Graham,

I missed out on all the hoopla, but after reading all the comments I’m to assume a few people were upset about your prices and/or selling on ebay?

Whatever the isssue…my hat goes off to you and others like you that have enough courage to run a business like “spitfire Spares”. You did an excellent job mentioning some of the many problems and costs involved with selling such rare artifacts and as you mentioned…it’s definately a niche market. People should be happy these parts are even available (yeah I know they’re expensive) and not sitting on some collector’s mantle piece collecting dust instead of being used in an actual restored aircraft.

I’ve run into these types of issues while trying to obtain parts for my ball turret restoration project. There are very few dealers out there…period. And the few that are out there know how rare this stuff is and will naturally charge you an arm and a leg for it. Yeah…I don’t like it but it comes down to “supply & demand”.

Best of luck to you!

John

Thankyou: 🙂