I agree completely David, but then they are probably all cheap
compared to the true cost of making a new one. I bought parts for a
Carson LNWR Experiment from e-bay which many would have felt was very
expensive. Half of it was missing (like the boiler, tender ...!),
but I happen to have the mortal remains of another including all the
missing parts, which makes the project financially viable.

I suspect many of these unfinished projects remain unfinished for
ever.

Sometime ago somebody on this site asked about the availability of
commercial handrail stanchions. I suggested he try GRS, but were
there any other replies? I need some myself now (for the Carson
Experiment!).

Mike
www.williamsmodels.co.uk

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<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> My own observations on ebay are that ANY part built chassis goes
for
> silly money, usually the more complete the better the value for
> money. What amazes me is the unknown junk that somebody turns up,
and
> sells, not knowing what they have and somebody buys it unseen.
> The maxim, its old so it must be worth something (and then some
more)
> applies.
> Look at people selling ME mags, start price 99p PLUS postage of 50p
> or £1.00, yet club prices for these are 5p-20p!
>
> I recently viewed a complete Fayette, which I would not have wanted
> if I were given it, turning up on the C Heapy web site for the same
> money as ebay, (I wonder who has it now).
>
> Yet on the other end of the scale, daytime time TV (junk in the
attic
> or similar) a restored Raleigh motorbike circa 1920's was sold at
> auction for £1,800. If there had been wider coverage who knows what
> it might have fetched.
>
> David