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

[Rannsachair]

Your posts went from "just got it" to "replacement arrived today"... what happened in between(?)

I edited the first post, the gun section never powered up, so exchanged it. Though warehouse is in England, responses to emails were all around 4:00 am in poor English, some with Chinese Characters, so still dealing with China. At least they posted the replacement before I had posted the faulty one back.

 

[Kram]

Replacement induction heater arrived today, works fine I think:
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Once I have had a proper play, I will do a review.

Would be intersting to run that through a power meter plug so you can see what power its using.
I run my DC one through an amp/power meter, and is very useful for getting the coil size and best heating for an item, also to avoid over loading it.

 

[Paulbarrett]

Another bargain, nice and local too.

My trailer is paying it for itself atmo!

 

[Paulbarrett]

Replacement induction heater arrived today, works fine I think:
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Once I have had a proper play, I will do a review.

keep thinking of getting one after seeing Alan Millard bending some handle bars with one, very useful if you don't have gas axe or in a no flame work environment

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Many things.
I even spent some ££££££££££££

One place will do:
"Goody Bags"

A mix of things either left behind by traders, or trader making up mixed bundles.



Good Bag One.
£5

How old?

More Wheels.

Where is the rest?

Lucas Brass Oil can.

Old Multi meter.




Goody bag 2.
£5

Oh yes this as well.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This was also acquired by me, for me.

Assorted box of Meccano.

A lot off it.

But not many fixings.

Plus a Bell.


Another Kit.

A Old Train set.

This was tucked inside.

 

[galooph]

This was tucked inside.


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A blast from the past! My grandad was a driver, then conductor for North Western

 

[Rannsachair]

Just home from a seafood meal out with family and had a nice big tub of locally caught prawns and squat lobsters left on my doorstep by a fisherman neighbour.

The Cullen skink then scallops mornay in Tarbert went down well too:

 

[Gragson]

A MIC stirrup pump, allegedly rated to 6000 Chinese PSI!
Blanked off it held 3000 (indicated) for 30mins which is what I need, so that will do.
Not bad construction and finish to be fair.



It came with this assumption diagram



Wonder if they have a diag for an Improbability Drive

 

[northwest]

Well today was a bit of a bonus day, lots of toys. This stuff you just buy it when you get the opportunity, especially if the guy was talented. Which this guy was, clearly.

First up, bit of real treasure; 2 microns clock:



300mm Mitutoyo caliper:




Lots and LOTS of workholding kit, parallels, squares, miniature V blocks and magnetic hold offs:



Some of my favourite Eclipse magnets, just so very useful:



Finally a raft of carbide tooling including a long series through coolant parabolic drill, my favourite type:



A few small series through coolant carbide drills, a very long very nice 16mm end mill a good selection of ally specific cutters andsome miniature boring bars.

 

[Memmeddu]

A promotion at work

 

[JOEPRO]

6000 Chinese PSI!

Gonna need a bigger sofa

 

[m_c]

A new project.

Won't take delivery for another week or two as it's currently in the care of the transporter, and I'm in no rush for it to be delivered as it's been a bit of an impulse acquisition and I've got other things to get done before looking at it, however it's got a 80'000rpm spindle, a granite base, and a 4th axis.

 

[Kram]

A MIC stirrup pump, allegedly rated to 6000 Chinese PSI!
Blanked off it held 3000 (indicated) for 30mins which is what I need, so that will do.
Not bad construction and finish to be fair.

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It came with this assumption diagram

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Wonder if they have a diag for an Improbability Drive

Please tell me its to power a large potato cannon?

 

[Farside]

It came with this assumption diagram



Wonder if they have a diag for an Improbability Drive

You assume it will work. Enough Improbability for one day.

 

[Martin Hocking]

I acquired these with a few other bits, I took a punt on them being the mother of all surface/scribing gauges in truth I don’t really know how/what they’d be used for. Would they be set off some gauge blocks or a height master micrometer thing? One is called a verdict ‘verifirm’ they aren’t kidding at two foot tall it’s practically a lethal weapon!

 

[Brad93]

I acquired these with a few other bits, I took a punt on them being the mother of all surface/scribing gauges in truth I don’t really know how/what they’d be used for. Would they be set off some gauge blocks or a height master micrometer thing? One is called a verdict ‘verifirm’ they aren’t kidding at two foot tall it’s practically a lethal weapon!




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Can probably be used to check squareness.

You would set an indicator off a mitutoyo height master or master length standard.

 

[Ian X]

Drill will be pneumatic or driven by flexible shaft

Not always. The surgeon who re attached my right distal tendon to my forearm showed me some of his work tools. He had two cordless drills, one was a Makita. The other was specific to surgery work and had a stainless body, could be placed in the autoclave without the battery. The Makita was more interesting, it had a gearbox of some sort encased in stainless, obv fitted where the chuck would be. It also had a shroud that covered everything but the gearbox/drive part, a sort of bag.

 

[Martin Hocking]

Can probably be used to check squareness.

You would set an indicator off a mitutoyo height master or master length standard.

There obviously for doing something carefully, I can’t see any other reason for them being so over built.
They don’t adjust quite how I expected, I thought the knob would move the back of the base up and down like a surface gauge but it actually moves the column itself up and down. Well out of my league whatever they’re for!

Edit: I’ve just read that again that isn’t quite how a surface gauge works but you get the idea. (I’m cleaning the bathroom cut me some slack!)

 

[RichardM]

Three pieces of nice plywood, only need one for the new workbench top, but the price was just too good!

And a roll of glass fibre to fit in the garage loft as there isn't any!