The fun of buying used planes

 

If you like to buy and sell used planes.  Occasionally you can find really good deals. I mean, mind blowing deals.  Most of the time you don't.     If you want to spend your time explaining to someone why the plane they paid $300 for 10 years ago , crashed and reglued a few times (not well I may add) isn't worth $250 then you'll just piss them off. Let them figure it out as it sits there, month after months not getting calls.

I found this add a few days ago.  I'll cut to the chase with this one. The larger plane was something of value. It was missing a motor.  That doesn't sound bad. But sometimes the motors have proprietary mounts so if you want to keep the plane you will have to either buy the exact motor for the plane (if available) or explore the world of aftermarket mounts online and on Thingiverse.    The story usually ends the same. It's me putting the plane in the corner and spending hours researching the topic until I find a thread on RCGroups.com where someone mentions how they got two screws in with a certain motor and it's holding fine.    Anyway, before I could contact the guy someone else bought the larger plane.  The two smaller ones we're still for sale. The black one is a VTOL toy plane. No thanks. The Mustang looks cool, but its 750mm.  So, it's also in the toy league.   It took me forever to get the details out of the guy and find out that they aren't worth even looking at.

But, the exchanges were hilarious.  I wrote him in the evening one day and by noon the next day he gets back to me. 

So, he starts hard selling the plane and a "drone in a box" at 6:30AM, suggesting that I drop everything and meet him right there. My advice to anybody who wants to engage in buying stuff is that you really need to get your homework done before you meet people.  The Mustang turned out to be a $100 plane from Banana Hobby, and fairly small.  He claimed that it was a $200 plane but he had to put in new servos for an extra $100.

Yeah, not worth the gas.