How many years will this be on ebay?

Im sure its been on there for many years already - why would you bother ?**LINK**

Perhaps in the hope that one day “Mr Right” will see it ?

MichaelG.

Might help if the seller actually said what model it actually is.

My favourite long one :- **LINK** all the useful stuff went in about a fortnight 2 years ago! (No, I didn't get waht I wanted!)

How do these long term listings avoid re-listing fees. Only time I've had things run over the original listing I got charged again. Which would end up expensive over the long term.

Clive

Please put at least a small description rather than just a bare link.

The initial link is to a traction engine body, possibly small 3in scale. with a very shot boiler, no cylinder block and rather odd crankshaft for £1k with a rude 'no offers' notice.
Looking at the seller's hundreds of listings he is a garage trader, possibly ex antique shop owner retired and just listing all his residual stuff, or a car boot reseller.

Well that is a coincidence, just last night I was wondering what had become of that thing since I first saw it mentioned on this forum quite a while ago.

You can go in some 'junk/antique' shops and see tat that has been there since the year dot and will never sell.

Tony

He's no doubt a house clearer.

Probably a converted CO2 cylinder from a fire extinguisher. The Yanks would call it folk art, I call it scrap.

It now says "Closed" but I don't if that means sold or withdrawn from sale.

The rather aggressive rhubarb, sorry, rubric, suggests the seller originally bought it without really understanding what he was buying, not what would be involved in rebuilding and finishing what appears freelance and never completed..

Hard to tell what the boiler, apparently with a single, rather small flue, is under the cladding, nor its actual condition though I'd certainly cast a very critical eye over it.

Chain final drive? It looks like a sprocket on the axle.

I have known a freelance engine of roughly 3" , perhaps small 4" , scale, made that way years ago; and have no idea where it eventually went. Scrapyard probably, which sounds harsh I know; but it was very roughly built, with a chain-drive to rear wheels from an old car, tyres and all, accompanying a boiler I doubt anyone now would trust although its builder did try steaming it; with little success.

I am sure this e-Bay one is not a partial rebuild of that engine I knew - it looks a lot better made, or at least looks a lot better, for a start; and the other did have a multi-tube boiler.

Nicely painted, if nowt else. That seemed to have been his selling-point!

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I have seen some forlorn wrecks over the years - some begging adoption for completion or overhaul into service; others perhaps best buffed up as ornaments; some well, sources of parts? Each once somebody's dream project but cut short by the owner's own loss of interest or money, or by illness or inevitable re-allocation to a rather Higher Running-shed.

The saddest though was a brand-new boiler, beautifully made as Part One of the retirement project of a professional coppersmith, faithfully to the drawings. He had brought it to us for a test; having proved it did not leak by his preliminary test. We inverted it on the bench....

It was faithful to the drawings all right. Drawings of unknown provenance by someone unknown, who had clearly not known a 3.5" g loco's LNER-pattern arched firebox in copper, needs a lot of stays everywhere to withstand even the cold hydraulic working-pressure test by the builder.

I had an eMail from ebay, at 07:33 this morning, telling me it had been re-listed.

I don’t think I have the stamina to work out what’s going on

MichaelG.

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125601536005

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 08/11/2022 21:01:31

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 08/11/2022 21:03:44