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Vintage! Original!

Postby ScaleCraft » Sat Oct 31, 2020 1:21 pm

https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-ORIGIN ... 4491039830

uhhh...no.

Brush painted red or possibly to be TerraCotta, inside is Mohave, so absolutely not "original".
I have never, ever seen one of these early tin electrics with a box coupler. Again, not "original".

Price isn't bad ($23.45), at one bid, the amount of work to cosmetically restore is a lot.
Mechanically, who knows.

Add $16.25 to ship, not looking promising. Add 'em up, forty bucks.

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Re: Vintage! Original!

Postby rogruth » Sat Oct 31, 2020 9:15 pm

Isn't 1924 a little early for a box coupler?
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Re: Vintage! Original!

Postby ScaleCraft » Sat Oct 31, 2020 10:57 pm

15 years?
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Re: Vintage! Original!

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Nov 04, 2020 7:06 pm

$68.00
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Re: Vintage! Original!

Postby rogruth » Wed Nov 04, 2020 7:34 pm

Rufus,
Does your new avatar thingee have an actual scientific name of some kind? I know some do. Some kind of Mobius (SP?) thing.
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Re: Vintage! Original!

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:38 am

rogruth wrote:Rufus,
Does your new avatar thingee have an actual scientific name of some kind? I know some do. Some kind of Mobius (SP?) thing.


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Re: Vintage! Original!

Postby rogruth » Thu Nov 05, 2020 9:13 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
rogruth wrote:Rufus,
Does your new avatar thingee have an actual scientific name of some kind? I know some do. Some kind of Mobius (SP?) thing.


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OK. But that was yesterday. Is todays the same type?
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Re: Vintage! Original!

Postby healey36 » Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:18 am

A trip through the bead-blaster might yield something recoverable, but certainly not vintage or original. Funny, I don't recall the 254 being made in mojave, but might be wrong. I'll have to look it up.
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Re: Vintage! Original!

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:18 am

rogruth wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
rogruth wrote:Rufus,
Does your new avatar thingee have an actual scientific name of some kind? I know some do. Some kind of Mobius (SP?) thing.


Winding / unwinding of circDNA

OK. But that was yesterday. Is todays the same type?


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Re: Vintage! Original!

Postby ScaleCraft » Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:19 pm

healey36 wrote:A trip through the bead-blaster might yield something recoverable, but certainly not vintage or original. Funny, I don't recall the 254 being made in mojave, but might be wrong. I'll have to look it up.


https://train99.com/prewar-0-gauge/lion ... e-1924-34/
in typical evilbait photo quality, hard to tell if Mohave or one of the olive greens.
NOT red.
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Re: Vintage! Original!

Postby healey36 » Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:47 pm

Seems reasonable. They made 253s in mojave too, but they're tough to find. I'd like to find an orange 254 and 248 in decent shape. Those are tough, too.
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