Crank handle clip

[Lynn Eades]

Mariano, I have replied. Please note that I am only interested in the ones, part number CTL 3869 as shown in the photos of post #7, of this thread.
For everyone else, I am working with Mariano to see if I can buy the box full and to see just what the price might be to N.Z. It may prove to be way too expensive. We shall see.

[m606paz]

Hi Lynn, these clips are the same you can see in post #7.
I will read your email...

[Bob Carriere]

I will make it a personal quest to contact/visit the Argentina Embassy here in Ottawa....must be some Business attache or Import/Export specialist that can provide me some answers.

Can't do anything about some one using EBay prices to gouge international buyers but at some point if it is sold by the ton for pennies for scrap their must be some solution.

From my experience, when selling on Ebay across the border from Canada, the USA Custom agent seemed primarily concerned with "How old is it?" and "Was it originally made in the USA"...... I was selling M 37 parts and mailing from within the USA by UPS. No Charge.

I would hope that similarly, Canadian made GM parts from Oshawa and Windsor, returning to Canada would be exempt when properly documented...... they were quite happy to get them in the first place and cheap in exchange for the good meat/beef sent in trade exchange when the Dutch were starving......or so the story goes!!!!

Nothing risked nothing gained.

Bob C.

[m606paz]

Hi Bob
I hope I can find out something, but we are a country where the ambassadors are politicians with no interest in protecting or trading correctly as everyone else does, but to see what slice of money they can get for their personal fortune. We are governed by bureaucratic politicians, corrupt and millionaires like Cuba or Venezuela to give an example. It is very sad what I write but it is the reality. It must be difficult for you to understand what I say.

The tons of spare parts from the second world war that were sold to the foundry, was basically due to the impossibility of exporting them....

[Bob Carriere]

........ sorry to hear. I do not want this thread to become a political arena and we should be careful of what criticism we post. We all have to live within the laws of our countries.

I will try from my end and I DO expect some resistance, I was a government employee for over 52 years with some years at the Canadian Industry, Trade and Commerce..............and now fully retired............but I just have to give it a try.

Cheers

[David Herbert]

I agree with Bob that this is not the place to debate our problems with our various governments. I am curious though about the restrictions on exports from Argentina.

Is the problem to do with military origin or that the items are classed as antiquities ? Or just plain bureaucracy ? I know of someone who exported a number of British manufactured steam engines from Argentina to the UK about 15 years ago with relatively little difficulty and they would certainly have been a problem to export from Australia (amongst other countries) because of their age.

David

[m606paz]

I apologize for talking about political issues, but it is the only way I found for you to know that sending cmp parts abroad is a very difficult, expensive and sometimes impossible task.

Bob I hope I can find out something about this.

David Mainly the problem is bureaucratic Customs has a lot of paperwork and taxes and is corrupt. Sometimes we have more liberal governments, but the current one is not.

If anyone knows of a friend who travels to Argentina and wants to take advantage of their return to bring them something, it would be the easiest thing to do.