money for nothing bbc1 03 mar '19

[bigegg]

turning a woden vice into a wall lamp.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Don't start me on that programme.

I like the idea or recycling items into useful items. Or making something new from rubbish.

But the way they make it so simple and easy, try getting stuff from the local skips.

The one upside is that does give people ideas.

Bad ones for good intended people.
Good ones for bad intended people.


Oh well.

 

[zzr1200]

turning a woden vice into a wall lamp.

The Guy who modded it, said it was a "Record Vice" obviously they can't read to well in the Maldon area, country bumkins some of them Essex boys...

What a waste of a small vice.....

 

[Hitch]

I saw that, sat here getting all upset about it.

Mind, if anyone want one knocked up, you supply the vice, and i'll knock up a rough looking bracket and give you half a lampshade for £90, less than what they charged her.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I will beat @Hitch offer.
You supply the vice, I will tap you for the cable, bracket and bulb. Make it.
Put on the tv for a few days and charge you £150.

After all it has bean on the TV.

Gathering dust.

 

[roofman]

Trying to get something from our recycling centers is akin to stealing from a bank...getting watched like hawks from the staff who are nothing more than wannabe club bouncers...

 

[Kayos]

Trying to get something from our recycling centers is akin to stealing from a bank...getting watched like hawks from the staff who are nothing more than wannabe club bouncers...

I usually distract them by unloading a load of worthless stuff (with maybe a hint of it could be) into the non recyclable skip and they come swarming, giving me chance to see if anything is worth having

 

[rikrobson]

I have a perfectly geed battery charger.i can't remember the make. But I got given it BR a pal on the railway. Any hoo. I was a a classic car event and some one had made one into a lamp. Wtf? It was in a raffle or tombola. I was looking at it and the guy asked if I was interested. Well is said yup if it worked. It was like Mike but with two bulbs on top. Now the charger is a fair bit of kit 18" by 12".
yup he said both bulbs work. At this point I didn't know it was not a charger any longer. So it was a big metal box with two bulbs on top. I asked how it charged batterys up and got a funny ook

 

[rikrobson]

If any one is interested I'll post picks of the un ******** one

 

[Turbo]

Biggest travesty I saw on that show was when they butchered a coronet major multi function lathe to make a wall light. By the time they paid a spark to wire it they only made £40 profit, if they left the lathe as it was it was probably worth £100!

Some of the things they do on that show really annoy me but then a certain rather cute female blacksmith appears & I'm happy again!

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

I love how she saves money on haircuts by cutting her own hair with a knife and fork

 

[Olderisbetter]

I used to hate this show then i sold some ladders that i had converted into a hanging rack for a big old kitchen then my mind and wallet saw a new light.