HELP. Barn find Spitfire seat. Info?

It would be interesting after all the preamble to know how much the seat went for if possible and what its likely future will be.

Seat has now been sold, thanks for all the replys info and requests. Cheers

They would of course love to have the seat for their 46, but feel that the 10k price is way over the top.

That was based on all the parts being usable as airworthy which i said, if not the price would drop…

Hi again, been looking around for the other parts and found some alloy pipe with brackets that looks to be from a plane, it is stamped SAC with the “A” being larger than the S and the C.
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SAC could be for Southern Aircraft Components they were at Hemel Hempstead and certainly made matal fittings for Mosquito’s and possibly other types as well.

Richard

Hi again, been looking around for the other parts and found some alloy pipe with brackets that looks to be from a plane, it is stamped SAC with the “A” being larger than the S and the C.
Any ideas??? Pics tomorrow.

Building up a nice wee collection…wonder what else will turn up?

The pilot found himself sitting substantially lower…on a bent elevator connecting rod with the spade grip closer to his chin than is normal.

Mark

And the aeroplane concerned received a fair amount of TLC the following winter.

Problem with that is if a dispute occurs you have had it.

Ebay Fee s

If I may put my ten pence in.

As we have found with our web site if you use the Paypal link to pay for something or make a donation we have found they take 10% off everytime.

BUT

If instead you do not use this direct facility but go into your paypal account and send someone the money (NOT AS EBAY GOODS) Then they charge you precisely nothing !!!!.

We make as much use of this loophole as we can but I wonder how long it will be before paypal close it ???

Mike E

www.whirlwindfighterproject.org

With what result?

Moggy

The pilot found himself sitting substantially lower…on a bent elevator connecting rod with the spade grip closer to his chin than is normal.

Mark

The second item looks like an exhaust shroud that is used as a cabin heater, but gawd knows what off.

With what result?

Moggy

Prior to the introduction of the SRBP (Synthetic Resin Bonded Paper)bucket, it was made of Aluminium.

They have been manufactured from scratch in recent times and I assume there are no approval issues as they are to original drawing.

Not cheap but I think I would prefer one of those to taking a chance on the one in that photo.

Although the seat was modified, a few years back a Spitfire seat failed at high G.

Mark

No sign of the crisps then? Must be a fake! 😀

I ate them on the way to his house, in one of the pics you can see his dog lol :p

Any ideas on the new piece? Looks to be burnt in places so was thinking engine cover??? My friend thinks he now knows were he has a few other pieces…lets hope so.

No sign of the crisps then? Must be a fake! 😀

and found this bit too

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Does the screw have the “300” part no. on it? been asked that a thousand times, because that is the only way the annoraks can tell if its genuine or not, even though quite a few components were un stamped…

No there not stamped lol, a lot of parts arn’t it is just a generic screw used on a myriad of aircraft, most bolts and screws were just standard parts, it would be prohibitive to produce each individual part, you will get a few specialised parts such as wing bolts, but the rest are just run of the mill, I know this is a genuine item, probably replaced hundreds of times in its life as the head wears, because I unscrewed it. 🙂

Take a look at this: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html#fvf It very clearly states ‘final value’ fees are 10% up to a maximum of £40.00 Nobody would use ebay if it cost £600.00 to sell something for £3.5k would they?

I was a bit surprised by your post as I carefully checked the fees when I was going to list the guitar but you are quite right in that the fees page for private sellers does state a maximum of £40 but I wasn’t aware of this as I have business account with Ebay and had assumed that the final value fees would be much the same.
If you take a look at the final value fees page for business sellers the final value fee is stated as 10% of the sale price for most categories and no cap on the fee is shown.
In view of this it would cost me £600 to sell something priced at £3500 which is why I didn’t proceed with the listing.
This would mean that the maximum final value fee for listing the spitfire seat as a private seller should be £40 in which case from the cost point of view it becomes a viable option but as others have pointed out there can be other pitfalls.
I don’t understand why Ebay feel it s OK to rob those who are trying to build a business by removing the cap from the final value fee for business sellers. They used to make much of the opportunities available on the site to build a successful business but you can’t build a business when Ebay and Paypal together take almost 20% of your selling price in fees!
Bruce I apologise if this is a bit off topic again but I thought the post by Mark V justified a reply.

Seafire or e-bay?

I have spoken to the team at Kennet Aviation, who operate the only Seafire flying in this country and one of three flying in the world. They are in the process of rebuilding another Seafire XVII and have a Seafire 46 next to go. They would of course love to have the seat for their 46, but feel that the 10k price is way over the top. They could make one from scratch or buy one from another manufacturer for much less. The economics are just not there, and as part of a total restoration project like a Seafire, 10k is not a killer. So, unless there is another Seafire project being done in this country, or anywhere else, they doubt that seat will ever find its way to a Seafire, but will probably end up as a conversation piece in someones office or den. And if it is more valuable as such, so be it. It may end up in a Spitfire, but their guess is that the economics don’t work there either, especially as it is not a “Spitfire” seat. They certainly don’t begrudge the owner his or her profit, and wish him or her good luck, but feel that the wild speculation of values has put the real value, that is in their opinion, in a flying aeroplane, out of proportion.