Today I acquired...........

[bigegg]

If you wish to rehome the Jig I have two here and another would be welcomed.
When I get around to it il be machining long bars so I can dowel larger panels in one hit.

i have one that i'll be listing at some point.
i'll tag you in the advert.

 

[dobbslc]

@The_Yellow_Ardvark how's the Cobb this time of year?

 

[Parm]

If you wish to rehome the Jig I have two here and another would be welcomed.
When I get around to it il be machining long bars so I can dowel larger panels in one hit.

I’ve got the same one here. Don’t think I’ll ever be using it. You can have it if you want

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I’ve got the same one here. Don’t think I’ll ever be using it. You can have it if you want

Useful for joining your speaker boxes up mate.

Found a blade for you btw. It's with the vice.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@The_Yellow_Ardvark how's the Cobb this time of year?

Today it was very nice. The tourist had all but left. The town was quiet, shops warm and a few people in them.

The food outlets had enough food out, but not to much, so it was all fresh.

 

[Parm]

Useful for joining your speaker boxes up mate.

Found a blade for you btw. It's with the vice.

Ok, you’ll have to show me how. Once I know how it works it may become “useful”

 

[Dieselman 63]

A pleasant day out, trip to seaside, a few shops with good company.

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Our place were we had traditional fish and chips.
The sound of the beech pebbles being washed was very relaxing.

Some good shops in the town. including a antique centre. Well, we had to go in.


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Record Dowlling Jig.

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Nice little blast from my past.

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Old German Leather eyelet former. Now I can repair my comfortable work boots.

Lesney Matchbox Alvis Saladin, nice! I have a Saracen and a Salamander on my desk.

 

[God mode restorations]

Got my ebay purchases back home Man accepted my offer of £225 for the superdooper tube notcher with cutters and £75 for the flypress.

Nice. I like that

 

[8ob]

Lesney Matchbox Alvis Saladin, nice! I have a Saracen and a Salamander on my desk.

Cant get my Alvis on the desk

Bob

 

[Robotstar5]

Cant get my Alvis on the desk

Bob

Well put your desk on the Alvis then

 

[Dieselman 63]

Cant get my Alvis on the desk

Bob

You gonna paint it in BP Exploration colours?

 

[Turbo]

Some bosch 24v tools, an sds drill, a jigsaw & a reciprocating saw & a charger. Only 1 battery but its a fresh 3ah one & new batteries are cheap on ebay. I already have the same drill, charger & 2 batteries so I'll be selling them on.
I used the jigsaw & its so nice to use with no cable dragging behind you!

 

[Turbo]

30 lengths of unistrut from 32 to 42" @ £1 each.

4 6-way metal cased bench sockets @ £5 each.

Each one has a built-in 16a rcbo!

 

[paulmitchell1984]

Some new shiney bits courtesy of @pressbrake1

 

[DennisCA]

Some 2nd hand stuff and some new stuff. The chisels are from Lidl, remember Paul Sellers said they had good steel. **** grind from factory and I will probably need to flatten the backs, but for 8 euros it's worth a try.

 

[DAPPH]

Thanks for the angle iron frame idea, I like it, but plans are for installing a bridge crane set up in the new garage for moving anything heavy. The only machine I want to have on wheels is my small surface grinder, so that it can be rolled outside the garage. They are filthy things which spread grit and dust everywhere you don't want it to go. Already being older and retired, my Wife & I are currently in the process of remodeling what we intend to be our last property, so I don't think we will be moving again.

Know what you men about remodelling .. I got crippled for the second time in my life aged 44 had to rethink absolutely everything I ever did or might want to try doing . I'm now 68 and am so pleased I struggled when I was in my early 50's to think things through and get everything wheeled or modified ready for when the long slow slide to the crematorium was presented to me.

 

[bigegg]

a plywood box
home made.
i just liked it, and for the sake of £3

 

[stuvy]

I tidied up the shed this weekend and found some tools I’d forgotten I’d ordered on eBay. I must stop going on eBay when I’m drunk

 

[slim_boy_fat]

a plywood box
home made.
i just liked it, and for the sake of £3View attachment 169860

Very Mondrian
At first glance I thought you'd bought a Rubik cube which'd been in a bad accident.

 

[DAPPH]

At Powerplant I was the one who did most of the repairs to them ..usually everything was down to neglect or abuse .

Belle are good mixers even modern ones with lots of plastic parts ,. usually any problems are down to them not being serviced or they are over loaded to the point of a very thick mix coming out the barrel as it turns. Check the oil in the gear box when it is sat on the stand on level ground with the mixer sat back on the back legs , people rarely do that .
Try turning the barrel using the gear box without a belt on or with a fully slackened off belt. It should move very easily . Drain & replace the gearbox oil with the correct hypoid gear oil .
Replace the drive belt it will need rechecking for tension after a days use then every 50 hours use . Usually it's heat generated by a binding gearbox heating the belt which then slips , carries on slipping & producing more & more heat .

Regularly overloaded the barrel & chucking in massively heaped shovels of material at a time has the same effect . So does stopping the mixer with a normal load full of dry ballast , then tipping a half bag of cement in and then starting it up .

On the internet I think the Belle mix operators instructions are available .. Most folk ignore them ,

IIRC... Fill the mixer up the Belle way , get it turning add half dose water ,then half sand /gravel cement add the rest of the dose water , now add the rests of the mix . Don't over load it or get it to the point where a big slug of mix flops down across the inside of the barrel onto the ascending beater bar as it puts a heck of a stress on the gearbox , motor & fan belt.

Once you have poured out a mix give the barrel half the next dosing water , poured in down the lip wall to help wash down any stuck material off the inside of barrel . put the first half the next mix in hang fire with the cement .. letting it run like that whilst you barrow the mix away gives time for it to self clean .
A the end of the session clean the mixer using a bucket of water and five to ten shovels of gravel . mixed ballast , let it run for 20 min or so then tip it out . Don't chuck bricks and big stones in like most " Building experts ) do as again it stresses the machine and can also cause the welds on the beater bars to fatigue .