sufficient
I thought that was odd. As I understood it, one of the selling points of
Heljan was the quality of the mech...
The remotor consists of just that. Removing the Mashima motor and replacing
with an equivalent Canon (with new flywheels). The suggestion in the article
was that with Heljan you get good 'uns and bad 'uns and if you have the
latter, remotoring is worthwhile.
The cl110 to 104 conversion is good for comedy value... The result
completely fails to capture the angular look of the 104...
Adrian
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Personally, I am amazed at the concept of remotoring what must be
almost a brand new model for anyone who owns one.
Returning it to the retailer and demanding a good one is more
worthwhile. Even if you have owned the model for a while, you may have
up to six years to make a claim for damages against the retailer,
regardless of what the manufacturers warranty may say. See
http://www.dti.gov.uk/ccp/topics1/facts/salegoodsact.htm
MBQ
The same could be said about people who weather, super-detail and any number
of other 'improvements'....
Ok in theory, in practice the model would have to be maintained in line with
the instructions and you would have to show proof (dealer service invoice
perhaps).
number
The context was remotoring something that had a faulty motor and should
not have been sold in the first place. I don't think you can consider
lack of weathering or detailing to be a reason to return an item as
faulty.
Lima motors were rarely faulty but who didn't want to re motor them, what is
a better motor, a Mashima 'can' motor or something along the lines of a
coreless (RGxx) type motor ?
I agree with what you say, but not *all* faults show up at the point of
sale, although the vast majority of problems are detectable at that stage.
There are, however, some people out there who consider the job of remotoring
something, a task worth doing for the sake of it. You don't know for sure
that the purchaser didn't buy the loco at a knock-down price in the
knowledge that it was faulty.
I've got two or three customers who are happy to buy duff stuff, purely
because they enjoy messing.
John.
From the same page:-
Q3. Are all goods supposed to last six (or five) years?
No, that is the limit for bringing a court case in England and Wales (five
years from the time of discovery in Scotland's case). An item only needs to
last as long as it is reasonable to expect it to, taking into account all
the factors. An oil filter would usually not last longer than a year but
that would not mean it was unsatisfactory.
(kim)
The cl110 to 104 conversion is good for comedy value... The result
completely fails to capture the angular look of the 104...
Adrian
Hmm, I thought that! The undersize box on the roof is way out (think its the
black panel that is too small) but I can't understand why? I have the same
Chris Leigh castings and mine looks ok?
I also can't undertand why they go to all the trouble to remove the bulkhead
and place windows in directly behind the cab? If your gonna do this, you
need to do it with all them uprights at the side of the corridors as the
only full one is in the brake compartment. all the rest hae windows as per
the cab!
--
Andy Sollis
CVMRD
http://www.cvmrd.freeserve.co.uk - Home of the Churnet Valley Model Railway
"Andy Sollis- Churnet Valley model Railway Dept."
wrote
I don't have a problem with the minor differences between the way 1st
generation DMU's looked, it's the abrupt way they start and stop. See my
letter at:- http://www.mremag.demon.co.uk/hpsite /
(kim)
Nigel Burkin is working on a remotored Hornby Class 50 mechansism for a Lima
Class 60 which sounds a bit like overkill. See:-
http://www.nigelburkin.co.uk/OMWB2004/OMWB4.htm then scroll down nearly half
way.
A bit like remotoring the Lima Class 20. Useful to know if the worse comes
to the worse.
(kim)
If you re-read it, you'll see the 60's drive consists of 1x cl 50
motor bogie (available as spares for about a tenner IIRC) powered by
the Modeltorque motor. Seems perfectly reasonable to me, if my
standard Lima motor is anything to go by.
Three pancakes left in my house... half-finished projects (cl.31, 60
and 92) being finished off and will be stuck on eBay
Yes, I was aware of that. My point was that the loco was using the ATC unit
in place of Hornby's standard Class 50 motor. Am waiting to read if this
yields a significant improvement in the performance of the Hornby mechanism
as opposed to the Lima mechanism.
You can convert the remaining Lima's to twin bogie drive. I can supply the
relevant web page if you need it?
(kim)
No need, I'll be getting shot of the things once they've finished in
the paint shop. I'm aiming for a pancake free railway! Thanks for the
offer though.
Hornby have nearly finished their 31 and have a 60 planned, so thats
two replacements in the pipeline, presuming they aren't horribly
mis-shapen! The 92 will have to wait, Class 50 bogies is an idea but
I've enough to be getting on with at the moment.
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:10:42 GMT, "Rich Mackin" wrote:
LOL! I won't be saying anything further about them on here, I get fed
up of the adverts myself.
LOL!
Yeah, I saw that too. I cannot believe that article made it to print, the
end result was horrendous!!
I have to say, the standard of modelling contributions since Darren Sherwood
"left" has been pretty poor on the whole. Did anyone think that Chris
Leigh's rock- faced cliff even looked like rock? The reviews are also
shockingly "glossy" at times.
I really am considering not renewing my subscription but I feel that I need
to keep in touch via one of the monthly comics, mainly for the ads and the
odd article I suppose. I just will not buy the Modeller, it's even worse on
all the above points.
From the usual viewing angles, of course <s>.
db.
Sherwood
In the current parlance - It Rocked....NOT!
Darren Sherwood makes a welcome return in the next issue I think with a
one-off on building the JLTRT Peak...
Adrian
I wouldn't do that. The Blue Pullman masterclass issue sold for five times
what I originally paid for it (plus postage). If I'd known at the time I'd
have cleared the entire shelf at W.H. Smith. Heaven only knows what the
Hogwart's Castle issues are worth today?
(kim)
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