surely this cant be right....

[simon718]

a grand, for this??

 

[madkayaker]

surly not i know record vices aren't cheep.

 

[simon718]

yeah, i know they aint cheep but thats takin the p**s!

 

[gavuk]

yeh ha ha ,i didn't believe it so i did a search on google ......think someone had too much sherry before pricing these ........ha ha ...........

 

[madkayaker]

i wanted to say that but have been good boy this week and managed to avoid the detention slips from Wozz. Looks like a nice vice but thats twice what i paid for the van!

 

[simon718]

yeah bout twice what my escort is worth too haha. wow thats insanse, i just got a second hand 6 inch swivel vice from one of the local markets, £25! what im just thinking of is, my school would have had atleast 30 vices very similar to that

 

[madkayaker]

work was moaning at the idea of £50 ish for vices!

 

[Hitch]

yeah bout twice what my escort is worth too haha. wow thats insanse, i just got a second hand 6 inch swivel vice from one of the local markets, £25! what im just thinking of is, my school would have had atleast 30 vices very similar to that

I had the same thoughts, maybe a bit sm,aller, but 2 classrooms full of them!
And i dont expect most get used either, what with kids not being allowed to touch anything sharp anymore

 

[madkayaker]

pity they can't use the tools and cut there fingers at school would save me loads of hassle giving out plaster!

 

[Archie]

Whoops. We also had smaller versions of those at school and I broke one in two trying to get a nylon insert I'd machined into a steel tube. Should've just walked back over to the lathe and taken a bit off really....

 

[simon718]

i can think of sooo many things i would rather spend a grand on

 

[simon718]

we were still allowed to use most sharp things when i left (3 years ago)

 

[gavuk]

I bought an 8" and 2 x6" of a colledge lecturer (retired)for £24...from trade-it last year,wonder where he got them

 

[runnach]

pity they can't use the tools and cut there fingers at school would save me loads of hassle giving out plaster!

I let me bleed, saves a lot of hassle filling in forms for H&S dept, near miss and all yon crap!!

 

[runnach]

I bought an 8" and 2 x6" of a colledge lecturer (retired)for £24...from trade-it last year,wonder where he got them

Perk o the job, incl lathe, mill, redundant plant and tooling

 

[madkayaker]

about to flatten the college i work. can't even get a box of pens

 

[simon718]

i suppose everything has to go to auction mk??

 

[gavuk]

My old man was a welding technician at local colledge he gave students 3 choices
1.cortirise with oxy/acety
2.amputate with the guilotine
3.a plaster
they all went for the third option

 

[madkayaker]

nope most goes in skip. its all very old and knacked but is acet numbered so has a value that it must reach to be sold! i'll take a pic of what i spend most of the day tripping over.

 

[simon718]

thats a real shame mk, im sure there would still be some usefull stuff! bit of out of hours skip diving called for?

gav your dad had the right idea