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

nickk · Apr 15, 2025

For years we had headlights that worked effectively,then these crappy cheap short lived plastic things arrived. The joist hangers should come in handy for my wife’s latest project.

Paulbarrett · Apr 15, 2025

won a nice Gedore cabinet in bay of evil for the new workshop. Ended up buying the other one they had, so now have one for the lathe and one for mill!
So happens the place is closing down so selling off everything once jobs completed. So I came away with some cracking bargains.
Also two egg trays of gearknobs lol (think they did batchwork for richbrook back in the day) no idea how I’m going to get rid of them or use them but cool.

jmp49 · Apr 15, 2025

nickk said:
For years we had headlights that worked effectively,then these crappy cheap short lived plastic things arrived. The joist hangers should come in handy for my wife’s latest project.View attachment 492457

"Problem solved", yes for a few months. But your sanding off the UV protection layer restoring them, so you need to spray a layer of 2k clearcoat or something over the top post-resto to keep them clear for a decent length of time again.

Bullet2012 · Apr 15, 2025

Paulbarrett said:
won a nice Gedore cabinet in bay of evil for the new workshop. Ended up buying the other one they had, so now have one for the lathe and one for mill!
So happens the place is closing down so selling off everything once jobs completed. So I came away with some cracking bargains.
Also two egg trays of gearknobs lol (think they did batchwork for richbrook back in the day) no idea how I’m going to get rid of them or use them but cool.

depending on the thread i may be interested in purchasing a few gearknobs , if they become available

Paulbarrett · Apr 15, 2025

They are M10 x 1.5 from memory.

MattF · Apr 15, 2025

Some brass coated wire brushes for the rotary tool.

Any Xcan stuff I've had previously seems decent, so went with those rather than some unbranded option.

Danez · Apr 16, 2025

won my local pub darts/doms, dominoes individuals so got my first ever trophy. our team came runners up in the team matches too. well chuffed!

dieselsamurai · Apr 16, 2025

Free on FB so couldn't resist , its in better condition than it looks just needs knocking off . Im now the proud owner of 3 you can never have enough ! especially when free :thumbup:

Memmeddu · Apr 16, 2025

Harris 2290-3H propane rosebud tip for less than 50 euro

Gregb23 · Apr 16, 2025

Nice old Whitehead belt and disc sander, will need to run through the electrics for a check and get a few belts. Lovely old bit of kit, chap had some beautiful old Wadkins still in daily use That weren't for sale.

Might end up making a stepped pulley to allow for slowing it down at some point. Will run it off the converter otherwise would vfd it.

The_Yellow_Ardvark · Apr 16, 2025

Gregb23 said:
Nice old Whitehead belt and disc sander, will need to run through the electrics for a check and get a few belts. Lovely old bit of kit, chap had some beautiful old Wadkins still in daily use That weren't for sale.

Might end up making a stepped pulley to allow for slowing it down at some point. Will run it off the converter otherwise would vfd it.

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check the rubber on the pulleys, as it can break down.

Memmeddu · Apr 16, 2025

Amazon order
Rear window wipe for my little Punto.
24pcs 53x53x17mm plastic boxes to encourage me to finish to clean up and store my threading dies... Maybe.
And new Jel insoles because it's finally time to retire my safety boots after almost two years of service.
I can't actually believe they lasted so long, especially in a machine shop, always covered in oil, walking on chips, slags, showered with molten metal etc.
But most importantly they protected my feet by all that.
I remember the older ones I was coming back home with new burns on my feet everyday.

Onoff · Apr 16, 2025

A big bag of battery clip things from AliExpress:

Should help with one of the headaches designing/making the 3D adapters and save me having to salvage ones from old Makita batteries. They're pretty heavy duty too.

Robotstar5 · Apr 16, 2025

Onoff said:
A big bag of battery clip things from AliExpress:

Should help with one of the headaches designing/making the 3D adapters and save me having to salvage ones from old Makita batteries. They're pretty heavy duty too.

I've got 3 old 18V NiCad DeWalt batteries waiting to go to the tip, would the cases be of use to you? (I'd strip the cells out to reduce weight/allow posting)

This type

iNf · Apr 17, 2025

Onoff said:
A big bag of battery clip things from AliExpress:

Got a link ? Please

Onoff · Apr 17, 2025

Robotstar5 said:
I've got 3 old 18V NiCad DeWalt batteries waiting to go to the tip, would the cases be of use to you? (I'd strip the cells out to reduce weight/allow posting)

This type

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Yes please! Let me know the postage. Salvage too if you can the original battery connectors:

https://flic.kr/p/2qhGZuE

It will allow me, or A N Other to make this sort of thing for old DeWalt kit, the Ferrex to DeWalt adapter I made for @ukracer that EVRI lost! I am still miffed about that. It was a really nice print :mad: