Bassettblowke Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 (edited) I’ve been watching three LMC coaches on eBay and was tempted at the start price but they soon accelerated beyond the range of my pocket. One of them wasn’t too bad but the other two were pretty grim and nicely illustrate some of the issues to be encountered with vintage stock. Woodworm and Zinc pest have both been at work and I would only salvage parts from the two afflicted coaches. Edited September 6, 2020 by Bassettblowke 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassettblowke Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 (edited) More pictures the third one showing the best of the bunch Edited September 6, 2020 by Bassettblowke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Anything suffering from the attention of woodworm is a definite no-no and stays where it is! Zinc pest isn't (or is less?) contagious and possibly can be dealt with. I still have to try the alleged cure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassettblowke Posted September 7, 2020 Author Share Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) I agree not the sort of house guest you would welcome, I wouldn’t have paid what they were eventually sold for, my view being they were only worth the value of the sum of salvageable parts. I can also visualise lying awake at night waiting for the first tell tale hole to appear in the apparently unaffected coach or even worse the Chippendale toilet seat I bought for a snip from some fella in Shenzhen Edited September 7, 2020 by Bassettblowke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) I had lost the link to the Zincpest cure. It's in Italian I'm afraid. http://www.rivarossi-memory.it/Tecnica/Peste_Zama_cura/Curare_peste_zama.htm Unfortunately it uses a rather nasty chemical, which may be difficult to obtain and proper Araldite (or similar) which needs curing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroethylene Edited September 8, 2020 by Il Grifone finger trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassettblowke Posted September 7, 2020 Author Share Posted September 7, 2020 I presume the Tricoethylene is the cleansing agent prior to bonding the whole kit and caboodle back together again with Araldite. If that’s correct it would be interesting to see the finished article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Il Grifone Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 I'll see what i can do. SWMBO will be away for a couple of weeks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassettblowke Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 (edited) Here’s another three in one of my favourite liveries only to be bettered by the LMS livery which I am led to believe is essentially the same with LMS blotting out the midland in the small black panel. Again listed on eBay and not exactly cheap. I was initially quite interested in them until I realised someone had gone to the trouble of cutting out all the windows. Two other coaches also listed at the moment one a Bakelite GWR in poor condition with missing window frets and disintegrating bogies yours for a paltry £149 and another substandard one for £25. Some of these sellers must be getting high on the fumes from disintegrating Mazak Edited September 8, 2020 by Bassettblowke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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