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

[slim_boy_fat]

That's a valuable piece!

The drinks are on @25.4_mechanic Cheers, Carsten

 

[Mick Annick]

A charrette, a small cart. Our elderly neighbour has it in her field barn which she’s now sold and wants rid of it. It’s quite small and has very short thin shafts, so not horse-drawn; maybe a donkey cart, or just hand drawn?

View attachment 329642

How best to preserve it? Don’t want to do a full repaint - any advice please @The_Yellow_Ardvark ?

 

[dan.taylor.1]

A package containing something I have wanted to buy for ages!
I had flat batteries on the Surf on Saturday and borrowed a mates NOCO GB40 booster and it just about managed to start it so I've gone for the GB50 and a protective case
Halfords discount and delivered in 48 hours!
View attachment 329526View attachment 329527View attachment 329528 I feels like a very nice bit of kit!

Just bought the genius 10 charger and it's great, brought a dead lawnmower battery back my other charger wouldn't charge. When funds allow if like one of the boost packs.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

I went out to get some 13A plugs, in b&q, couldnt find any. Asked a staff, she came back with round pin 15A plugs I did not know they were still sold or in use.

I found 13a plugs but they were three pounds EACH. As I left I checked the clearance bit where the 15A plugs were..might be useful.
View attachment 329535
Switches and boxes may be useful for the melter project.
Tempted to fit a 15a socket in the shed for welder and melter.

Then to Aldi for these wall trays, I got two. Should allow me to find a home for amall parts.
View attachment 329537

The 15a (and smaller 5a) round pin plugs are meant for lighting circuits only. We use them in theater lighting, most have swapper to 16a commando plugs now though or iec (kettle leads) for smaller stuff.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

How best to preserve it? Don’t want to do a full repaint

Even if I am not directly addressed: Keep the beautiful piece dry and well ventilated under a roof and forget about the paint!

Wonderful find!

Good luck,

Carsten

--

 

[25.4_mechanic]

The drinks are on @25.4_mechanic Cheers, Carsten

Then again, not that valuable, counting the condition and all the parts that aren't there - but I've already warmed your beer. You're welcome.

Carsten

--

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Then again, not that valuable, counting the condition and all the parts that aren't there - but I've already warmed your beer. You're welcome.

Carsten

--

Many thanks, but I'll pass on the 'warm' one

 

[Pete.]

Then again, not that valuable, counting the condition and all the parts that aren't there - but I've already warmed your beer. You're welcome.

Carsten

--

The condition is apparently a lot better than mine started out. If it's not rusted internally then I would say it's worth several hundred euro.

Of course if you're convinced it's worthless I'll pay postage

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

How best to preserve it? Don’t want to do a full repaint - any advice please @The_Yellow_Ardvark ?

Get it into a dry space.
Lift it up. Take the wheels off.
With warm soapy water give it a thorough clean.
Allow to dry.
Inspect for worm and treat with good worm killer.
Look for rot. Treat or replace.

If you want to repaint now is the time.
If not go over and remove loose or flaky paint with a cabinet scraper.

Then with bee's wax dissolved into me the apply a good few coats. You want the meths to draw the wax in.

Then wax/linseed oil. Apply many coats until you have a finish you like.

Metal work. Treat for rust. Then fire back finishes look good.
Brass buff and seal with wax.

Wheels as above.

Bearings. Tallow or a natural based grease.

Leather call @mrsbruce .

 

[JMS1972]

A charrette, a small cart. Our elderly neighbour has it in her field barn which she’s now sold and wants rid of it. It’s quite small and has very short thin shafts, so not horse-drawn; maybe a donkey cart, or just hand drawn?

View attachment 329642

Could it be a dog cart? Bernese carter's are quite big.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Could it be a dog cart? Bernese carter's are quite big.

Nice thinking.

Can we see pictures of the shaft's

 

[Mick Annick]

Nice thinking.

Can we see pictures of the shaft's

I’m going to drag it out tomorrow or Thursday, will get some better photos once it’s out in the daylight.

The beekeper in the next village gave me a big lump of wax last summer, I’ve just make up some polish with olive oil and vitamin E(?) from a recipe off the internet, will try and find some meths and make different batch

 

[indy4x]

Been looking for a set of Dunlop tracking gauges for a while. Usually they are too far away and collection only or if the seller is willing to post people bid bonkers money for them.

I don't mind travelling but when they are all 3 hours or so away that's too far

Browsing FB MP last night found a set in Pontypridd for £50 and only 45mins each way to collect

They need a really good clean but are all there and work

 

[AVI_8]

As I’m one of the only people left on the planet who doesn’t have FB I’m missing out on these used bargains!

 

[Barking Mat]

No, it was Clemens Winkler (1838-1904). Germanium was first detected on 6 February 1886, he called it after his home country.

Clemens Winkler, was a chemist at the Freiberg Mining Academy who was working with cobalt glass.
He examined the mineral argyrodite and found the new element germanium.
It later turned out to be the eka-silicium that had been predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1871.

Freiburg,

Home of sex tourism, and our German office.

No relation.

 

[Parm]

Will you be like all the other road cyclists buying Titanium bolts and carbon yet tugging along 18st in hideous Lycra

You know him well

 

[Parm]

As I’m one of the only people left on the planet who doesn’t have FB I’m missing out on these used bargains!

It’s ok. There’s two of us. I do t do face ache either

 

[stuvy]

It’s ok. There’s two of us. I do t do face ache either

Iv never had it either

 

[Barking Mat]

I've been on since Covid (Farcebook).

Work encouraged everybody to join to form a private works group.

Just to keep in contact in the first 10 week lockdown.

Utter sh1te. Not work.

I'm still there, only to look on marketplace.

Can't believe people I've known all my life spawn antivax sh1te.


Marketplace is worthwhile to buy stuff, not to sell, oh no, too many numpties.

I don't follow FB, I just cherry pick marketplace.

Generator s for example, same model for 100£ or 1000£, crazy.

 

[DAPPH]

Thanks!

There is a German word "Silizium", of which I had previously known the international spelling "Silicium", as on the whetstones shown, whose German name is "Silizium Karbid".

The other way round: The first semiconductor that acquired practical use was made with "germanium" (no idea who found that element ... )View attachment 329594

the second and better material for semiconductors then became silicium, which is still important today, our age is named after it .... Not?

You don't use that word at all???


Carsten

--

Germanium - Element information, properties and uses ...​

https://www.rsc.org › periodic-table › element › 32 › Germanium
Germanium was discovered by Clemens A. Winkler at Freiberg, Germany, in 1886. Its existence had been predicted by Mendeleev who predicted its atomic weight would be about 71 and that its density around 5.5 g/cm 3. In September 1885 a miner working in the Himmelsfürst silver mine near Freiberg, came across an unusual ore. It was passed to Albin Weisbach at the nearby Mining Academy who ...