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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Gary Dowler on September 29, 2017, 11:24:02 PM
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Saw an ad on Craigslist yesterday. Guy was selling a flight box with a lot of bits and pieces, parts, tools, etc, in it. Including a goodly number of brand new glow plugs. Got it all for $40. Turns out there were 29 brand new, still in the package, K&B glow plugs!!! They are all a long #4520 with a thin arched idler bar.
Everything else was just icing on the cake.
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Some people are so lucky. D>K
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Gary...I also have lucked into some great deals....mostly last days of swap meets....around here, almost always RC oriented
Got something like 5~6 Cox TeeDee engines one time--- because I wanted the guy's TeeDee 15 for $25... but only had a $20 in my pocket...In desperation he agreed..and then as an after thought, just took my $20 and gave me the entire box of Cox engines
Another time I offered $35 for a Giant 82" wing span Douglas DC-3 Top Flight kit. Price was $75. The next day Sunday I sauntered by the table...the guy recognized me and asked if my $35 offer was still good... I pulled out me wallet and gave him $40 for the kit.... an easy 10~12 Lbs of very good usable Balsa and ply wood inside
In the last 5 years, some one local just saw me flying a model... The next weekend he came up a gave me a box of old engines from the garage... free.... mostly crap...but a few jewels like NIP Cox TeeDee .020 or a pristine McCoy Red head .35 ...also a few junk Fox 35s that got traded away to some one more willing to rebuild them than me
Now all I need to do is find "That Guy" with a full card of ThunderBolt RC longs or K&B -1Ls fer cheap!