Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?
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Posted at 07:59:15 Tue 19 Mar 2013
What's your latest aquisition?
Here's my latest purchase, a Tri-ang-Hornby R.754 M7 in BR Black livery.
The box was tatty, crew were missing and the BR totem transfers on the tank sides were part missing as per normal.
The model is slowly being restored, a fresh box mint was found on ebay with incorrect labels (the one on the right) and I have crew and original totem transfers a plenty in stock, I will post stages of the restoration at intervals for all my friends on here to see as they take place.
Here's the loco pre-restoration but with nice new original 40+ BR Totem transfers put on the side tanks, a packet of the original transfers is posed by the loco for reference.
Hope all at Hornby like what I am doing to their old locos.
Enjoy!
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Last Edited 13:51:29 Sat 21 Aug 2021
Posted at 11:42:50 Tue 19 Mar 2019
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Posted at 19:18:45 Tue 19 Mar 2019
I see you have piccked up the 2019 tooling of the Terrier Class, Brian. Nice purchase, well done. 
It's a shame that Hornby no longer have the Thomas & Friends license, as Hornby could release a really nice third generation Stepney, with this tooling. Then again, it would probably be too delicate for the Thomas & Friends range. Bother! 
GNR-Gordon-4 (HF)
Posted 19:18:45 Tue 19 Mar 2019
Posted at 13:27:49 Thu 21 Mar 2019
Large reel of triple plaited heavy gauge electric string for points motor wiring, a couple of packs of breadboard jumper wires, a 0-300vAC voltmeter and a gear puller. Still waiting for my 20 pack of led street lights for a tenner from China.
Voltmeter was spot on with mains voltage and a couple of wall wart AC outputs, but didn’t like DCC at all, started to smell hence rapidly disconnected, which is a pity as I wanted it to show track voltage even if not the true value. May have to pull it apart to see what components are in there and why they would fry.
Gear puller has 3 interchangeable mandrils but I may have to make up an even smaller diameter one. The larger diameter ones will make pressing gears on again very easy.
Posted 13:27:49 Thu 21 Mar 2019