Cheap Chinese Temu Steam Boat

RJSakowski said:
Cheap is the key word. We used to get toys like that as prizes in cereal boxes. I can't imagine paying Aus 6.48 for it.
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I had a discount so it was a fiver, getting them in cereal boxes was before my time....but would have been cool to get!
 
Jim Dobson said:
I had a discount so it was a fiver, getting them in cereal boxes was before my time....but would have been cool to get!
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What would be cool, as a hobby machinist, would be to design and build a real working model.
 
RJSakowski said:
What would be cool, as a hobby machinist, would be to design and build a real working model.
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This is my Putt Putt boat (clinker built) with a Blaxland Chapman inboard motor (start with a leather belt) that I completely rebuilt and made many parts for out the front of my home on our private mooring poles that I did up in the ’80s (now long gone) these were really common inboard motor timber boats when I was a boy, but when aluminium boats became common these were quickly abandoned because of the amount of maintenace. But they were just great to fish out of and had a lot more ‘soul’ than boats I’ve had moored out the front since that.

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