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

[Dieselman 63]

You'll get your reward in Heaven.

I’d better be buried with these then...

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Thank you Mr. TYA so far I fall down on the first three points, not knowing what is good and what is good snake oil or bad snake oil.
The rest of it is kind of like using the wet grinding wheel which I use for sharpening chisels at the moment which usually gets me a sharp but slightly random edge.
Any particular product to be looking at?

The Stanley Guide is good.
It has a good action and is well made.

Stones, MM do a nice combination stone, medium and fine. That will set you up well.

Oil, I use new engine oil.

The Power wet stones on grinders are hot and mis. But can give an edge.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

That is the trouble with a fair few non technically trained guys in MIS . What they think is a good quick repair or the right use for a twist drill is usually a death trap just waiting for the first victim to come in range add a bit of dementia or seasoned Alzheimer's with a hefty dose of Tourette's thrown in for free .

The issue is with "dan" is that he is technically minded. But will not except that:
What is allowed in his private workshop is not allowed in MIS.
H&S is something we have to follow.

He does not like being told by other people who know more than he does.
He has now left, threating not to return.

We are glad.

 

[Dr.Al]

Thank you, looks like the sharpening station is out of stock ATM, perhaps I will order the Veritas honing guide and try it with the two christmas cracker grade diamond stones I have.

I've got the Veritas one as well as an Eclipse one I inherited. Either is fine, but the Veritas one is better. It comes with an attachment that makes it very very quick to set the blade to the right stick-out and has a much wider wheel so is easier to keep narrow tools like chisels from rocking on the stone. If you want to curve the corners of a plane blade slightly to stop plane tracks from happening, you just apply a bit more pressure on each corner for a few seconds and that's enough. It's also got an eccentric adjuster so the secondary bevel is very quick to do.

As for stones, I don't think it matters that much. Oil stones are good, waterstones are good (but the coarser grade ones need soaking and they need flattening periodically) and diamond stones are good. If you're not doing it often then wet & dry paper on a bit of glass works well too, it just gets expensive if you do it a lot as you'll got through a lot of wet & dry! I've built up most of the options available over the years as I wanted to try them out and compare.

I use a fine India oilstone for metalworking tools (mostly honing the edges on high speed steel lathe tools). For second-hand planes, chisels and so on that need a lot of reshaping, I use 120 grit wet & dry on glass as it saves mucking about having to flatten a stone (which tends to be needed more if you're using a coarse stone and taking a lot of material off).

For normal sharpening I use a double-sided diamond stone (325 and 1200 grit I think) and an 8000 grit waterstone. The 325 grit stone is used after the 120 grit wet & dry for getting stuff into the right shape, but otherwise is just used as a quick way of flattening the waterstone. The 8000 grit waterstone is nice as it doesn't need to be soaked in water (just a quick spray from an atomiser bottle I keep handy) and gives a mirror finish. I'm not convinced it's completely necessary: the 1200 grit is probably fine. Having said that, you can tell a bit of a difference in the finish on the wood after planing with a blade sharpened to 8000 grit vs 1200 grit.

Resharpening is a case of bunging the tool in the veritas guide, spinning the eccentric so it's set high for the secondary bevel, stroking it on the 1200 grit until there's a burr raised across the edge, then repeating on the 8000 grit. I then take it out of the guide and do the back. For a chisel that's just rubbing the back on the stones (with the chisel at 45° to the stone), 1200 then 8000. For a plane blade I stick an old and useless† short steel ruler on one edge of the sharpening stone to raise the plane blade back up slightly and effectively put a tiny secondary bevel on the back. Finally I do a few strokes alternating sides on something soft (I now use a bit of leather but used to just use my belt) to break the burr off.

I reckon it takes me less than a minute to resharpen a plane blade, including the time to put the blade in the veritas guide. Some of the second-hand tools I've got have taken me literally hours to sort out though! At least that only needs to be done once.

I keep a 1000 grit diamond stone in the kitchen as it's much less messy than the alternatives and I can keep the kitchen knives sharp with a few strokes on each side every week or so.

† Useless as it has imperial on one edge and metric on the other - I now only use the ones where either millimetres or half-millimetres are available on whichever edge you want. Keeping the imperial one near the sharpening kit is handy though as the veritas guide is marked in silly units.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Patchbay finally arrived.
Damaged.

Looking back through the listings that corner is either cropped out or out of shot conveniently.

Ally front plate. Recon if I try and bend that it's gonna snap.
Will anealing help Ali?

 

[angellonewolf]

^^^ looks quite thick would have thought it would bend back

 

[zx9]

I've got the Veritas one as well as an Eclipse one I inherited. Either is fine, but the Veritas one is better. It comes with an attachment that makes it very very quick to set the blade to the right stick-out and has a much wider wheel so is easier to keep narrow tools like chisels from rocking on the stone. If you want to curve the corners of a plane blade slightly to stop plane tracks from happening, you just apply a bit more pressure on each corner for a few seconds and that's enough. It's also got an eccentric adjuster so the secondary bevel is very quick to do.

As for stones, I don't think it matters that much. Oil stones are good, waterstones are good (but the coarser grade ones need soaking and they need flattening periodically) and diamond stones are good. If you're not doing it often then wet & dry paper on a bit of glass works well too, it just gets expensive if you do it a lot as you'll got through a lot of wet & dry! I've built up most of the options available over the years as I wanted to try them out and compare.

I use a fine India oilstone for metalworking tools (mostly honing the edges on high speed steel lathe tools). For second-hand planes, chisels and so on that need a lot of reshaping, I use 120 grit wet & dry on glass as it saves mucking about having to flatten a stone (which tends to be needed more if you're using a coarse stone and taking a lot of material off).

For normal sharpening I use a double-sided diamond stone (325 and 1200 grit I think) and an 8000 grit waterstone. The 325 grit stone is used after the 120 grit wet & dry for getting stuff into the right shape, but otherwise is just used as a quick way of flattening the waterstone. The 8000 grit waterstone is nice as it doesn't need to be soaked in water (just a quick spray from an atomiser bottle I keep handy) and gives a mirror finish. I'm not convinced it's completely necessary: the 1200 grit is probably fine. Having said that, you can tell a bit of a difference in the finish on the wood after planing with a blade sharpened to 8000 grit vs 1200 grit.

Resharpening is a case of bunging the tool in the veritas guide, spinning the eccentric so it's set high for the secondary bevel, stroking it on the 1200 grit until there's a burr raised across the edge, then repeating on the 8000 grit. I then take it out of the guide and do the back. For a chisel that's just rubbing the back on the stones (with the chisel at 45° to the stone), 1200 then 8000. For a plane blade I stick an old and useless† short steel ruler on one edge of the sharpening stone to raise the plane blade back up slightly and effectively put a tiny secondary bevel on the back. Finally I do a few strokes alternating sides on something soft (I now use a bit of leather but used to just use my belt) to break the burr off.

I reckon it takes me less than a minute to resharpen a plane blade, including the time to put the blade in the veritas guide. Some of the second-hand tools I've got have taken me literally hours to sort out though! At least that only needs to be done once.

I keep a 1000 grit diamond stone in the kitchen as it's much less messy than the alternatives and I can keep the kitchen knives sharp with a few strokes on each side every week or so.

† Useless as it has imperial on one edge and metric on the other - I now only use the ones where either millimetres or half-millimetres are available on whichever edge you want. Keeping the imperial one near the sharpening kit is handy though as the veritas guide is marked in silly units.

Great write up thank you, the range of items available is bewildering when you think you need something but don't know what.

Edit: Now saved in my docs as Dr Al's sharpening guide so I can come back to it.

 

[zx9]

Patchbay finally arrived.
Damaged.

Looking back through the listings that corner is either cropped out or out of shot conveniently.

Ally front plate. Recon if I try and bend that it's gonna snap.
Will anealing help Ali?

over the years I must have skipped a lot of those both 1/4 inch and telephone jacks, last rack we broke with a patch field was in Feb this year I did not know there was any value in them.

 

[Seadog]

I had similar with an old Pioneer cassette desk. If you're careful you can get it straight. It was bent a similar amount to yours and looked to have been dropped on concrete. With a bit of silver paint it was barely noticeable. Someone was happy to give me £40 for it

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

over the years I must have skipped a lot of those both 1/4 inch and telephone jacks, last rack we broke with a patch field was in Feb this year I did not know there was any value in them.

Definitely keep them.
Very useful for the synth crowd.
When I start buying rack mount fx units it will be a blessing.
Sending 3 signals to a reverb or comp that only has one in.

 

[Seadog]

I did not know there was any value in them.

I've bought quite a lot of telephone and Igranic plugs over the years. They fetch very good money on eBay. Bulgin three-pin mains connectors as well, the large round style.

 

[8ob]

A padded Jasic inverter bag, much kinder environment for the welder when on the move

A few bits from my local hydraulics shop skip

And a load of these, no use to me so if anyone wants them let me know.

 

[Dr.Al]

Great write up thank you, the range of items available is bewildering when you think you need something but don't know what.

Edit: Now saved in my docs as Dr Al's sharpening guide so I can come back to it.

The Taunton's sharpening book is well worth a read if like me you like dead tree based reading matter. It's where I learnt the trick of using a steel rule to speed up sorting out the back of a plane blade. It's also got specific explanations of how to sharpen basically anything vaguely related to cutting wood.

 

[DAPPH]

A padded Jasic inverter bag, much kinder environment for the welder when on the move

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A few bits from my local hydraulics shop skip

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And a load of these, no use to me so if anyone wants them let me know.

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A friend used one of the motorized rams , modified it a bit to be the power motor for his spit roast BBQ running it off a 12 volt battery being charged with an old fashioned buzz box battery charger He mad a bigger one for a friend used the actual recliner chair toroidal transformer .. strong enough to turn a full grown hog on the bearing sleeved spit .

I'm contemplating using one of my 12 volt rams off one of my old disability vehicles .... 150 kg hoist for a lightweight motorised press to press fruit for my wine & cider making juice's . ( Round Tuit number 32 )

 

[4String.]

A new toy for camping:





Dometic 12/24 volt compressor fridge that I'll be installing on slide out rails under the bunk in the van. Bought the optional mains adapter for quicker cooling, and on test it's just dropped down from ambient to 2 degrees in under 15 minute, so I'm well happy. It's the same make and model that I had in a previous wagon, and I couldn't fault that one. Easily takes a full weeks' supply of perishable food, so it will be nice to have fresh stuff, as well a cold beer or two. And it's a "proper" fridge as well, not like the cheap coolers that the likes of Halfrauds sell that only cool to about 15 degrees below the ambient temperature. This one will freeze to an accredited -18.

It's "maiden voyage" will be in a few weeks time. I've just sent my scuba regulators up to the dive centre at Oban for service, and as I sorely need a few days break, it seemed like a good idea to have a road trip and collect them myself, renew some old acquaintances, and dive some of the big wrecks in the Sound of Mull. And on the way home I can fill the empty fridge with scallops and possibly nip in to the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar at Inverary .

 

[Anguz]

@8ob are you on about the actuators? if so interested

 

[jimbo84]

A new toy for camping:

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Dometic 12/24 volt compressor fridge that I'll be installing on slide out rails under the bunk in the van. Bought the optional mains adapter for quicker cooling, and on test it's just dropped down from ambient to 2 degrees in under 15 minute, so I'm well happy. It's the same make and model that I had in a previous wagon, and I couldn't fault that one. Easily takes a full weeks' supply of perishable food, so it will be nice to have fresh stuff, as well a cold beer or two. And it's a "proper" fridge as well, not like the cheap coolers that the likes of Halfrauds sell that only cool to about 15 degrees below the ambient temperature. This one will freeze to an accredited -18.

It's "maiden voyage" will be in a few weeks time. I've just sent my scuba regulators up to the dive centre at Oban for service, and as I sorely need a few days break, it seemed like a good idea to have a road trip and collect them myself, renew some old acquaintances, and dive some of the big wrecks in the Sound of Mull. And on the way home I can fill the empty fridge with scallops and possibly nip in to the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar at Inverary .

Good to see you back on here, hope you have a good trip

 

[sardine]

A new toy for camping:

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Dometic 12/24 volt compressor fridge that I'll be installing on slide out rails under the bunk in the van. Bought the optional mains adapter for quicker cooling, and on test it's just dropped down from ambient to 2 degrees in under 15 minute, so I'm well happy. It's the same make and model that I had in a previous wagon, and I couldn't fault that one. Easily takes a full weeks' supply of perishable food, so it will be nice to have fresh stuff, as well a cold beer or two. And it's a "proper" fridge as well, not like the cheap coolers that the likes of Halfrauds sell that only cool to about 15 degrees below the ambient temperature. This one will freeze to an accredited -18.

It's "maiden voyage" will be in a few weeks time. I've just sent my scuba regulators up to the dive centre at Oban for service, and as I sorely need a few days break, it seemed like a good idea to have a road trip and collect them myself, renew some old acquaintances, and dive some of the big wrecks in the Sound of Mull. And on the way home I can fill the empty fridge with scallops and possibly nip in to the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar at Inverary .

What amp hrs does it consume on 12 v ?

 

[Brad93]

A new toy for camping:

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Dometic 12/24 volt compressor fridge that I'll be installing on slide out rails under the bunk in the van. Bought the optional mains adapter for quicker cooling, and on test it's just dropped down from ambient to 2 degrees in under 15 minute, so I'm well happy. It's the same make and model that I had in a previous wagon, and I couldn't fault that one. Easily takes a full weeks' supply of perishable food, so it will be nice to have fresh stuff, as well a cold beer or two. And it's a "proper" fridge as well, not like the cheap coolers that the likes of Halfrauds sell that only cool to about 15 degrees below the ambient temperature. This one will freeze to an accredited -18.

It's "maiden voyage" will be in a few weeks time. I've just sent my scuba regulators up to the dive centre at Oban for service, and as I sorely need a few days break, it seemed like a good idea to have a road trip and collect them myself, renew some old acquaintances, and dive some of the big wrecks in the Sound of Mull. And on the way home I can fill the empty fridge with scallops and possibly nip in to the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar at Inverary .

How much does one of those set one back?

 

[johnny7]

Just sent payment for this 3 month old Oriend Bambino Gen 2 in gold plated case, 40.5mm dia, Been wanting one for a while now when this turned up for £75 posted by RMSD!, I won't be receiving it until next week though..

John