E-Bay Carrier just sold

[Jordan Baker]

Its hard to say about the bundle of tracks and if they were like that out of the factory. They can't be the easiest to move around like that.

As for the price of the Carriers, personaly they are nuts paying that much for so little. Mine was a fair amount of money ($2000) but these are stupid amounts that they are going for on ebay. To me this is just a case of people not looking around enough and being dumb with ebay and getting carried away with an auction. Its easy to do as ive been there but not to that amount.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

I don't know about you Jordan, but I went out to the garage tonight and gave my carrier a little pet on the fender. Might change the oil tomorrow.

[RichardT10829]

$2000 for yours was a bargain Jordan !!! I would pay that any day... keep a hold of these things guys i feel a sense of responsiblity to save as many of these things as i can, one at a time of course save them going to the chop shop or farmers wanting them for work horses cutting them up. (this is not a personal attack on farmers though)

[rob love]

I found new track rolled like that a number of years back. Then again, I also found it in the 21 link sections brand new.

If the track is as new as the vendor states, then I would expect them to fetch a bit more yet. They don't make the stuff anymore, and if someone did, I suspect you would pay a bit more than the price on ebay to aquire it. I think someone was on this forum once quoring around $10K to cast one carriers worth of new track.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Here's hoping they are NOS as claimed and not just taken off a wreck as was suggested. Depending on how they were stored, even 'new' may not be so great. I hope whoever ends up with them contacts me for the pair of NOS sprockets I have and will sell for the right price (less E-bay fees of course).

[RichardT10829]

wonder why they would charge so much for a cast set ? am I naive in thinking you only need one good track link to make a pattern, then the metal from the old links are melted down plus some extra bits to account for lost material in the smelting process you can drill the pin ways yourself iwht a good pillar drill no ? my thoughts were if you are going to make new tracks you could CAD a design to incoroporate track pads for the road to make them last a touch longer .

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by RichardT10829

wonder why they would charge so much for a cast set ? am I naive in thinking you only need one good track link to make a pattern, then the metal from the old links are melted down plus some extra bits to account for lost material in the smelting process you can drill the pin ways yourself iwht a good pillar drill no ? my thoughts were if you are going to make new tracks you could CAD a design to incoroporate track pads for the road to make them last a touch longer .

Richard,

You're right, casting new track links is the easy part, albeit they have to be hardened. The difficult (and expensive!) part is forging/machining/hardening track pins.

Secondly, yes, I suppose one could make a padded track, but realistically it would be a lot more money and frankly, considering carriers have relatively little ground pressure, a waste of time. Rubberized tracks might allow a bit more traction on asphalt, but probably not enough to justify their design & manufacture.