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

14 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

Just surprised he didn't run across the road in front of the approaching train.  He would have got back to the van sooner if he had.

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.

42 minutes ago, spamcan61 said:

I can't recall any Bachmann Mazak rot problems since the early N class waaaayy back mid/late 90s.

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

5 hours ago, hayfield said:

 

You can activate an amount which automatically declines offers below this, that is not saying you have to accept that amount, you can also set an automatic accept facility above an amount you set

 

Like all things you need to know an items true value. Was in your case eBay's value its true value ? or did the auction fail to obtain its true value? 

 

I have changed my mind on this facility, it can be a very useful tool

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

30 minutes ago, Puggers said:

I, personally, do not use Royal Mail for the items I sell on eBay.  I have always used Hermes and, for this item, they would charge £2.90 for a fully tracked two to three day service. I know that some people have had bad experiences with Hermes but, I can only speak as I find and I have sold over 500 items on eBay, with all the parcels sent by Hermes and have had no problems at all

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.

1 hour ago, chrisf said:

I shall not mourn the passing of the cardboard envelopes, ....

 ...

Chris

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

1 hour ago, Nearholmer said:

 

Thank the Good Lord for that!

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 

9 hours ago, kevinlms said:

Which makes absolute sense, given the two halves were from different batches.

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

On 02/03/2019 at 21:41, ianmacc said:

Is the one on the hst class 43 long enough to fit (assuming they’re the same which they seem to be?

Yes, part no x1083 is the same part on just about all Hornby diesels (&electrics) with the pancake style ringfield and will fit the Class 25,29,35,37,43,47,86 and 110 dmu (off the top of my head, probably missed a few like the class 90,91 &92)

the silence is deafening. Any news from Model Rail Scotland? or have we been let down, again.

25 minutes ago, RLBH said:

If you're doing a two-engined D-D Hymek, why not just double head?

 

Actually, didn't the ML4000 cart around a load of ballast to get its' adhesion up to scratch for North American duties? I'm fairly sure I've seen a suggestion that either Swindon or Beyer-Peacock had drawn up a C-C with two MD870s. Certainly it ought all to fit, it's basically just a diesel-hydraulic version of a Deltic. A three-way tryout between that, DP1, and a Sulzer-engined proto-Falcon is an occasional daydream of mine.

I think there is a outline diagram for a proposed 3500-4000hp C-C Swindon style Western in Brian Webbs book with internal layout details. The cooler groups and resulting grills are bigger but does not show a lot of other differences to a standard Western.

On 1/28/2019 at 10:48 PM, phil-b259 said:

Hornby have NEVER sold spare chassis blocks in the entire 30 odd years I have been interested in the Hobby and I fail to see why they would change their stance on that now.

WRONG. Hornby HAVE sold basic Class 31 chassis blocks about 4-5 years ago. I know because I bought 5 -  they were refurbished models only. They quickly sold out. They have also sold Class 20 blocks from the newer sound fitted model. Petes spares still have a few. 

Most of the line was in tunnel under the rock itself.

The docks railway was quite extensive on the west side with a tunnel of less than a mile that serviced the east side. When I lived there you could still see the rails buried in the road surface and an engine shed was still extant. No doubt the Army used railways to remove spoil from the tunneling projects but afaik they weren't connected.

Hattons have an eBay page?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/hattonsmodelrailways/m.html

missed the 15% coupon but even at £49 the Janus is seriously tempting

Apologies for going slightly OT.

What is going on with the tarpaulin covered wagons and what wagon are they, something to do with fish presumably?, there seem to be a lot of them to be an infrequent working, if they are containers why are so many covered, they can't all be damaged?

 

Mike.

Dont know Mike, fish was usually in dedicated fish vans or in a variety of other ventilated vans, I have a couple of photos of containers sitting in the yard but not on the harbour side. For Birdseye maybe, but these arent insulated - unless a tarp counts as insulation... Any information would be gratefully received.

Richard

Lowestoft by Kevin Lane, on Flickr

Going to need a few more for my model of Lowestoft

Something a bit fishy about those vans...

I see you spotted that

The madness continues

 

I see that e***e is there again...

Panto included though. I hear Snow White is on at the London Palladium this year, maybe it includes tickets for that