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

[Maker]

Your free floor space is bigger than my entire shed!

I need that space for standing in! It's not a lack of floor area that's the issue, it's floor perimeter, it really needs to go against the wall, and there's no more wall left.

That's not all I acquired today though, I also got a crate of vintage lab crap, including a big burner which definitely has too big an orifice to be used with propane...

There's a couple of smaller ones behind it which are just as bad.

 

[Onoff]

Your free floor space is bigger than my entire shed!

Your entire shed is bigger than my free floor space!

 

[Bullet2012]

Where on earth am I gonna put this one? View attachment 430618

On a pallet and send to me

 

[roofman]

On a pallet and send to me

Via my place 1st and i will send on the empty pallet to you

 

[Maker]

Workshop rearrangement time.

Here seems good, between the bench and the toolbox;


Unfortunately, now I have to find somewhere to put the grinder that used to be there.

 

[paulmitchell1984]

Turns out my friends know me aswell as the wife does...

 

[Mick Annick]

Just got back from two weeks in the UK, this involved a chat and workshop tour at @Seadog ’s place to deliver his Opinel penknife, then over to @pressbrake1 for these:



Then over to no.1 son where I found a parcel:



And lastly to visit a friend, her dad died last year - a keen amateur clock collector and repairer, she gave me this:

A little Woden 186/00
apologies, I can’t figure out how to edit this properly, you’ll have to figure it for yourselves

 

[JOEPRO]

This Lavor hot pressure washer



More info here including where I am going to attempt to de scale it tomorrow

Looking at buying a Lavor Hotbox with issues

Hi all, I am going to look at one of these in the morning: Its a year old. Full working order although the seller says its down on pressure. They are a £1400+ machine new roughly. I think with the fault I may be able to get it for around £400. At least I won't pay any more than that. I...

www.mig-welding.co.uk

 

[Kram]

Some Amazons.. M6/M8/M10 fine 0.5mm pitch tap and dies

Intend to try the diamond wheels on chainsaw sharpener, as the original wheel looked quite coarse grit, tho these are too.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

A neighbour came to the door earlier to give me this - vacuum-packed Sika fillet straight from the game dealers premises. Now in the freezer for another day, with a nice glass of red.....

 

[Kram]

Some Amazons.. M6/M8/M10 fine 0.5mm pitch tap and dies
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Intend to try the diamond wheels on chainsaw sharpener, as the original wheel looked quite coarse grit, tho these are too.

I am a bit peed off as the M8 die is poo! It has been ground/cut incorrectly, does not cut and no hope of it cutting. Have not tried the others yet.

The tap was ok but they can go back! I will screw cut the bolt.

 

[Seadog]

They're not LH by, any chance?

 

[MetalMonkey]

They're not LH by, any chance?

If they are Chinese amazon specials, they might not be left, right, 0.5 or even M8....

 

[bricol]

If they are Chinese amazon specials, they might not be left, right, 0.5 or even M8....

No might about it . . .

Remember this thread (no pun intended) when someone complains Presto etc is no longer . . . it's a housing estate/Tesco . . .

 

[Kram]

As above. You can see they were chipped, on what should be the cutting edge, before heat treatment, which looks to be in clearance anyway.

I've had plenty of good Chinese taps. Dies seem just a lot harder to find decent ones, chinese or not!

 

[MetalMonkey]

No might about it . . .

Remember this thread (no pun intended) when someone complains Presto etc is no longer . . . it's a housing estate/Tesco . . .

I hate to say it, but Presto are owned by Guangzhou Suncraft International Corp.
All of their craft-pro line are Chinese. The rest of it I'm not certain - but last time I spoke to them I got the distinct impression the only thing in sheffield is the office and a warehouse - I believe they demolished most of the works in 2009.

 

[bricol]

I hate to say it, but Presto are owned by Guangzhou Suncraft International Corp.
All of their craft-pro line are Chinese. The rest of it I'm not certain - but last time I spoke to them I got the distinct impression the only thing in sheffield is the office and a warehouse - I believe they demolished most of the works in 2009.

My point entirely!

 

[waddycall]

This arrived today £25 on eBay. There’s a few more on there I think. Just tried it on my lathe motor and it read 1460 rpm so not too far wrong . Got it for playing around with my motorbike and thought it would be interesting to play around with it on the lathe. There’s a wheel attachment so you can read surface speed in FPM.

 

[nickk]

Never seen a folder like that before looks interesting. Any photos?

Yes,a capable mc from the good old days,@northwest has an improved one even,I’ll get more photos for you when I extract said staircase,covering 50m sq of space!

 

[Robotstar5]

This arrived today £25 on eBay. There’s a few more on there I think. Just tried it on my lathe motor and it read 1460 rpm so not too far wrong . Got it for playing around with my motorbike and thought it would be interesting to play around with it on the lathe. There’s a wheel attachment so you can read surface speed in FPM.
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Same model as mine I use it for checking the speed on my stationary engines, it looks like you're missing the extension shaft?