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Old 3rd June 2020, 18:14   #11
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Am guessing it is a transverse mounted type motor?

How about THESE

or THESE
First link is something to consider. I will have to take the car apart to see what the gear/axle is like. The second link is a normal pinion or looks like it. Not sure if it differs from one where motor goes front to back.

There does seem to be a few set ups for connecting axle to motor.
I have asked Hornby for a service sheet for one of their new Minis to see how that is driven. Looking at this years cars, some really lovely offerings but at £40 a time, too much for me. I remember getting them new for £3.

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Have you contacted Hornby about sending it in for repair? I've not had to do it, but I've read a lot of good things about people sending trains in for repair and hornby fixing it and returning it free of charge.
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Old 3rd June 2020, 18:30   #13
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I have a Kirby vacuum cleaner which was made in 1979 and everything is available to buy, yes every single part.

Now that might be one thing, but no, the first machine to bear the Kirby name, was the Kirby Model 2C launched in 1936 and you can still buy all of the parts.

An expensive item, but James Dyson could take a leaf out their book, and realise people will buy an expensive machine, and it doesn't need to be a load of plastic tat thrown together in the Far East and marketed as the greatest thing since sliced bread

Anyway I have fond memories of my Scalextric, although not a Minimodels original, it is a Rovex, and car wise a pair of Mini Clubmans, a TR7 and a Mk1 Escort.

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Old 3rd June 2020, 18:52   #14
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Coincidentally, our washing machine died just yesterday - the drum separated from the mechanism holding it in place and can be rattled up & down now. Cost of repair is estimated at more than three quarters the price of replacing it. Nothing is built to last these days - we've only had it 24 years.

(I wonder how many years we'll get out of its replacement ...)
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Have you contacted Hornby about sending it in for repair? I've not had to do it, but I've read a lot of good things about people sending trains in for repair and hornby fixing it and returning it free of charge.
Rang them today, they don't have the part

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Old 3rd June 2020, 19:10   #16
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I have a Kirby vacuum cleaner which was made in 1979 and everything is available to buy, yes every single part.

Now that might be one thing, but no, the first machine to bear the Kirby name, was the Kirby Model 2C launched in 1936 and you can still buy all of the parts.

An expensive item, but James Dyson could take a leaf out their book, and realise people will buy an expensive machine, and it doesn't need to be a load of plastic tat thrown together in the Far East and marketed as the greatest thing since sliced bread

Anyway I have fond memories of my Scalextric, although not a Minimodels original, it is a Rovex, and car wise a pair of Mini Clubmans, a TR7 and a Mk1 Escort.

Brian

Was that a white Escort? I still have mine, really love the car and a new model and be bought today. I doubt there will be much difference between the two, may be working head lights.

Ok, favourite Scalextric cars
MK1 Escort
Cortina
Rovers
Police Cars
Lorries
Porsche GT3R
Sierra Cosworth
Porsche 935
Motorbikes
BMW M3
AUDI QUATTRO old style
BMW 3.0CSL
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some nice Vauxhall Vectra's, one or two Capri's and TR7's.

One Sunday when I was swimming with the cubs my dad got be a huge amount of second hand scalextric, I was over joyed and another time we went by train to Margate to a shop and I got a few 1960's cars. I could not have been that old 8 - 12 perhaps.

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and car wise a pair of Mini Clubmans, a TR7 and a Mk1 Escort.

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Was that a white Escort? I still have mine, really love the car and a new model and be bought today. I doubt there will be much difference between the two, may be working head lights.

Ok, favourite Scalextric cars
MK1 Escort
Cortina
Rovers
Police Cars
Lorries
Porsche GT3R
Sierra Cosworth
Porsche 935
Motorbikes
BMW M3
AUDI QUATTRO old style
BMW 3.0CSL
SUBARU IMPREZA



some nice Vauxhall Vectra's, one or two Capri's and TR7's.

One Sunday when I was swimming with the cubs my dad got be a huge amount of second hand scalextric, I was over joyed and another time we went by train to Margate to a shop and I got a few 1960's cars. I could not have been that old 8 - 12 perhaps.

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C.052 Black Mk1 Escort Mexico Special Build - My first Scalextric car, bought for around £6 from McCullough's in Bangor for my 4th or 5th birthday. And I still have it, although it is an '80s repro box.

Later had many escorts, the white C052, plus a couple more black ones, one of which I converted to a pick up truck with alley cat wheels Including too, the Westwood racing one in two tone brown with working front lights.

The quality and detail of the modern cars is fantastic, and even the range. I think at one stage we had all the models contained within the 17th-20th edition catalogues (all of the 20th, was my goal at the time lol), included within the collection. Complete attic layout, even with various tunnels and track side lighting.
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I still have all of my Scalextric stuff up in the loft, and like Alan, the Escort is identical to this one.



The actual set itself was bought for my seventh birthday, and as I recall it was an awfully hot summer that year

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I still have all of my Scalextric stuff up in the loft, and like Alan, the Escort is identical to this one.



The actual set itself was bought for my seventh birthday, and as I recall it was an awfully hot summer that year

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Mine was the same, although yellow helmet, and 4 gold wheels, raided from the spares box (Lotus 72 front wheels)

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Old 4th June 2020, 07:33   #20
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C.052 Black Mk1 Escort Mexico Special Build - My first Scalextric car, bought for around £6 from McCullough's in Bangor for my 4th or 5th birthday. And I still have it, although it is an '80s repro box.

Later had many escorts, the white C052, plus a couple more black ones, one of which I converted to a pick up truck with alley cat wheels Including too, the Westwood racing one in two tone brown with working front lights.

The quality and detail of the modern cars is fantastic, and even the range. I think at one stage we had all the models contained within the 17th-20th edition catalogues (all of the 20th, was my goal at the time lol), included within the collection. Complete attic layout, even with various tunnels and track side lighting.
agh yes the Westwood, that is a nice car.
The new double inner curve is a bit of a faff, it is 3 parts, before the corner, the corner and after the corner must make it expensive to buy.

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