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    • David Peters posted
    Posted in Model Railways - General Discussions » Eureka R Class Arrives!

    Aren't these models supposed to be Ready To Run?

    Sounds more like Ready To Rebuild to me!

    Allan Brown

    ajbrown

    This sums it all up though you should not have to virtually rebuild a new model to get it to work. You buy a new car expecting it to work the first time for you, alright over time faults might show up with it, but any car dealer worth their salt would fix the faults up for you. They would not simply replace the car with probably the same or worse faults than the first!

    These models are protected by a warranty of 12 months from the date of purchase and here we are only a month or so since they where released and the faults keep coming, not a good bit of advertising for any thing really. I don't want perfection only close to it and some of these models are now just expensive junk or static models. The importers want to make sure that it will work as indicated and do what it is supposed to do. Not slip and slide with a couple of cars behind it.

    The importers are the ones who do the design work on them the Chinese only make what they design, yes I know the Chinese have a bad habit of using inferior quality materials and changing things, but the contract that gets signed should stipulate that no changes to specifications are allowed at all unless the Australian importer allows it.  The pre production model wants to be checked against the specifications  to make sure it is accurate to the specs, if not back it goes till it does.And the Australian importer wants to listen to the modellers that might buy one of these locos as to what is wanted in the model as well, good pulling power would usually top the list though. What good is a 38 say if it cannot haul a train that was a prototypical load for the real one. NBG actually and most would agree.

    On oversea's models, I have a Bachmann Tornado steam locomotive and it would walk all over a R class model on here for pulling power etc, it looks good, runs nicely and pulls like a bull in springtime, it has plenty of reserve as well to go over prototypical loading as well, not that many would do it though. But having that extra power helps a lot on steep grades found on model railways. I also have a Bachmann GS4 that would also leave the R for dead in the pulling dept. Sure these locomotives are larger than a HO R class but they are virtually lumps of metal and very heavy and above all work well straight out of the box with no modifications needed at all to any wheels!

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    Edited 16 Dec 2013 23:17, 9 years ago, edited by David Peters

    Aren't these models supposed to be Ready To Run?

    Sounds more like Ready To Rebuild to me!

    Allan Brown

    ajbrown

    This sums it all up though you should not have to virtually rebuild a new model to get it to work. You buy a new car expecting it to work the first time for you, alright over time faults might show up with it, but any car dealer worth their salt would fix the faults up for you. They would not simply replace the car with probably the same or worse faults than the first!

    These models are protected by a warranty of 12 months from the date of purchase and here we are only a month or so since they where released and the faults keep coming, not a good bit of advertising for any thing really. I don't want perfection only close to it and some of these models are now just expensive junk or static models. The importers want to make sure that it will work as indicated and do what it is supposed to do. Not slip and slide with a couple of cars behind it.

    The importers are the ones who do the design work on them the Chinese only make what they design, yes I know the Chinese have a bad habit of using inferior quality materials and changing things, but the contract that gets signed should stipulate that no changes to specifications are allowed at all unless the Australian importer allows it. And the Australian importer wants to listen to the modellers that might buy one of these locos as to what is wanted in the model as well, good pulling power would usually top the list though. What good is a 38 say if it cannot haul a train that was a prototypical load for the real one. NBG actually and most would agree.

    On oversea's models, I have a Bachmann Tornado steam locomotive and it would walk all over a R class model on here for pulling power etc, it looks good, runs nicely and pulls like a bull in springtime, it has plenty of reserve as well to go over prototypical loading as well, not that many would do it though. But having that extra power helps a lot on steep grades found on model railways. I also have a Bachmann GS4 that would also leave the R for dead in the pulling dept. Sure these locomotives are larger than a HO R class but they are virtually lumps of metal and very heavy and above all work well straight out of the box with no modifications needed at all to any wheels!