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

[Kram]

I'd guess they are between 45 and 65mm. He may have a length spare, how long are you after? His away for the moment but I'll ask.

 

[Onoff]

I'd guess they are between 45 and 65mm. He may have a length spare, how long are you after? His away for the moment but I'll ask.

Not big enough. Looking for something circa 140mm dia. I had my eye on a bit but it fell through

 

[Kram]

Seems a bit OTT for a key pad post I can ask but unlikely they have any as its used for glass railings rather than anything more structural.

 

[Onoff]

Seems a bit OTT for a key pad post I can ask but unlikely they have any as its used for glass railings rather than anything more structural.

To go on the rhs as you drive up the drive:

https://flic.kr/p/2nJMkws

Incorporating this:

https://flic.kr/p/2nHTshH

I'm half considering a large dia MDPE pipe, filled with concrete, a 3D printed housing for the keypad, then plastic primed and painted to look like the brick pillars, or with stuck on, printed, curved bricks.

 

[dobbslc]

Not much sticks to MDPE in my experience.

 

[Kram]

Its 48mm tube we use mostly.
You couldnt use a 48mm post and have that on the side?

Or another brick and flint pillar?

 

[Onoff]

Not much sticks to MDPE in my experience.

Self tappers do...

 

[dobbslc]

Or another brick and flint pillar?

Do we have time to wait for that though?

 

[Brad93]

Well I practically could have bought a chinese sand blasting cabinet for the amount ive had to spend with Guyson today.

Acquired one of their small blasting cabinets for a very reasonable price (£150-200 if I remember correctly) about three years ago. It came with spare gloves and some nozzles.

Unfortunately the rubber sleeves your hands go through on these do deteriorate and perish over the years. Well today the right hand one finally ripped completely - about 6 months ago i had to block off the left hand arm hole because that ripped off.

Rubber sleeves £61.32 each
Gloves not to unreasonable at £21 a pair. I've bought two pairs as they're bound to rip or tear in the middle of a job.

No choice but to replace with genuine due to the shape of the openings.

 

[Maker]

No choice but to replace with genuine due to the shape of the openings.

Would it be worth making up a new front panel with circular openings?

 

[Bki26]

Would it be worth making up a new front panel with circular openings?

Or 3d printing/machining hole adaptors

 

[Brad93]

Or 3d printing/machining hole adaptors

I'll be honest, the holes are too small as they are.

By having triangular holes it does give a little more manoeuvrability.

On later machines they did make the triangular holes larger.

 

[Brad93]

Would it be worth making up a new front panel with circular openings?

Generic gloves available from ebay etc are really poor, stiff, pain in the ass to use.
The guyson gloves are good.

If the gloves with the machine and the sleeves are original, that would make them 29 years old so they've done well.

Also the machine is immaculate, would be a shame to cut it apart.

 

[bricol]

A Guyson E12 is a machine you don't really want . . . people who like E-type Jags, don't look it up

 

[Anguz]

Thanks @Brad93

 

[Farside]

A Guyson E12 is a machine you don't really want . . . people who like E-type Jags, don't look it up

I like 70s wedges. Didn't know of that one, thought you were on about an exhaust analyser.

 

[Memmeddu]

I'm restoring this Black & Decker drill.
It belongs from my boss

I've managed to remove the windings coils from the stator, and replaced the cables without damaging anything....
Completely messed up shorting ripped through the wires while attempting to put them back into the stator core .
After attempting to repair the damage done failing numerous times, I've ended buying this other one for 10 euros

It will give us the stator for the yellow one ....
Feeling enough bad for that because it's a shame to use another piece of history to save the other drill ....
I've bought this other identical one

15£ for it
I'll restore this one using components from the other one so it's not all that bad I think .
Enough pointless.
I decided to invest on a homemade winding machine in the future

 

[Brad93]

A Guyson E12 is a machine you don't really want . . . people who like E-type Jags, don't look it up

Never seen one, i guess that's a good thing, they're not exactly sleek are they!

 

[MickeyW]

My latest acquisition for very cheap. I didn't even have to travel out of town to collect it. Seems to work well, I just need to make some tooling for it, in particular a finger brake.

 

[MetalMonkey]

I hope not too cheap, I'll turn green - that looks like a rebadged CAM equipment press. Proper (still british) made unit, pretty spendy new.
I'd swap my Chinese 30T for one in an instant. Nice score!