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Nigels

Hi Folks,

Isn't it coincidental, I just about finish repairing the last batch of 'broken' loco's (only 1 Murdoch to rectify) and along comes a new quite nice little bundle of 'Non-Working/Broken' items auction. This time the job lot I've won consists of;

Thomas x2
Arthur
Gordon
Henry
Ben
Whiff
Freddie
Stephen
Emily
Diesel 10
Bumble Bee James
Salty
Dennis
Duck
Motorised Carriages (x 2 - 1 for Mighty Mac, 1 for Harvey)
Bertie
Red Double Decker Bus
Lori
Chinese Dragon Wagon
Sodor Fuel Tanker
Annie
A number of trucks

Now of course who knows what's wrong with them, they may be quick fixes like some of the last batch or they may require considerably more effort. At worst they may get consigned to the spares box to help resurrect other scrappers that may come my way. But based on the photo's they look in pretty good condition so I'm hoping some will fall into the 'easy fix' category, or with some of the rarer models maybe another 'normal' doner train may bring them back to life.

Best part is the cost of the auction, I won this bundle for £2.20 + postage 🙂

ripley802

Nigels wrote
Hi Folks,

Isn't it coincidental, I just about finish repairing the last batch of 'broken' loco's (only 1 Murdoch to rectify) and along comes a new quite nice little bundle of 'Non-Working/Broken' items auction. This time the job lot I've won consists of;

Thomas x2
Arthur
Gordon
Henry
Ben
Whiff
Freddie
Stephen
Emily
Diesel 10
Bumble Bee James
Salty
Dennis
Duck
Motorised Carriages (x 2 - 1 for Mighty Mac, 1 for Harvey)
Bertie
Red Double Decker Bus
Lori
Chinese Dragon Wagon
Sodor Fuel Tanker
Annie
A number of trucks

Now of course who knows what's wrong with them, they may be quick fixes like some of the last batch or they may require considerably more effort. At worst they may get consigned to the spares box to help resurrect other scrappers that may come my way. But based on the photo's they look in pretty good condition so I'm hoping some will fall into the 'easy fix' category, or with some of the rarer models maybe another 'normal' doner train may bring them back to life.

Best part is the cost of the auction, I won this bundle for £2.20 + postage 🙂

Awesome lot Nigel. I am amazed at what these sell for some times. Makes the thrill that much more fun. Finding something in the ruff and restoring it or simply putting in a battery and making it work again. Good luck on repair for them. I too picked up a bumble bee James this past week, which was listed for parts, and actually scored a second yesterday that doesn't have the face, but can likely be fixed up. Post some pics if you have time. Thanks.

Super

Awesome Nigels and so much deciphering ahead for you.

Nigels

ripley802 wrote
Awesome lot Nigel. I am amazed at what these sell for some times. Makes the thrill that much more fun. Finding something in the ruff and restoring it or simply putting in a battery and making it work again. Good luck on repair for them. I too picked up a bumble bee James this past week, which was listed for parts, and actually scored a second yesterday that doesn't have the face, but can likely be fixed up. Post some pics if you have time. Thanks.

Will do when they arrive, as I say they look in pretty good nick, but who knows till you see them in the flesh. As for the bumble bee, if need be I can always sacrifice a spare James to get that going so a win win scenario if you ask me 🙂

ripley802

Nigels wrote
Will do when they arrive, as I say they look in pretty good nick, but who knows till you see them in the flesh. As for the bumble bee, if need be I can always sacrifice a spare James to get that going so a win win scenario if you ask me 🙂

Hopefully yours turn out a bit better than mine. One is decent although it has some sort of food or something on it. Will need cleaned and wires repaired. The other is missing his face, stickers and has some wear, and needs wires fixed.

I will have to look and see if there are stickers/decals anywhere close to what was on him.

(Bumblebee James that is.. )

Nigels

Believe it or not I managed to get a bumble bee james only a few days before winning this bundle. Its already arrived and is in awesome condition, a few marks on the 'corners' as is normal with a used loco, but apart from that the only other mark is a little stain on the grey coal cover. But that may be able to be cleaned off - what with starting my new job and fixing the last batch of dead engines I've not had a chance to look into it as its low on the triage list 🙂

The one in the broken batch looks to be in similar condition from the auction photo's but who knows I'll find out when they arrive. I do know it is complete with its coal cover though, so that's one positive 🙂

ripley802

Nigels wrote
Believe it or not I managed to get a bumble bee james only a few days before winning this bundle. Its already arrived and is in awesome condition, a few marks on the 'corners' as is normal with a used loco, but apart from that the only other mark is a little stain on the grey coal cover. But that may be able to be cleaned off - what with starting my new job and fixing the last batch of dead engines I've not had a chance to look into it as its low on the triage list 🙂

The one in the broken batch looks to be in similar condition from the auction photo's but who knows I'll find out when they arrive. I do know it is complete with its coal cover though, so that's one positive 🙂

Excellent to hear. I got mine cleaned up and re-wired last evening. He actually is not that bad. The other one rally just needs the #5 stickers for the tender, which seem like there may be some available as it is just. 1/2" square black with yellow 5 on it. I found a face from an old James that fit perfect.

Glad to hear yours looks good, now one to play with and one to put up. :-)

Nigels

Nice one Mr Ripley, I've been wondering myself if replacement stickers are either available or there are any scanned images you can download to print them yourself. Although I got all those other loco's running a few of them could do with some new stickers - primarily on the tenders for engines like Gordon and Edward for some reason 🙂

Nigels

Ok, Mr Ripley, as requested here's pics of this haul;

Firstly Ben & Freddie;

Whiff and (drum roll) Oliver;

Dennis and Thomas;

Gordon & Henry - both have broken wires so I know how to fix those, both complete with the tender coal covers tho;

Stephen & Tender, has a broken switch;

Salty & Arthur (Arthur has a broken wheel on the front axle - other side);

Chinese Dragon and Diesel 10;

Bertie, Bulgy and Lori;

Another Thomas, bit of an odd one this as he has a permanent connected wagon with the power switch in the wagon rather than the loco. Looking at the bottom it doesn't appear to be a talk & action model so I'm a bit bemused, not see this type before, any clues anyone?

Emily;

Bumble Bee James, in pretty good condition, needs a bit of a clean and maybe replacement stickers, but otherwise paint is good;

An interesting wagon;

Motorised coach, for Mac maybe?;

There are also another 6 or so wagons/coaches in pretty good condition apart from broken couplings and one of the motorised coaches for thingime (the one with the crane - can never remember his name lol!)

Overall the whole lot are pretty good, the odd missing push rod, but otherwise ok, apart from the noted faults I can't tell what's wrong with the others as I've not had chance to test them yet, but will come the weekend - all in all great for the grand price of £2.20 + shipping 😃

ripley802

Nigels wrote
Ok, Mr Ripley, as requested here's pics of this haul;

Firstly Ben & Freddie;

Whiff and (drum roll) Oliver;

Dennis and Thomas;

Gordon & Henry - both have broken wires so I know how to fix those, both complete with the tender coal covers tho;

Stephen & Tender, has a broken switch;

Salty & Arthur (Arthur has a broken wheel on the front axle - other side);

Chinese Dragon and Diesel 10;

Bertie, Bulgy and Lori;

Another Thomas, bit of an odd one this as he has a permanent connected wagon with the power switch in the wagon rather than the loco. Looking at the bottom it doesn't appear to be a talk & action model so I'm a bit bemused, not see this type before, any clues anyone?

Emily;

Bumble Bee James, in pretty good condition, needs a bit of a clean and maybe replacement stickers, but otherwise paint is good;

An interesting wagon;

Motorised coach, for Mac maybe?;

There are also another 6 or so wagons/coaches in pretty good condition apart from broken couplings and one of the motorised coaches for thingime (the one with the crane - can never remember his name lol!)

Overall the whole lot are pretty good, the odd missing push rod, but otherwise ok, apart from the noted faults I can't tell what's wrong with the others as I've not had chance to test them yet, but will come the weekend - all in all great for the grand price of £2.20 + shipping 😃

Great score. Those look to be on good shape too. I just scored the red bulgy bus. I have several green but I had not found the red one. The one you mention as Lori, I believe is actually Elizabeth.

The Thomas with the car attached is a talking but not talk and action one I believe. I have several of these. Where the funnel is should press and he talks when flat sense there is a sensor on the rear.

The motorized coach does look to be mighty mac's. The blue car with the horse I believe is Stephen's.

Hope this helps, and correct me if I am wrong fellow members. Thanks.

ripley802 wrote
Great score. Those look to be on good shape too. I just scored the red bulgy bus. I have several green but I had not found the red one. The one you mention as Lori, I believe is actually Elizabeth.

The Thomas with the car attached is a talking but not talk and action one I believe. I have several of these. Where the funnel is should press and he talks when flat sense there is a sensor on the rear.

The motorized coach does look to be mighty mac's. The blue car with the horse I believe is Stephen's.

Hope this helps, and correct me if I am wrong fellow members. Thanks.

And another Oliver? Geesh. Lucky...

Nigels

Thanks Mr Ripley, you are indeed right about Thomas having a push button on his boiler, I never noticed that and thanks for correcting me about Lori, I got Lori the other day so it probably stuck in my mind lol!

Have to admit I was a bit surprised to find Oliver in there, he was listed by the seller as 'Duck' 😉

P.S. Check your PM's 😉

ripley802

Nigels wrote
Thanks Mr Ripley, you are indeed right about Thomas having a push button on his boiler, I never noticed that and thanks for correcting me about Lori, I got Lori the other day so it probably stuck in my mind lol!

Have to admit I was a bit surprised to find Oliver in there, he was listed by the seller as 'Duck' 😉

P.S. Check your PM's 😉

Excellent Nigel. Thanks again for the info. Yeah I saw an Oliver listed as Perxy once and it was only selling for a few $$ then I think a few people found out and it ended up selling for a lot more. If only people knew what they had.

Here is a quick pick of the two bumblebee James's I picked up. As mentioned the one had no face and both had broken wires but are all back to good now.

Super

A regular bee hive you have there Ripley.

Nigels

Super wrote
A regular bee hive you have there Ripley.

Gonna be a competition at this rate I got two now as well lol!

ROCKINATOR

This is going to be intresting....

Super

I wonder how the yet to be released (November) of the Plarail/Tomy Bees Chasing Along with James Freight Car Set will compare to these Trackmaster Bee James? http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10338802

ripley802

Super wrote
I wonder how the yet to be released (November) of the Plarail/Tomy Bees Chasing Along with James Freight Car Set will compare to these Trackmaster Bee James? http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10338802

I am interested in seeing this one too. I have seen the listing on hobby search but there have not been any pics that I know of yet. Should be cool though.

DalaGStanator

1) The "Lori" is Elizabeth.
2) The Thomas with the permanent truck is a Talking Thomas (not Talk-n-Action).

Miksolo

Wish I could score on lots like this. There's a whole list of reasons I can think of that prevent me.
-I am very unprofessional when it comes to cleaning and fixing these trains.

-In addition, even the slightest scratch or smudge can gross me out and make me resort to peeling off the stickers and promising myself to turn it into a scrap engine. (I actually did this a few days ago with the Thomas that I got from the used Quarry Loader set on eBay. My paintjob was a bit sloppy and I should've been smarter before I started it. I wanted to wash it off, and got most of it off, but now he was rust-color around the edges of all of his stickers, and what looks like blood coming from his eyes. Poor Thomas!)

-I always find ones that are too expensive...

-...or have blurry, suspicious pictures.

-When I do find them, Mom doesn't want me to buy so many trains at once.

Nigels

Job lots are always a hit and miss thing, some are truly rubbish with a lot of trains only fit for scrapping and using as donors for parts, others are unbelievable bargains full of either working engines or engines with minor defects like a broken connector.

Mind you I'm one of these that even with the 'rubbish' lots I tend to get most of the engines working eventually, so far I've only really scrapped a couple and then it was due to things like broken chassis which is a bit difficult to fix without a donor. But even then I will strip all the usable parts off these models with a view to resurrect them in another engine which has another problem.

One of these days I've got to go through all my engines and start to sell off some of the duplicates, but its difficult as they are like my little children lol!!