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Thanks for the info OTC - really appreciate that. The Sand Scorcher circlip was a piece of cake to find and order. Pics in due course - still got a couple of coats to spray onto the body...

Just started assembling my 58011 Ferrari today and discovered that one of the bags had a tiny hole in it which caused the rubber bands to turn into goo and the servo saver spring to become corroded. I'm pretty sure that replacing the rubber bands is well within my capability but I can't find a reference for the servo saver. Does anyone know the part number for the whole assembly (I may get lucky and find one on ebay) or if the spring was common to other models? It didn't snap when I fitted it to the saver assembly, but it looks pretty awful and the rest of the kit is pristine. The spring is beyond saving with sandpaper or dunking in Cola so any help appreciated. Thanks!

Email lists are worth a bit of money on the Dark Side of the 'Net. There is more to it than just kudos - in some cases it is organised crime at work, but in the 20-odd years I've been online, this is the first time I've had my email address compromised and, boy, someone is going to town on it. I have had to set my email client to just bin anything it thinks is junk and hope that nothing from friends and family gets thrown away as well. It was inevitable, really. To those who have PM'd or asked for 'The List' - I'm afraid I deleted my copy once I had established I was on it and the drop-box site that was hosting it has removed it, so I can't help directly. Basically, Chris has already covered what you need to do - if in doubt (and you should be!) change every password that, if compromised, could affect you. The main ones would be your Paypal account (their security is hopeless) and your email account(s). Facebook is pretty secure these days, but anything that might let someone know more about you and be able to 'social engineer' their way into your online life. Despite my experience, and running several sites myself, I've been lazy too. A quick Google of my details showed my 'whois' details for all the sites I run on behalf of other people and the usual 'admin/password' would have given people access not just to my data, but to others who count on me. It was a wake-up call for me, certainly - totally agree with you Daz!

Chris, I found the file you mentioned this evening and, just to clarify to everyone, it contains *every* email address and password of 38000+ registered members, not just the 400 you reference in the original post. A bit of good news I hope - it's clear from the file how the attack was done and it was not particularly sophisticated. SQL injection is script-kiddie stuff and if you've got a site that's been around as long as this one has, with a large number of SQL databases, PHP etc., there is always going to be a weakness. Although the note at the bottom claims it was 'Anonymous', I highly doubt this. I run my own sites as well and I know how difficult it is to make everything 100% secure, although password encryption might have been a good idea! Still, it looks like many members kept the site-generated password and probably stored it in in their browser, rather than using their own, so hopefully a lot of the data is useless. I have, though, got 12 emails today from someone called 'Fun Girl' who would like me to download an attachment because she's desperate to meet me. Decisions, decisions....

Whilst I'm new to this forum, I've been around long enough to have seen this kind of thing many times over. The OP posted a link, with no description, to a video that may as well have been someone throwing a brick at a young girl's head. I didn't pay to join this forum to watch that, I have no idea where the 'lulz' are in any shape or form, and the OP got the responses he deserved, lost in translation or not. The responses are not 'internet police' or 'concern trolls' or (insert latest phrase here), they are people expressing their disgust at something that, to most of us, has no humour value at all. By all means post stuff like this, but be prepared for the backlash. Simple. So.... anyone want a link to a video of a 13 year old girl being hit in the head with a brick ? Thought not....

As the topic says, if anyone is looking to offload one of these, please drop me a line with an idea of what you need for them. Thanks.

Love this model. Got my eye on one NIB original on the 'bay, and if turns out half as good as yours I'd be happy!

Neil from Time Tunnel says his best-selling kit, by far, is the Lunchbox. Apparently it was meant to be a limited re-re but it stretches the definition of 'limited' by quite a long way!

Thanks for the welcome! I got the full-size car bug out of my system a long time ago, after having spent far too much money on American classics, so I'll stick with the smaller ones for now. Besides which, if another 60s or 70s land yacht ever again appeared on our drive, Tamiya collecting would be the least of my worries... Pics from the loft finds to come soon, after I've trawled the forums to find out how to restore them

Any chance of an idea of what you would like for this in terms of 'Offers in the region of....' ? It is very difficult to be both buyer and seller at the same time and I'm guessing you have a rough idea of what you want. I could keep making offers, you could keep saying 'no' and it could go on forever! Kind regards

Well, instead of buying a Porsche or exchanging the wife for a younger re-re wife, I found this place and bought the first Tamiya kit I ever had when I was 8 years old. Somewhere in Japan, a now slightly wealthier individual is sending me a 58011 Ferrari 312 which will replace the one I found in my loft and started me on this road again. Pun intended. For over 30 years I had forgotten about my Tamiya cars until I pulled out a dusty box in the attic and wondered what was in it. A very loved, battered, and utterly un-salvageable 312T3 emerged, a loved, battered and, happily, quite salvageable, Ligier as well as a Ford Ranger, a Rough Rider and a Countach. The Ferrari still has the original Tamiya battery pack and Acoms servos in it; it also looks like an 8 year old built it, which I did My parents were not wealthy and I suspect they gave up a lot to indulge me in a hobby which lasted well until my early teens when the allure of ZX Spectrums, Amigas et.al. started to take over. That find prompted me to hit Google, I found this site and before I even posted my first message I had bought something from a member. And when my wife sees the bill for the 58011, I may need that re-re wife after all! Time to read through all the posts and figure out the best way to restore some models which gave me so much pleasure when I was growing up. Love this place. It's going to bankrupt me!