Interesting EB item for the steam engine scratch builder

[up148]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/366313653448?i ... SwsSFpyaqg

[bob turner]

Opinion:

Overpriced by a factor of ten - an order of magnitude! I didn't even look at shipping. Not at all rare . . .

Those look like they won't cut without being carefully annealed.

[up148]

Well, once again, it shows that you need to know what you're buying. I have zero knowledge or interest in drivers and tires, but the tip off should have been that everything else being sold by this seller is way overpriced. Good education for me.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.........everything else being sold by this seller is way overpriced.

Some of it's interesting stuff, but not interesting or needed enough,

[bob turner]

Not really -

Here is a reasonably priced set of USH drivers - all MCWT, but still, with care you could use them on a K4. And she has a USH gearbox for $20. I, of course, need neither.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/366313657774?i ... SwkONpt0Ol

She is just not well versed on the value of leftover junk.

The problem with the $200 collection of tires, other than who needs that many 72" driver tires (I think All Nation has them) is that those mis-matched iron castings all appear to be Athearn. Lobaugh used Meehanite, which machines like hot butter. Athearn just threw junk in the furnace and poured. Carbide tools will cut them but you really need to make light cuts or you will break the tool.

A completely matched set of unmachined Lobaugh 72" spoked is worth around ten bucks, with eight of those tires thrown in. I have been known to give them away. There are some who have drawers full of these things - my buddy George Mackey in Canada had several such drawers. If you have a 10" lathe and good tools, then Lobaugh rough cast are the only game in town. I have a Challenger set from Bill Lenoir, but as yet have not tried to machine them. They look daunting. They have that lighter "steel" color that says "get carbide bits!"

[up148]

Well, fortunately I don't need any of it and I can live without all of it. I see numerous interesting items on EB from time to time, but like Martin, I can live without them.