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

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

No coffee cup for scale but

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They breed.
We get a few like that in MIS, good for small clamping, but are brittle.

 

[My Old Landy]

New toolboxes to add to the stack

and the complete package....

 

[8ob]

Today I acquired this cherry picker

 

[Arc Tourist]

And its colour coordinated.

 

[roblane65]

Bob youv'e just got too much stuff ! I think you need to start sharing some around the other members , is that a 90 there in the back ground ?

 

[Ubique]

For those that don't get their PPE provided.... I got one of these welding jackets - unused, for £8.99 inc. delivery.

Farlane Marlan V Navy Blue Flame Retardant Welding Jackets – 92cm (36”) | eBay

Marlan V370 100% Marlan V. The properties of Marlan fabric remain unchanged throughout its life cycle. Manufactured by Farlane.

www.ebay.co.uk

I've no reason to believe its a fake, tags look genuine and it has a 'Sunlight Laundry' label on it as well.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Thanks for posting.

Took a punt and ordered one, even though I still use the 50+ year old leather cape shown in my avatar.

 

[Ubique]

I've got a leather jacket - god knows how old, it gets a bit too warm sometimes with all this global warming....

 

[northwest]

And its colour coordinated.

"Bob On Blue"

 

[Mick Annick]

"Bob On BLue”

Another bench, this one to go under the window for a bit of decent light.

Finished (badly) in @8ob Blue, from the Farrow & Ball ‘Industrial Wasteland’ range

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[zeppelin builder]

Where is the triangle, circle or square?

if i told you id get cut in half and eaten by crows

 

[zeppelin builder]

a tame sparky and a totaly new power supply and led lighting , ramp wired up , old
oerlikon welder with miller voltage sensing suitcase on top , main unit set up for alu ans suitcase for msteel rigged up an extra + bulkhead plug and a toggle switch to lock line contactor on

 

[bigegg]

Just a quick, unrefined sketch. You'd obviously want a smooth curve.

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I've got one of them in no.3 shed, with a load of other wierd chisels. I wondered what it was for...

 

[The Artilleryman]

Today I acquired this cherry picker

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And you are too far away from me, I need one for a small job of moving my cctv camera's higher up, but porch sticks out too far to do it any other way.

 

[zeppelin builder]

I've got one of them in no.3 shed, with a load of other wierd chisels. I wondered what it was for...

a drift to remove gib keys when the boss is below the rim of the pulley

 

[DAPPH]

Car boot number two was more traditional one.
Still a lot of rubbish, some one said:
Where's there's muck there is brass.

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Wolf Drill lathe. I missed the Wolf drill by mere minutes.
Shame

So I brought a drill, but it will not fit the Wolf Lathe.

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I am assured it works, but as you can see it does need to TLC.

That looks identical to my 33 yr old Nu tool drill press , the tables on them tended to be a fraction out of true ie leaning down 2.5 or so at the front .
I carefully set the table up side down on my lathe cross slide ( Compound slide removed ) and used a fly cutter to recut the mounting boss face at a very fast fine cut . If it is the same model as mine look after the chuck key ...these days they are like hens teeth . I keep my chuck key on the front of the press body with a three inch torroidal feromagnet out of an old scrap microwave .. still mis-place it sometimes but not often .

My pal had one too and discovered some quality thicker walled steel tube 2 mtrs long the same diameter as the pillar pole at his work place so he purchased it. . He cut the tube to about five feet long , I helped him set it in the right places then chemical anchor the elongated press to his workshop floor .

 

[DAPPH]

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Free food, I can post this, as my friend is taking a bath.

That means the room will smell of perfume and other ladies stuff.

Why do some modern houses have 2 toilets, one shower and no bath?

No bath ... we don't have one ...took it out last week .
Do you really like festering in a warm pool of water and your own dead skin , cream cheese , clinkers & pubes etc ?

My wife & I haven't had a bath in 16 years .. we use the power shower instead.
The freed up space is now taken up with new indoor drying rack area , thank goodness I had the tilers tile the floor & wall that would be hidden under the bath as it was planned that if my disabilities got worse we might have one of the sit up in the bath jobbies with a side door to it .

 

[DAPPH]

A banana shape type wedge is what you want for removing a gib key. Point at one end, with a widening taper whilst having a curve. Unlike a straight wedge, it'll keep roughly equal pressure on all of the key surface.

That or a set of mole grips with a simple stirrup adaptor over the adjusting screw of the grips and fit it to the slide hammer

 

[DAPPH]

Just spotted this on my way home left out for scrap
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" Wolverhampton police are seeking to apprehend the thief who stole a record vice model N0 23 mounted on a small angle iron stand that was stood outside the owners house as they were opening their back gate. "

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

" Wolverhampton police are seeking to apprehend the thief who stole a record vice model N0 23 mounted on a small angle iron stand that was stood outside the owners house as they were opening their back gate. "

Don be daft.
If the did catch him, they will not make any money on it.
Oh me just being cynical.