FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - Price change

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Dan McEachern
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Re: FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - 1 Sold, 2 to go

Post by Dan McEachern » Sun Jul 07, 2024 2:37 pm

Where in Montana are these located?


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Re: FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - 1 Sold, 2 to go

Post by Jerry VanOoteghem » Tue Jul 09, 2024 3:47 pm

jethro wrote:
Tue Jul 09, 2024 3:26 pm
Only one sold at $650.00 therefore raising price to $725.00 each.
????? Okay... hope that works out for you. :?


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Re: FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - 1 Sold, 2 to go

Post by GG Gregory » Tue Jul 09, 2024 4:24 pm

jethro wrote:
Tue Jul 09, 2024 3:26 pm
Only one sold at $650.00 therefore raising price to $725.00 each. Or if you prefer buy the Allen coil tester advertised elsewhere on this site for $1200.00, your choice.




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Re: FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - Price change

Post by DHort » Tue Jul 09, 2024 10:57 pm

Jethro

You live in the middle of nowhere. How many people do you expect to spend $725 for an HCCT and $1000 for gas to get there?

If you gave those to someone to take to a swap meet in a state with more than 1000 people you would have no problem
selling those.

It is too bad they will be tossed out as scrap.


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Re: FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - Price change

Post by Jerry VanOoteghem » Wed Jul 10, 2024 6:43 am

jethro wrote:
Tue Jul 09, 2024 8:33 pm
Or send it to the scrapper. Your next Prius or F150 may be part Ruckstell and part coil tester. When you drive either of those vehicles be proud of their heritage: Ruckstell and coil tester, etc. If you want to save these things open your pocket books, wallets. I'm sure other sellers share this sentiment.

Best regards,
Jonathan Bodine
Getting tired of this. Just scrap it all if that's what you want to do. You may be finding that people don't respond well to threats.


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Re: FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - Price change

Post by RGould1910 » Wed Jul 10, 2024 11:58 am

Thank you Jerry!


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Re: FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - Price change

Post by Adam » Wed Jul 10, 2024 1:39 pm

Take them all apart if you scrap them. You get a higher price for the cast iron parts than you do for the steel parts. You have to tell the scrapyard that it is “Automotive/machinery cast”. If they see any other metal they will give you a lower price, so you even have to remove the triple gear pins and dowel pins from the flywheels, remove all nuts & bolts, etc. when you scrap them, save the meters. You should be able to get $100 each for them and they are easy to ship.

As far as HCCT are concerned, I saw two at Hershey last year. One was $650 and didn’t sell. The other was $450 and was around a couple days before it sold.

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Re: FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - Price change

Post by BE_ZERO_BE » Wed Jul 10, 2024 2:28 pm

 
Just a suggestion.

Offer them without the flywheel and magneto ring.
That leaves the crank handle, shaft, spark ring, frame and meter.
These will be much much cheaper and easier to ship.
Flywheels and field coils are easy to come up with.

In any case, if it comes down to disposing them, save the meters and contact me.
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Re: FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - Price change

Post by Allan » Thu Jul 11, 2024 1:10 am

Dave, last time I was in Butte it was a thriving town, with a proud mining heritage preserved in an Historic precinct. Certainly no 1000 inhabitant village.
The city population is listed today at 34000.
How much more accessible does sitting on the junction of two Interstates do you want?
I am sure the proud residents of Butte pay a premium on any goods they have delivered to the town. Is it unreasonable for them to ask others to do the same for stuff they want sent out of town? If you are a likely purchaser, you decide if you want to pay the price plus any delivery costs. Take it or leave it, without the derogatory comments.

Allan from down under


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Re: FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - Price change

Post by DHort » Thu Jul 11, 2024 10:37 pm

Allan

I was being facetious and it worked. Jonathan sold his items and is ready and willing to sell more.


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Re: FS: Hand Cranked Coil Testers - Price change

Post by Allan » Fri Jul 12, 2024 11:01 pm

Dave, I am not used to subtlety in Us humour. Forgive me.

Allan from down under.

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