Beeezer
Things are really chaining for the better….
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Bedroom wall poster…….
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Vice prices over here seem to have gone mad recently. They were always more expensive than GB but at a local weekly auction a vice that you could buy for £60 last year is now making at least double!You were trying to haggle £25 down on a Record no 4???That's a steal of a price I pay around £100 for a no 4 here in NI. Yes that's for ones which were also stored in a hedge
It just always amazes me what members here want to pay for stuff.
Farside
Badly Welded Man
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The air tank shape make excellent workshop hanging tanks for setting up bikes.
Farside
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Tell me about it. When I bought my Paramo, the run-of-the-mill cheapy Chinese rubbishy ones were fetching stupid money and I ended up paying €100 quid for that one.Vice prices over here seem to have gone mad recently. They were always more expensive than GB but at a local weekly auction a vice that you could buy for £60 last year is now making at least double!
Quite sure I could have got that for a quarter of the price over the water, at the time.
Arc Tourist
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@Bki26 If it were me, I would link some tanks together (valves down) and mount them on the outside wall of my garage as extra volume for the air compressor, then run a pipe through the wall, attach a moisture trap, and connect it with a flex hose so the compressor is still portable if needed.
Onoff
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They make lovely bells when smacked against your knees
Advertise them as such, I bet they'll go like the clappers.
Stueeee
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I have an old 200 bar scuba tank here. I am going to saw the end off it. that domed base will be a useful dolly/stake for panel beating work. The valves on your tanks don't look like either the 'A' Clamp or 'DIN' style that are pretty much the scuba standard.
BTW, I still have a couple of Halon extinguishers here, the pressure guages indicate that they're still full. If someone needs to put out a fire, they're more likely to think of saving life or property than potential incremental damage to the ozone layer
BTW, I still have a couple of Halon extinguishers here, the pressure guages indicate that they're still full. If someone needs to put out a fire, they're more likely to think of saving life or property than potential incremental damage to the ozone layer
They're scba tanks for firefighters/confined spaces etc so use 7/8-14 unf thread which is extremely popular for pcp airgun users it seems.
They're 9L 134bar/1980psi tanks so if you want a bunch just say lol
Stueeee
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Hadn't made the firefighter connection (no pun intended) but surprised that they don't use 200 or 300 bar tanks; you can't have too much air IMO.
A couple are 200 bar (5x 3L's and one 9L weighing 13kg...) but these tanks are manufactured '98ish looking at some tags so back then the pressures achieved nowadays weren't that common with diving etc and they're built extremely thick.
If they happen to be in test they will be worth selling as above to PCP air rifle owners- who can still get them refilled.
Doubt it otherwise they wouldn't have been at this auction lol. Proper heavy duty tanks anyway being for commercial application not consumer (from here original going on the labels) so wouldn't be surprised if they passed testing and half of them were still full!
Arc Tourist
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If I wasn't retired already, I would have taken you up on that offer, so Thanks anyway, it is appreciated.
JMS1972
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Some places that fill them can also do the tests.
My nearest is Stoney Cove in Leicestershire....
8ob
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I think a lot of these cylinders get pensioned off after ten or twenty years. May be ok for those that can charge them themselves.
Bob
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Memmeddu
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I've bought this thing
It looks old I've never seen one before, it should be a Baier portable HSS cold saw .
From a little research it's surely expensive, and it's usually used to cut round stock, pipes and cables .
I've bought it just to get it apart and see how this thing works cause I've discovered its existence in the moment I've seen it on eBay .
And that's very strange cause I love so much powertools that I still have to understand why I didn't know it yet.
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Oh My.
We have one of them at MIS waiting on restoration.
