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It's difficult.

I'm sure I'm not alone here in that quite often things crop up here that would be of interest for £x but, by time a personal round trip's fuel is taken into account, that could effectively be triple that and not really viable. Sometimes, there's a museum, sightseeing etc. to be conveniently fitted in as justification but that's a happy coincidence. Old and possibly bulky and heavy kit doesn't really travel well by anything other than well-padded buyer's car- notoriously 'scopes, but radios can have Bakelite cases and dial glasses broken and heavy components can get ripped out of PCBs by the courier handling of being thrown around lorries and depot yards, so there's understandable reluctance there. Arrangement for interchange at vintage events can work out well, but that's out of the reckoning for the time being.