Spam - No I don't want Train Wheels

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I just received a spam message trying to sell me train wheels. As in large wheels that would go on the bottom of train cars. Or locomotives. Looks like they also will do Subway wheels or mine carts as well.

My question is… Does spam for this type of specialized equipment ever actually pay off? I mean, is there someone sitting around in an office somewhere, who gets this email and thinks: “Say, I was just wondering where to get some train wheels! I had no idea at all, so I think I’ll just put an order in with this company today!” Just how many potential buyers of train wheels are there in North America anyway?

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Can you forward me the e-mail? Right now my train is in my front yard on cinder blocks.

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Everybody needs train wheels. Without wheels, your train is just an overpriced, inefficient sled.

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Here, fill your boots.

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I suspect someone mistyped their email address. I get emails from a ship sighting website; I had no idea such a thing existed.

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There’s a place around here that has used train wheels. You can save a fortune that way.

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Damn, I just bought new wheels for my train last week. I just knew this would happen…

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Do they also have train coupling buffers? I want to use them as door stops. On very large doors.

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Yes, though not in the way you’re thinking. This is what happens when someone hires a cheap marketing/SEO firm. They outsource to spammers. The marketing firms make a killing at it.

Am I correct in guessing that this message came via a contact form, or something on a web site, not direct email?

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Can’t help you there, but I think I can scrounge up either a couple hundredweight of alloy B bronze or a 6 inch diameter titanium ball valve ball … only slightly damaged.

What I want is a reproduction Roman lead pig. One stamped as having the silver content still in it. mrAru is rereading the Marcus Didius Falco series and it would make a great christmas present for him.

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I agree. Unless you have train wheels, your arguments will go off the rails.

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Many years ago I attended a Customs sale. They were flogging seized stuff etc.

One of the items was a brand new tractor planet or something (I think it was a differential for a tractor). It didn’t get one bid.

I was thinking I could have bought it for $10 and surely, somewhere, someone would be willing to pay more than that for a spare part for his tractor. My scheme never got into gear. (pun intended).

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I need snow tires from my mine cart.

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Aren’t you afraid they’ll melt?

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My son would flip if he saw that I got train wheels for him. He loves trains, almost to the point of obsession.

He’ll be three years old in a couple of months.

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This thread has gone on long enough. The training wheels need to come off now.

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Well,Mid-City Steelseems to be currently out of stock on used train wheels. Probably why someone else put the push on marketing new ones.

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How to become a millionaire:

  1. Get a train wheel.
  2. Sell it for a million dollars.
    Just be sure this isn’t a MLM scheme where you have to start hosting train wheel parties and hounding your friends to start selling train wheels.
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This could be an urban myth, but back in 1950s, I heard that someone had gotten a train wheel to make a super-stable turntable (for what we called “records” those days). He had to start it by hand, but on good bearings, it didn’t take a large drive motor.

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So, who had carriage of the matter?