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Has anyone noticed how the quality of Hornby seems to have gone downhill since they went to China?
When I say quality I DON'T mean detailing. Their loco's largely have cheap disposable can motors, poor traction, bits that fall off when you gingerly take them out of the box, spare bodies are non exisitant other than factory seconds and a few end of production run items.
Even the current re-issues of the Lord of the Isles and Caley single have been cocked up by Hornby fitting a new chassis and a tiny disposable motor in the locos instead of the X.05 motor. This has made the lack of traction on this loco even worse.
My family own a model shop and we had 122 Hornby loco's ordered for the start of the holiday season(we normally shift that lot in a month during the holiday season) and 77 of the loco's had defects ranging from poor assembly to motors that just didn't work, to marked linning. The quality control seems to have gone to pot at the big H.
When I say quality I DON'T mean detailing. Their loco's largely have cheap disposable can motors, poor traction, bits that fall off when you gingerly take them out of the box, spare bodies are non exisitant other than factory seconds and a few end of production run items.
Even the current re-issues of the Lord of the Isles and Caley single have been cocked up by Hornby fitting a new chassis and a tiny disposable motor in the locos instead of the X.05 motor. This has made the lack of traction on this loco even worse.
My family own a model shop and we had 122 Hornby loco's ordered for the start of the holiday season(we normally shift that lot in a month during the holiday season) and 77 of the loco's had defects ranging from poor assembly to motors that just didn't work, to marked linning. The quality control seems to have gone to pot at the big H.
