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

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Not going to happen.

How mean.

 

[MattF]

How mean.

I thought he was being nice & polite. I'd have just gone with "f off".

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I thought he was being nice & polite. I'd have just gone with "f off".

That is because @slim_boy_fat has manners.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Glad it is sorted, I cut my old filter open after I had swapped it to check inside and it was black and gunky inside, it had only been on 11 months, think I might need a tank clean.

Me too.

Mine been on about 13 months, put off its service till the mot this year as short on time with work. Probably due to filling up little and regularly on my part, should really start brimming it.

 

[MikeBB1970]

Good luck with the book, I've heard it can be very absorbing.......

Some of it is ' light' reading dobbsic ; I will treat myself to the Onsite guide this week.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

That is because @slim_boy_fat has manners.

Just well hidden

 

[steviec_lj]

Pressie to me, justification is that I need to get some 25mm box from the steel suppliers for the kitchen cabinet base build and will have to cut them down to get them on the trailer won't I

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Is that the brushless model?
Where did you get it from?

Been looking for one myself, so I can use it at scrap yards or stockholders..

Thanks

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Both these started me thinking.
When I first bought my convoy I serviced it myself. the Jersey equivalent of eurocarparts gave me the filter for a tdci rather than a tddi by mistake. Finer filter and had identical issues.

Swapped it out this morning and it's been good as gold. Pulling better too.
Good news. Saves me running the car full of tools for a few days. Mot and service Wednesday

Spoke too soon.

Playing silly beggars again today. Roll on Wednesday.

 

[Turbo]

While in town om Thursday, I popped into MacGregors Ind Supplies [ideally I should never be allowed in there unsupervised ] to get some more gloves and left with them, plus this, a 10" x 3" blank of spalted beech thinking I could use it, cut to make 2 off blanks 1.5" deep each instead of using the oak I mentioned in another post. I'd then have the oak + a spare beech blank for something else down the line. I bought it because I liked the pattern(s) in it - the outside of the block feels to be covered in wax, perhaps some of our woodbotherers [@The_Yellow_Ardvark?] can let us know why that is? It is obviously removed in cutting/turning.

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However....I Googled 'spalted beech' and discovered that the patterns in the wood are caused by a fungus, harmless to most folk but potentially dangerous for folk like me with a compromised immune system from the myeloma.

So, unless the chap up the road can accommodate it in his band saw at 10", then turn it in his wood lathe to give the 'barrel edges' I'm after for the small project, it'll be going back to MacGregors for a refund, or at worst a credit note.

You learn something new every day.

We use quite a lot of spalted beech at our mens shed. When it's felled you need to seal the end grain asap to slow the seasoning process, otherwise it cracks. We just paint the ends with pva sealer, leave the bark on & put it somewhere dry but exposed for a couple of years to dry out. We get it cut into planks as it makes beautiful benches.

 

[Melvyn Best]

Spoke too soon.

Playing silly beggars again today. Roll on Wednesday.

Check the fuel pressure, I’ve had problems with several common rail engines with exactly the same symptoms. Changing the fuel pressure regulator on the end of the fuel rail has cured them . Some diagnostic equipment can give a live pressure reading
but you may well have a fault code for low fuel pressure . Main agents are likely to try selling a complete fuel rail but some fuel specialists can sell just the regulator , helps if you have a fuel rail part number found on the rail

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Check the fuel pressure, I’ve had problems with several common rail engines with exactly the same symptoms. Changing the fuel pressure regulator on the end of the fuel rail has cured them . Some diagnostic equipment can give a live pressure reading
but you may well have a fault code for low fuel pressure . Main agents are likely to try selling a complete fuel rail but some fuel specialists can sell just the regulator , helps if you have a fuel rail part number found on the rail

Cheers. Its in the garage Wednesday so hopefully can get to the bottom of it.
Codes were read and cleared Friday so should have plenty after all the stalls since to aid diag,

Could have done without it.
Next year I think its time to get into debt for the first time in my life and buy new.

 

[LewisT]

Ebay purchase auto centre punch, came really fast ordered it last night drunk with a 5 quid off coupon, slightly dissapointed by the crunchy black brown crap that was inside when i looked inside

 

[8ob]

Put a cheeky bid in on a job lot of new in the box oddsnsods and won it, the three in one was dismantled because the old boy that had it couldn't move it but its complete

A swager, 20ton arbor press, flat bar bender, three in one has a bit of surface rust ( roller,crop and bender) and a small vice. £260 for the whole lot

 

[roofman]

Cheers. Its in the garage Wednesday so hopefully can get to the bottom of it.
Codes were read and cleared Friday so should have plenty after all the stalls since to aid diag,

Could have done without it.
Next year I think its time to get into debt for the first time in my life and buy new.

Never be ashamed of debt mate to aid business..country is run on it

 

[brewdexta]

Is that the brushless model?
Where did you get it from?

Been looking for one myself, so I can use it at scrap yards or stockholders..

Thanks

It is the brushless fuel model, cheapest when I bought it was Anglia tools but the price does fluctuate a bit. There is a model with a brake on it for an extra 20 or 30 quid but I went for the M18CAG115XPD-0 18V bare tool without brake plus a separate 5AH battery from the same place.

Cheers
Andy

 

[Pete.]

Today I acquired this for a fiver at the boot fair:

Works perfectly, nice and smooth and quiet but I was particularly pleased to find that actual model because last year I bought a nearly-new one so I could rob the rotor and stator out of it to repair a Biax scraper for someone. They only wanted the internals (the green biax uses a Metabo motor) so I got left with the rest of it in a nice shiny box:

So this evening I stripped down the £5 one I bought and put the armature and rotor into the new housing from last year. Now I have a nearly brand new, perfectly working Metabo jigsaw in the box - for a fiver!

 

[Pete.]

That’s a result. I went to the first boot fair of the season. Don’t know why I bothered. £50 for a box of cheap rusty tools anybody? No thanks. Saw the same steeringwheel for sale that was overpriced a year ago . Dreamers.....

I most often come back empty handed TBH except for dog bones from the pet food stall because I'll only bring back stuff I think I'll use.
Sometimes I'll get a few rolls of packing tape, got a pile of reinforced tape once for a pound a roll. Been three times this year now, the first time I got a dozen 1m long SDS drills for £3 each second time came back with nowt and this time got the jig saw.
If nothing else it's a nice couple of hours out walking the dog.

 

[bigegg]

i only bring back stuff I think I'll use.

and this is why i need another shed

 

[brewdexta]

Yesterday I acquired the urge to sort out all the screws that were hanging around in various drawers, jars, buckets, take away trays etc. I inherited a load of screws from my dad, loads of brass and steel screws, mostly slotted head which look better than cross-heads if they are visible.

Here's about half of them that need sorting, I've started on them.

Here's round head steel slotted nearly sorted

I've already done all the countersunk and round/pan/raised head brass, they are already filed away here, the rest will be soon.

I've already got all the cross heads in there plus loads of stainless and BZP set screws, bolts, washers, springs, self tappers from M3 to M12 plus quite a bit of imperial plus rivnuts, captive nuts, t-nut/bolts, plugs, rivets, roll-pins, circlips etc..... The bigger stuff is going in some old metal drawers I bought a couple of years ago.

Sounds a bit anal but I keep moving this stuff around the workshop rather than sorting it once and for all, this way I might be able to find what I need and make horizontal surfaces available for more junk

Get a brew, get the music on and just do an hour a day. It will soon be done.

Bugger, I just found a 5 litre tin of various fixings and a jam jar of electrical screws and self tappers, I think I'll call the kids in to help, it is end of term holidays

Cheers
Andy

 

[Craig-SM]

Yesterday I acquired the urge to sort out all the screws that were hanging around in various drawers, jars, buckets, take away trays etc. I inherited a load of screws from my dad, loads of brass and steel screws, mostly slotted head which look better than cross-heads if they are visible.

Here's about half of them that need sorting, I've started on them.

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Here's round head steel slotted nearly sorted

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I've already done all the countersunk and round/pan/raised head brass, they are already filed away here, the rest will be soon.

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I've already got all the cross heads in there plus loads of stainless and BZP set screws, bolts, washers, springs, self tappers from M3 to M12 plus quite a bit of imperial plus rivnuts, captive nuts, t-nut/bolts, plugs, rivets, roll-pins, circlips etc..... The bigger stuff is going in some old metal drawers I bought a couple of years ago.

Sounds a bit anal but I keep moving this stuff around the workshop rather than sorting it once and for all, this way I might be able to find what I need and make horizontal surfaces available for more junk

Get a brew, get the music on and just do an hour a day. It will soon be done.

******, I just found a 5 litre tin of various fixings and a jam jar of electrical screws and self tappers, I think I'll call the kids in to help, it is end of term holidays

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Cheers
Andy

You really did have a slow day yesterday, either that or you found the perfect excuse to get out of shopping