cheapest engine (not including pop pop boats)

pauly · cheapest engine (not including pop pop boats)

I was wondering what is the cheapest engine you have bought is I think mine was the se1 I just bought for £25

Les Marsh

The cheapest I bought was a MM2 and SE2a and I got the pair for £25.

pauly

thanks pictures would be great talk to you lot tomorrow

TRAPPERKEEPER

The cheapest I have bought was my SR1 for $49.50, and its great engine

Mamodman123

I bought a luton bowman for £7.50, I sold it before I realised what it really was for 40 quid

Nick

Robert Fulton vertical for $9.99

mogogear

Jensen 75- $12.75 the engine went to Rob and the boiler went to Nick-- Dr Frankenstein I am...I still have the base

Nick

mogogear

You are correct sir!! Say the magic word and win a duck!!

But I did my best to pass on all the spoils at cost...It always pays to ask sellers about goofy shipping costs-- I goof up all the time when getting my shipping logged in and once someone bids- you can't change it!!

Less people bidding against you with too high shipping costs showing in the auction.. kind of like good things in the wrong category

johnreid

Mine was a $20 Jensen 25 after a bit of fun work, it turned out ok.
http://www.freewebs.com/johnreid/jensen25gproject.htm

steamyman

Wilesco D10?

toxx

... I paid 26 Ponds for my wee Mamod Minor 1. With shipment from Britain I forked over 45 Euros.

Atticman

Have got 2 MM1s for £10 each, best deal though is getting to use my Dads engine for free, but thats not buying them

Lewis

mm2 for 18 pounds

I also got a decent sw1 for 35 once

Steve_S

My Bowman M140 was £11, but it was just a collection of bits and pieces among some old Meccano, so it was a speculative eBay purchase. It payed off though because almost all of the parts were there.

toxx

... yo, Lewis! Gee, I like the little Mamod vid that runs on your posts

. Which engine is it?

igy569

Mine is definatly my recent purchase of the 1961 D12, including the M52 &M53. $50.00 US for all 3!!

Somehow, I figure it is unlikely that I will get a deal like that again.

I hope the next engine will be a Mamod.

RocDoc

My cheapest was the Bowman M167 for £25 which is still undergoing restoration ... albeit very slowly.

Pete

Lewis

Cedge

My best buy in toy engines was a Jensen model 80 twin cylinder marine engine for $30.00 USD, after telling the owner the engine was worth more than his asking price. He told me off for "challenging his knowledge" of toy engine values, so I just shut up and bought it for what he was asking....(grin). So far we only know of 3 or 4 of them.

Steve

pauly

bessytractor

My SP2 for £14

I too would be interested in the true value of this Jensen. I would also be intrigued to see a picture of it.

pauly

yes and a picture of the guy you bought it from I dont think Iv ever seen someone with mug idiot and insert brain here tattooed on their forehead I mean Iv seen mug tattooed on someones head but not all of them on the same head.

Cedge

With an engine like the Jensen model 80, valuation is difficult at best. There is one in Washington DC, Gil has one, Randy Calhoun has one installed in a boat and a fourth one is in the hands of a Danish steam lover who received it as a gift from Tom Sr. after spending a summer visiting Jeannette, PA. It is the only model 80 known to have been sold, factory equipped, with a boiler and the ultra rare model 15 D AC/DC generator.

I can tell you that the one I had was easily sold for a satisfyingly plump 4 figure dollar amount. At the time I sold it, it was one of only two known specimens in the world. True value?.... we'll all have to await one actually selling on Ebay to really know.

Steve