I took the caravan down to the “Nationals” over the weekend and spent a couple of excellent days model watching and amazingly getting a suntan!
On the Sunday morning they hold a “giant swap meet”, which I wandered around not really intending to buy but then I saw a bench disc / belt sander. Now, I’d never buy from a car boot sale but in my naivety I thought that with it being modellers selling to modellers it would be OK. How wrong can you be!!
I was assured that it was in perfect working order but when I got the machine home and plugged it in the motor wouldn’t start up. By removing the sanding belt and spinning the disc by hand I got the motor running only to find that the disc wasn’t running true. All in all a complete bin job!
Well I suppose you win some lose some but in future I’ll stick to my principles and treat any “bargain” as suspicious, no matter who’s selling it.
On the Sunday morning they hold a “giant swap meet”, which I wandered around not really intending to buy but then I saw a bench disc / belt sander. Now, I’d never buy from a car boot sale but in my naivety I thought that with it being modellers selling to modellers it would be OK. How wrong can you be!!
I was assured that it was in perfect working order but when I got the machine home and plugged it in the motor wouldn’t start up. By removing the sanding belt and spinning the disc by hand I got the motor running only to find that the disc wasn’t running true. All in all a complete bin job!
Well I suppose you win some lose some but in future I’ll stick to my principles and treat any “bargain” as suspicious, no matter who’s selling it.