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

[Dieselman 63]

Got this electric patient lift for free, they’re getting rid at a hospital my mate works at due to pin pricks of ‘corrosion’. I’ve had a go on it, it lifted me with ease, has a remote control, legs have three positions. Great score

 

[Dieselman 63]

Thought this was worth £25 so grabbed it. Rusty but working
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Rust removed and oiled - good enough
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This one from the bin at work, broken sliding jaw (crack at end of slider below jaw face). Will try to get a second hand jaw, if not a good doorstop!
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Good vices those Wodens.

 

[Geoffm]

Thought this was worth £25 so grabbed it. Rusty but working
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Rust removed and oiled - good enough
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This one from the bin at work, broken sliding jaw (crack at end of slider below jaw face). Will try to get a second hand jaw, if not a good doorstop!
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I have one like that, broken completely off in the same place. It has been brazed together although the jaws were out of parallel, so I milled both sides and made new jaws. There are photos on here somewhere.
I would weld or braze that one and it should give good service

 

[Nick DV]

I have one like that, broken completely off in the same place. It has been brazed together although the jaws were out of parallel, so I milled both sides and made new jaws. There are photos on here somewhere.
I would weld or braze that one and it should give good service

Thanks Geoff. I was going to ask about welding it but thought that you need to arc instead of mig, and I'm arcless

 

[arther dailey]

Got these lever bars and this tapping head off @northwest, thanks Graham I might set it up in the pillar drill tomorrow and have a play.

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I bought a pair of heel bars like that , not hopefully same make because as soon as I used mine in anger ,well just prying a bearing off the toes cracked straight off, they were just cast carp , so I would try them on something before you actually need them if I were you.

 

[KimB]

I bought a pair of heel bars like that , not hopefully same make because as soon as I used mine in anger ,well just prying a bearing off the toes cracked straight off, they were just cast carp , so I would try them on something before you actually need them if I were you.

Okay thanks for that, they’re Kennedy ones so hopefully not too bad

 

[Onoff]

This one is on ebay for £38.87 or make an offer. I offered £35 and got it for £36. I will give it a try today, it feels so light there's probably nothing inside the case.

I'd be interested what's inside along with many others I'm sure. I love my little Parkside 140A one about the same size.

 

[Kram]

Interestingly, there's the same model number on Banggood for £36 but it has no amperage display meter. I've very close to hitting but as just back from the pub and happy.

[£58.03]miniGB ZX7-200 220V 200A Mini Electric Welding Machine IGBT DC Inverter ARC MMA Stick Welder 220V Professional Tools from Tools on banggood
https://banggood.app.link/874GIRNMllb[£58.03]miniGB ZX7-200 220V 200A Mini Electric Welding Machine IGBT DC Inverter ARC MMA Stick Welder 220V Professional Tools from Tools on banggood

https://banggood.app.link/874GIRNMllb

~£33 here

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inverter-Portable-MMA%E2%80%91200Amp-Adjustable-Frequency/dp/B08Q4M4XLC/

 

[GraemeVW]

Seem to have acquired 3 more old foot pumps.
They were cheap, so hard not to.

 

[Red'n'Black]

Use one of the small capacitance switches where you just touch the metal body , the capacitance between you and the lamp body changes so it switches on , touch it again and it goes brighter till after three or four touches it goes out ready for the next cycle .

Just don't buy the same touch controller modules I did to fix the kids' touch lamps, every time the bulb blows it takes the controller with it. £1.50 for a new bulb + a tenner for a new module got annoying after a while. If anybody makes a controller that's a bit more robust I'm all ears. The cheapies don't work properly with LED bulbs either.

 

[Kram]

Hermes today was a little old lady, she was complaining about the weight

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Hermes today was a little old lady, she was complaining about the weight
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Any plans for it?

 

[Other Daniel]

What ?
The little old lady ?

 

[Kram]

It might become a 400mm rotating top for the welding bench

 

[Bornfree]

I'd be interested what's inside along with many others I'm sure. I love my little Parkside 140A one about the same size.

Here's the inside. No earth and look at the fuse in the plug.

 

[Bornfree]

The current meter over reads by a good 80amps showing 210 flat out which I reckon is actually about 130. But it works and ran 10x 3.2mm rods in a row without cutting out flat out. The welding leads were smoking though.

 

[Hood]

The current meter over reads by a good 80amps showing 210 flat out which I reckon is actually about 130. But it works and ran 10x 3.2mm rods in a row without cutting out flat out. The welding leads were smoking though. View attachment 320239View attachment 320240

Probably doesn't have a thermal overload going by their use of the slow blow fuse

 

[dobbslc]

No words to describe that plug.
Why do we let them get away with it?

 

[RichardM]

That's a No blow fuse

 

[pcwizme]

No words to describe that plug.
Why do we let them get away with it?

I would have thought a 13amp fuse would be cheaper than that slug!