Government Surplus OM603A up for auction.

[pwogaman]

Link to Auction Starting bid is $150. That is pretty cheap, if you happen to live in Alaska.

[charmalu]

Wow! Looks clean enough to have never been in operation.

check the ACQ. Value, $39,715.00 that`s what the government paid, or should be listed as what the U.S. Tax payer paid.


THIRDEM lives in Alaska, this would make his 300D go faster.


Charlie

[bipolardave]

Is this a motor from a car/truck or a generator?

If a generator, is it governed differently?

[pwogaman]

Originally Posted by bipolardave

Is this a motor from a car/truck or a generator?

If a generator, is it governed differently?

Probably for a snowcat. I've seen a couple of spare engines listed in Alaska previously.

[bipolardave]

Originally Posted by pwogaman

Probably for a snowcat. I've seen a couple of spare engines listed in Alaska previously.

That makes sense. I assumed generator because of the number or remote villages where the sole source of power comes from small diesel generators.

[connerm]

Originally Posted by charmalu

check the ACQ. Value, $39,715.00 that`s what the government paid, or should be listed as what the U.S. Tax payer paid.

Yeoch, but in reality, I bet that $715 went to pay for the engine and $39,000 went to fund development of the stealth bomber/fighter, black ops, cia ops, etc. That's how we get a bill for $800 hammers. $8 for the hammer and $792 for infiltrating the muja hadeen.

[compu_85]

That must be an early 3.0. It looks like it has vertical injection... AKA a #14 head

-J

[EDBSO]

Originally Posted by connerm

Yeoch, but in reality, I bet that $715 went to pay for the engine and $39,000 went to fund development of the stealth bomber/fighter, black ops, cia ops, etc. That's how we get a bill for $800 hammers. $8 for the hammer and $792 for infiltrating the muja hadeen.

Thattalk will get you on the no-fly list

[Mad_Matt]

The condition code tells it all. It's salvage. X that means it was run and broke, never run unknown or just so old it has no value.

[vstech]

look at the exhaust manifold... this looks like a turbo motor that had the turbo removed, and the exhaust bypassed with a welder...

[pwogaman]

The number six injector has no drip lines and the number five is end-plugged. Don't suppose someone stopped fueling #6?

[Orv]

Originally Posted by connerm

Yeoch, but in reality, I bet that $715 went to pay for the engine and $39,000 went to fund development of the stealth bomber/fighter, black ops, cia ops, etc. That's how we get a bill for $800 hammers. $8 for the hammer and $792 for infiltrating the muja hadeen.

Actually, it was $7 for the hammer and $435 for the overhead...which sounds terrible until you realize it was part of a kit of spares and tools that was part of a service contract for an aircraft, and because of the way gov't contracts are bid, the cost of overhead was just divvied up evenly over all the line items. Government accounting follows its own rules which bear little relation to how corporate accounting works, although in some ways they're stricter. For example, the government can't just depreciate stuff off their books and then get rid of it. That's why you sometimes hear stories of $X million in items missing from the Air Force; they weren't really worth $X million, but that's what they cost when new, so that's what they stay listed as on the books. Stuff that goes "missing" usually got surplused or destroyed the normal way, but someone forgot to file the paperwork.

Contrast with a typical business where after five years of owning, say, a PC, its value is considered to be $0 and no one much cares what happens to it after that!