Seem to recall someone once posting about an area/street in Bangkok where you buy salvaged bits and pieces Anyone know where that is? Thanks.

14 hours ago, regedit said:

Seem to recall someone once posting about an area/street in Bangkok where you buy salvaged bits and pieces Anyone know where that is? Thanks.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Soi+Chiang+Kong+Bang+Na+5,+Tambon+Bang+Phli+Yai,+Amphoe+Bang+Phli,+Chang+Wat+Samut+Prakan+10540/@13.6302952,100.7033214,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x30e2a00bb218f43d:0x30100b25de25070!2sBang+Na,+Bangkok!3b1!8m2!3d13.6682174!4d100.614025!3m4!1s0x311d5e815e0e11e1:0x9153b23abee24580!8m2!3d13.6302952!4d100.7055155

 

this is the biggest area for used car parts, engines and halfcuts

 

hope that helps

What are you looking for? Some salvage yards have Facebook presence nowadays. There is also a small area behind MBK, haven’t been there for a while, not sure how many shops are left.

23 hours ago, jay1980 said:

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Soi+Chiang+Kong+Bang+Na+5,+Tambon+Bang+Phli+Yai,+Amphoe+Bang+Phli,+Chang+Wat+Samut+Prakan+10540/@13.6302952,100.7033214,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x30e2a00bb218f43d:0x30100b25de25070!2sBang+Na,+Bangkok!3b1!8m2!3d13.6682174!4d100.614025!3m4!1s0x311d5e815e0e11e1:0x9153b23abee24580!8m2!3d13.6302952!4d100.7055155

 

this is the biggest area for used car parts, engines and halfcuts

 

hope that helps

Helps me too, looking on Google Street view if you can't find it there somewhere it probably no longer exists. What an amazing place. Thanks for that. 

 

Can I ask - are there places anyone knows of nearer to Khlong Sam Wa/Minburi?

19 minutes ago, cliveshep said:

Helps me too, looking on Google Street view if you can't find it there somewhere it probably no longer exists. What an amazing place. Thanks for that. 

 

Can I ask - are there places anyone knows of nearer to Khlong Sam Wa/Minburi?

 

you have Chiang Kong LakSi by the big 4-yeak where Chaeng Wattana starts - not big

the one in BangPli is really big, note - there are 2 there, next to each other, one very big and one not so big

there are several here and there in BKK - Patumwan (behind MBK and Chula) is OK

 

2 pretty big ones in Pathum (Rangsit)

driving from Future towards Ayuthaya they are on the right hand side of the express

there are also a bunch of scrap yards in Nonthaburi, a couple of 'em sizeable

 

all depends on what you are after

 

Minburi, surely must be one close to Ramkamheng

 

tell you what,

downtown Minburi, nip down to the canal and have a chat with the

taxi boat drivers, ask where they buy their mills

 

Taxi-boats on a canal in Minburi? This I want to go see.

 

And what on earth is a "mill".

 

We know the canal because it crosses under Suwinthawong at the Nimit Mai traffic light junction, and goes past the temple at Wat Saensuk which we have visited on the motorbike, but never seen water taxis. Sounds like fun to go for a ride - do they run up and down from regular stops - if so where please - or have to be hailed in passing?

 

Bet you're sorry you mentioned that!

2 hours ago, cliveshep said:

Taxi-boats on a canal in Minburi? This I want to go see.

 

And what on earth is a "mill".

 

We know the canal because it crosses under Suwinthawong at the Nimit Mai traffic light junction, and goes past the temple at Wat Saensuk which we have visited on the motorbike, but never seen water taxis. Sounds like fun to go for a ride - do they run up and down from regular stops - if so where please - or have to be hailed in passing?

 

Bet you're sorry you mentioned that!

 

the canal - behind the market

plenty taxi boats

mill=engine

 

taxi boats are like other taxis, u flag 'em down

or find them there behind the market

 

locals would likely have the telephone number to their fav driver and the win boss

 

Thanks Melvin.

 

Missing being afloat having sold our boats and engines The pension shrank with Brexit and Mark Carney doing down the economy and Theresa May's deliberate fudging of negotiations - the markets got very nervous and the exchange rate fell and is still falling and we could not see our way to using the boats especially with Thailand's draconian laws on private motor-boat skippers.

8 minutes ago, cliveshep said:

Thanks Melvin.

 

Missing being afloat having sold our boats and engines The pension shrank with Brexit and Mark Carney doing down the economy and Theresa May's deliberate fudging of negotiations - the markets got very nervous and the exchange rate fell and is still falling and we could not see our way to using the boats especially with Thailand's draconian laws on private motor-boat skippers.

 

waddyamean draconian laws on private boats?

 

I have my own boat and the required licences - no sweat at all.

 

Hey, YOU know what I mean 'cos YOU were the wun wot tol' me!

 

You explained in answer to my question that here I would need both a licensed captain and a licensed engineer to use a motor boat here. You don't call THAT draconian?

 

In the UK, which has to be one of the most highly regulated and taxed regimes in the world, I owned and ran a SSDY inland/off-shore cruiser, plus various fast off-shore boats, never had an accident, carried out numerous "rescues" and tows of broken-down unfortunates I came across and all without anything other than a tri--annual boat safety inspection required for the boat if taking it into certain harbours on on inland waterways. Even that has only appeared over the last decade or so. I have skippered my own boats for almost 50 years with NO form of licences as either "Captain" or "Engineer" because, while you can take "Yacht-master off-shore or Coastal" courses -  ideal for dummies I admit - the courses are NOT mandatory. 

 

Didn't you tell me your wife was the engineer? Or perhaps someone else? My wife knows as much about engines as she does about brain-surgery - nothing. Anyway, what with language barriers and the apparent restrictive system for private boat ownership, plus even boat-trailers have to be licensed and taxed it seems, plus other likely costs, we decided to give up the idea of leisure boating here. Thailand hasn't synced with the Western countries on the concept of a leisure boating industry, maybe because people don't have the money? 

7 minutes ago, cliveshep said:

Hey, YOU know what I mean 'cos YOU were the wun wot tol' me!

 

You explained in answer to my question that here I would need both a licensed captain and a licensed engineer to use a motor boat here. You don't call THAT draconian?

 

In the UK, which has to be one of the most highly regulated and taxed regimes in the world, I owned and ran a SSDY inland/off-shore cruiser, plus various fast off-shore boats, never had an accident, carried out numerous "rescues" and tows of broken-down unfortunates I came across and all without anything other than a tri--annual boat safety inspection required for the boat if taking it into certain harbours on on inland waterways. Even that has only appeared over the last decade or so. I have skippered my own boats for almost 50 years with NO form of licences as either "Captain" or "Engineer" because, while you can take "Yacht-master off-shore or Coastal" courses -  ideal for dummies I admit - the courses are NOT mandatory. 

 

Didn't you tell me your wife was the engineer? Or perhaps someone else? My wife knows as much about engines as she does about brain-surgery - nothing. Anyway, what with language barriers and the apparent restrictive system for private boat ownership, plus even boat-trailers have to be licensed and taxed it seems, plus other likely costs, we decided to give up the idea of leisure boating here. Thailand hasn't synced with the Western countries on the concept of a leisure boating industry, maybe because people don't have the money? 

 

hmmm,

 

the wife engineer bit was hardly me - I am not married, hence, no wife

 

leisure boating is an increasing segment in LoS, plenty people have the money

on Chao Praya and the canals I see an increasing number of boats with outboards,

GRP boats and aluminium boats

 

however,

rules and regulations and paperwork is for the professional market,

still no simplified regime for pleasure crafts

but the Marine Dept is adaptive when they do their work 

 

re engineer';

thats a specific requirement for my type of boat

boat designed for longtail and for use on inland waterways

thats what it says in the regulation

for a say  15 foot  alu dinghy with a 50 hp outboard I guess there is no such requirement

 

the necessity of having a driver's ticket when operating a motor boat

in public and busy waterways I think is quite common in Europe

nothing draconian about that

 

when I renewed my engineers ticket they put together

a small written muliple choice exam for me in English, not difficult

 

for the driver renewal they checked that I knew the rules of the road

we talked through various situations and I explained how I would drive

easy peasy

 

Europe under the EU is getting increasingly legislated it's true, the UK is still free of such rules. I have heard that one needs certain papers to enter French Canals for example, doesn't bother me as that came about too recently.

 

We gave it all up Melvin, just could not spare the money any more, big family (5), loads of adopted stray dogs (8) owned by various family members, 3 cars and two motor bikes all from one little pension whose value is a depreciating asset these days. I'd absolutely love one of those old Thai fishing boats to convert but I'm just dreaming now.  Currently replacing our Toyota Innova and building an extension and that is expense enough sadly.