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In lugnet.trains, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> Maybe I will offer it only to those folks who buy my Lego History/Price List
> Another service I was thinking about offering was what I call the LEGO
> equivalent of "Hamburger Helper" (a USA/Canada food product that requires only
> hamburger beef be added to make a full meal). I would sell partial old sets
> (parts only, from my own rare parts inventory), but only the rare items that
> people cannot find on Bricklink (or cannot find in decent quantities).
>
> Examples: the old Model Builder sets of the mid 70's. I have the rare parts
> for building #396 Thatcher Perkins, #390 1913 Cadillac, #391 1926 Renault, and
> #395 1909 Rolls Royce. I have the large (red and white) and small (red) spoked
> wheels, black axle bricks, rod/piston train works, 1x1x1 yellow classic windows,
> 2x2 outside corner blue slopes, etc. I probably have rare spare parts for about
> 40 (total) of these sets.
> Most pieces would be near mint to mint.
> > Thanks,
> Gary Istok
> A Lego Addict since 1960.
I think this is an excellent idea, but for every person who needs all the rare
parts surely there are more who, like me, have the set but have lost only one or
two of those parts. I have been looking on and off for several years for the
black old style wheel for my Thatcher Perkins and they never come up on
Bricklink. Would you be able to offer a pick an mix or would it have to be all
the rare parts?
Psi
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| (...) Thanks for the response Simon. Yeah, this probably doesn't belong in lugnet.trains, but Simon's question is about a train locomotive (yeah I know it's a model, not a working train). But his question is about, you guessed it.... black train (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| I have been getting a lot of requests recently about old sets on EBAY, or old sets that folks may already own. And sometimes I tell the people to avoid the set because the parts are not original. Here is an example in the Lugnet data base for (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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