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scigs30
11-22-2008, 03:22 PM
I found this kit on Ebay the other day and submitted a bid for 20 bucks and won. I wrote to the seller and requested only the rocket. The seller gave me a good deal on the rocket and shipping and they kept the train stuff. Total I paid was 17 bucks.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110313895697&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=001
cas2047
11-22-2008, 03:26 PM
Wow! Very nice find!

Will this go into the collection or the build pile?
jetlag
11-22-2008, 03:30 PM
Who'da thought you'd find a Space Plane in with the trains? Any automobiles, too? :D
Allen
Ltvscout
11-22-2008, 03:44 PM
I found this kit on Ebay the other day and submitted a bid for 20 bucks and won. I wrote to the seller and requested only the rocket. The seller gave me a good deal on the rocket and shipping and they kept the train stuff. Total I paid was 17 bucks.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110313895697&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=001
Man, you're able to find the craziest deals in the weirdest places. I gotta hand it to you!
scigs30
11-22-2008, 04:23 PM
I was never planning on buying this Estes kit since it was produced before my time, but I did buy 3 Semroc X Kits. I will put this in the build pile, but I think it will be deep in the pile.
cas2047
11-22-2008, 05:13 PM
I was never planning on buying this Estes kit since it was produced before my time, but I did buy 3 Semroc X Kits. I will put this in the build pile, but I think it will be deep in the pile.

Well Congrats on an excellent find and enjoy the build when the time comes! :)
scigs30
11-24-2008, 04:21 PM
I got my kit in the mail today, wow this thing is old. The body tube is a hard white tube with no spirals, just one vertical center seam. What a bargin.
Royatl
11-24-2008, 04:55 PM
I got my kit in the mail today, wow this thing is old. The body tube is a hard white tube with no spirals, just one vertical center seam. What a bargin.

yep, that's an original BT-30. That tube was available like that until at least the mid 70's, when they went to spiral wound, and then phased it out by 1978 in favor of the Bt-20.
Green Dragon
11-24-2008, 06:20 PM
Great find .

Saddened I missed it, lol - would have liekd thoe Labelle kits for my traincollection. ( blasphemous, I know, lol )

ou are saving that one, true history there.

~ AL
motley16
11-26-2008, 11:52 AM
great find, congrats have fun with it. :)