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

[Melvyn Best]

Picture, please....

 

[Melvyn Best]

It’s old but it was working last time I used it . Instructions for use are on the front, the 2nd picture shows the perished lead, both leads are similar. , doubt it would be difficult to replace them but I should think it would work without . I preferred this to the type with 2 prongs as the load is adjustable

 

[Dapph2]

2nd dibbs please Merv if zrr says no and it is still on offer.

 

[zzr1200]

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Incoming PM

 

[JEZGUZ]

That Dutch Barn is Ricky Gervais's celebrity booze, he ran some spoof adverts saying they were banned by TFL, genius marketing though.

 

[zzr1200]

I've been patiently waiting for these to arrive, for weeks...

I believe this is the end of my Christmas presents to myself for this year.........maybe?....................

 

[Blobber]

Couldn't decide what viscous coupling spanners to get so bought these 460mm long reach wrenches for tensioners and the like, cheap and nasty but for the use they will get they are fine

 

[nickk]

Some cold bent metal,don’t like it,but I have to match some existing. The one with the missing leaf was replaced FOC,from DC iron who are usually very good and rectified it quickly.The tube is to blow out a new tyre ,guess what,it was one of those that came flat packed,eg squashed,in the post,grrrrrr.

 

[zzr1200]

Ok yes, but blanks rather than leg removing ones

But hopefully blanks will still cause sticky stains..........

or possibly........ ....

https://www.hope-education.co.uk/product/fe050009aa

 

[Cato]

Snap-On are doing well out of me recently.

Having become heartily sick of winding out M6/5/4 bolts from cases and the like I finally bit the bullet and bought a suitable 1/4" driver.

 

[Jack_K]

They did a 500 amp one, I was talking to an Exide Traction Battery guy years ago, and he stated they did build some 1000 amp cca ones, but I've never seen one or found any references to one.

I000 amp would likely be a forklift or submarine battery tester ?

Fizzy would have loved to have one a few months ago when we were trying to fault find his massive electric fork lift battery ..
All cells showed full charge and the correct SG. happen it being around 20 yrs old and partially silted is the reason it only runs a few hours on each charge .

I have a load tester which can apply up to 900a load. I have no idea what would use that especially since the applied load is normally half the CCA rating. It would need a 1800CCA battery.

 

[Robotstar5]

Snap-On are doing well out of me recently.

Having become heartily sick of winding out M6/5/4 bolts from cases and the like I finally bit the bullet and bought a suitable 1/4" driver.

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Waiting for the red/blue fanbois to tell you what you should have bought

 

[addjunkie]

Snap-On are doing well out of me recently.

Having become heartily sick of winding out M6/5/4 bolts from cases and the like I finally bit the bullet and bought a suitable 1/4" driver.

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Very nice, are the batteries built in to those.

 

[Cato]

Very nice, are the batteries built in to those.

Yeah, we'll see how that goes over the next year or two but with a 1000 charge cycle warranty I reckon they'll have paid for themselves anyway.

 

[My Old Landy]

Today, I have been given the rest of the year off, in recognition of my efforts to get a project finished on time.
Nice.

 

[MetalMonkey]

Today, I have been given the rest of the year off, in recognition of my efforts to get a project finished on time.
Nice.

Hmmm, whenever I got projects finished ahead or on time, my reward was always some more work....

 

[JOEPRO]

A new storage rack to get stuff semi organised https://amzn.eu/d/9ubrD2T

 

[Danez]

needed a **reliable** winter daily, so sick of none of my cars working or leaking or taking ages to warm up. I was commuting in my campervan as it was the least broken down mode of transport I had

so I bought my first ever Toyota! A 1999 2.0 petrol avensis. pre vvti so it has the 3S-FE engine of which I later found out is none interference!

Only had 75k miles, previous OAP owner kept it garaged it's entire life (owned it since 2001) and you can tell, can't find any rust anywhere! it's also handles a lot better than I expected and picks up well too.
Really comfy with the velour seats and how it glides over pot holes and speed bumps.

but best of all it just works! I can turn the key and just not have to worry or think about if it'll get me to work.
Very happy with it, just need to get a beaded seat cover and taxi plates then jobs a gudden

 

[Kayos]

needed a **reliable** winter daily, so sick of none of my cars working or leaking or taking ages to warm up. I was commuting in my campervan as it was the least broken down mode of transport I had

so I bought my first ever Toyota! A 1999 2.0 petrol avensis. pre vvti so it has the 3S-FE engine of which I later found out is none interference!
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Only had 75k miles, previous OAP owner kept it garaged it's entire life (owned it since 2001) and you can tell, can't find any rust anywhere! it's also handles a lot better than I expected and picks up well too.
Really comfy with the velour seats and how it glides over pot holes and speed bumps.

but best of all it just works! I can turn the key and just not have to worry or think about if it'll get me to work.
Very happy with it, just need to get a beaded seat cover and taxi plates then jobs a gudden

I used to drive a white Cavalier saloon, once went to pick someone up from Bradford interchange and 2 people, separately tried getting in, thinking it was a taxi (Bradford taxis were, or still are, white with a black bonnet)

My own fault really

 

[addjunkie]

needed a **reliable** winter daily, so sick of none of my cars working or leaking or taking ages to warm up. I was commuting in my campervan as it was the least broken down mode of transport I had

so I bought my first ever Toyota! A 1999 2.0 petrol avensis. pre vvti so it has the 3S-FE engine of which I later found out is none interference!
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Only had 75k miles, previous OAP owner kept it garaged it's entire life (owned it since 2001) and you can tell, can't find any rust anywhere! it's also handles a lot better than I expected and picks up well too.
Really comfy with the velour seats and how it glides over pot holes and speed bumps.

but best of all it just works! I can turn the key and just not have to worry or think about if it'll get me to work.
Very happy with it, just need to get a beaded seat cover and taxi plates then jobs a gudden

Im a big Toyota fan having bought one last year. I get having 4 motors is better than 1 but the yearly charges of 4 taxes, 4 insurances etc would spoil my day every morning when I opened the curtains.