[modeleng] Re: What will happen to your equipment?

Alan,
   
  Alan,
   
  I am currently engaged in disposing of a friend's items.  Valueing stuff such 
as magazines and books is tricky enough; I bundled mags up for £1 a bundle and 
offered books at £5 for three at railway society meetings and the local model 
engineering club.  The same market-places are being used to shift a bandsaw, a 
scroll-saw and a small lathe.  My approach to all these is that John's main 
concern would be that these items should go to good homes, i.e. to people who 
would appreciate them, and that any monetary value was secondary.  The cheap 
bundles of magazines, and the BOGOF approach to the books has worked well.  The 
unwanted magazines have gone to save-a-tree.  The unwanted books will go to a 
second-hand book dealer.
   
  The three machine-tools will be disposed of on the basis of what the would be 
purchaser feels comfortable about paying.  The lathe fetched a fair sum.  It 
comes down to a compromise between what you think a machine is worth, the 
reality of prices associated with small imported machines, what you think it 
might realise and what a prospective purchaser is willing to pay.
   
  Next up for disposal are unused N-gauge track and rolling stock, followed by 
some very nice measuring tools, e.g. surface plate and height gauge, verniers, 
micrometers etc.  All proceeds from the sale of John's stuff will go to the 
HMRS.
   
  Must now go and do some digging for a new piece of ground-level track at the 
club.
   
  Best wishes,
   
  Jem Harrison
  Basildon
   
  Alan Stepney <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  I recently posed this question on Andy's board.
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One day you will die.

Then, your widow (partner /children/whoever) may want to sell your models 
and equipment.

How will they do so without getting ripped off by the sharks that are always 
ready to profit by the misfortunes of others.

How will you, or could you, prevent this happening to YOUR equipment and 
models?


(This thread is prompted by an event a couple of years ago when I bought 
some books from the neaighbour of such a widow, and learned that the 
engineers models had been bought from her for a pittance by a so-called 
dealer. Not one of the known names in the trade I hasten to add.)


Alan Stepney 

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