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

[JLP]

So, as some of you know @Tangledfeet sent me a package. Although the wrapping paper wasnt my little pony or barbie it made my day brighter. I also thought I'd got lucky and been sent a laptop cover, but it was not to be.

Thanks again pal for this trophy base. It has been put to good use, and will be for about 12 years, given the dimensions, at my local ACF detachment

 

[steviec_lj]

And before it all gets home it will be well travelled as having got off the ferry in Aberdeen at 7 o’clock this morning, I’ve got 2 drops for the centre of London tomorrow morning followed by a return load out of Lakenheath in Suffolk before getting home on Friday, not much change from 1500 miles .

And that’s long-distance trucking, UK style .

I’ll keep an eye out for you today, been given a drop in Walthamstow then one in Maidstone so our paths may cross

 

[Seadog]

been given a drop in Walthamstow

Where to Stevie?

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Fed up of the amount of space taken up by my wooden shop dogs.
Can't fault these. Nice and stable.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

More Dust Magnets as Mrs TYA will tell me.





A garage for the only LR not to be able to rust.
Break yes, rust no.



This LR will not rust.

 

[sardine]

Love that kind of stuff. Lab woodwork from days gone by when stuff was made to just sit there and work, not fall apart.

I rescued some teak laboratory benches from a derelict factory that had the roof collapsed in years ago and the benches were soaking wet and covered in rubble and pigeon poop, I planed them off and they were perfect , I used the teak to fit out my first boat. The stuff is indestructible.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Ordered 2 Dewalt batteries after i spotted them on offer on Amazon a few weeks back at £23.50 each but they were showing up as long delivery times, Well worth the wait as you can always use extra batteries.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Ordered 2 Dewalt batteries after i spotted them on offer on Amazon a few weeks back at £23.50 each but they were showing up as long delivery times, Well worth the wait as you can always use extra batteries. View attachment 194978

Good price. Never see them for less than 45 so I went for these.

 

[Seadog]

A few odds and ends

The sledges and pick axe are unused, as is the tap. the JCB SDS drills are missing the 6 and 7 mm but also unused. A nice little patio table, 4 folding chairs and a sun lounger, for when it gets sunny again

 

[slim_boy_fat]

This LR will not rust.

It'll be on its own, then.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

for when it gets sunny again

We can but live in hope.

 

[kcchan]

Ordered 2 Dewalt batteries after i spotted them on offer on Amazon a few weeks back at £23.50 each but they were showing up as long delivery times, Well worth the wait as you can always use extra batteries. View attachment 194978

I saw the same deal. I think mine are due to arrive tomorrow.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Good price. Never see them for less than 45 so I went for these.
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I spotted them on https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/de...n-battery-was-5720-now-2350-at-amazon-3294255
this site sold by amazon, The floureon seem ok as my mate had a few and they have lasted as long as his genuine ones.

 

[4String.]

A new proper sexy new cb radio in place of my old steam powered affair .



Fitted it above the dash in one of the overhead cubbyholes using the Scania approved DIN plate, and used the adjacent cubbyhole to make a bracket for the external speaker, a holder for the power mike, and somewhere for my safety/sun glasses.

The next task is to fit and wire in a PA speaker under the front grille. Nothing’s quite so much fun as either telling errant motorists to get a move on via a loudspeaker, or driving into the yard with seriously loud music blaring out, usually a cd of massed pipe bands playing Scotland the Brave in deference to our leader, Scottish by birth but a Yorkshireman by God’s Grace .

And the opening few seconds of drumrolls while the pipers get up a head of steam never fails to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Nothing beats a massed pipe band in my book .

 

[JLP]

A new proper sexy new cb radio in place of my old steam powered affair .

View attachment 194992

Fitted it above the dash in one of the overhead cubbyholes using the Scania approved DIN plate, and used the adjacent cubbyhole to make a bracket for the external speaker, a holder for the power mike, and somewhere for my safety/sun glasses.

The next task is to fit and wire in a PA speaker under the front grille. Nothing’s quite so much fun as either telling errant motorists to get a move on via a loudspeaker, or driving into the yard with seriously loud music blaring out, usually a cd of massed pipe bands playing Scotland the Brave in deference to our leader, Scottish by birth but a Yorkshireman by God’s Grace .

And the opening few seconds of drumrolls while the pipers get up a head of steam never fails to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Nothing beats a massed pipe band in my book .

Please provide a video when you do this

 

[4String.]

Will be my pleasure, Sir.

The sound system in this truck is magnificent as is, but when I play music from my iPad through the auxiliary port on the radio, it’s terrifyingly loud , every panel on the cab vibrates and it comes close to making my ears bleed . Daft I know, but so what .

A few years back I was running construction gear into the centre of Cambridge, leaving the M11 at junction12, which brings you to a hard right turn at the traffic lights by the awesome Church of Our Lady, just up from the Scott Polar Research Institute buildings. That turn is thin enough with a standard artic, never mind a 20+metre lowloader rig, but I used to delight in making a leisurely turn, both windows down and massed bagpipes blaring out at full volume . That made the dozy cyclists wake their ideas up .

 

[Dieselman 63]

Somehow this followed me home. I already have the Fobco so I don’t know why I acquired it... but $60 seemed well cheap for a nice old drill

 

[mrsbruce]

From fleabay, and I had initially thought I might have paid too much. Ten rusty measuring callipers of dubious quality. They arrived yesterday, and last night I soaked them for anywhere from 20 to 45 minutes in my first ever citric acid ‘bath’.

To my surprise, it worked. I now have seven Moore & Wright, callipers, one Medco, and two unknown. Fortunately, one of unknown’s ‘spring’ was cracked, and the other heavily rusted, so no real loss, as the broken one, has supplied spare parts on two of my existing ones, and repair one in the collection.

I still need to do a bit more cleaning and polishing, but now have a choice to upgrade what I use in my leather workshop, and to furnish both little workshops.

Very handy are old style measuring things, and two of them will make great circle scribes.

 

[DAPPH]

Will be my pleasure, Sir.

The sound system in this truck is magnificent as is, but when I play music from my iPad through the auxiliary port on the radio, it’s terrifyingly loud , every panel on the cab vibrates and it comes close to making my ears bleed . Daft I know, but so what .

A few years back I was running construction gear into the centre of Cambridge, leaving the M11 at junction12, which brings you to a hard right turn at the traffic lights by the awesome Church of Our Lady, just up from the Scott Polar Research Institute buildings. That turn is thin enough with a standard artic, never mind a 20+metre lowloader rig, but I used to delight in making a leisurely turn, both windows down and massed bagpipes blaring out at full volume . That made the dozy cyclists wake their ideas up .

You can do a mean steam train chuffing out or into the station at differing speeds including blowing the whistle if it is loud enough .

 

[4String.]

You can do a mean steam train chuffing out or into the station at differing speeds including blowing the whistle if it is loud enough .

Steam whistles are good, but this does it for me:

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And I’ve just given the Yanks on gate guard at Lakenheath a taste of high octane bagpipes! Every head swivelled to my direction as I drove through the gates, full volume music and all hi-viz beacons and flashers lit up. This showing off is getting to be a habit..