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Bought a large job lot of dampers. I've sorted them out into ones that look the same.

1. Tamiya CVA?


2. Unknown


3. Frog/Brat standard and upgrade dampers.

The ones on the right are similar, but don't have the ribbed body

4. Mardave Meteor?


5. Mardave Cobra?


6. These ones aren't dampers - just springs and shafts.

7. Metal bodies. Similar to SRB. Kyosho maybe?


8.


9.

10. Misc


11. Plastic bodies in fake chrome

And finally:
12. A bunch of sprues


13. And a box of loose spares

Nice score!

1 - definitely Tamiya CVAs. Medium & long ones look about right for a Bigwig, although the various lengths/ends mean they could be off a lot of mid/late 80's cars, not sure about the short ones...

2- Clod Buster

3 right, Wild One I'd guess

4 - Meteor fronts

5 - Cobra, long is rear, short front

6 - QD Clodbuster?

7 - no idea

8 - rightmost pair are Meteor rears

9 - ?

10 - ?

11 - Lunchbox/Pumpkin

6. Look like QD Tamiya or possibly Nikko

7. look like Hirobo Rock-n-City to me, except the screw in the top/side of the body (Looks like a port for remote reservoirs?)

8. Left ones look like MadBull rears

10. Blue one looks like the Madbull sister car (Whatever that was) front

All guesses so don't take as gospel. I agree with Jonny about the others (Beat me to the easy ones!)

The black ones with the silver (grey) knurled caps are bugging me, I've seen them recently on something I was working on, but can't for the life of me remember what it was - possibly Schumacher SST?

Thanks guys.

I think #7 might be from a Kyosho Scorpion or similar. The barrels are thin (like 8mm dia), not fat like more modern cars.
I looked again at the ebay ad and the text mentions Frog, Wild One, Astute and Porsche 959. The Porsche ones are on ebay already if anyone is interested.

eddrick wrote:

...The black ones with the silver (grey) knurled caps are bugging me, I've seen them recently on something I was working on, but can't for the life of me remember what it was - possibly Schumacher SST?

Err, which ones do you mean? I can't see any that match that description

In pic 13, next to the scale rule, just above what looks like a cobra shock body, & there's a selection of the silver caps dotted about in that pic too.

Yes, the Hirobo shocks are very similar to early Kyosho & SRB - I'll have to get up in the loft & have a proper look I think. & yes, they leak/work just as poorly as SRB ones!

Other alternatives for picture 7:
The shock on the left looks like one for Kyosho Progress/Gallop.
The shocks on the right looks exactly like a pair of rear shocks for the Marui Samurai.

A couple of links for reference (in Japanese and French): Progress and Samurai

Interesting how similar these shocks are