thaddeus

I havent seen the Hornby type motors on ebay or amazon for quite awhile, I did buy a few and they were quite cheep but that was at least 2 years ago. having waded through amazons 7 pages of double shaft 12 dc motors - they dont have any of the right style. and, this topic really needs to be moved from here

Or, he could have parked legally on the other side of the road (where his drop off is) in one of the many parking spaces, then not have to cross the railway and not get boxed in.

Quite a few of the revised all wheel drive Class 42 Warships disintegrated. Chassis blocks and bogie blocks equally affected.

It is a very useful tool, just set the limits otherwise you will constantly get chancers and outright lunatics offering you absolutly nothing for your goods which they suddenly feel entitled too just because theyve sent you a message. Moving on.

If its an auction listing and has offers available - offer more, encourage the seller to end early, the seller has already committed to the fact that its going take a week to sell. Opening bid is usually the minimum price people will take or think its worth. If its buy-it-now offer less, but not much less. (10% max - my value). I had an item on ebay recently which the ebay guide price was for £50-65. I listed it at £5 opening price. I was the approached by a "buyer" asking if I had a buy-it-now. I didnt want to change the listing so activated the "offers" for him/her and said make me an offer. Got an offer from him/her, guess what? £2.50. Needless to say I wont be doing that again. Auction ended at £27.50.

You had an offer of above the start price? never had that. must be fishy

Well good for you, I, personally would never, ever, ever use that company you mention for anything ever again, I am even put off by ebay sellers that use that company. As a seller I experienced some of the worst customer service from that company, no apologies, no responsibility taken for anything, no compensation for anything. Final straw - 3 items destroyed in single week, close on £200 value lost. Their excuse - our conveyors are old and sometimes things fall off. Advice - dont put FRAGILE tape on items as they can be seen as a target - their words. Royal Mail on the other hand have always been fair, taken responsibility and will always pay appropriate compensation - so long as you keep the appropriate paperwork and work within their guidelines.

So do I - as the postman decided to fold my magazine in half and ram it into the letterbox. great.

as I don't particularly want to see this thread locked can we please keep the politics out of it thank you

Can I add that the plastic insert in the insulated side of the wheelset is extremely brittle. Drifting any movement into it can make it loose, they are replaceable but finding spares is getting difficult. Personally (from experience ) I only drift the un-insulated metal-on-metal side

well good for you for pointing out the obvious. Oddly enough with all the mainline chassis I have thrown in the bin (a lot) both sides seem to rot at an equal rate. yes, I do realise that separate parts can be made at different times from different materials to different tolerances, as it has been the only one I have personally seen this happen to I thought it was a little unusual, pardon me for sharing.

The oddest metal fatigue fault I have seen was in a Mainline J72 one half of the split chassis was completely serviceable with no defects and the other half had turned to powder. The wheels also were riddled with rot and crumbled just looking at them.

There is a couple of articles on re-gauging the 22 on the EMGauge70s site with some good photos so you can see what needs doing JANUARY 2012 UPDATE

no idea about the 121 but the class 22 has all metal wheels on stub axles with muff gears, pickup through the chassis, I have heard the Dapol wheels can be teased out to EM on their muffs but "Ultrascale" dont make drop in replacements and the Gibson has one spoke to many and again not a straight replacement. With the Hornby 29, Heljans 16, the Kernow 41 and Dapols 22 & 21/29 you would think there was a market for a proper NBL spoked wheel by now, rant over.

"In good working order and excellent condition" - have they even looked at this item before listing it. Both cabs have serious damage and the chassis is in the last stages of terminal fatigue. On top of that they think its worth 85 quid? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133011028137