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Hi everyone,

 

I've got spares for the Beattie (limited) and J94 (full) and obviously some of these might be useful for those who want to upgrade or repair their J94's (whatever parentage).

 

However, i paid for the whole lot as a batch, but for the life of me don't know what to charge, and obviously with so many parts per loco cataloguing them is going to be a real pain. J94 chassis come complete in various guides and painted (no motor) and bodies come painted too!

 

So i'm open to suggestions, and i'm loathed to charge 50p for a handrail then £1.50 for postage (as an example)

 

Please let me know any suggestions you might have and i'll try and formulate a plan around them.

 

Cheers

Dave

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'Shipping' costs are what they are, you have little control over them. If a component costs 50p and first class postage is 65p plus a Jiffy bag at 70p. Then there's the cost of your time to locate, pack and post, including insurance/recorded delivery if needed. Only you knows the cost of your time and it's availability and you need to price that accordingly, I'd suggest as a percentage of the order value.

 

I'll have two complete J94 bodies from the chassis upwards when you're ready, which liveries will be available? And do they include commission eg Hattons colours?

You'll also need to give an idea if you're splitting bodies/chassis' to get various parts from them eg brake gear/steps, smokebox fronts etc.

The price of the spares shouldn't be an issue (within reason) but this is RmWeb, the availability is though, and potentially a good development.

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You could also take spares with you to other shows. I see you are at Spennymoor in a couple of weeks. See you there!

Hi mate,

Taking spares to a show, unless your only doing spares, is problematical in the extreme.

For example the income from spares at shows will not cover the stand rent, hotel, fuel etc in a million years. Also what spares do you take? All? Ok but then these will take up a lot of space, space that can be used to show new models, NQP sales, literature etc.

 

So I won’t take spares and conventrate on my bread and butter, but I will do something about making spares available to modellers via my website in the next few weeks, once I get down to photographing and cataloguing each spare (within reason).

 

Yes i’ll See you at Spennymoor, I’ve been asked for 3 years running but never been available so I’m really looking forward to meeting all my Friends in the modelling community up there.

 

Cheers

Dave

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Hi mate,

Taking spares to a show, unless your only doing spares, is problematical in the extreme.

For example the income from spares at shows will not cover the stand rent, hotel, fuel etc in a million years. Also what spares do you take? All? Ok but then these will take up a lot of space, space that can be used to show new models, NQP sales, literature etc.

So I won’t take spares and conventrate on my bread and butter, but I will do something about making spares available to modellers via my website in the next few weeks, once I get down to photographing and cataloguing each spare (within reason).

Yes i’ll See you at Spennymoor, I’ve been asked for 3 years running but never been available so I’m really looking forward to meeting all my Friends in the modelling community up there.

Cheers

Dave

Sounds like a lot of effort photographing and cataloging for not a lot of return.

 

Why not just post the parts list, or a parts diagram and let people contact you with the parts numbers.

Alternately, do like Howes do, with Heljan spares, just sell a full sprues, rather than each bit individually.

 

You could always sub it to Peters spares, some of us must have a standing order with them :-)

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 but I will do something about making spares available to modellers via my website in the next few weeks, once I get down to photographing and cataloguing each spare (within reason).

 

Dave

 

Surely you could use these, they'd save you all the photography effort

http://djmodels.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/J94-71515.pdf

http://djmodels.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Beattie-Well-Tank-instructions_Back_09-2014-r2.pdf

 

Will other DJM models spares such as the 71 also become available in due course?

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Surely you could use these, they'd save you all the photography effort

http://djmodels.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/J94-71515.pdf

http://djmodels.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Beattie-Well-Tank-instructions_Back_09-2014-r2.pdf

 

Will other DJM models spares such as the 71 also become available in due course?

Of course I could and will use some of thevschematics, but the rolling chassis are painted, as are the bodies/tanks etc so will need pics no matter what.

 

I’d hope to have a set of 71 spares too, but nothing on the short term horizon for those just yet.

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Dave

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Dave

 

Returning to your original question, rather than go through the hassle of selling the spares yourself, why don’t you do a deal with someone like Peter’s Spares (usual disclaimers of no connection etc) to sell them on your behalf? May be a quicker and simpler route to market and avoids creating hassle for yourself

 

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Not sure if this is relevant, but are these spares received "on sprue" or not? There would then be a scope to reduce the overhead a little by supplying those sprues rather than piecing them out. Obviously which parts are grouped may have an effect.

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Not sure if this is relevant, but are these spares received "on sprue" or not? There would then be a scope to reduce the overhead a little by supplying those sprues rather than piecing them out. Obviously which parts are grouped may have an effect.

Unfortunately not, in typical Chinese style ( and I must admit to asking them for spares, not how the spares came) I have grip bags of all spares 100 smokebox doors, for example, per bag.

 

The chassis and body/tanks etc are separate items in a poly foam tray.

 

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Dave

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I suppose you could list all spare parts in excel, do a guesstimate/realistic price for each spare (you could use similar values that Hornby and others have) and figure out if the total makes a profit vis-a-vis what you paid for them (as you will sit on these for a while, even a 50 or 100% or 150% margin is not unreasonable as this is a long term service and recovery of funds - there is utterly no point being the cheapest spares in town!).

 

If you find the initial margin is not worth the hassle, you can tweek all values in excel instantly (add say 5%, 10%,15% to all etc).

 

As for postage, £1.50 for just buying a 50p spare (i would not charge less than that for any spare personally except maybe screws which I would do in packs for £1 each), is perfectly fine for me.

 

When I buy a spare, it is to repair a loco, which is a rare event so not like as if I break the bank on £1-50 postage.

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Smaller items (screws, handrails etc) could be sold in loco packs where you sell a complete set for each loco, of course then you have the issue of sorting them all out in the first place so maybe not.

 

I tend to bulk buy small bits, 10 of that screw, 15 of that one etc so that might be an option, sometimes I can even find the one I have 'stored in a safe place', but not very often.

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By the way Dave, what is the best way to contact you about spares please?

You can pm me here, but bear in mind I need to catalogue what I’ve got, photograph some of it, and price it all, and put it on my web site.

It will happen but could be many weeks as it stands.

 

Once live on my website you can mail via info@djmodels.co.uk and order what I have.

 

Cheers

Dave

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Hi,

 

I am new to this and only joined the other day and am desperate for a screw which holds the coupling rod on to the wheel of my Beattie Well Tank obtainedfrom Kernow when it was first released.

 

I Realize you are very busy but I would be grateful for a reply to my emails sent to both addresses and have left a message on your mobile.

 

I live in OZ and miss using this loco especially as I just received your Gate Stock to go with it.

 

Regards

 

David J. Gatrell

 

PS My Email is davidjgatrell@gmail.com

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Dave seems to have had a few personal issues of late (man flu from hell mainly) so I guess he has not had time to catalogue and price bits yet. But I'm ready to order and pay when they are so I can get my well tank looking great on the line again.

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...am desperate for a screw which holds the coupling rod on to the wheel of my Beattie Well Tank obtainedfrom Kernow when it was first released.

 

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I live in OZ and miss using this loco especially as I just received your Gate Stock to go with it.

 

I may be wrong, but was under the impression that Beattie Well Tank model was not fitted with PP equipment, so any alternative would be just as (in)prototypic. It was DJM's O2 for KMRC that has some models adapted for PP.

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