dalethecaptain

eBay as a Marketplace is not cheap anymore and neither is Amazon. Last lots of models I have bought direct from suppliers through Facebook or on here, and they are on average £5-8 cheaper per model, or if the same price then the seller is keeping a bigger margin, I’m happy to support that.

Indeed. My take is the price is what the market is willing to pay on the day. We have all seen stuff go for silly prices but equally, if their isn’t much appetite for something on a certain day then it won’t make good money. And especially after Xmas and towards the spring, sellers should know their isn’t as much money kicking about so either wait until after Easter or don’t sell on eBay.

Anyone had sellers cancel bids/purchases on them of late due to ‘damaged’ items? Had it happen 3 times in the last month, every time when I have been the only or one of a few bidders. Just happened again on a UH Massey twin set this weekend. Won it in the auction, then the buyer cancelled it and said the item was damaged, and sent a picture of the another item the same currently listed on eBay which is actually listed as damaged….

A project 12+ years in the making.... a damaged Ertl JD8400 finally taking shape as a euro spec 8400, right when Schuco announce a Euro spec version for 2022....... Too much work (not complaining) and not enough time have a few projects backed up on my bench. Got a loft full of boxes and a notepad full of ideas too!

That is a rare one indeed! There used to be a Deutz combine at a farm between Wooley and Milltown visible from the B6036 in Derbyshire but I see in the last few years its been converted to houses so I'm not sure where that machine went.

Was that at Platts Harris in Darley Dale?

So do you actually ship to the UK or is it through a third party?

Watching the all the machinery arriving for the Ashover Show in Derbyshire tomorrow. I have prime position in my front room for seeing the kit arriving into the village show ground, hopefully the weather gets a break for tomorrow.

I like the classic single axle trailer on the roadless, is that one of your scratch built creations? Fantastic pictures

Thats an amazing collection... reminds me of looking at the whole display in Toymaster around 1984. Well done for preserving a piece of farm toy history, I will happily pay to come see your display anytime! I have actually been considering selling the Autoway stuff I have left, hopefully there is still a bit of interest in it!

I would like to spend the day with Mr Nobody, he must get paid a lot because he does an awful lot around here. It would make fixing his mistakes a damn site easier....

Been back at work for a few weeks now. Came down to Italy in the car with the wife to fill up on Wine (Chianti), Cheese, Salami, and Panettone for Xmas. Just visited a truffle festival this weekend, and ended up spending a lot of euro on fungus, so good it might not make it home! At todays prices, there is about €20k of truffle in this picture!

Great conversion Olly, it looks a mint job and its very original too. What are the heavy duty rears from? They look the business for farm trucks. I wanted to get one of those 1:32 Japanese Kits of the Mitsui Fuso and build something like this, I used to see this type of truck a lot unloading grain at various the docks in NZ. They always looked a bit pimp with fat tyres and high ground clearance.

Do the manufacturers offer their 0% finance or flexible lease deals with the official products? I am going to be needing some tick with all these top quality models of late... Well done ROS, and damn you at the same time!!!

Mmmm Welly U400's, Have been on the hunt for a few of them for ages!

Buick Regal and new Insignia Sports Tourer here: http://autocar77.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/2012-buick-regal-gs.html

This car is sold in the US, at least in hatchback form, as the Buick Regal. The picture is a four door version, the 5 door is much more practical. There is also a touring model, or Station wagon which is pretty big inside as well. The start about £20k and go right upto about £35k for the twin turbo V6 4WD model which all the Police forces in the UK are starting to use an Interceptor car, as they are seriously quick. Vauxhall had a few dark years recently with crap cars and poor reliability but these are really, really well screwed together cars and they are great to drive and look well. I had a 160hp diesel engined 'Elite' model, it could do 90mph all day and still returned more than 50 to the gallon in the 68000 miles I did in it. And mine was an early model and never had anything other than routine servicing. To say that I loved the 'sig was an understatement, I was unsure about it at first but it was the only car I have ever been able to jump in and drive 8 hours non stop without feeling tired, as i drive in Europe quite a lot so big trips are a regular for me. Unlike the Audi A6 which replaced it earlier this year, which had to be recovered from the M1 with only 300 miles on the clock, and had a diagnostic fault that has never been fixed, despite having a new ECU, engine wiring harness and cylinder head. Hopefully a full refund is forthcoming...

The cab comes off the base pretty easy, the catch in the first pic where the Q tip is propping it up holds the cab on. A gentle tug here on the plastic catch and the cab will fall away forwards clearing the black tag in the windscreen. Somebody asked once before how to remove the cab and I posted it in another thread, but you can remove the whole tilting cab assembly which makes the job easier by turning the model upside down and pushing out the little tag by the front number plate forward, its basically a U shaped tag which hold the tilting part of the cab to the chassis. I have taken the rear body off one of these before, I think there is a rivet under the prop shaft maybe, by the exhaust. There is also a catch at back end that holds it on, I will try and dig mine out again for a look. Paper clips might look the part when used as rope cleats, easy to shape and cut as well. A bit of super glue should keep them in place maybe?

The mud guards look correct, that was my beef with the UH model, I photographed this bad boy at Townsons late last year to settle this very argument. The second image is one I just grabbed from a classified.

My sentiments exactly. But then again the original three point linkage was introduced as an attempt to standardise tractor and implement fittings, thus increasing equipment compatibility and also sales. It took a few years for it to be widely adopted, but it got there in the end. Its probably time for model manufacturers to stop messing about and just standardise the three point link, for the good of the model farming industry!

I think we are now seeing why it took so long for these to break cover. If you go back and look at the pre production mock ups at the start of the thread you can see just how badly wrong this has gone, the mock ups were pretty near spot on by comparison. This is UH, I wont hold my breath for them being corrected before release.... and they still have that crappy rear link!

Thanks! It keeps the wolf from the door in these tough times for sure! I have a few more pics and videos, I might need somebody to host them for me though, and I have to be a little careful what I post up. Obviously, I work for some folk who value privacy very highly, so I am bound by confidentiality (I can't even tell you the boat name!) but technical info is not so highly restricted, and they have no problem with me sharing it.

These C9 engines are particularly troublesome, being the first Tier 3 on and off highway fully electronic engines produced by Caterpillar. The injectors are controlled by high pressure oil from the sump, which means the engine is quite powerful and efficient. Those of you familiar with engines will have already spotted the fundamental flaw in this design, fuel injectors operated by high pressure lube oil. So after a few thousand hours when the contaminants in the oil have deposited themselves in the fuel pump, the engine stops working, completely. If cylinders heads and turbos are not being replaced, then its the HEUI pump, or Hydraulic Electronic Unit Injector pump that controls the fuel delivery and injectors.

I thought I would post up what I get up to when I have to go to work. I have been a Marine Engineer since leaving school, 4 years at College and getting sea time and then the last 16 years working on all manner of ships all over the world. In recent years I have been involved in ship construction, more specifically luxury yachts. Recent changes to the engineer licence systems for commercial vessels means that I have had to move away from the desk and get back to running an engine room and doing some spanner work, which I don't mind in the least. Currently, I have quite a sweet deal working as a Chief Engineer on an Italian built yacht which his best described as 'interesting'. Thankfully, I only have to work 8 weeks on, before getting 8 weeks off. So, I have been quite vocal in my distaste for modern Caterpillar engines, the first pic shows why. I had been on the vessel a week and it had been having 'generator issues'. Cue an inspection of the number 2 generator, a 200KW C9 engine, to find diesel fuel in the coolant. The engine had been rebuilt not too long ago, but obviously not very well. Naturally this happened 2 days before we were supposed to be somewhere else, so we had to get stuck in to it with our service agent who came over from Florida with a cylinder head, as there were non available in Europe of course!

Is there supposed to be a John Deere 6R in the pipe line?