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

[droopsnoot]

From the car boot sale yesterday, bag of random things from a house clearance, £1.

I really bought it for the lock and catch in the bottom right corner (the one with the keys). I mentioned that I'd rescued a Teng top box which didn't have a lock or catch, I emailed Teng to get a price for one and they couldn't be bothered replying, so this looks like it might work with a bit of work on the catch part as I don't think that's suitable. I have another top box I can copy, though. The welding clamp is nice, but it's a bit bent so handy for when I need to weld closely.

When I looked through the rest of the chrome bits, I have an idea that, completely by coincidence, the window windows and door handles are for Sunbeam Alpine, so might be handy for the recently-acquired project. Some of those black plastic circular things also look Alpine and the mirrors will probably look OK on it, if I get that far. The chrome thing just to the left of the winders looks like an Alpine door catch, but might not be. No idea what the large hinges are off, but I'll make a point of going round some other cars next time I'm near some, to see if I can figure it out.

 

[MattF]

Careful, my neighbour broke one (I think like this) trying to pull a pulley wheel off an old cement mixer motor.
To be fair, he just kept winding it and BANG, it was kapoot!
I was wanting to put a pile of heat on it, I mean if it's not coming off, it's coming off somehow. No, No, it's aluminium.
I didn't want to melt it, just heat it up.
But no, just cranked at it.

That's why I've stopped when I did & just left the pressure on to see if it might just shift it a smidge over time.

I've learnt the hard way when to stop.

 

[Geoffm]

It is all the fault of you lot, tempting me with possibilities. I can resist anything except temptation.
New Creality K1 max 3d printer, filiment and drier package. Photo showing it gettign Lab tested before acceptance.
THis will force me to knuckle down and learn Fusion or something fairly quickly.

 

[MattF]

THis will force me to knuckle down and learn Fusion or something fairly quickly.

Not if you're owt like me. My Anycubic is still sat in its box currently. Trying to make a spot for it, which in my place, is no small feat.

 

[jmp49]

It will instantly make you have yet another thing to make things for to make it how you want it...
I have a ender5 plus with a core-xy conversion and linear rails, but now instead of using it for other things I'm halfway through making a even bigger 3d printer (1m x 1.5m x 1.5m build volume) which when it finally prints is probably going to need even more time to improve it to how I want it. That neverending quest for more speed and build volume!

 

[vw-al]

From the car boot sale yesterday, bag of random things from a house clearance, £1.

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I really bought it for the lock and catch in the bottom right corner (the one with the keys). I mentioned that I'd rescued a Teng top box which didn't have a lock or catch, I emailed Teng to get a price for one and they couldn't be bothered replying, so this looks like it might work with a bit of work on the catch part as I don't think that's suitable. I have another top box I can copy, though. The welding clamp is nice, but it's a bit bent so handy for when I need to weld closely.

When I looked through the rest of the chrome bits, I have an idea that, completely by coincidence, the window windows and door handles are for Sunbeam Alpine, so might be handy for the recently-acquired project. Some of those black plastic circular things also look Alpine and the mirrors will probably look OK on it, if I get that far. The chrome thing just to the left of the winders looks like an Alpine door catch, but might not be. No idea what the large hinges are off, but I'll make a point of going round some other cars next time I'm near some, to see if I can figure it out.

Most of it looks to be mid 60’s Rootes group cars Gazelle , Minx, Alpine. Boot hinges are almost definitely Gazelle, Minx , mazack/monkey metal , they all go like that (pitted/corroded) , lock with the keys look to be glovebox lock. I had 64 Gazelle for years , dad bought it as a project when I was a teenager, thought me to weld , paint, spanner etc then when I passed my test gave me the keys and said it’s yours , drove it daily for years, the Mrs leant to drive in it, only sold it about 10 years ago when we moved house.

 

[OJCar]

A 40cm crack in the Octavia's windscreen.

 

[Kram]

Looks to be good quality.

 

[Farside]

No idea what the large hinges are off,

Something like an old Oxford or from around the late 50s era, might be Rootes Group, a lot of them used similar at the time.

 

[Blobber]

Looks like the vets going to be booking his holiday after all

 

[8ob]

Today I acquired a Shaper and as a Brucie bonus a small surface grinder, all @Johnnybravo ’s fault.

Never heard of it

 

[Jaeger_S2k]

It is all the fault of you lot, tempting me with possibilities. I can resist anything except temptation.
New Creality K1 max 3d printer, filiment and drier package. Photo showing it gettign Lab tested before acceptance.
THis will force me to knuckle down and learn Fusion or something fairly quickly.

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No, not Fusion, been there and broke my brain. Then I found this guy MangoJelly Solutions for FreeCAD.
FreeCAD V1 is out, and it's caught up with the big boys, don't ask me in what way, I know nuffing!
He's got me really comfortable looking at the complexity of FreeCAD.
It's FREE too, I even joined his Patreon, and I don't do that often.
It's definitely worth spending some time with him, I find the details that everyone else misses/skips over, he doesn't.
Rather good at what he does.

 

[Jaeger_S2k]

Was a while ago, but let me introduce you to this little fella'.

Listed on Faceache, free to good home. Quickly messaged and asked if I could have it, yes!
When I got there, lovely lady says “It's in the garage, I hope you can lift it?”

It's quite a heavy chappie!

Ball Pin for reference.

Quick release works as it should and all it well, just needs a BIG bath for getting it cleared of rust and ready for paint.

Got it, no I dragged it along the floor of the caravan, onto a trolley to bend and straighten some pegs to hang my oily chain hoist parts on.
Can't get to the bench with the bench vice on it, this did the job. I'll pop over to the vice thread and get it catalogued.

£5 finger file with some belts, got it together with metal back boxes (50 off), down light junction boxes 12off and a set of Augers for hinges (screwfix branded) £20 the lot. Just needs cleaning up, runs quiet and variable speed.

 

[Farside]

Love the way the vice and hammer are part of a colour-co-ordinated matching set.

 

[Gregb23]

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Looks very much like a makita 9032, fantastic tools and a great price!

 

[Memmeddu]

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Looks to be good quality.

372xp?

 

[Memmeddu]

Got few things in the mail

V2 FPS piston head and spring, lonex dampened cylinder head for my ICS M4A1
You can see the air group beneath the parts

EOTECH replica from AliExpress

I've already installed the protective screen on the front lense
Meant to be installed on this evening but other things to do so ....

 

[zzr1200]

I have a few hours work ahead of me on the Lathe and Mill, arrived this morning from the land of China.....

 

[JOEPRO]

Looks like the vets going to be booking his holiday after all
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Yes vet bills are just truly Bananas aren't they. Every time my German shepherd breaks wind it's £250.

Utter disgrace is what it is. Animal care should be affordable for all and not extortionate pricing for tablets.

 

[Kram]

372xp?

Holtzfforma clone 372xp. The cyl is not worn out but where I didnt tighten exhaust properly, my own fault, it got loose on one bolt then threads stripped. Without a gasket, kept happening but had to finish the job. I will helicoil it and keep as spare.