard couplings on both ends. And roof section from a coach in the set. “just” need some filler, some plasticard for the water filling cap enclosure, move the walkway window on one end, and just paint needed. First time ballasting, first time using wwscenics static grass, first time painting(since school 34 years ago) track and buffers, first time adding a tiny 0603 led to buffer light. All easy to jump into and try for a newbie after watching lots of YouTube videos!