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I have a family member who recently passed away who was an avid model builder (from kits). His collection includes models of varying sizes & genres- from replica military equipment (planes, tanks, boats/carriers) to models from Star Wars, & all the different Star Trek series.
Is there a market out there to sell these models? If so, who should we contact to appraise/sell them?
Sorry to hear of your loss. Depending on how WELL they were completed, there is certainly value.
AS to selling them… I would check with a local hobby-shop. I’m not aware of any specific appraisers (even in my area). When I was younger, I used to display some of my completed models at the local hobby-shop with a business-card.
I’ve sold completed helicopters where the KIT cost $15 and I got $150 for my work. Then again, I had years with the actual helicopter and the models were "perfect".
At a Local Hobby-shop you can usually find a bulletin board that will have adverts for others selling… it will give you a base to start pricing. You could then post photos of the kits you have and try to sell.
GOOD LUCK
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Charger says tha battery is fully charged, but no accessories work. This battery is on a boat. Boat will not start because it has no power coming from the battery. What would be the cause? Also, when I hook it up to the charger, at least the blower should work or something…I get nothing. Where could a loose connection be or is there another problem somewhere?
Check for a loose wire, may be the ground or the hot wire. It may be a bad fuseable link. Some boats have a master switch which trips a silinoid, it could be bad (if your boat has one).
Quick test is to take a DVM and measure the positive terminal to a ground point in the boat. You will just have to track the cable out and see where the fault is at.
I need to find a boating club near Chislehurst in Kent, or Erith in Kent so that I can start learning about boating and get a proper taining, befor I buy my first boat please? Any advice would be appeciated, thank you
What sort of boating are you interested in? If it’s sailing then this link should be useful. http://www.uksail.com/clubs13.htm
I need to add amber running lights to the side of my boat trailer, which has four pole flat wiring. The amber lights only have a hot wire and "automatic" ground, connected to the mount. Do I just tap into the brown running light wire with the one live amber light wire? This doesn’t seem like a complete circuit to me, but there’s only one wire connected to the bulb, so I don’t see any other way to do it. Thanks!
that’s exactly right, just make sure the screw that provides ground goes into bare metal on the trailer