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and me sat here thinking you had built yourself a hydraulic pressApplication of a BFH seems effective in many situations, but I suspect this isn't one of them.
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A lovely old catalogue from a long-since vanished manufacturer.
I bought a file a while ago, Eagle on Globe brand. The file is enormous, 14” long! I couldn’t find any info on it, but then this appeared for sale so I snapped it up. I love these early sales catalogues.
I bought a file a while ago, Eagle on Globe brand. The file is enormous, 14” long! I couldn’t find any info on it, but then this appeared for sale so I snapped it up. I love these early sales catalogues.
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and me sat here thinking you had built yourself a hydraulic press
So I did. I like your thinking, I'll see if I can make it work. The vice is well down the list atm though 
.Goodness, how my pulse did quicken seeing history from my beloved home town
.Similarly, I can find very little info about them, save for one reference that they were based in The Wicker?? (Trivia alert: when you look at the Wicker Arches on google street view, there are many round marks visible, which my dear old Dad always maintained were caused by the guns of the German bombers during the Sheffield Blitz in WW2. Might be true, might not, but either way the Germans would have been very close to there when they were after bombing the big drop hammers that were knocking out crankshafts for Merlin engines. IIRC, it was a 10 ton drop stamp that was in either Firth Browns, as was, or what’s now Sheffield Forgemasters, just off Attercliffe Common.)
The photo of the “New Works” on Broughton Lane is another mystery, but that area has changed enormously in my lifetime alone. When I first heard the siren call of the demon drink, 35+ years since, me and our kid used to regularly frequent the east end of Sheffield, and in those days, the Broughton Lane area of Attercliffe Common was predominantly Asian, as in Indian and Pakistani. A lot of the shops were the proverbial “corner shop”, and for someone who grew up eating plain, albeit healthy food such as meat and tatie pie EVERY Saturday for tea, roast beef and Yorkshire puddings for Sunday dinner, leftovers for tea on Monday, and bread and dripping every day for snap at work, the smell of curry in the area was as intoxicating to me as the Stones, Wards, and Tetleys that we used to imbibe of
.Many, many fond memories come back to me when I get back there, and a delivery to any engineering concerns is always a great treat for this exiled Steel City boy.
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This evening I acquired a easy weekend.
Empty house.
No planned jobs, just pottering on small jobs.
But now I have acquired a busy weekend.
I did the duty of a good TYA and loaded the tumble dryer. Looking up the chip board loft boards were wet and looking very unsafe.
Yes. It did.
A fair bit of loft space stuff ahs plummeted to the floor.
I now have to tidy it all up.
Oh bother.
@slim_boy_fat YOU can stop laughing.
Empty house.
No planned jobs, just pottering on small jobs.
But now I have acquired a busy weekend.
I did the duty of a good TYA and loaded the tumble dryer. Looking up the chip board loft boards were wet and looking very unsafe.
Yes. It did.
A fair bit of loft space stuff ahs plummeted to the floor.
I now have to tidy it all up.
Oh bother.
@slim_boy_fat YOU can stop laughing.
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I also acquired a face full off dust.
That I can handle.
But this is not funny.
That I can handle.
But this is not funny.
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Man up.
Nearly every Brew I drink at work ends up full of sawdust.
It is bad enough when Mrs TYA has placed a magnet under the bath to collect the metal dust.
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I will have you know I have not dived into a skip in at least 7...
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No laughing here, someone could have been hurt [like MrsTYA, Mini Me or even yourself] if that lot came down on top of them.
Chuckling at the prospect of the tidy up though. A chance to dump some junk and maintain all that SPACE you found.....?
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Consign to a skip......oh, no....wait
Mrs TYA response was this:
"You may need more."
Mini Me was as kind.
I may have to have beans and curry.
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Shardlow made some very nice tools, better than Moore and Wright maybe ?
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