BARGAIN
BUYS.
This feature is
a way of passing on all kinds of model boat related items that I no
longer have a use for. There are things I’ve bought, and no longer
need, items I’ve taken in part exchange deals and don’t
want to keep, or motors & other items left over from building jobs.
Everything is new and unused unless otherwise described. Unless P &
P costs are quoted, this is something we can sort out for each deal,
for smaller items it will just be the cost of a padded bag and the postage.
I’ll do my best to keep this page fully up to date, but do e-mail
or phone to confirm availability of items before sending any payment.
All ordering and payment details are the same as specified on the standard
Order form, and you'll find that if you click on the Price List &
How to Order tab.
ITEMS FOR SALE - ELECTRIC
MOTORS & OTHER ASSORTED ITEMS.
A recent stock check showed
that I have more electric motors than I need, so I’d be happy
to sell some to interested customers. most result from a payment-in-kind
deal done with a model shop that was going out of business, and the
others are mainly left-overs from customers orders, or from some project
that wasn’t proceeded with. All these motors are unused, and I
also have a few items like spare Olympus reduction drive units. It’s
all odds & ends, and all are cheaper than you’d find in model
shops, so if you are buying a hull or two, it’s worth asking what
other items I have available that could be used to power them. All at
less than normal retail prices, and post free if bought with any hull.
If you are interested, send an e-mail query, and I’ll reply with
the current stock list as an attachment.
GRAUPNER 500E.
A sad tale attached to this one, I was doing some boatbuilding work
for a friend, when he died suddenly leaving me with most of the parts
for a couple of boats, including a few new 500E motors. These are high
quality 545 type 5 pole low current drain motors, ideal for scale models,
nominally 12v but they work fine on 6v as well. Price is £9.00
each, plus £3.50 UK postage unless sent with
a hull, only two motors now remain unsold, and there probably won't
be any more when these are gone.
ELECTRIC MOTORS, 385 type.
I've had two or three of these sitting on a shelf for some time, together
with matching MFA Olympus geared reduction drive units. I bought them
for an overseas customer to send with his hull, and he changed his mind
at the last moment, making them surplus to requirements. I'll probably
find a use for everything eventually, but if anyone can use them now,
I'm asking just £4.50 apiece for the motors and
£6.00 for each Olympus unit. No additional postage
on any item if ordered with any hull, and only a modest extra UK P &
P charge of £3.50 if you just want one or two
motors or drives.
ELECTRIC MOTORS, 540 & 545 type.
I have two or three examples each of new and unused 540 (3-pole) and
545 (5-pole) motors for much the same reason as the 385s listed above,
spares and leftovers from customer orders. These are offered at £5.00
each, and again no additional postage if ordered with any hull, and
only a modest UK P & P charge of £3.50 for
any number of motors if sold separately.
MULTIPLEX PERMAX MOTORS.
I have two different sized examples, both supplied by customers for
fitting into hulls, but just not suitable for the models intended, which
left them surplus to requirements. They aren’t the kind of thing
I’m likely to use, and I can’t tell you much more about
either motor than appears below.
MULTIPLEX PERMAX 500.
This a good motor for high speed hulls, the dimensions are more or less
the same as a standard 540. You can’t really use it with gel cells,
but would need an 8.4volt nicad pack. Quite a good motor choice for
a medium-vee type hull like my French Pilot Launch, if you want some
speed and don’t expect very long running times, this one should
do nicely.
I only have one of these, and it can be yours for just £7.00,
no additional postage if ordered with any hull, £3.50
otherwise.
MULTIPLEX PERMAX 480.
This is a smaller version of the one above, about the same size as a
385, but more powerful and a bit more thirsty than most examples. Best
power source would be a 7.2 volt nicad pack.
I have two of these, and they could be yours for £5.00
each, or £9.00 for the pair, no additional postage
if ordered with any hull, about £3.50 otherwise.
M-TRONICS– M-SONIK MARINE 15 - electric
speed controller.
These are excellent items, the best speed controllers I’ve found,
I never use anything else. This unit is the latest Viper version and
unused in the original packaging. A customer supplied it, but decided
it wasn't up to the amps of the motor he intended to use, so replaced
it, leaving me with the original. I’ll get round to using this
myself eventually if no-one takes it off my hands, and current retail
is about £21.00, but I’m only asking £18.50
plus £3.50 for postage. As with every other item
listed, no extra postage cost if ordered with one of my hulls.
KINGSTON MOULDINGS HULLS
– (very) Slight seconds.
When I wander around, taking my usual professional interest in the fibreglass
hulls for sale on trade stands at model shows, there always seem to
be one or two that make me wonder how anyone in the business could possibly
have the nerve to put such rubbish on display. I've seen every conceivable
GRP fault, flimsy mouldings, air bubbles, crazing etc, as well as terrible
surface finishes, occasionally all of these faults on a single hull,
and it often strikes me that I’ve thrown away much better hulls
than that. I’m not going to do it any more though. From time to
time a hull comes out of one of my moulds that is ever so slightly sub
standard, not quite good enough to send out to customers, but too good
to chuck out. Typically, these hulls have only very minor cosmetic problems,
like chips, scratches or streaks, or sometimes a small air bubble or
void. All faults will have been properly repaired with filler or gel
and sanded smooth, and every one of these hulls is guaranteed 100% perfect
under a couple of coats of paint, so what are you waiting for?
These ‘substandard’ hulls are much better than several I’ve
seen offered as ‘perfect’ from some other moulders, and
all are offered at a useful saving over normal prices. If you are interested
in anything listed, send me an e-mail query and I’ll reply with
a slightly more detailed description if necessary. Apologies for the
fact that this section rarely changes, I must be getting better at it,
as I rarely seem to produce sub-standard hulls these days. I'd like
to point out that the items listed here are all I have, I quite often
get people asking if I have a slight second of some hull or other, and
the answer is always "No!". The hulls listed here are the
only seconds I have.
Still a bit worried
about buying one of these hulls? Here's a comment from a recent satisfied
customer.
Ashley
Heath, Rosliston, Swadlincote, Derbyshire, UK.
"Just wanted
to let you know that everything arrived safely, and that I am extremely
happy with the hull. Can't believe it was even a slight second. I can
only assume that you must have very high standards, it's been a pleasure
doing business with you".
CURRENT
STOCKS.
TARPON
CRUISER.
Not very much wrong
with this one, most people would barely notice the fault, even if it
was pointed out to them, but the hull has a 50mm intermittent line of
tiny air bubbles on one side of the transom, right under the top flange.
If you didn't want to paint the white hull, you could cover the area
with a strip of trim tape, and in all other respects, this white hull
is faultless.
A small fault, so
a just fairly small reduction, £40.00, plus the
usual £10.50 postage.
ESKGARTH
TUG.
Not very much this
one either, just a very slightly sub-standard gelcoat finish on the
bulwark area above the moulded-in rubbing strip, one or two extra coats
of paint in this area, with careful rubbing-down, will take care of
it, and otherwise the black hull is 100% perfect..
Another small fault,
so not a huge reduction, £50.00, plus the usual
£10.50 postage, and the usual scale plan is included.
GERMAN
S142 SCHNELLBOOT HULL.
What we have here
is an accurate hull for a German Type 142 Schnellboot, better known
as the Zobel Class, of which Wiesel for which Graupner make a full kit
is probably the best known example. A while ago, I had a customer, who
wanted a fleet of these to play with on the lake in front of his country
mansion. The standard Graupner Wiesel kits were to be used, but he didn't
like the vac-formed hulls, and the fact that the kit hull design was
inaccurate. The full-size boats had four prop shafts, but Graupner had
changed this to three, one running through the central keel. My hull
is restored to the original with the full keel, using original Shipyard
drawings, so you can use the scale four shafts, or for a simplified
version twin shafts, and of course, this fibreglass hull is far stronger
than the original thin plastic kit version.
As
I still have the mould, and also the original customer's permission,
it seems a bit of a waste not to offer these hulls to anyone who wants
one, but at a fraction of the original cost. They measure 1070mm x 175mm,
same as the Graupner kit, with which they can of course be used, though
with two or four shafts instead of the kit three. These hulls aren't
seconds, they are perfect in every way and usually made to order. They
cost £70.00 each, which is well under half the
original cost, and postage for any number of hulls adds £11.50.
Plans are available at extra cost, and these would be copied from the
original kit plans, which are on two very large sheets, I'll add the
cost here as soon as I've worked it out. Phone or e-mail if you need
any additional info on this item.
