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Re: New to trains - want to swap for a long wagon or two?
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:07:29 GMT
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"Jason J. Railton" <j.j.railton@cwcom.net> wrote in message
news:G832D8.A8r@lugnet.com...
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> For each pair you want to swap, I order a long wagon kit from Shop@Home.
> Immediately it arrives, I send you the long base and bogey plates. You
> dismantle the bodies of two short wagons and rebuild one long one, using • all
> four wheels, two buffer bars and a few 6x2 plates. You're then left with
> two short wagon bases (6x16), two buffer bars and a few small plates. • These
> you send back to me in exchange, so then I can build two short wagon bases
> from the bits I have left.
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> That way, you get two wagons turned into one long one, and I get two short
> ones for my tenner.
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> Is anyone interested? Or can you think of a a better idea? Feel free to
> suggest an alternative deal if you're vaguely interested (e.g. if you • really
> want to keep some of the plates). Or simply if you've got buffer bars,
> wheels or wagons to sell.
I find the problem is magnets, not buffers.
I seem to have accumulated a sufeit of buffers without magnets.
I have lots of short wagon plates, wheels and buffers, but no magents.
see my trades page
http://www.thewilkesfamily.freeserve.co.uk/lego_trades.htm
(ps some of these things have gone. Must update)
regards
lawrence
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| (...) Oh - didn't see you had a trades page (doh). But, I should have specified 9V style train wheels. And I do mean I'm after buffer bars complete with magnets, btw (though one or two plain ones might be handy for buffer stops in sidings). For a (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| Just got my first train set, and I'm looking to build my own short wagons. So, would you like to upgrade two of your short wagons to one long one for the price of a stamp? I'm looking for someone with a few short wagons who'd rather have long ones - (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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