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Yep. I was after a part which you can get it easily enough but as a tightwad there was no way I was paying 7 pounds for a tiny 5 gram part - plenty do but I have an aversion to being ripped off. Bought two non runners for 13 pounds inc!using postage so got my part. One of the locos had a perfect body, and a quick repair and i'd get 7 quid on a bad day or more likely a tenner. The other loco that I took the part from has a trashed body, but a working chassis with a good motor is probably a fiver bottom line so I get my part for a pound worse case scenario. I mean that is an extreme case because I'm only trying to save a couple a quid (would have paid a 4/5 pounds for the part) and a lot of people couldn't be @rsed with the hassle of looking around but you could quite easily pick up a trashed 9f in a job lot of parts for 30-40 pounds and sell-on the rest

Spares are just madness. Best to buy a job lot of parts with what you want and then re-sell the other bits

With the Hornby Turbomotive coming out for a gazillion pounds, it may be time to dust off that 1970's attempt you found in a car boot sale and make a killing. Actually, that gives me an idea... *stares at pile of Triang princess bodies* Inaccurate, but 200 pounds cheaper!

He's selling an artificial plant in a pot for 130 pounds!

If it's Kay's Catalogue, can I pay 4.99 over 320 weeks? The one I saw was for sale for over a grand 5 years ago so will be interesting to see it's true level.

More likely Goldfinger or Scaramanga (The man with the Golden Train)😉

It may have been them that commissioned it😂

Oof! Somewhere on the deepweb, the TT Collectors Association are handing over your details to an Albanian hitman😎

I've only seen one of these on Facebook before and they were asking insane money. Could get competitive.. *opens popcorn* Pimp my TT

Yeah if you look at the felt pad it clearly contacts the rails more firmly the power bogie end but maybe I'm over thinking it and it just works👍

The wheels are lower one end so wouldn't the non-powered end be up in the air? maybe it's for inclines.

I'm tempted to make an offer on this, as long as the seller is willing to provide photographic evidence that he's buried it. R.I.P

Thing is, is the Chinese Hornby stuff isn't that robust even if you look after it. An old rusted up Triang Hornby brittania you could probably fix after 3 decades in a shed. Still Hattons have a load of those 9fs for sale with warped chassis' AND the tender.

That 2nd lot. Don't think I've seen recent-ish Hornby stuff that looks like it's been left in a garden for 20 years before. A brave man that takes that on and Mazak rot. Or stupid judging by the price.

Yep, we had that German pig on wheels on here a while back so you could alter the mouldings a bit and launch a range of (glamour) models in various liveries. Plus you'd have the bonus of attracting adolescent boys back into the hobby. 👍

Just shows the lack of imagination from British manufacturers. The Hornby "Horny" Adult range sounds more of a goer that steampunk to be honest😉

No he calls them horny in the description but we've all been there. I often get OO goblin instead of gauge for some reason

"Okay, one last time Dougal. That one is small, but the others are far away" Horny OO gauge

Think you've overvalued it a bit😉 it's on a Triang chassis with Romford wheels. The build is okay but the original builder had an interesting interaction with 1970's glue and the body fixing is 5 different screws. All I've done is got it running ( I call them ressurections) after tracking down the numerous shorts. But yes, it's unlikely to interest a proper kitbuilder, but perhaps someone wanting a cheap dabble with a kit as the tender is nice, or someone just looking for something different. It actually does run well on modern track now.

Hah I have Wills j39 I just picked up and trust me it wouldn't take much to improve it😂 I always value items at the very lowest possible estimate when I buy to possibly sell on. The loco I had up for sale was 1 of 3 I got for roughly 11 pounds each so as long as they sold for that I was reasonably happy. In the end I decided to keep one of them, so with the sale of the other two I got the one loco for 2-3 pounds👍 As for the item with the strange bidding patterns, a buyer with less than 10 feedback did come in and made 6 incremental bids of 1 pound up to the original cancelled bid. Could be just coincidence, but as he didn't win, we'll never know.😎

Well this item is reasonably common. A good day, probably 20+ pounds, bad day 13 pounds (ignoring the sellers selling at stupid money) so not high value. I stick things on for 10 days because I'm in no hurry and it ensures maximum exposure. Lots of people may pop on ebay once a week and 10 days ensures they can see it. The plus side is it now looks a bargain, the downside is I'd probably have 10 extra watchers if he hadn't bid it up to 16 pounds in the first 24 hours and those watchers who unwatched may not be back on today which may have been his thinking. We'll see, but if it's won by someone living in the general area of the dealer I will assume I'm not just being paranoid😊 I do much the same as you just not kits. Actually saw a job lot of kits today that I thought you probably had your eye on😉

To be honest I don't really get bid retractions until now. This just smells fishy with it being a dealer and the week long delay retracting his bid till the last possible moment he could do it. Still think it will get to near the same price he bid for it, but I do find it annoying that he bid so far over the top 7 days ago because straight away you lose watchers

Think I've fallen victim to the "find out what the other buyers maximum bid is" scam. Have an item finishing today which was bid upto 16 pounds a week ago. Last night the top bidder retracted his bid just before the item went into the last 24 hours claiming wrong amount. Funny it took him 7 days to realise it. He's a dealer so banned him but the whole bidding pattern is fishy imo. I've had 8 bids on it, 7 from the original (now winning) bidder(who changes their maximum bid 7 times in 2 minutes?), and one from the banned dealer. Half a mind to cancel it

"Works but stutters possibly because we are not testing it with a DCC controller" I'd say it stutters possibly because the valve gear is hanging off

Oh, I've refined the design now. It was shorting on the body so it's track mounted now. Just needed a buffer stop to avoid de-railing round corners 👍