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

[Blue Chips]

Also not perfectly square but then the building isn't (about an inch and a half wider by the window compared to the end behind me). Having said that the outside dimensions of the building are within a 1/4" over 40 foot so it's just the internals which are slightly out - could be the internal stud work

We spent a lot of time, effort, and a bit of cash to jack and level the entire house that we're restoring, so that the outside walls and roof lines of the house are quite straight and square, or at least better than they were when the house was built over 200 years ago. However, like yours, the internal dimensions are still off enough that they are a challenge to deal with. The hand-hewn beams and hand-sawn studs, etc. vary in cross-section, and It seems that when they built the house, they placed the beams and studs so that the external measurements were reasonably decent, but didn't worry much about the inside, figuring that they could make up for it with plaster, shims, and cheating. While it's tricky to deal with sometimes, on the plus side I think that having to custom-fit almost every new or replacement piece of wood has really improved my carpentry skills.

 

[sako243]

We spent a lot of time, effort, and a bit of cash to jack and level the entire house that we're restoring, so that the outside walls and roof lines of the house are quite straight and square

Oh it wasn't a dig at the Victorians who built it, far from the opposite. You wouldn't get a new build that accurate. The out of squareness is probably down to my floor which everything was built from. The wall parts are a couple of lengths of 12x3" timbers concreted and bolted into the old joist holes, so they're almost certainly not parallel. When you're up a ladder manhandling a 4.8m plate like that on your own you're just grateful when it stays there.

The house which is roughly 70x100ft when viewed from on top but with various rooms sticking in all directions with porches, turrets etc. I measured that with a tape and assumed all the angles were 90°, when I drew it in CAD it was only an inch off meeting. That's bloody impressive.

 

[Brad93]

Meca p9321 250mm rotary table to pair with my new Bison 250mm 4 jaw for the milling machine. To say it's heavy would be doing it a disservice!

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Need to make a little plate to mount it as the 4 holes to mount the chuck fall right at the end of the tee slots on the table face... Typical of my luck mounting chucks tbh!

Meca is top quality. Portugal/Spain iirc

 

[dan.taylor.1]

Meca is top quality. Portugal/Spain iirc

Yep made in Spain. Seems very good quality. Haven't quite worked out the worm engagement so I get it every time yet but it's not likely to get masses of use, just had a job in mind for it and the price was OK/funds were there!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Just had a very nice meeting with @jonclancy.Who was very kind and donnated a few items to MIS.

This in the order they were removed from my car.

29 containers of assorted item.

Drill, sand paper, jig saw and a lot more.

Angle grinder and a bench grinder, with a drive shaft.

Detail sander, battery charger and assorted tools.

Tool box and assorted tools.

It's and bits.

Jump starter.

Pressure washer.

A nice assortment of hand saws.

 

[Pete.]

Jigsaw from FB marketplace. Lady wanted a fiver for it but I gave her £20 as it's worth much more. Stuck switch was easily fixed.

 

[GraemeVW]

Seem to have acquired another beach tool box. Not sure why, other than because it matches all my others.
@winchman will understand

I'll make use of it somewhere

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Lady wanted a fiver for it but I gave her £20 as it's worth much more.

Good man...I do stuff like this...I sleep very well at night as a result!

 

[winchman]

Seem to have acquired another beach tool box. Not sure why, other than because it matches all my others.
@winchman will understand

I'll make use of it somewhere
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I fully understand I have four of these!
I have 15 Beach boxes in total even the Holy Grail of a side cab, so I don't want to brag but you need to keep up!

Still looking for more of these two

 

[MattF]

so I don't want to brag but

Much.

 

[Pete.]

I got this 200kg hydraulic lifting trolley at the boot fair today. Bargain for £40 I'm very happy with that as I've been looking out for one for ages.

 

[Milkybars]

@Pete. Nice buy

 

[JOEPRO]

Not today but a couple days ago. Won this new boxed on ebay. I already have a wi fi endoscope but this one is handy being all self contained and has live zoom function etc too which the other one does not. The cable is also only about 1 m long which I like and is high quality.

 

[GraemeVW]

I fully understand I have four of these!
I have 15 Beach boxes in total even the Holy Grail of a side cab, so I don't want to brag but you need to keep up!

Still looking for more of these two
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Makes my 5 look like a weak effort

I'll keep trying though

 

[Farside]

2nd time lucky (fingers crossed).
After the debacle of the cancelled F4, I went looking for another one and found this...

Not got the extended battery pack, but I'll only bother about that if I find the standard pack in the grip isn't beefy enough. Non-pro users seem to be happy enough with the life of 4 AA Duracells - somebody mentioned 70 films life, which is ok by me. Even if it's only 30, that'd still be fine.
The lens is the standard nifty-fifty, 50mm f;1:1.4 which remained substantially unchanged for fifty years and long established itself as a fairly sharp workhorse. I'm curious to see how it behaves on the D600.
The addition of the small flash sweetened the deal, but I've got lots of flash options, however this small flash is fairly unobtrusive and works with the camera TTL seamlessly.
Hopefully, it will arrive without me getting clobbered for duty (too much).
It seems quite clean but it's always a gamble.

 

[Brad93]

I got this 200kg hydraulic lifting trolley at the boot fair today. Bargain for £40 I'm very happy with that as I've been looking out for one for ages.

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Most useful

 

[Brad93]

Not technically in my possession yet but think I got a bargain. Nobody else bid though? 1300nm claimed. Hopefully it's not b*ggered? CP do parts for it though, quite reasonably priced, but fingers crossed.

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Those are good only recently binned our one, it had many years of abuse

 

[winchman]

Makes my 5 look like a weak effort

I'll keep trying though

As you know they do turn up but usually the wrong end of the country, I just keep one eye on them in the usual sales places, one on Faceach now but its £1500!

 

[MetalMonkey]

I don't enjoy plumbing.

Had to change a couple of taps recently which were bloody awkward to get to even with those swivelly headed basin wrench thingy.

Still it is an excuse for a new tool, so decided to invest in in a different style of fancy lower profile swivelly headed basin wrench thingy.

Which probably means I will now never need one ever again - and, actually, I wouldn't mind that at all!

 

[Blobber]

I don't enjoy plumbing.

Had to change a couple of taps recently which were bloody awkward to get to even with those swivelly headed basin wrench thingy.

Still it is an excuse for a new tool, so decided to invest in in a different style of fancy lower profile swivelly headed basin wrench thingy.

Which probably means I will now never need one ever again - and, actually, I wouldn't mind that at all!

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Hateful things, always found you need more hands than the usual human is equipped with