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

[dobbslc]

Some goodies for the TRX

 

[Wildefalcon]

King dick adjustable.

£1 at the tip.

 

[Beanwood]

King dick adjustable.

£1 at the tip.

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They sell things at the tip???

 

[bricol]

Looks like I've got 3 quid in small, medium and large King Dick adjustables still sat in my dad's toolboxes from 1985.

I never found them particularly easy to use.

 

[cheb]

If my tip starting charging it'd bankrupt me.

 

[Wildefalcon]

Ideal for making up a tool roll for a classic car.

 

[Nomad]

I collected stuff from a few places last week..
An odd pipe wrench (USA made), odd Bacho adjustable, sturdy vintage tin snips and an Internal / External thermometer for the house - less than a fiver each from charity shops when I was visiting Scandinavia*

Also a Fastmover FMT 1.4 LVLP spraygun and Fakita ( makita clone) die grinder from EBay.



I love the Scandinavian bric a brack shops, open 6 days a week, folk hire a display stand and put their stuff on their stand with their personal price tag. When you pay at the cashdesk the tag tells the cashier which seller gets the money. Clever!
A shame it would never work in any country with a low trust / high theft culture <comments removed before posting>

 

[Beanwood]

If my tip starting charging it'd bankrupt me.

...and us!!!!

 

[GSR]

It was advertised as 3mm plain aluminium sheet. They did tell me before I collected that they had made a mistake, but at £20/sheet it seemed rude not to put it in the stock pile.

 

[malcolm]

I bagged a near £1000 pallet truck for £50. Collected it in the Rodeo which has overheating problems in hot weather and it was sitting at 100C on the (newly calibrated) temperature gauge all the way. Much already investigated and new radiator has been ordered.

It's only to move stuff sat on pallets on my driveway so I can extend the woodstore then roll the stuff back under there to make things look a bit neater and less like a building site. But cool to find a Toyota BT one made in Sweden with a 99 year guarantee that I imagine won't be valid any more but a good sign it might be well built.

That's pretty cool - it'll lift more than a tonne of bricks and has a walk feature where pulling the handle back moves the pallet when it's too heavy to pull.

 

[cheb]

I collected stuff from a few places last week..
An odd pipe wrench (USA made), odd Bacho adjustable, sturdy vintage tin snips and an Internal / External thermometer for the house - less than a fiver each from charity shops when I was visiting Scandinavia*

Also a Fastmover FMT 1.4 LVLP spraygun and Fakita ( makita clone) die grinder from EBay.

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I love the Scandinavian bric a brack shops, open 6 days a week, folk hire a display stand and put their stuff on their stand with their personal price tag. When you pay at the cashdesk the tag tells the cashier which seller gets the money. Clever!
A shame it would never work in any country with a low trust / high theft culture <comments removed before posting>

Isn't that how a lot of large antique places in the UK work?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

£2, for the pair.

More spanners.

 

[julianthegypsy]

Isn't that how a lot of large antique places in the UK work?

Yes it is. A friend of mine has a stall in two centres selling old tools. Works very well.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Where?

 

[jimbo84]

Isn't that how a lot of large antique places in the UK work?

We have a large one near us, it’s mostly full of overpriced junk but it attracts the old dears by the coach load and it’s huge so clearly the business model works.

 

[MetalMonkey]

Not today but Thursday - a nice quality "free faze" motor courtesy of the most excellent @Smallfry who also did an awesome packing job on it.

 

[Memmeddu]

Asked my brother to go to collect those die stocks
They are full steel construction so they should take some effort to manage to break them.
And honestly not even aluminium ones are prone to fail .
Tap wrenches on the other hand if they are not made out of steel will surely break.
Anyways 25 euros
Then I've bought a battery holder for my Megger installation tester on eBay for 5 euros I think.

Went to Amazon and bought a double usb fast charger for my Parkside headlights
2 USB C cables
And 8 Duracell optimum AA batteries

Now I'm paying a rate for my notebook
It's incredible how fast money fly away

 

[Memmeddu]

My dormer drills set arrived few moments ago .
Very deluded.
8 of the 19 bit are actually Dormer
The 10mm is garbage as the shank misses at least didn't measured yet 2mm of diameter.
Salvageable for sure but not worth loosing time chucking it on a collet chuck and precisely ground the shank to size .
So I've paid 30 euros for box with dormer written on .
I think that those things happens especially on eBay auctions.
I've once got a Fein die grinder and discovered it had a grenaded armature

 

[Slowcoach]

My dormer drills set arrived few moments ago .
Very deluded.
8 of the 19 bit are actually Dormer
The 10mm is garbage as the shank misses at least didn't measured yet 2mm of diameter.
Salvageable for sure but not worth loosing time chucking it on a collet chuck and precisely ground the shank to size .
So I've paid 30 euros for box with dormer written on .
I think that those things happens especially on eBay auctions.
I've once got a Fein die grinder and discovered it had a grenaded armature

If the drills are that bad just go to order details and start return as item not as described.

 

[Kram]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0143P097Q