ianmacc Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Here’s a madness I only encountered tonight. Over the years I’ve acquired loads of stuff like endless packs of track pins and fishplates etc so thought I’d have a clear out and checked the “opposition” to make sure I was the cheapest seller. These are 2-4 quid all day long yet it’s amazing how many folks put them as auctions! Am I missing something here? They’re going to sell for about three pounds so why not just list them buy it now and achieve it anyway? You’re not going to suddenly achieve a ridiculous price. And nobody in the market for a three pounds pack of rail joiners is going to bother with the faff of a bidding war to save 9p surely… 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianmacc Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 4 minutes ago, Bucoops said: Madness I tell thee! Nope Squeeze lol! 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 (edited) I know that this isn't railway related, it's to do with my other interest. The description is great! "Needs restoring" It's also not from the vehicle they say it is, even if it was in a box of bits for that machine. If I had to guess, it's off a Ferguson tractor mounted farm implement, circa 1950.... I just wanted to show that eBay madness is definitely "colourblind". https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/382759548625?fits=UKM_Make%3ABSA|UKM_Model%3AM20&hash=item591e3f36d1:g:Z0cAAOSwhBFgf9n1 Edited June 6, 2022 by MrWolf Clarity 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 (edited) Before I read the description, I looked at the photo and thought "that needs a good wire brushing and a lick of Kurust...." But then, it wouldn't be authentically original, would it? :-) Edited June 7, 2022 by Hroth spelin 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
russell price Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 9 hours ago, MrWolf said: I know that this isn't railway related, it's to do with my other interest. The description is great! "Needs restoring" It's also not from the vehicle they say it is, even if it was in a box of bits for that machine. If I had to guess, it's off a Ferguson tractor mounted farm implement, circa 1950.... I just wanted to show that eBay madness is definitely "colourblind". https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/382759548625?fits=UKM_Make%3ABSA|UKM_Model%3AM20&hash=item591e3f36d1:g:Z0cAAOSwhBFgf9n1 Surely its a 1/4 whit battery Terminal Bolt, maybe a bit short. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 41 minutes ago, russell price said: Surely its a 1/4 whit battery Terminal Bolt, maybe a bit short. I was thinking more 7/16" BSF and agricultural because of the square blacksmith but, but you could well be right. Even if it was what the seller claims, it's not worth £7! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
russell price Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 4 minutes ago, MrWolf said: I was thinking more 7/16" BSF and agricultural because of the square blacksmith but, but you could well be right. Even if it was what the seller claims, it's not worth £7! if the seller quoted some measurements it would help, either way its a bsw bolt, right off to list the contents of my bolt stores!!! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 I expect if dimensions were quoted, it might give even the greenest of old motorcycle enthusiasts a clue that it's useless. BSW was used only on items that screwed into an alloy casting, to stop them pulling out and stripping the thread. It was never used for nuts and bolts, that was CEI/BSCY or rarely, BSF. Anything coarser would vibrate undone in pre nyloc nut days. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
russell price Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Hence why i think its a battery terminal bolt, that isnt BSF thread, batt terms use a coarse thread though. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 12 hours ago, MrWolf said: I just wanted to show that eBay madness is definitely "colourblind". https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/382759548625?fits=UKM_Make%3ABSA|UKM_Model%3AM20&hash=item591e3f36d1:g:Z0cAAOSwhBFgf9n1 I had jam jars full of them in one of my many sheds. Damn!, I could have been a millionaire. 1 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Whilst I try to use as many of the original fasteners as I can when restoring bikes, replated as necessary, those which are damaged beyond use, I save until I have the correct replacements ( some shysters use modern bolts that cause problems with future maintenance.) Maybe I should put them on eBay as original, oily rag patina, needs restoring? Maybe I'm missing a trick? 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 7, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2022 6 hours ago, MrWolf said: I was thinking more 7/16" BSF and agricultural because of the square blacksmith but, but you could well be right. Even if it was what the seller claims, it's not worth £7! Looking at his other items, knowing nothing about motor bike spares prices, he seems to have DPPT (Decimal Point Placement Trouble), or motor bike bits are more "interestingly" priced than model railway bits and bobs, I can see our American car owning friend pricking his ears up! Mike. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 18 hours ago, MrWolf said: I know that this isn't railway related, it's to do with my other interest. The description is great! "Needs restoring" It's also not from the vehicle they say it is, even if it was in a box of bits for that machine. If I had to guess, it's off a Ferguson tractor mounted farm implement, circa 1950.... I just wanted to show that eBay madness is definitely "colourblind". https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/382759548625?fits=UKM_Make%3ABSA|UKM_Model%3AM20&hash=item591e3f36d1:g:Z0cAAOSwhBFgf9n1 I am intrigued by the condition given as "For parts or not working". Who would pay £7.00 for a non-working nut and bolt? Also, what use is a scale without any indication of what the graduations are, could be marked in mm, 1/16", rods, poles or perches. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted June 7, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 7, 2022 20 hours ago, MrWolf said: I know that this isn't railway related, it's to do with my other interest. The description is great! "Needs restoring" It's also not from the vehicle they say it is, even if it was in a box of bits for that machine. If I had to guess, it's off a Ferguson tractor mounted farm implement, circa 1950.... I just wanted to show that eBay madness is definitely "colourblind". https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/382759548625?fits=UKM_Make%3ABSA|UKM_Model%3AM20&hash=item591e3f36d1:g:Z0cAAOSwhBFgf9n1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted June 7, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2022 'Oo are you, then'? 'We're the Sweeney, sonny, an' we 'aven' 'ad our breakfast...'! I once had a Ford Escort that could be opened, and started, with a 10p coin. Never took the key anywhere with me. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 1 hour ago, The Johnster said: I once had a Ford Escort that could be opened, and started, with a 10p coin. Never took the key anywhere with me. No Ford in Liverpool was safe, all the Halewood apprentices seemed to have a set of master keys. Not that Ford locks had much variation, or were especially sophisticated... 🙄 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 7, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 7, 2022 Ford Transit Ignition key, pre 1989: Also fitted pretty much every domestic Ford car and van in the UK since the mid 1960's. There was a very good reason the family Cortina had a ruddy great crook lock on it.... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted June 7, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 7, 2022 And my old Moggie van was just the same 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveyDee68 Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 OFF TOPIC WARNING To set the scene, imagine having spent a long day enjoying the delights of Harlech and its castle in the summer of 1978… Having walked all the way down the steps to the car park at the foot of the castle, my (late) father suddenly realised that he had locked the car keys in the boot of our (carp*) brown Ford Cortina… An anxious half hour was spent by my parents as they frantically tried to work out how to transport two tired children back to the caravan several miles away in Dyffryn Ardudwy… At which point the owner of another (blue) Ford Cortina arrived back at the car park … My dad had a word, and seconds later our car was open using the other owner’s key… Out of mutual interest, he then started our car with his keys and my dad, havi by been reunited with his keys from the boot of the car, did the same with our rescuer’s vehicle! Addresses were exchanged and Christmas cards exchanged for several years afterwards! Hopefully car security has improved since those long hot 1978 summer days! Steve S * To avoid censorship!! LOL 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Someone I knew at university started up my Triumph Herald with his Herald keys and parked it out of sight as revenge for a stunt I'd pulled on him. To be fair, both were well over twenty years old even then and the keys sometimes fell out of the dashboard if you went over a hump backed bridge at speed. 😁 My other half has a 1965 model, but it appears to have had new locks when it was restored. I used to be able to get my driver's door open with a knife. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted June 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8, 2022 My driving history also includes an LDV van, secondhand from Royal Mail and resprayed white on the outside. I didn't make much money with it but I had a lot of fun, light removals, bit of roadying, taking kit to dodgy raves and such. A feature of this was the screwdriver, a Halfords flat bladed beast of about half an inch across, which I used as the gear lever, the original having been bent for some reason. Like on old Fords, the lever was a sprung bayonet fitting which you could remove from it's socket with a bit of a push and a twist, and having a removable gear lever that could double as as big screwdriver and small 'persuader' and as an immobilisation device was not the worst thing in the world! I used to remove it, it just pulled out, and hand it to startled passengers on the motorway just for fun... 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 5944 Posted June 8, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 8, 2022 5 hours ago, The Johnster said: My driving history also includes an LDV van... Ah, yes, LDV. When the company logo is a skip, it tells you all you need to know about their products! 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted June 8, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 8, 2022 It was the direct descendent of the infamously bad Sherpa Van, a true product of late 1970's British Leyland parts bin and duct tape engineering... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 1 hour ago, 5944 said: Ah, yes, LDV. When the company logo is a skip, it tells you all you need to know about their products! LDV, the Local Defence Volunteers, were the forerunners to the Home Guard. Johnster is really Cpl. Jones - well everybody in Wales is called Jones! So it's no surprise when the gear lever of Jonesy's van comes off in his hand. For an encore, he takes the steering wheel off too. 😁 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted June 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8, 2022 In the 70s we borrowed a friend's Beetle as our car was being serviced and managed to lock ourselves out in a town centre car park. In the days when police stations were manned (personed?) a kindly PC came with us with a huge bunch of keys and opened the VW door in short order. I cannot remember which make opened the door but it wasn't VW. He took our names and address - just in case! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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