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

[dieselsamurai]

Was working in a bank as it was closing permanently and this was heading for the skip , Ive had 5 of these with different draw sizes now plus numerous chairs filing cabinets etc all destined to be binned thats recycling for you....

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I find this size great for storing drills

 

[selectedgrub]

Yes, nice score
I have 3 to hold my collection of vintage Mayfairs.

 

[Melvyn Best]

Yes, nice score
I have 3 to hold my collection of vintage Mayfairs.

Mayfairs, you mean the men’s magazine? Not that I’ve ever looked through one of course, just remember them from the top shelf in the newsagents ( being vertically challenged I could never reach them)

 

[selectedgrub]

Alot of people just brought them for the articles you know

 

[badabec]

My Marcos Mantis (four seater) was featured in Mayfair magazine many years ago. Still have the magazine and no, the pages aren't stuck together.

 

[Bki26]

Replacement mercruiser part from aliexpress, £120 from main dealers, £50 on ebay but only a whopping £21.5 from aliexpress and as good as the original

 

[Blobber]

Happy birthday to me! well not until monday but who cares!
Quick trip over to @Morrisman got me this

 

[Farside]

My Marcos Mantis (four seater) was featured in Mayfair magazine many years ago.

In their heyday Mayfair and the the other jizz mags were more than just sticky pages.
Playboy actually did some good features (and not of the hairy kind).

 

[Robotstar5]

In their heyday Mayfair and the the other jizz mags were more than just sticky pages.
Playboy actually did some good features (and not of the hairy kind).

I even found an article on stationary engines in one of them

 

[Cobbler]

Mayfairs, you mean the men’s magazine? Not that I’ve ever looked through one of course, just remember them from the top shelf in the newsagents ( being vertically challenged I could never reach them)

A mate of mine used to buy Mayfair mags & his mum used to go on about disgusting dirty magazines & such like, then one day she quoted an article that the only place she could have seen it was in Mayfair. She had been reading it on the QT when she was on her own. She also washed his coat one day, took a packed of Johnny’s out of the pocket, washed coat & replaced them. He knew she had as they were in a different pocket. She never said a word. Lovely lady, recently died aged 100.

 

[Dozzer]

Finally got one.

 

[BarrieJ]

Sometime in, I think, the late 1970's when I worked in magazine publishing, I applied for the post of Art Director on Penthouse Magazine, the Bob Guccione affair, although, it was owned by Richard Desmond of Northern and Shell when I applied.

I was offered the job but by then I'd learned more about the job and the responsibilities.
Six photo shoots a week, source the models and the locations, direct the shoots and overseer the production of the magazine.
I knew I could never do a proper job of all that, so I politely declined, thanking them for seeing me and apologising for wasting their time.

My wife was absolutely OK with me taking the job if I'd wished too.

I'll say nothing of Mr Desmond or Northern and Shell, there's plenty on the Internet about both, Penthouse, their Pets and Bob Guccione.

Over the years' of Penthouse's' publication, they had some really serious writers, the list is lengthy. I think they were the first magazine to feature public hair, there were other 'firsts' but I won't go there.

 

[RichardM]

public hair

 

[Cobbler]

Public hair

If it’s on show, it’s public

 

[northwest]

These finally arrived today, new wrenches for the ER collet nuts. I just gotsick of the C spanners slipping off, decided to go all in, my first "bearing wrench" and so far, so good. Plenty of grip and easy to manage with oily hands:

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

From a good member on here.

 

[MattF]

These finally arrived today, new wrenches for the ER collet nuts. I just gotsick of the C spanners slipping off, decided to go all in, my first "bearing wrench" and so far, so good. Plenty of grip and easy to manage with oily hands:

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Those won't work with bearing nuts though? They all seem to have the slots at the rear.

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

Light!

I have had a NOS Toyota Front Fog-Light kit "somewhere" for nearly a year now, and finally located it at a time when I was free to actually have a crack at fitting it...

The results are good, but it was more hassle than I bargained for.

 

[oldbikedavey]

An interestingly dubious right - angled air micro die grinder, which may be of some use, somehow or another.
Got a straight bodied one, which seems quite reasonable, and the right -angled one might be useful enough for two stroke porting, perhaps.

 

[Onoff]

Ebay purchase. Apparently "working when removed":

7 of these:

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

1 of these:

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

I presume a matching 1 of these:

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

Lastly two of these, uncased:

https://flic.kr/p/2qbfqt2

Now to find the manuals and see exactly what they are!

Took a while getting around to using these (reasons, lots of reasons ) but I've a matching transmitter & receiver out of this lot set up and working with a safety edge on the most critical edge.

Even the translations from Italian in the online manuals were fine.

Worth the I think £40 it was that I paid for the lot just for the two working so far.