Where are they on offer?I've been waiting for these to come on offer again.
For under £24, I think this will do for the limited use it will likely get.
Holes seem clean enough, time will tell how well the punch and dies hold up. Handles on the wonk, but doesn't seem to effect it. Otherwise seems well made.
Would have liked to pick up a genuine Whitney, but they are expensive new, and the second hand ones I've seen always seem to need a few dies.
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For 24 quid I'm tempted to get one just to replace the missing dies on my genuine one!I've been waiting for these to come on offer again.
For under £24, I think this will do for the limited use it will likely get.
Holes seem clean enough, time will tell how well the punch and dies hold up. Handles on the wonk, but doesn't seem to effect it. Otherwise seems well made.
Would have liked to pick up a genuine Whitney, but they are expensive new, and the second hand ones I've seen always seem to need a few dies.
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Like setting up your own local telegraph company?Yesterday if that counts I acquired a load of telegraph poles, a thousand and one uses about here
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Where are they on offer?
I still have my Dad's Whitney punch. He made the mistake of lending it and most of the dies went missing. Yeah, for £24.oo I'd also like to get one of these sets. Can you post a link please ?
For 24 quid I'm tempted to get one just to replace the missing dies on my genuine one!
Ok. Thank you.They were, they aren't any more - they have certain promotions every so often, which together with a discount code knocks them right down.
Its usually when they have "engineering tools" on offer, but it seems arbitrary as to what they actually include.
https://www.zoro.co.uk/shop/hand-to...ole/hand-operated-hole-punch-kit/p/ZT1001882X
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I've been waiting for these to come on offer again.
For under £24, I think this will do for the limited use it will likely get.
Holes seem clean enough, time will tell how well the punch and dies hold up. Handles on the wonk, but doesn't seem to effect it. Otherwise seems well made.
Would have liked to pick up a genuine Whitney, but they are expensive new, and the second hand ones I've seen always seem to need a few dies.
Thank You Carsten, of course it take a German to point this out. One for the “things that bug me” thread.
Now this says nothing about the tool - and the different inserts make it quite interesting - but the people who developed the appearance of the product apparently suffered from an identity crisis:
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Even I can tell right off the bat that the sizes are fractions of an inch.
Ok, let them metricate, be my guest .... but with the sheet thickness they revert back to old times .... maybe they didn't know how to convert ...
In the storage mold, they then find their way into both worlds.
Not important, I just thought it was funny.
Carsten
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I’m thinking aerial (antenna) farm!Yesterday if that counts I acquired a load of telegraph poles, a thousand and one uses about here
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Yum! ours arent ready until NovemberRather a lot of pork! 148 lbs of Cumberland sausages & burgers, five loins curing for bacon, and ten half legs curing for ham, and a considerable amount of pork joints for roasting.
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then starts the slicing and packing "
Its no big deal. Punch holes are usually close enough for all practical purpose, unless its for aircraft work where precision is required. I recall decades ago when we were putting in a new overhead crane rail system at one of the Lockheed facilities where they fabricated wings and other fuselage sections. I noticed that all holes for rivets were drilled.
Now this says nothing about the tool - and the different inserts make it quite interesting - but the people who developed the appearance of the product apparently suffered from an identity crisis:
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Even I can tell right off the bat that the sizes are fractions of an inch.
Ok, let them metricate, be my guest .... but with the sheet thickness they revert back to old times .... maybe they didn't know how to convert ...
In the storage mold, they then find their way into both worlds.
Not important, I just thought it was funny.
Carsten
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Rather a lot of pork! 148 lbs of Cumberland sausages & burgers, five loins curing for bacon, and ten half legs curing for ham, and a considerable amount of pork joints for roasting.
Hope so , five months in a freeze at - 21oC r & it will still start to get the rancid pork fat taint . 30 pound of home made Lincolnshire sausages vac packed & sealed in packs of 8 is how I found that out along with 10 kg of pork shoulder in heat sealed vac packsWill any of this be available for sale to the plebs? That's me