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

[bricol]

Picked up a few things from an auction.

It was from a company who made machines recovering tobacco from cigarettes.

Heh?

That was what I thought too. One of the employees explained when I asked what a tobacco recovery machine was.

If cigarettes gets rejected (damaged, not straight, filter crushed or whatever) they use a tobacco recovery machine to remove the filter and paper from the tobacco so the tobacco can be re used.

My first proper engineering job was with Philip Morris Engineering in London 30 yrs ago - they rebuilt their own cigarette making machines, built special purpose machines. Cigarette making machines back then could run 15,000 cigarettes a minute - doesn't take very long with an issue - a stuck cigarette, a bent bit of card, a slightly misaligned guard, before you've made a lot a of damaged cigarettes.

They used to test machines with just filter material - then finally with tobacco. Bonded warehouse on-site so tobacco used specifically for testing and then destroyed did not have to have duty paid/could be recovered, I forget which.

 

[God mode restorations]

Today I acquired.
A load of block paving. Time the mud is removed and a light acid clean these be perfect for the little patio area I need to do in the garden.

 

[Memmeddu]

I couldn't resist, I know I've said that I have too many grinders but they still take my tools and I happened to need a smaller one ...
So here we have a Würth EWS 10-125
A rebranded Metabo WE10-125Quick essentially .
1000W , constant speed,tool less , mechanical safety clutch .
Seller proposed 30 euros shipped to my door .
I accepted .

 

[AKN]

Car club tool sale. Change out of £100. 0-175lbft and 0-600lbin.

 

[brewdexta]

A Vevor retractable air hose. At just over 50 quid it will save me from swearing at the hose we use for pumping tyres up in the barn, laying around and getting tangled with the wife's garden tools. I don't expect much for that money but we only use it about once a month so didn't want to spend more.

 

[brewdexta]

Loads of stuff has arrived for the Kawasaki Mule. Some Raptor bed paint, all sorts of switches and fuse boxes to sort out the dodgy cabling, plus a couple of these LED combined spot/floods. I don't need a gigawatt light bar, these are supposedly 120W each, so 10amps if you go by individual LED count, actual power consumption is probably closer to 6 amps, I'm going to give them a test in a while. One facing front and one to the back should cover it.

 

[Smouser]

A Vevor retractable air hose. At just over 50 quid it will save me from swearing at the hose we use for pumping tyres up in the barn, laying around and getting tangled with the wife's garden tools. I don't expect much for that money but we only use it about once a month so didn't want to spend more.

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Let me know how it lasts/works ok.

I also need a retractable hose and it will also be infrequent use.

 

[Tupers]

A bigger nozzle for the blasting cabinet. Moving from 5mm to 8mm has sped up the process a lot.

 

[iNf]

Some TNMG160404 inserts £6.72 from aliexpress. A quick test and they seem decent

 

[JMS1972]

I needed some BT30 tooling for the new CNC mill as it came with an "Easy Change" chuck with a ER16 collet holder.

Score 1 from machinery dealer in Wigston.

Two sizes of Bristol Erickson holders and many collets and an MT2 holder and an Easy Change boring head. This would have been plenty but .....

A couple of Indexa Seiki ER16 holders with 3 boxes of IS ER16 collets popped up on eBay.

Then I saw a brand new Indexa Seiki ER32 chuck cheap as well so that's arrived. I needed ER32 collets for this and a Myford Collet chuck so some cheap Vevor ones will do for now.

I've got an R8 taper Easy Change holder to so can use those tools on my manual mill. T

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Call out to a Recycling centre in Weston Super Mare.

I was happy to help a customer help unload his car, into my van.

2 ton jack, some mu
ppet left the handle some where in the van.

The two tools found on the floor.
The rest from the chemical waste bin/cupboard.

Plus a box.

The contents.


Oh yes, sad to say thee Number plate camera is now fully working.
Sorry locals.

 

[Bullet2012]

A Vevor retractable air hose. At just over 50 quid it will save me from swearing at the hose we use for pumping tyres up in the barn, laying around and getting tangled with the wife's garden tools. I don't expect much for that money but we only use it about once a month so didn't want to spend more.

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I have had a couple of those type, try to keep it out of sunlight (uv) as my first one suffered quite badly within 18 months. the second I positioned away from the window in the garage and it is now about 5-6 years old and still working well.

 

[magnet]

Few free roadside logs. Bit of splitting and stacking for wor Mick

 

[Barking Mat]

Few free roadside logs. Bit of splitting and stacking for wor Mick View attachment 451515

What, you nicked them ?

 

[magnet]

What, you nicked them ?

Welllll yes but no but kinda but not really

 

[minimutly]

Firewood fairies.....

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

What, you nicked them ?

No. took them out of the cold and wet. To a nice warm place.
So a nice bug hotel can be set up.
They now are not littering.
He is just doing his bit.

 

[Bullet2012]

Is it wood or weed (leylandii) , the vegan of the tree world

 

[jimbo84]

Sometimes facebook marketplace comes up trumps and you get a job lot of kit cheap and local enough to be easy to pick up. Bought from a very nice retired engineer.

 

[Seadog]

A very nice set of M&W hole gauges.