Airfix factory tour

[stillp]

Interesting video her:

Pete

[adt70hk]

If you don't mind Pete can I add this one.... From a different YouTuber on the same theme...?

[PaulTRose]

At least if it's in UK the quality control should be better

Nice shiney new injection moulder.......won't look like that in a year lol

[adt70hk]

One thing I hadn't realised was how manual so much of the process is.

[Guest]

You two beat me to it .
Nice to see it being made in the UK , hopefully more can be .

[rtfoe]

Watched it yesterday. Looks like they prefer to peel the sprue out instead of using the ejector pins. I guess that's part of the quality control. I believe only the larger scales are produced in Blighty and the rest are still coming out of India.

Cheers,
Richard aka Wabble

[Flip]

Yes, good to see that move. It does mean that Hornby can react quicker to market demands with the tooling being local.
Commercially, it still makes sense for the initial tooling to be made offshore as it is ferociously expensive, even though they are only straight open/shut tools (no side actions). This move will enable them however to repatriate existing tooling and gain the flexibility of local supply.

I was impressed with Plastech's 'shadow board' approach to QC - a very quick way of flagging up short-shots.

Regards,
John