Hornby magnetic buckeye coupling review - are they fit for purpose? Liberty Junction handy hints 9

[@graham9473]

Now now, I am a real ale drinker 😅😅😅😅 from that place. Cheers 🍻" if not brewed in Yorkshire , its not blooming worth drinking right!!!"😅😅😅😅 great vid dave.

[@doubleodave]

Haha cheers 😆👍

[@IronHorseRailways]

"he'll be stroking a kangaroo and he'll love it" 😂😂 Madness... Magnetic couplings are brilliant, get the pivoting ones from Hunt, they work great for tighter corners... Accruacale do a few interesting ones ... You can also use hot glue in the NEM socket but it's a bit more permanent... Ask me how I know...😂 P.s Don't drink shandy.... Cider & Blackcurrant 😎😎

[@doubleodave]

Are the pivoting ones as weak as the normal ones though, as they’re Kak!

[@IronHorseRailways]

@@doubleodave theyre 3D printed mate so you need to be a little bit more delicate with them -* I've found just shaving a few thou off the little legs helps them seat much easier - but other than that I can't say I've had much issue with the hunts pal

[@andydavidson9440]

Learnt a lot and may have dodged a bullet on Hunt couplings. Reminded me my new Accurascale magnetic couplings for the MK2b look to be missing the magnets 😳so will have to query this? Fellow Yorkshireman ( best not say where I am from etc 🤔

[@doubleodave]

Dodge away pal 👍

[@belgianbill1951]

Try Hornby 7400 imitation vac pipes. I have used them on European conflats in a rake of 10 - no issues with length - they are spot on

[@doubleodave]

I’ll take a look cheers

[@delphjunction1168]

Hi Dave. Just did an unboxing and used hornby magnetic couplings, different than yours pipe type. You can get them in two different lengths. Tell you what Dave love them, wish I got them years ago. Great review Dave. Us soft southerners got a lot of you lovely Yorkshire drinkers into Guinness because that's all we asked for on holiday. We'll make men of you.🤣 Stay safe buddy. ....Pete....

[@doubleodave]

😂😂 👍👍👍 I’ll check your video out

[@StMaryChurchModelRailway]

Hi Dave, like Pete at Delph junction, I use alot of hornby Magnetic couplings, The drop pipe type. They are excellent and in two lenghs. Another great video. 👍🏻 ATB to you.Stuart

[@doubleodave]

Cheers Stuart, and you too 👍

[@vcs00railway]

I do agree Dave that the Hornby Buckeye's much better plastic than the Hunts. I've broken so many, never broke the Hornby versions

[@doubleodave]

yeah shame but facts!

[@wesr5239]

Totally agree about the hunt couplings, great idea, poorly executed. They are just so brittle and there’s such a variety of size and quality in each pack.

[@doubleodave]

Yeah real shame!

[@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY]

We've not ventured into messaging around with couplings yet Dave, we're still learning how to get all the wheels onto the tracks 😂👍

[@doubleodave]

You spend too much time on the yellow stuff ;)

[@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY]

@doubleodave you really need to add some to your layout, Dave 😁👍

[@doubleodave]

Still waiting for the pipe work to arrive

[@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY]

@doubleodave well we've dispatched it from here, Dave 😁👍

[@ausfoodgarden]

Damn! I struggle to pinpoint the accent after all these years. I moved to Australia about 40 years ago. I honestly thought you were from my old neck of the woods (Oldham). I guess SE Lancs and SW Yorks are similar. Never tried the Hornby couplers, the Hunt ones are all right. I print my own these days. Cheers!

[@doubleodave]

bah you've been gone too long and have lost touch with the accents haven't ya! Cheers pal you're my second Australian watcher that I'm aware of 😃

[@wolvertoncentresidings5676]

I'm glad that people are waking up to the Hunts couplings not being fit for purpose. I said as much a couple of years ago on another KZbin channels Facebook group and got shot down in flames by the keyboard warriors. If you want to try pivoting magnetic couplings they are available on eBay from a guy who trades as Adrian Mole ( they're actually called porterhouse couplings). If you message him he will print special lengths if required. Much better than hunts but cheaper than Hornby.

[@doubleodave]

Yeah there’s definitely a strange protection of them isn’t there and innocent folk buying packs. If I start singing their praises and driving around in a Porsche 911 you know they’ve got to me too 😂😂

[@WayneAtkinson89]

Glad I’m doing a depot, can detail both ends of me locos and I don’t have to piss about with couplings 😂 I agree that even though they are decent a quid each is a bit much. You’re not the first person to say that the hunts arnt that good. I’m a Sheffield lad and I agree about Leeds 👍😂😂😂

[@doubleodave]

😅 oh no what have I started! 🤣🤣 I think I’m gonna detail the Cavalex front 😃

[@duncanrhodes4778]

Brilliant yet again! Love your spoilers.

[@doubleodave]

haha cheers Duncan

[@StormmyStormmy]

Hi, your commentary is very good, you do make me laugh with some of the things you say, great layout and contents, Hunt couplings are not as good as Hornby’s magnetic offerings, keep up the great work, I’d like to hear you narrate Thomas the tank engine episodes in the future and postman pate adult edition, thanks for sharing.

[@doubleodave]

Someone else said Thomas a couple of weeks back I’ll have to sort that one. Adult edition postman pat 🤣🤣 not seen that in years 👍

[@danl2306]

Great review - sorry to hear that your hiccups have created so much damage previously. A glass of water with your fingers in your ears works every time to stop hiccups and also you can’t hear you counting wagons either if you do that (free top tip)

[@TheBadadj]

That 37 looks proper mint, reckon it could've stood a touch more grime though.

[@doubleodave]

Yeah the longer term plan is… Buy another large logo blue 37 that’s then gonna be grotty 😁👍

[@colwichjunction3366]

Nice review, I take it you are not an ambassador for Hunt Couplings then!? Seriously I’ve had the same issues with them too (Hunt), magnets fall out and they can be as brittle as dinosaur bones….saying that I’ve got quite a few on the layout. Cheers Dave 👍

[@doubleodave]

🤣🤣 I mean… I don’t intend to slate them so much but they just frustrate me lol

[@AlanReynoldsBucklandJunction]

You have some nice rolling stock and loco's

[@doubleodave]

Thanks Alan 🙂

[@gazclass58]

Hi dave, great video once again. Couplings, it looks like 100% prefer the hornby ones hunts are not bad Couplings you do get some snaps has I have in the past but most of my rolling stock are on them. Hunt Coupling any negative feedback of them drop them a message with your issue so they can improve the Couplings in question and alterations and replacement can be sorted 👍 keep up the great work your channel is growing really fast 👏 look forward to the next one kind regards Gary.

[@doubleodave]

Cheers for the message Gary, I’ve found around 50% of my hunts have broken and 100% need black tack to hold them in place on anything more than very short rakes. I messaged them a few days ago as I was informed they had much stronger ones now but the reply I got was a bit vague so I’ll just go elsewhere, the perfect connector is still to be discovered. 👍

[@gazclass58]

@doubleodave yes I spoke to Chris Bower and Chris Hunt a while ago, and they did say they were looking at other options to make them stronger out of other materials, maybe something more drewabile maybe a stronger plastic.

[@backwheelbob46rr]

Look forward to trying them 👍🏼 what do you do for a living ?

[@doubleodave]

Motorcycles 💨💨💨

[@backwheelbob46rr]

@@doubleodave have a fair few of them to 👍🏼 my turbo slingshot was built up your way

[@ChaileyLeavers11]

worth mentioning these are handed, they wont work if you get one upside down. these and the pipe style ones work really well.

[@doubleodave]

Yeah very good point that 👍

[@miniroll32]

Do you reckon these couplings work with Hornby’s 4 wheel coaches?

[@doubleodave]

It’s a bit of a gamble I’m afraid, they’re no good for Bachmann mk2s but theyre ok on hornby mk3s several of mine are PVA’d I’m sticking out a bit to make them longer in order to work. I don’t have any experience of the smaller coaches. I imagine these would work but possibly might need to be glued not fully into the socket if that makes sense?

[@presidentxd]

1.6 kg of wagons is a good weight.i measure everything in maltessers so that rake of wagons is 800 malteesers.i find it way more accurate.

[@doubleodave]

I’d scoff em though I love maltesers

[@presidentxd]

@@doubleodave pity they not the size of golf balls. Then the 8 in a packet for 2 quid be good value

[@PeckhamHall]

I told you it was probably just my eyesight with them thiings. Tell the Hollywood camera man next time to film them PFA wagons in 2.4 to 1 super panivision, like the opening scene he did in the film Patton, and I might be able to read them properly.😂😅😂👍

[@doubleodave]

I thought it was the same mate, it’s like a human hair thin! Good point re cameraman he uses Betamax tapes

[@bachmannobsessed2234]

Adrian mole over at eBay for me do a great selection of magnetic couplings still to this day after 14 months still in tact n pull a full rake of 21 Bachmann ews hopper wagons with zero issues (23mm Nem to Nem pockets 5 pairs £8.25 n free postage n ain’t big headed like those over at west hill wagon works pmsl 🤪 me personally prefer the 27mm Nem to Nem pockets 5 pairs at £8.25 with free postage n lastly none of those accurascale w…..rs involved either promoting west hill wagon works products like they do lol 😝

[@Shauniboy1984]

I second this Dave, I comented the same thing on one of your other videos. He does loads of versions too.

[@doubleodave]

Yeah these are probably the answer to the Bachmann coaches

[@michaelwhiles5282]

Tasty 37's - enough said - you can keep ya steam kettles....

[@doubleodave]

yep! :)

[@Andrew-mb8xp]

A 5 minute video he says. nearly 10mins later... lol. All iv'e got going through mi head now is, instead of a white cat, a white boomer!! Your Fault!! I name you destroyer of sanity!! Lovely shot of the 37 though....

[@doubleodave]

10 is the new 5 😆😆

[@dking225]

Best use Hunt Couplings. Hornby has gone to the dogs.

[@doubleodave]

🤔🤨

[@doubleodave]

You drive a 911 😆