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

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

situations---so much so that I'm thinking about getting a double-jointed, bent-nose Crescent-brand variation to complement them

I bought a set of long nose ones from Costco about 15 years ago...they included straights and crescent. I think the set was £10...i've had loads of use out of them...they're really very handy indeed. I should really buy a descent set if them!

 

[Turbo]

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Finally bought the regulators
Oxygen 10bar
Propane 4bar
They are both Harris 801 regulators
120 euros in total.
Next order will be oxy-propane 6mm twin hose and all 4 flashback arrestors .
I'm slowly completing my oxy-propane torch set (Harris 43-2 + Harris 49)

Do the cylinders in Italy all have male threads?

 

[Barking Mat]

Six out of eight eggs have hatched now, two still left in the incubatior but 75% success rate seems reasonable ?

 

[minimutly]

View attachment 391538Six out of eight eggs have hatched now, two still left in the incubatior but 75% success rate seems reasonable ?

Will they be ready for Easter?

 

[Barking Mat]

Will they be ready for Easter?

Not for laying or eating, you're being a bit optimistic.

Bet they're all cockrels knowing my luck.

 

[500e]

Got no spines Mat, bit out of your remit

 

[Barking Mat]

Got no spines Mat, but out of your remit

They seem to have spines. But I have no idea what you're on about.

Please explain.

I hate cockrels, they wake me up when it's still dark.

 

[500e]

Thought you were a Hog man

 

[Barking Mat]

Thought you were a Hog man

I'm really concerned for the hedgehogs, they were more than a twice weekly occurence, but I've not had the dogs find one in over a month, has the warm winter done something ? Have they learnt to avoid the garden ? Really missing my regular hedgehog cuddling sessions. Bit worried frankly, miss my cuddly hedgehogs.

 

[Turbo]

They seem to have spines. But I have no idea what you're on about.

Please explain.

I hate cockrels, they wake me up when it's still dark.

My Dad, long since retired from farming decided during lockdown he wanted to breed chickens, encouraged by my BIL. He had pairs of Light Sussex, Speckled Sussex & Silver laced Wyandotte. He had a bad run which produced mostly cocks, then lockdown finished, nobody wanted chickens anymore & he was left with a load of fowl! The hens were kept for laying, a pine marten killed a few & we had 7 extra roosters left. Our neighbour across the field breeds game fowl so you can imagine the racket just before dawn when the roosters start calling each other!

A few months ago he decided the cost of feeding them was too much, tried to give them away for free but no takers. Neither me or my dad could bring ourselves to dispatch them so the BIL got the task!

There are only 3 roosters now so the dawn chorus is a lot quieter!

 

[Memmeddu]

Do the cylinders in Italy all have male threads?

Nope
Argon and argon mix have female threads .
And do exist adapter nipples which threads into the valve giving us a male thread to use CO2 regulators .

Nitrogen has male threads
Acetylene comes in two cylinder types.
One has no threads at all , and it requires a regulator similar to din scuba bottles.

And one with female threads

And exit even with male threads on the valve so we have adapters

 

[bigegg]

£42 (+buyer's premium) of cast iron goodness.

Progress no 1 5speed drill.

It's going to replace my meddings M2, so I'll be offering that on here before long.

Bonus:
I managed to get enough steel profile cladding + SIPs to build my new workshop for less than I'd budgeted just for the roof panels.

 

[Welderpaul]

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£42 (+buyer's premium) of cast iron goodness.

Progress no 1 5speed drill.

It's going to replace my meddings M2, so I'll be offering that on here before long.

Bonus:
I managed to get enough steel profile cladding + SIPs to build my new workshop for less than I'd budgeted just for the roof panels.

Murton?

 

[6ply]

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£42 (+buyer's premium) of cast iron goodness.

Progress no 1 5speed drill.

It's going to replace my meddings M2, so I'll be offering that on here before long.

Bonus:
I managed to get enough steel profile cladding + SIPs to build my new workshop for less than I'd budgeted just for the roof panels.

No high/low gear? Would you like to upgrade again?

 

[bigegg]

No high/low gear? Would you like to upgrade again?
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I only do a bit of light woodbothering nowadays.
The Progress is probably more than I'll ever need.
TBF: so is the Meddings.

But I can't pass up a bargain...

 

[Arc Tourist]

Today I acquired some tungsten
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some HFT multi strike in 2.4's had them in me watch list on evil bay £20 a pack which I thought was pretty cheap and then got a seller offer of
£12.89 for a pack of ten delivered ,well you can't say no to that can you .

Thanks for the heads up. My pack arrived today.

 

[Barking Mat]

Thanks for the heads up. My pack arrived today.

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And they're environmentally friendly !

 

[roofman]

No high/low gear? Would you like to upgrade again?
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I have the same drill floor mounted...in the low gear i have had an inch n half bit in it and it chomps through without complaint.

 

[DAPPH]

Got another blade to try on the mitre saw. The 24 tooth one supplied with it gives more tear-out on the back edge than I want, so ordered a 40 tooth Sabrecut blade to try. I've been quite impressed with the quality of any other type of blade I've had of theirs. Runs true, nice cut etc. Can't fault it. An added bonus is, (with this being a 210mm blade rather than a 216mm, as came with the saw), the laser guide is actually on the cut line now. It was out by a mm or two before. This is the one I ordered.

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@Arc Tourist will appreciate this bit.

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It's green.

Talking of blades , I've been trying to cut about 25 feet ( 48 x 4inch lengths out of 9 inch rounds of scrap ) 30 mm thick Delrin on the bench saw this afternoon . Aim was to do three or four as prototypes this afternoon and settle on what worked best .
I'm making the inserts to fit in the square rungs of a ladder racking system I'm using for Alison's Bonsai staging display . center drilling one end and slitting the drilled end back a couple of inches in a + pair of cuts so when I run an 8 mm dia decking screw in the slots it expands the plug and allows me to fix a front lip on the ladder rack ends fronts & rears to stop plants getting blown off them at a couple of hundred of £'s damage a pop , includes the hand made special ceramic pots as well as the plant .

I could have cut it quicker with a used wooden lollipop stick I'm sure ..it was slow and hard going , ( not what I expected on a reasonably new rip blade ) with me slowly feeding it in .

I stopped the saw , got a magnifying glass & had a look at the grind and set ... hmmmm ...interesting ...... several of the brazed in teeth are in the wrong sequence of cut . either they've been installed incorrectly or they have been Chinese ground , there is little or no set on the teeth and the set that is viewable is LLLL R, LLRRl, etc , there's no set sequence to them , not just in one area of the blade but over the whole circumference . I aquired a couple of spare new unused blades a few days ago for it , so tomorrow if they look better I'll change it out.
Had to press on with the bad blade as I'm cleaning things up in the lathe's four jaw chuck for a precise fit as well as using the router bench to put radius on the edges on all four long edges .

 

[DAPPH]

I bought a set for about £10 from Europarts. Getting them into position is right faff, but they work very well.

I've got a diddy 75 mm pair of Mole Grip type plier grips ( set of three different sizes , off eBay years ago as ). So in most cases so far it's a doodle to squeeze the clip open , slip it over the pipe. slide the pipe on and release the pliers.