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

[droopsnoot]

These two, from a local Facebook posting saying "are these any use to anyone before they go to the tip?". Yes, indeed they are.

They've been in an office, so they're really clean, and it seems a pity to get them all dirty in my shed. And I'll have to probably get rid of something to make them fit anywhere. But most of my cupboard space is stuff like old kitchen units, so these are an improvement I think. Fortunately my mate was able to transport them for me.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

How spendy?

Found it on ebay for £19 inc postage...was a little more than I wanted to pay but it looked like new. When it arrived...it is new...clearly never been used I think....it says 0.1mm.

I think new they're £40....but thats crazy money .

I saw the cheap stuff was £20 for a gauge and stand....most likely it'll be utter junk and I'm getting too old for that nonsense. This smile gauge feels lovely to use....its silky smooth.

My friend bought a corner clamp recently...it snapped on first use. He asked me what metal it was...I replied its not metal it's chinesium! Whats that he asked....payback for not sorting your recycling properly

 

[8ob]

Today I acquired some brushes for my ever increasing pile of dead grinders, with luck some of them will be rescued.

Bob

 

[MattF]

Today I acquired some brushes for my ever increasing pile of dead grinders,

What are you doing to them?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Today I acquired some brushes for my ever increasing pile of dead grinders, with luck some of them will be rescued.

Bob

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Brands & Manufacturers That We Keep Spares For

A Full List Of The Makes, Brands and Manufacturers That We Keep Spare Parts & Accessories For. Including The Leading Brand Of Power Tools & Garden Machinery.

solenttools.co.uk

Try this place.

 

[Blobber]

I only bought it because it was the right price and a couple of miles away, probably going to be a couple of years before I get round to restoring it.

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Nice wheel barrow but whats that on top?

 

[anto44]

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I didn’t acquire but my mate came home to this and sent me the above.

I thought it may amuse the collective

If you said that cost 20 quid I'd believe you and if you said it cost 500 quid I'd still believe you. Put that out at a car boot sale for 20 quid and someone would pick it up, put it in a posh antique shop and someone will snap it up for 500. The funny thing is the person who will happily give 500 in a posh shop for it would scoff at it if it was only 20 quid.
The value of this stuff seems to be based on where it's sold rather than anything else

 

[Robotstar5]

Nice wheel barrow but whats that on top?

Dunno, I only wanted the wheelbarrow frame, I'll probably weigh the green thing in

 

[Robotstar5]

Today I acquired some brushes for my ever increasing pile of dead grinders, with luck some of them will be rescued.

Bob

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Miles Tools & Machinery are a good resource for spares

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Dunno, I only wanted the wheelbarrow frame, I'll probably weigh the green thing in

Stick a light bulb on it

 

[roofman]

Streetfighter fireblade, rough around the edges but been my mates bike since 2016 so know its a good one...sometimes i ask myself why

 

[angellonewolf]

Streetfighter fireblade, rough around the edges but been my mates bike since 2016 so know its a good one...sometimes i ask myself why

better watch your llicense on that one

 

[brightspark]

Today I acquired some brushes for my ever increasing pile of dead grinders, with luck some of them will be rescued.

Bob

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if they dont fit rub them down to size on emery cloth use the springs of the old ones if needed

 

[highseas]

We went a walk round the charity shops yesterday and I picked up a High D whistle for £1.25. I cleaned it up and sterilised it and spotted some writing, Dixon so I googled it and they are £38

A tin whistle?

 

[roofman]

better watch your llicense on that one

no this is the one to lose the license..gone now as i was scared to get it dirty

 

[pedrobedro]

A tin whistle?

It's called a tin whistle but it's polymer, Tony Dixon.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

... a bit of material to make chips:

Some free-cutting steel, old denomination 9SMn28k, today 11SMn30+C

and

a bit of case-hardening steel 16MnCr5 EC80 1.7131 ISO 683-3/EN10060 raw rolled

And something that was brought to my attention here in the forum.

I would not have been particularly interested in headlamps alone, I have a few different designs and - although with deteriorating close-up vision a lot of light is becoming more and more important for me when working - I use my existing headlamps quite little .....

.... but then someone here in the forum came up with the idea of attaching THESE headlamps to the welding helmet and that won me over:
I can see so damn badly out of my welding helmet that I'm sure a third of the lousy quality of my welds comes from it - I was immediately convinced.

I didn't buy my three headlamps (one of them was immediately snapped up by my big boy) from Amazon like my colleagues here in the forum - not only were they more expensive there, I don't like that supplier -

- but after an intensive search I found a seller on eBay.de who was apparently pretty desperate: people probably don't know about these lamps here yet and he didn't get rid of his purchase, so he did what anyone who needs cash does .... In the end I paid about as much as you over there, including shipping here.

I haven't put one on my welding helmet yet, but I know one thing: I don't like those neoprene or whatever bands on my bare forehead, it gets very wet very quickly ...

... but the light is damn good!


Carsten

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[highseas]

It's called a tin whistle but it's polymer, Tony Dixon.

I used to play one years ago, I got to go backstage and meet the Dubliners and John Sheehan gave me one of his!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Handy bit set.
Given to me by the lady down the road, for fair excvhange of a few lamps for her car.

 

[Red'n'Black]

Rusty, been on fire, needs straightening out, but it was free.

Damn it, you're as bad as me.

It was free. You can't argue with free.