If the majority of owners have simply gone about modifying the fall plate, then LGB won't know there's a problem - it's one of the issues when manufacturers don't have demonstration railways, they don't learn about the bugs
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If the majority of owners have simply gone about modifying the fall plate, then LGB won't know there's a problem - it's one of the issues when manufacturers don't have demonstration railways, they don't learn about the bugs
Dave
Thanks for update. Be interesting to see what they come up with.
Maybach MD
Thanks for update. Be interesting to see what they come up with.
Maybach MD
LGB returned my loco today. They have fixed it by removing the tool box on the tender so that the footplate now has room to lie on top of the tender foot plate, see before and after pictures.
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Not sure it bears close inspection and I would have thought it would have been easier to reduce the size of the folding footplate, but it now runs round R1 curves no problem. They have reset the decoder which I wasn't expecting but I guess they do that to test it before they return it. It cost me £20 to send it but they paid the return postage, and returned it within 4 weeks.
I am reasonably content with the end result, but given that they ended up modifying the loco, it would have been better if they had acknowledged there was a problem on receipt of my loco, and provided some suggestions on how to modify the loco if desired. That way I would have known it was not a build fault with my particular model, even though I was already pretty sure it wasn't. I might have still asked them to fix it, but I might have decided to fix it myself.
I think the lesson from this is if you can fix it yourself, do it, and in retrospect I wish I had. Lesson learned.
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AFTER
Not sure it bears close inspection and I would have thought it would have been easier to reduce the size of the folding footplate, but it now runs round R1 curves no problem. They have reset the decoder which I wasn't expecting but I guess they do that to test it before they return it. It cost me £20 to send it but they paid the return postage, and returned it within 4 weeks.
I am reasonably content with the end result, but given that they ended up modifying the loco, it would have been better if they had acknowledged there was a problem on receipt of my loco, and provided some suggestions on how to modify the loco if desired. That way I would have known it was not a build fault with my particular model, even though I was already pretty sure it wasn't. I might have still asked them to fix it, but I might have decided to fix it myself.
I think the lesson from this is if you can fix it yourself, do it, and in retrospect I wish I had. Lesson learned.
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Dave
Thanks for reporting back. It is an interesting solution. Like you, I would have thought they would have gone for a redesign of the Fall plate. Thanks for taking the trouble to try to resolve the problem more effectively than than my file. I don’t feel quite so bad about my butchery now, though.
Regards
Simon
Thanks for reporting back. It is an interesting solution. Like you, I would have thought they would have gone for a redesign of the Fall plate. Thanks for taking the trouble to try to resolve the problem more effectively than than my file. I don’t feel quite so bad about my butchery now, though.
Regards
Simon
I would have thought that as the fault lay with the loco, they should have paid postage both ways.
You may be right but I don't really begrudge them that. Different matter if they had tried to charge me for the "repair" but that matter was never raised. My hope is that any future models of this loco take this design flaw into account.
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