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

[Anguz]

would it go if you took the strip of wood the door shuts against off ?

 

[Seadog]

Definitely easier to remove the stop.

 

[sako243]

would it go if you took the strip of wood the door shuts against off ?

Probably.

It's not too much bother to drag the 6x6 out. Wee tractor can tow it and push it back in. Just need to "reattach" the steering wheel.

 

[Memmeddu]

So this morning I've got ELSW , sounds like a new and unknown disease but the acronym for the extracorporeal litostrisia shock waves.
So went to the hospital scared as hell, because I'm not a fan of those places.
Almost lost the appointment because they forgot to tell me to drink a lot before to go .
Anyway no other needles or endoscopy thing through the lil boy so it was not as bad as I thought.
They lie to you when they say...
"You're not going to feel any pain"
Cause it's actually enough painful, if you ever happened to electrocute yourself touching a sparkplug, it's the exact same other than you'll have to live with that for the entire operation and first shots (they change target and move around your kidney) the pain is not much different from colics .
You have to stay in position without moving a muscle.
Next week the other kidney and hopefully kidneys stones will be gone for a little while
You feel little beaten up once finished

 

[droopsnoot]

Create the missing tile . . . skip some of it.

If you've not used it in several years, a decade, more, then it's no use. And I know it's worth several hundred quid, but not to someone who doesn't use it. I've been getting rid of stuff and once over the initial wince as it goes over the side of the skip / in the parcel as it sold for a fiver . . . it's very therapeutic.

Sounds like you need to rationalize your gear , you appear to have , " The Magpie syndrome" . nothing used in three years , skip or scrap it unless it is very expensive & super clean . Anything not really worth repairing and selling on is also destined for scrap including several of domestic machinery motors.
I'm going through the same exercise must have a small van of scrap to weigh in , I'm surprised at the amount of old used nails rusty fasteners I've been storing for years .

I'm not sure I can do that. The time thing doesn't really work for me, because some of the stuff is panels, suspension and engine parts for the classics and I daren't get rid in case I suddenly need it. Don't get me wrong, there is probably stuff that can go, but not massive amounts. Panels are really irritating things to keep because they don't stack nicely.

I do have a lot of bits of scrap metal that should go on the pile, but I do run into times when I need a small piece of 18g or 20g and don't want to cut it off a nice sheet. I absolutely don't need the offcuts that I have - they cover half the top of my main bench, and most of the top of another one. I should lose them, or at least pick the ones that are now covered in surface rust because they've been there so long. If I were a business, I'd easily say that my time searching through the pile of sharp offcuts is worth more than just cutting a new piece off a sheet, but I'm not.

One day, I'll sort it.

 

[iNf]

Nothing to exciting but free is good

 

[northwest]

Well today I finally put together my new (to me) Snap On side cab. I have been looking for one of these for several years, they rarely come up and if they do they are always strong money. This one came up on Facebook last week and I was straight down to Stoke on Trent collecting it, not in the best condition so the carcass and door have been blasted and powder coated and the drawers I used Wire wool and Petrol, came up lovely, collected from the powder coaters:



On the back of the pickup in the workshop with the runners installed:



Put the door on and fit the hardware, the hinge was a bugger to sort out:



A bit of a clue as to the state of it before I started:



In place in it's new home:



Looks really smart, the lock needs sorting and that's going to be fun:



Very pleased with it I am, the only fear is the top will become has become a dumping station for stuff I don't have a space for.

 

[Onoff]

Well today I finally put together my new (to me) Snap On side cab. I have been looking for one of these for several years, they rarely come up and if they do they are always strong money. This one came up on Facebook last week and I was straight down to Stoke on Trent collecting it, not in the best condition so the carcass and door have been blasted and powder coated and the drawers I used Wire wool and Petrol, came up lovely, collected from the powder coaters:

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On the back of the pickup in the workshop with the runners installed:

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Put the door on and fit the hardware, the hinge was a bugger to sort out:

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A bit of a clue as to the state of it before I started:

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In place in it's new home:

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Looks really smart, the lock needs sorting and that's going to be fun:

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Very pleased with it I am, the only fear is the top will become has become a dumping station for stuff I don't have a space for.

Fold up a pitched roof for it then you can't put anything up there that won't slide off!

 

[northwest]

I need some thick rubber to make a mat from, ideas anyone?

 

[Onoff]

I need some thick rubber to make a mat from, ideas anyone?

Yep, I can probably sort you out. How about a bit of old HV mat. How big?

 

[DAPPH]

Well today I finally put together my new (to me) Snap On side cab. I have been looking for one of these for several years, they rarely come up and if they do they are always strong money. This one came up on Facebook last week and I was straight down to Stoke on Trent collecting it, not in the best condition so the carcass and door have been blasted and powder coated and the drawers I used Wire wool and Petrol, came up lovely, collected from the powder coaters:

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On the back of the pickup in the workshop with the runners installed:

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Put the door on and fit the hardware, the hinge was a bugger to sort out:

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A bit of a clue as to the state of it before I started:

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In place in it's new home:

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Looks really smart, the lock needs sorting and that's going to be fun:

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Very pleased with it I am, the only fear is the top will become has become a dumping station for stuff I don't have a space for.

Construct a four foot high pyramid on the top of it ....... problem solved and you can hang your hat on it too .

 

[OJCar]

Construct a four foot high pyramid

Just imagine how sharp the razor blades put under that would be ...

 

[northwest]

Following the suggestions I will now certainly think of something to put on there to dissuade me from using it as a dumping ground, thanks guys.

 

[Bullet2012]

now certainly think of something to put on there

Kettle, tea, teapot and mug

 

[julianthegypsy]

Snap! Welchman's contributions were massive to the effort, unsung in his time due to secrecy, unwarranted in some opinions.

Always got two or 3 on the go - would really recommend Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which influenced Apocalypse Now, the other stories are excellent also - Although being a Seadog you have likely already read them

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Apparently Copolla (spelling?) Carried a copy of Heart of Darkness with him the whole time they were filming and constantly referred to it. Conrad was a brilliant author, more amazing in that he spoke no English until he was twenty one!

 

[Gragson]

Apparently Copolla (spelling?) Carried a copy of Heart of Darkness with him the whole time they were filming and constantly referred to it. Conrad was a brilliant author, more amazing in that he spoke no English until he was twenty one!

His writing and character building is mesmerising at points, having finished 4 of his stories I'm looking for more.

 

[Arc Tourist]

@northwest, Consider using a rubber backed carpet tile ? They are usually 50 centimetres by 50 centimetres, or 20" inch square according to my mind. They have about a 2.5mm thick stiff rubber base, and about 4mm of carpet on top, so should fit; as I would think your side cab top would have about the same measurement as the side shelf on my roll cab, which is smaller being 18" inches by 17" inches. Here are a couple of photos.

 

[Memmeddu]

Being pretty busy at home doing nothing....
Because I simply can't till I finish the convalescence.
I've been around eBay in those days and spotted few auctions I've been interested in but I just contained myself buying just one thing probably the hardest to find and the most expensive of all the stuff I was looking at.
So at the price of just 70 euros I've got this Milhard PBLS402 level, 0.02mm/m accuracy, pretty overkill for my needs ,but I want my microwave oven to be perfectly level .
Just joking obviously, I've already have a lathe and I'll level it , and I hope to get other machines in the next future and having a levelled machine unlocks different ways to get rid of odd jobs.
We only have the skimmer and the journal grinder resting perfectly flat an level at work.
Now for example if we had the mill drill levelled, we would be a lot faster at removing broken studs because we could level the workpiece instead of wasting a lot of time setting it up on the table.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

After a lot of issues with Lego I spent my gift vouchers. Plus got my free gift

Free gift.


What some of my cash and vouches got me.

 

[DAPPH]

@ Memmeddu ,
Have received & fitted the new keyed 10 mm chuck today and used it in anger to pop three 7mm holes in 6mm thick plastic .

It's delicious , like warmed condensed milk , so smooth and easy to run up by hand before key tightening up on the drill .
A few min ago I had a good look at the removed keyless chuck , the jaws are a good 0.5 mm justified to one side and I suspect it is that, that caused the gravely grinding feeling when trying to tighten things in it .
I used a 0,7 mm clutch pencil lead, it drops down easily on one jaw , on the other jaws won't even enter the gap around the jaws when they are fully closed .

I'm well pleased with it , it came in a box branded " Sealy ".