MAC CHAT:A thread to post anything and everything

[steve k]

Post number 3,000 on MAC CHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heres cheers to the next 3000 replies and lets hope the newer members join in with mac chat and its daily assortment of news and interesting stuff!!!

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[Aviation Delight]

3,000 that is great and how many of those posts are Steve K's. That is quite amazing for a forum 9 months old. Jason good luck with your move. Not quite sure where you are moving to but moving can certainly be stressful just take it easy.

[Aviation Delight]

It was also nice to come home from work and see ALL the activity here on MAC. Just wish some of the newcomers would get involved here.

[Polynesian Airlines]

Cheers Mark and wow 3000 plus posts, AWESOME. All in good time Mark, im sure there just scoping MAC out first to get a feel for things then wel soon see more action... well thats how I started[img]smileys/smiley2.gif[/img]

[Aviation Delight]

Jason weather cooling down highs of about 15-17 now. Over nights dropping below 10 degrees. As for the weekend not sure. People assume that everyone gets the weekends off. Not true when you work retail a weekend off is rare. Lately I am getting Friday and Saturdays off. Might head to YYZ on Saturday as JAL might be arrving. Every fall JAL and ANA bring in charter flights for the fall colours. I think JAL has a flight on Saturday. So might get a JAl B-777.

[robertjon5]

[QUOTE=Aviation Delight]3,000 that is great and how many of those posts are Steve K's. <div></div><div></div>errrrrrrrrr 3010!![img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img][img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img][img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img][img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img][img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img]well done to MAC for another milestone. here's to the next thousand!!

[Aviation Delight]

I think it should be called CHAT with STEVE[img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img][img]smileys/smiley32.gif[/img]

[robertjon5]

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well guys, just had a GREAT result on ebay!! just won this very rare 1 of 50 only executive models 172 boac comet 1!!! story goes like this. he listed this a couple of weeks ago, but withdrew it with just over a day to go. on one of his other listings, he had a telephone number. so i rang him the following day. he said it was withdrawn as over a hundrded people rang him wanting to buy it now. so he asked me what my offer was. so i told him it was £200.00. he said he would pass that on to his grandfather whose model it was, and he was selling for. anyway he turned it down as it was 'worth' a lot more. theni noticed a couple of days ago, it was re-listed. which i thought a bit strange, and ther was NO reserve. so with 10 seconds to go it was at just £117.22. so i bid bid £195, and got it for....................................£155.00!!! £45.00 less than i offered him!![img]smileys/smiley4.gif[/img]<div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>

[robertjon5]

also picked up this gorgeous ULTRARARE DIECAST1/100 ARJ21 from crownvic!! for just over £90 [img]smileys/smiley4.gif[/img]<div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>

[Aviation Delight]

Nice catches there.

[Guest]

Nice Comet there Rob!

[steve k]

Sad history there with that one (YOKE PETER) and if I recall (YOKE YOKE) both experiencing mid air explosions a short time into service, grounding the rest of the fleet until eventually metal fatigue was discovered, and led to many improvements we see today.
A very valueable model Robert, one of huge historical interest to many. Well done on securing it and at a good price too.

[Polynesian Airlines]

Great catch Rob, always love that feeling making a great score like that.

[robertjon5]

thanks a lot guys. really chuffed at winning it as he had already turned down a £200 offer. so what happened to all these other 100 people that supposed to have rung him about, i don't know. he never even put a reserve on it second time round! still its his loss. as allowing for ebay and paypal fees of around £20, he actually sold it for just £135 net!! crazy. <div>yeah sad story on the comet. i believe it was metal fatigue on rivets around the window and door frames not being strong enough. stillm this will go nicely with my other 1/100 exec models comet 4!![img]smileys/smiley4.gif[/img] amazingly i now have FOURTEEN models in 1/100 or 1/72!![img]smileys/smiley3.gif[/img]</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>

[MAC Admin]

Wow you must be running out of space robert!