I spent ages trying to get my Hatton's one to stop wobbling and keep the rotating axle boxes, but the penny dropped for me when I got a Bachmann 66 which doesn't have rotating boxes and it's a perfectly good model. I snipped and glued the Hatton's boxes just as you've done and transformed the Hatton's model into a great runner. It's such a shame that the superb Hatton's 66 is associated just with wobble and boxes falling out. You couldn't see the rotating boxes anyway. As you say a gimmick too far. Nice one John, all the best, Colin.
Good evening John, like you I am a big fan of the Hattons 66, I have 3 that have not been out the box yet, your video was very informative, will check mine out, all the best mate.
JB, I only watch your review vids for the ' sniffing of the foam' section .... us, your people ', long to hear 'foleage ', being uttered down the new mic, the tones and velvety acoustics that the mic will offer , will have some folk in 7th heaven !!!!! JB
The rotating axle boxes are one of my favourite features of the Hattons/Accurascale 66, but then all my locos are shuffling slowly around depot or sidings. The Bachmann one in comparison now looks silly.
Hi, the Hatton’s class 66 is a great model, like you stated Accurascale made the model into the model it should have been, the workers in the factory clearly didn’t care when assembling the models and the quality control was missing in action, overall once the faults have been addressed it still is a quality loco, the speaker on the sound model which was a EM2 Esu unit is the best when used in conjunction with the Legomanbiffo sound decoder, as far as I’m concerned Accurascale down graded the sound by deleting the EM2 for the lesser EM1, when you have one you know the difference in sound performance is very clear, apparently this was done to make the speakers standard across Accurascale’s range of diesel locomotives, also why didn’t they make the dashboard light up like the rest of their loco range? It would have made it unique in my opinion, the ESU class 66 is the best model of this loco hands down because it has a much better lighting package and sound profile and a smoke unit is fitted and I believe the brakes spark when applied, this is down to some micro led’s set to give the effect. I’m not sure if Bachmann will retool their model because they would have to go way beyond any other British manufacturer and their pricing would be so high they may not sell very well. There are a few videos on how to stop the axle boxes wobbling, I sorted mine by watching Peter at Torrindon Road a few years ago, now they are working fine, thanks for sharing.
Hiya... could you not have fixed the cut rotating axleboxes in place while you had that "bracing" piece removed from the bogie... then you could have maybe trimmed them down flush with the sides the same as you did to those springs that made the model wobble!
@@jamesbeckwith3639 lol, indeed I could have done that while the bracing was out ..I don't have any excuse..I come from Norfolk, I only discovered yesterday that that big ball in the sky was the Sun...I suppose I was thinking along the lines that if people wanted to put those little pointless buggers back, they could have the option to place them back or cut them...
@@GarthDavies-cd5oh normally if it wasn't me trying to get a decent camera angle, it would not look like I'm trying to cut my fingers off...I don't normally work like that...makes me cringe watching it back...
I spent ages trying to get my Hatton's one to stop wobbling and keep the rotating axle boxes, but the penny dropped for me when I got a Bachmann 66 which doesn't have rotating boxes and it's a perfectly good model. I snipped and glued the Hatton's boxes just as you've done and transformed the Hatton's model into a great runner. It's such a shame that the superb Hatton's 66 is associated just with wobble and boxes falling out. You couldn't see the rotating boxes anyway. As you say a gimmick too far. Nice one John, all the best, Colin.
Good evening John, like you I am a big fan of the Hattons 66, I have 3 that have not been out the box yet, your video was very informative, will check mine out, all the best mate.
JB, I only watch your review vids for the ' sniffing of the foam' section .... us, your people ', long to hear 'foleage ', being uttered down the new mic, the tones and velvety acoustics that the mic will offer , will have some folk in 7th heaven !!!!! JB
@@Bassetvids me alone with the foam, is 7th Heaven...
@@HaroldRoad 😎🎉😜🤡⁉️📯💨⁉️💨
Good afternoon JB! Just in time for a miserable Sunday afternoon hunker down!
So glad you’ve shown how to do this JB! I’ve been doing this to all my hattons 66’s but I’ve retained the rotating axle boxes as my punishment 🤣🤣
@@darrelldeltic807 I lost so many, I have to cut them and glue them in place
good see you got vlog out and you mic is great nice loco keep up the great vlogs thanks lee
@@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204 thanks mate 👍
The rotating axle boxes are one of my favourite features of the Hattons/Accurascale 66, but then all my locos are shuffling slowly around depot or sidings. The Bachmann one in comparison now looks silly.
Hi, the Hatton’s class 66 is a great model, like you stated Accurascale made the model into the model it should have been, the workers in the factory clearly didn’t care when assembling the models and the quality control was missing in action, overall once the faults have been addressed it still is a quality loco, the speaker on the sound model which was a EM2 Esu unit is the best when used in conjunction with the Legomanbiffo sound decoder, as far as I’m concerned Accurascale down graded the sound by deleting the EM2 for the lesser EM1, when you have one you know the difference in sound performance is very clear, apparently this was done to make the speakers standard across Accurascale’s range of diesel locomotives, also why didn’t they make the dashboard light up like the rest of their loco range? It would have made it unique in my opinion, the ESU class 66 is the best model of this loco hands down because it has a much better lighting package and sound profile and a smoke unit is fitted and I believe the brakes spark when applied, this is down to some micro led’s set to give the effect. I’m not sure if Bachmann will retool their model because they would have to go way beyond any other British manufacturer and their pricing would be so high they may not sell very well. There are a few videos on how to stop the axle boxes wobbling, I sorted mine by watching Peter at Torrindon Road a few years ago, now they are working fine, thanks for sharing.
Hiya... could you not have fixed the cut rotating axleboxes in place while you had that "bracing" piece removed from the bogie... then you could have maybe trimmed them down flush with the sides the same as you did to those springs that made the model wobble!
@@jamesbeckwith3639 lol, indeed I could have done that while the bracing was out ..I don't have any excuse..I come from Norfolk, I only discovered yesterday that that big ball in the sky was the Sun...I suppose I was thinking along the lines that if people wanted to put those little pointless buggers back, they could have the option to place them back or cut them...
Laying your healing hands upon that loco!!😆
Great to see England getting the Scottish weather 😅😅😅😅
I dont do rotating axle boxes 😮
@@alanwagstaff16 same as sprung buffers...just gimmicks
JB you are an Health and Safety Nightmare 🤣🤣🤣
@@GarthDavies-cd5oh normally if it wasn't me trying to get a decent camera angle, it would not look like I'm trying to cut my fingers off...I don't normally work like that...makes me cringe watching it back...