Yours for ONLY $7500! Buy It Now!

Well, at LEAST he cataloged all the stuff and did some cursory
pix...but $7500??? Maybe he fat fingered in an extra zero? Fat
fingers....hmmmm.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ADME:B:SS:US:1

pix...but $7500???
Must have jumped two zeros. 351 carts at .25 cents each comes
to $87.75. So a savings of $12.75 for the bulk purchase.

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:15:54 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote:

pix...but $7500???
Must have jumped two zeros. 351 carts at .25 cents each comes
to $87.75. So a savings of $12.75 for the bulk purchase. snip

Now that'd be a thrrrrrrrrrifty deal, as the scot in me would be wont
to say. Then, shipping would more than gobble up the savings, so now
we're back to over 25¢US apiece. Cavandish says nay at that point.

Now that'd be a thrrrrrrrrrifty deal, as the scot in me would be wont
to say. Then, shipping would more than gobble up the savings, so now
we're back to over 25¢US apiece. Cavandish says nay at that point.
At 7500 or even 750 smackers, I am thinking an April Fools' prank
maybe? If not.....then I dunno. As you imply -shipping will be a small
fortune, and the bulk of the carts are not anything spectacular. Most
unopened? Wonder what "most" means? And opened or unopened, they will still
need the same restorative touch. About the only taker would be someone who
wanted to jumpstart an eight track collection, or possibly someone stuck out
in the middle of nowhere far from thrift stores, or folks from some
developing nation that skipped the 8 track era and has no domestic supply.
Speaking of Scots.....I was wearing a tam last week and several people
identified it as a beret. One chap even mentioned he had never seen a beret
with a little powder-puff on the top. In Winnipeg yet. How things have
changed.

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:40:25 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote:

Now that'd be a thrrrrrrrrrifty deal, as the scot in me would be wont
to say. Then, shipping would more than gobble up the savings, so now
we're back to over 25¢US apiece. Cavandish says nay at that point.
At 7500 or even 750 smackers, I am thinking an April Fools' prank
maybe? If not.....then I dunno. As you imply -shipping will be a small
fortune, and the bulk of the carts are not anything spectacular. Most
unopened? Wonder what "most" means? And opened or unopened, they will still
need the same restorative touch. snip

Yes. "Sealed tapes" are usually in worse shape than well cared for
and played used tapes, and the situation gets worse if the tape is 3M.
Reason? The graphite back coating compound on unused 35 year old
carts seems to become stiff and non lubricative, so it takes a couple
of high speed "runarounds" to burnish it back into slipperiness. I
have a procedure for that, using a cordless drill.

I use a ¼" Milwaukee on 500 RPM speed, and have a little rubber cup
tool on a ¼" shank that I use to drive the hub with minimal downward
pressure. This runs the tape through at about 30 IPS, and after two
passes, it's ready to go without jamming or dragging. I used to run
them around by hand using a pencil eraser as a driver, but it's
tedious, to say the least. Once run through in such a manner, back
tension can be properly set with the new splice, if necessary. If the
tape was set right at the factory to begin with, this isn't necessary,
but it sure is on tapes where people have replaced their own splice
and lost the reference relationship of the two ends! I just redid a
Brewer & Shipley cart that had the usual "overlap" splice and I had to
tape up 6 turns of tape to get the tension back where it needed to be!

Of course, the chuck and tool should be scrupulously demagnetized
befor getting near any recorded tape. The Jacobs chuck on this drill
was magnetized enough to pick up paper clips!

About the only taker would be someone who
wanted to jumpstart an eight track collection, or possibly someone stuck out
in the middle of nowhere far from thrift stores, or folks from some
developing nation that skipped the 8 track era and has no domestic supply. snip

All indeed possible. EBay has shown me that anything is possible.

Speaking of Scots.....I was wearing a tam last week and several people
identified it as a beret. One chap even mentioned he had never seen a beret
with a little powder-puff on the top. In Winnipeg yet. How things have
changed. snip

SACRILIGE IN CANADA!!!! The pioneers must be spinning in their
graves! However, at the Hotel McDonald in Edmunton, tams and kilts
are still the order of the day. Thank heavens for CNR's hotels!

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:32:52 -0800, DeserTBoB
wrote:

SACRILIGE IN CANADA!!!! The pioneers must be spinning in their
graves! However, at the Hotel McDonald in Edmunton, tams and kilts
are still the order of the day. Thank heavens for CNR's hotels! snip

Ooops...that should've read "CPR." CNR never had hotels.

DeserTBoB wrote:
Well, at LEAST he cataloged all the stuff and did some cursory
pix...but $7500??? Maybe he fat fingered in an extra zero? Fat
fingers....hmmmm.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ADME:B:SS:US:1
$750.00 would still be too much! Now $75.00 that would be a good price.
Ebay is going to charge him a lot in listing fees for that.

$200 delivered price would make that lot worthwhile

Ooops...that should've read "CPR." CNR never had hotels.

I usually think that CP had the southern route, Winnipeg-Calgary-Vancouver
while CN had the northern route, Winnipeg-Edmonton-Vancouver so did not give
it any thought. One of the nicest of the old hotels was the Bessborough in
Saskatoon.

On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:02:56 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote:

Ooops...that should've read "CPR." CNR never had hotels.

I usually think that CP had the southern route, Winnipeg-Calgary-Vancouver
while CN had the northern route, Winnipeg-Edmonton-Vancouver snip

Correct. When I rode the Canadian from Vancouver to Edmonton back in
'93, it had been rerouted onto CNR and off its traditional CPR routing
through Calgary. Of the two, the CPR has the more impressive scenery
going through the Rockies. Going west, both roads join to run
opposite banks of the Fraser River into Kamloops (a ratty little
town,) and then take slighly disparate routes in to Vancouver. An old
CPR hotel is in Calgary as well, the Paliser, quite an imposing and
first class operation, as they all are. Of them all in the west, I'd
give the McDonald in Edmonton the highest marks for cuisine, service
and gorgeous rooms. The Vancouver, built by CPR in 1939, is the most
modern of them all, is quite posh, and is huge. Even high tea is
served, eh.