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A worcester 8000 45kw combi boiler, hope I get it fitted for christmas 
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A worcester 8000 45kw combi boiler, hope I get it fitted for christmas
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Only one camera hole up to current spec think it would need about 16
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A railway signal lamp. Three colours, white, green and red. Great fun when lit. Beautiful object!
Be careful putting a red light up at night. Might get the wrong type of callers looking for 'fun'.
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A replacement clear plastic shield for my welding helmet. Amazing how much clearer the view is now, I can actually see what I'm doing.
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Might help pay for a new true colour welding visor though
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Kerosene or paraffin.
How do you make sure you've got all the previous colour fuel out of it first to make sure the next colour is nice and pure?
My dad telling tales of sending apprentices for red lamp oil . . .
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How do you make sure you've got all the previous colour fuel out of it first to make sure the next colour is nice and pure?
My dad telling tales of sending apprentices for red lamp oil . . .
I’ve seen an apprentice turn an alloy wheel around the other way so the tyre direction was correct
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Earlier this evening, I collected a Jones & Shipman grinding vice. Its in great mechanical condition, but just filthy dirty and could use a freshening up. Said I wasn't going to be buying any more vices, but as I have a surface grinder, thought I'd take a punt and put in a low bid; which I was very surprised to have won.
Also, a couple of diamond wheel dressing tips arrived from the far east. £3.99 for the pair, including postage.
Also, a couple of diamond wheel dressing tips arrived from the far east. £3.99 for the pair, including postage.
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Today I got a bearing puller set in the post ..all the way from Schorndorf Germany ... four days earlier than advised 
. I purchased it from over there because every time I tried to buy off a UK site it kept coming back out of stock , available for backorder some time in mid to late December.
The three pullers in the set looked good on Amazon , it looked like it was made in Germany as the box was all printed up in German French and English .
In truth it is crappy Chinese jobby in a printed up box .
The main thrust screws screws are at 86 or so degree instead of being at right angles to the spiders , the leg links that connect the legs to the spiders are differing in sizes up to 2 mm between pivot holes , the only way they can be made to work after a fashion is that they have put 2.5 mm over size bolt holes in them . These links are also very much off set radiused at the ends ..so much so that they actually fouled the spiders instead of allowing a rotation that allows the legs to hang out in equal amounts. The bolts they have used for th pivot pins are full thread mild steel screws with plain nuts . One gentle pull flattened much of those pivot bolt threads .
The legs :- from pivot holes to the slightly ground back cut jaws is any thing up to 2. mm in difference of distance so trying to get a 90 degree square on pull is awkward to say the least . Had to free hand drill a decent 1/4 " deep counter sunk hole in th shaft end so the pullers thrust bolt stayed put centrally in the shaft end .
They are supposed to be drop forged steel ..they gave off the biggest globs of fat orange mild steel round sparks I've ever seen.
Final bitch about them the thrust bolts bolts on all three pullers are mild steel with very roughly cut threads & cheaply plated look at the picture of the thrust screw.... it's rusty so is the leg in the same picture . , the heads of the bolts are neither metric , AF , BSF or Whitworth . They have been run over a grinder to give an unequal six sided head . even my 8 inch adjustable struggled with them due to the differences across the flats.
I accepted the extortionate cost for them as I want to get my lathe back up & running . Price wise 25 euro for the three sets of pullers ( comparable to UK prices when they are available ) but then they slapped me with the standard EU export tariff of 21 euro as P&P total cost 44.90 euro .
Oh what I do to have a quality Pickavant set of pullers it's been a 55 year old desire that's remained unrequited . ,,,,but I can't get a second mortgage for them ( Even at second hand prices ? ) .
after warming
I finally warmed the bearing with a small gas blowlamp to hand hot hot & got the bearing pulled off with ease after putting an old bicycle chain round the legs to stop them spreading out & coming off .
. I purchased it from over there because every time I tried to buy off a UK site it kept coming back out of stock , available for backorder some time in mid to late December.The three pullers in the set looked good on Amazon , it looked like it was made in Germany as the box was all printed up in German French and English .
In truth it is crappy Chinese jobby in a printed up box .
The main thrust screws screws are at 86 or so degree instead of being at right angles to the spiders , the leg links that connect the legs to the spiders are differing in sizes up to 2 mm between pivot holes , the only way they can be made to work after a fashion is that they have put 2.5 mm over size bolt holes in them . These links are also very much off set radiused at the ends ..so much so that they actually fouled the spiders instead of allowing a rotation that allows the legs to hang out in equal amounts. The bolts they have used for th pivot pins are full thread mild steel screws with plain nuts . One gentle pull flattened much of those pivot bolt threads .
The legs :- from pivot holes to the slightly ground back cut jaws is any thing up to 2. mm in difference of distance so trying to get a 90 degree square on pull is awkward to say the least . Had to free hand drill a decent 1/4 " deep counter sunk hole in th shaft end so the pullers thrust bolt stayed put centrally in the shaft end .
They are supposed to be drop forged steel ..they gave off the biggest globs of fat orange mild steel round sparks I've ever seen.
Final bitch about them the thrust bolts bolts on all three pullers are mild steel with very roughly cut threads & cheaply plated look at the picture of the thrust screw.... it's rusty so is the leg in the same picture . , the heads of the bolts are neither metric , AF , BSF or Whitworth . They have been run over a grinder to give an unequal six sided head . even my 8 inch adjustable struggled with them due to the differences across the flats.
I accepted the extortionate cost for them as I want to get my lathe back up & running . Price wise 25 euro for the three sets of pullers ( comparable to UK prices when they are available ) but then they slapped me with the standard EU export tariff of 21 euro as P&P total cost 44.90 euro .
Oh what I do to have a quality Pickavant set of pullers it's been a 55 year old desire that's remained unrequited . ,,,,but I can't get a second mortgage for them ( Even at second hand prices ? ) .
after warming
I finally warmed the bearing with a small gas blowlamp to hand hot hot & got the bearing pulled off with ease after putting an old bicycle chain round the legs to stop them spreading out & coming off .
