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

[DAPPH]

a vacuum pot.
looks unused.

£3 !!!!
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Yah ever going to use it as a vacuum tub ?

If not & you want to move it on for a small profit PM me ,I've been looking for one for a while .

 

[bigegg]

Yah ever going to use it as a vacuum tub ?

If not & you want to move it on for a small profit PM me ,I've been looking for one for a while .

im intending to use it, sorrry!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Today I acquired:

1 free breakfast.
1 book of breakfast meal vouchers.
1 book of Lunch vouchers.

The vouchers will allow me to have free food on 80% of the sites I work on.
Todays site was closing down and the vouchers books were being given away by the manager to people he liked as a thank you for what they have done for him.



Happy TYA.

 

[Chillitt]

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 .

Thats how I've always done it. Doing that concrete floor last week, one of the blades fell off and half an hour later the engine siezed and all it had in it was half a bucket of water... I'm going to kick it on its side as soon as I can find the enthusiasm. Knew I should have got an electric one.

 

[stuvy]

Today I acquired:

1 free breakfast.
1 book of breakfast meal vouchers.
1 book of Lunch vouchers.

The vouchers will allow me to have free food on 80% of the sites I work on.
Todays site was closing down and the vouchers books were being given away by the manager to people he liked as a thank you for what they have done for him.



Happy TYA.

So you pilfered them

 

[dobbslc]

It's not pilfering if it's going in a skip or in a building about to be demolished.....

 

[MattF]

So you pilfered them

Rotten, but funny.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

So you pilfered them

Obtained legally.











Oh yes.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A few odd n sods.
Some good, some annoying.

Annoying item PP7 Battery.


.
No more to be said about this.



Kit of Metric and imperial grease nipples.
Cheaper to buy a kit than the ones I needed. Oh well.

Some good bits.



2 box's of 10 Battery operated LED lights. First 2 I pulled out worked, but I have not tested the rest. But as all 10 were free as damaged stock, we will see. Mini Me is happy with the 2 so far.



Modern Max/Min thermometer. £0:50p. Why not it was a charity shop. I am currently bidding on a Old style Magazine type. Fingers crossed.



12 in total Stowage box's. Free to collector add. I picked them up on the way home.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Today i picked up 20 bottles of sunflower oil from Tesco £3.50 for 5 litres, I know some people use it for fuel in older diesels but i make my own mayonnaise

 

[stuvy]

Obtained legally.











Oh yes.

A man after my own heart

 

[Parm]

View attachment 169973 Today i picked up 20 bottles of sunflower oil from Tesco £3.50 for 5 litres, I know some people use it for fuel in older diesels but i make my own mayonnaise

That’s gonna make a serious amount of mayo.

 

[Olderisbetter]

That’s gonna make a serious amount of mayo.

well i make it by the gallon and consume it as i walk, I reckon i am getting about 30 miles to every gallon.

 

[Parm]

well i make it by the gallon and consume it as i walk, I reckon i am getting about 30 miles to every gallon.

Note self, must start eating more mayo

 

[minimutly]

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 .

A bit different to my old dads - oh I dunno - 1950s? Lister D engined, steel wheeled Liner mixer. That would mix nearly two wheelbarrowfulls - I can still hear it now, carb tinkling, cast iron gears grinding, and puffs of ever so slightly black exhaust smoke. Oh, and the water boiling all day. Sorry I sold it, but reallistically had no choice. Some geezer came down from London with a trailer, heck of a long way to come for an old mixer.

 

[minimutly]

There it is, 1930's, well well. Made to last eh?

 

[Turbo]

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There it is, 1930's, well well. Made to last eh?

My Uncle had one of those, would mix all day on a tank of fuel.

Those mixers were responsible for so many broken thumbs on apprentices who hadn't got the knack of starting them and didn't know how to hold a starting handle!

 

[Tangledfeet]

Changing wheels (winter > summer, etc.) just got a whole lot easier. And loosening and tightening pretty much everything else too.

 

[decca]

This arrived today.

Just an eBay cheapy but I have to say I'm well pleased with it.

 

[anto44]

This arrived today.

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Just an eBay cheapy but I have to say I'm well pleased with it.

I have one the very same except in red, ebay special too and it's a very good tool for the money.