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mikenash

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Start-o-matic
« on: February 04, 2019, 05:59:37 PM »
https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1938416060

I put a bid in on this - who knows?  Might be something in the boxes that is of use to someone as well

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Re: Start-o-matic
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2019, 04:00:21 AM »
Check out this one then

https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1938636592

The optimist/dreamer/greedy farmer wants $4K for it

It has sat in a paddock a lot - but has the appearance of having done almost no work

he bought it in 1992 and is sure it was "new" then and that it was imported as "New Old Stock" from Argentina of all places.  it has the "Lister Dursley England" stuff but the little serial # plate is missing.

Sadly the case is full of water and there's no compression with the exhaust valve stuck open (the valve lifter was jammed "on") and the rack & linkages are seized.  When I turned up he was spraying INOX on the linkages and cranking it to see if it would go . . . .

He says he isn't inclined to take $500 for it

Then there's this bloke:

https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1929971096

He wants $3200 for this unit & I predict he will be wanting it for some time yet . . .

So there you go