http://www.ebay.com/itm/KADEE-MICRO...707095?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item3f2743fe57 http://i.ebayimg.com/t/KADEE-MICRO-...iD2/$(KGrHqNHJDkFG)SOV-ppBRuiD2UyQw~~60_1.JPG quoting description: MAGNE-MATIC COUPLER NEW IN BOX NEVER USED VINTAGE PRODUCED IN 1980'S I take issue which each of the above. Seller insists he's correct, I'm wrong and I'm an idiot. He may be correct about the idiot part but I'm confidant he's wrong about the rest.
Unless it was re-run with those same markings, that car reporting number should have been made in 1979. Certainly not the same couplers as described in the ad.
Kadee or Micro Trains did make cars with those type couplers. I have not see many of them nor am I sure of when such type couplers were on their cars.
Yes. They did make them with Rapidos. In the box were also two little magnets which were to be glued on the coupler, to make them magnetic uncoupling. But they were not Magne-Matics. The idea did not fly, however collectors do seek these cars. Aside from visually looking into the box, the label was also different.
And confirming that they did have Rapido couplers in the early days. When added to the Rapido they succeeded in making the coupler almost HO scale sized. Clunky at best. And to the best of my knowledge they were never referred to as Magne-Matics. That term applied to the later MT couplers only. And the box does not appear to be original. More like a newer MT box.
I purchased 3 Kadee BN cabeese in the late '70s that had body-mounted Rapidos. Still have 'em but, of course, M/Ts have been installed. Actually picked up another one a couple months ago from that same auction site that still had Rapidos. Guess they are still floatin' around out there !!!
A first release model, Kadee Micro-Trains stock 36040 with road number 670124 was produced in September 1979. Rapido equipped versions of this model (i.e., with factory installed Rapido fitted trucks) would have been packaged with a yellow paper insert label bearing stock number 36041. With only one or two exceptions found on some early blue label inserts, in Kadee's early days, all of the Rapido equipped models bore stock numbers ending in "1".
I have a Kadee caboose that was made for the US Bicentenial.Kadee # 50991,The caboose is red,white and blue and numbered USA 200.It also has the yellow box liner and rapido's on the trucks.
So it all boils down to apparently right car in wrong box. Nothing to get terribly upset about. If you don't think it is worth $16 don't buy it. The pictures show what trucks it has and the condition of the car does appear to be excellent. Make your own decision.
MT even sold (and may still sell) Bettendorf trucks with Rapidos. Their old number was 1500. In my early N scale days, as most of the power still had Rapidos, I bought a bunch of these to put onto cars that had knuckle couplers. As the power both got better and started getting away from Rapidos, I had to change back a bunch. Now I have all of these 1500s, some of them unopened, for which I do not have a whole lot of use (at least not right now).
:teeth: Was just thinking that. Will probably make it all the way to the "More Ebay Humor" thread. But he will be laughing all the way to the bank !! :teeth:
DO NOT laugh. I have put up defective merchandise on TASTWWNSTMOTOAF. I would state MORE than ONCE that it was defective, did not run well, did not run properly and the like. I would state, specifically, at least once, what the defect was. I would then close the description with 'BE AWARE: You are bidding on something that DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY.' The item would sell for a ridiculous price and I would get excellent feedback on top of it. I once collected seventy five bananas for an old B-mann Standard Line J class. It was test run only. I stated quite specifically that while it was test run only it ran like garbage. I stated the specific horrible running characteristics of this thing. I repeated that it ran l ike garbage. I paid thirty five bananas for it at a Greenberg. I started the bidding at twenty and got seventy five after a sniping war.
Be sure to use words like 'RARE' and 'Vintage' and lots of !!!!!!!'s. It adds excitement and interest to the listing.
Actually, I was quite serious. It was George who inserted the "laughing all the way to the bank!!" comment. And from your response, it is clear you did just that!
Is that one missing from the MTL Database? It has this car listed for Jul-90. And I don't see it listed when I look for what was released in Sep-79. Jason
On that note: I have put things up on "the bay" and stated clearly that the item was "not running", "not tested", "broken", "missing parts", "burned out", etc. and people have bid them up to ridiculous prices and then opened cases against the account because the item they received didn't work, or was broken. Then "the bay" and PayPal kindly refunded their money when I contested the cases on the basis of the item being properly described. Just goes to show that properly describing an item isn't always a safe bet.
