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

[roofman]

Aren't you supposed to buy discs to fit your grinder, rather than grinder to fit your discs?

Lloyd&Jones occasionally have the offer of buy 2 boxes of 125mm cutting discs (50 per box) and get a 240V Makita 125mm grinder free

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@daleyd
Get a spare handle for the screwdriver set.

The yellow insert do sometimes fail. Makes using them uncomfetable.

 

[arian]

Aren't you supposed to buy discs to fit your grinder, rather than grinder to fit your discs?

Not in the olden days.

2½ words: Exchange & Mart, where you'd get the offer of a free grinder with the purchase of <loads> of discs.

As a 12 year old in the library, I was tempted, but never thought I could swing it past my mum

 

[arther dailey]

The Vark missed this lot, all in a skip and there is nothing wrong with any of them

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shouldnt there be a green with envy emojo on here ? nice score there

 

[Onoff]

Well, normally yes but when someone waves four boxes of discs in the air and shouts "anyone want these before I bin them?" you don't stop to consider that

Could you make a bigger guard for a say 115mm grinder or will there be speed issues?

 

[Pete.]

Could you make a bigger guard for a say 115mm grinder or will there be speed issues?

Funny you should say that.... https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/stuff-you-have-made-today.67127/page-1112#post-2080476

 

[DAPPH]

Something for turning

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Look neat - above low eBay-level, weren't expensive, arrived very quickly, packaged perfectly and as a bonus a pair of work gloves as cushioning material.
What's not to like?


I got some tips on knurling here and @Lewis_RX8's DIY report also inspired me to try my hand at it, but now I needed a quick solution.

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Smaller opening than I would have liked, but I needed something now and still have to practise.


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The brown colour is preservative grease, not rust.

Carsten

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If the diameter is large just use them a push in /bump knurlers nice and slow and very gentle shallow feed for 1 minute or more till the depth is obtained & use a few drops of light oil .
To make the knurling wider carefully overlap by 2 mm or so and very every gently feed in and adjust if required till the cutters pick up the knurling exactly

 

[Olderisbetter]

Another Record no23 to replace the small welding bench vise which had no quick release

 

[Olderisbetter]

We did a scrap run yesterday so i got a hot water cylinder that was new but damaged to play with, i took plenty of copper sheet from it and the coil, i must be able to make something with that coil?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

We did a scrap run yesterday so i got a hot water cylinder that was new but damaged to play with, i took plenty of copper sheet from it and the coil, i must be able to make something with that coil?
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A still?

 

[mike 109444]

A still "life" of a snake ?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

One of these?

 

[25.4_mechanic]

One of these?

An ewer, nice!

 

[Memmeddu]

Expensive stuff

100 euros worth of 7" cutting discs and 115mm ceramic flap discs

 

[nickk]

These Jeep CJ mirrors,will modify the spherical ended mounts for the camper.
Weird,I’d had these on my watch list,@£25,from 2 months ago,they “popped “ up for £. 5.70,ever the oppurtunist,I purchased,ended up at checkout paying £5.40! .

 

[Guzrik]

Floorboards, screens, not sure what i can do with these, maybe use them as roadplates for car, trailer, tractor or my excavator?
And a two story platform which I will convert into a nice shed for my trailer some day.

 

[Gareth0123]

Today (actually yesterday the 17th of June) I acquired a new Wife!

We have been together for 13¼ years, have lived together for over 12 of those, we decided to make it formal and get properly hitched.

 

[Pete.]

Today (actually yesterday the 17th of June) I acquired a new Wife!

We have been together for 13¼ years, have lived together for over 12 of those, we decided to make it formal and get properly hitched.

Nice one Gareth congratulations.

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Congratulations to you both

 

[sardine]

Could you make a bigger guard for a say 115mm grinder or will there be speed issues?