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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 |
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Yours for ONLY $7500! Buy It Now!
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. |
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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. |
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Yours for ONLY $7500! Buy It Now!
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. |
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Yours for ONLY $7500! Buy It Now!
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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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Yours for ONLY $7500! Buy It Now!
$200 delivered price would make that lot worthwhile
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Yours for ONLY $7500! Buy It Now!
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. |
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Yours for ONLY $7500! Buy It Now!
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. |
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