Astute ballrace set.

[Guest Carsnboats]

I have quite a few excess 730 ballraces so I have made up a Ballrace set for the Astute.

See here for more info:

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/trades_model.asp?cid=17952

Clive[]

Added photo to trade now.

Also added lots of screws and spares to my trades section.

[Neil_S2000]

Sounds expensive, just bought a full Astute set of rubber sealed from Walawala, along with a metal sealed TGX set, a Boomerang set, some spares and some titanium turnbuckles and it came to £36 shipped. [8)]

Sorry man, not trying to sabotage your sale, just thought you and potential buyers should know.

[Guest Carsnboats]

quote:Originally posted by Neil_S2000

Sorry man, not trying to sabotage your sale, just thought you and potential buyers should know.

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Sure sounds like it to me!

Hong Kong prices are crazy, I can only base mine on UK pricing that I paid for bearings. As I stated a leading model shop would have sold those loose for £94. 1/2 price seemed fair to me!

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[BiggusDitchus]

quote:Originally posted by Neil_S2000

Sorry man, not trying to sabotage your sale, just thought you and potential buyers should know.

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Sounds a bit harsh this! Cant see any real reason why you needed to post this! IMO with the cost of bearings in UK this is a great price!

[Guest Carsnboats]

Just checked Walawala's shop. He is selling 730 size bearings with metal shields(chinese manufacture?) for $0.78 . That is just crazy. European manufactured bearings are £1.95 in most model shops. So now we know why most local model shops are giving up on R/C cars. Cannot compete anymore. More money to be had in dolls houses and model railways I guess.

[Mervyn]

And just think.In the early 1980's we paid $5US for each bearing.Sure makes them seem cheap now...

[Neil_S2000]

quote:Originally posted by BiggusDitchus

Sounds a bit harsh this! Cant see any real reason why you needed to post this! IMO with the cost of bearings in UK this is a great price!

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I posted it because it's a fact [:I] If you're right, I'm sure anyone who wanted to buy bearings from the UK would agree with you and still buy them. So it'll make no difference, right? []

quote:Originally posted by Kendalboatsman

Just checked Walawala's shop. He is selling 730 size bearings with metal shields(chinese manufacture?) for $0.78 . That is just crazy. European manufactured bearings are £1.95 in most model shops. So now we know why most local model shops are giving up on R/C cars. Cannot compete anymore. More money to be had in dolls houses and model railways I guess.

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One of the main reasons they are so cheap at the moment is the exchange rate, we're now getting 1.8 dollars for our pound which means good prices. If model shops had a bit more business sense they would buy in bulk from somewhere like Walawala, taking advantage of the weak dollar, and pass the savings onto their customers. £1.95 for a bearing is ridiculous, badword I could buy 1000 from Walawala and, even with shipping, undercut that price - and I'm not even in the trade! Hop-ups are the same, I saw a UK shop selling a TGX carbon deck for £50 which you can buy on Ebay for $45 - half price. [xx(]

[Crash Cramer]

Bearings,Bearings,Bearings!!!!!! This is such a sticky subject. I have recently paid the aforementioned $5.00 each for FOUR bearings. I bought it from an old school hobby shop and he wanted what he paid for them way back when. The set was a complete hopup set made by Tamiya for the HotShot way back when. I wanted the packaging soooooo badly and the 5X8 bearings aren't seen everyday, so I went ahead and bought them. When it came to my Astute build, I found a pack of new oilite brass colored bushings, so that is what is in it. I am building a runner and will probably use the leftover oilite bushings for it. I think that whatever you buy in this life, you ALWAYS get what you pay for. In this hobby, the more middlemen you deal with, the more the markup. I will admit that my theory on trade parts is to pass on the same savings or the same markup that I experienced when I went to a hobby shop and "got lucky" to my fellow TamiyaClub members. I will say, thus far it has been working, but I am finding some parts hard to get off my hands, so I will post the slow moving parts into eBay. I, of course, will use past paid or "market" prices to help influence my eBay prices.

Clive, I too would be a little hurt by this type of reply to a post, but I can see the other member's point as well. I think I would have exercised some different tact in posting who has good prices on bearings or parts or whatever. I think this is what a club is all about, sharing ideas and finds and needed information.