colnerov
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Thought is was cheap 2.5L and even bragged to the wife i am a wise shopper
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Who's laughing now?
chunkolini
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a mate of mine bought a bargain inflatable boat of Ebay.
it would have fitted Action Man
it would have fitted Action Man
roofman
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Me..plan B in the making as we type
Greeves246
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At least I’m not a complete idiot. I had my descending colon removed some years ago.
finyuk2005
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I once bought a second hand Britool heel bar on ebay, absolutely delighted... only nine whole great British Pounds...!
I should have read the advert...its was only 150mm long! ha ha!
I got a fair old ripping from the lads at work
It actually comes in handy quite often though for lining bolt holes up and such like!
I should have read the advert...its was only 150mm long! ha ha!
I got a fair old ripping from the lads at work
It actually comes in handy quite often though for lining bolt holes up and such like!
slim_boy_fat
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Thought is was cheap 2.5L and even bragged to the wife i am a wise shopper
Schoolboy error - you'll never hear the end of this now.
Yes, there's 3 shades that I know of, the modern yellow, yellow chrome on the older machines which is much lighter, and theres a funny pastel yellow on some of the plant that's not made in the UK.
Have it in my notes, up to 1968 its ford signal yellow on jcb machines, then they switched to yellow chrome CY1353, then 3cx onwards the later lighter shade is RAL 1003 & RAL 1007 for the later darker one.
I have a widget I stick on the paint that samples and gets a match, its not perfect but its near enough for a machine.
I have a widget I stick on the paint that samples and gets a match, its not perfect but its near enough for a machine.
Morrisman
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20 years ago a guy I worked offshore with ordered 200 pop rivets from a well known online store. The order was done through our company, as usual, but they didn’t seem to think anything unusual about one guy ordering 200 packs of rivets, with 100 per pack, and approved and processed the order.Last night i ordered 2.5L of JCB yellow paint from Amazon,or what i thought was 2.5L as i was half asleep
paint has just arrived, 250ml...Job tomorrow and now not enough paint
I still have a few hundred of the 20,000 rivets that arrived, in my workshop, as probably do several of the other guys I worked with at the time.
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lazybones51
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The Mrs bought a Maclaren pushchair from Amazon thinking she got a serious bargain. When it arrived it was about 6" tall and designed for a doll
. It can be difficult to gauge the size of an item online from the photos. No excuse for not reading the description properly though Sounds like you might have been under the same misapprehension we used to work under here - we assumed we had engineering buyers placing our orders for components, both proprietary items and for our own drawings.20 years ago a guy I worked offshore with ordered 200 pop rivets from a well known online store. The order was done through our company, as usual, but they didn’t seem to think anything unusual about one guy ordering 200 packs of rivets, with 100 per pack, and approved and processed the order.
I still have a few hundred of the 20,000 rivets that arrived, in my workshop, as probably do several of the other guys I worked with at the time.
As proven many times, we seem to simply have order placers who have absolutely no idea what they are trying to buy, and even less idea if the price they have been quoted has any hint of sensibility in the real world . . . I suspect a few of our suppliers have also realised this, and for the sake of few tins of Quality Street once a year to keep those order placers placing orders with them, simply think of a number, double it, promise to deliver it by the agreed date . . . and something nearly what we wanted arrives a week or two after we expected . . .
Seems the wheelie-bins supplied by our council these days, combined with where the lower support bar for the bin-wagon lifting beams hit them, are designed to split considerably earlier than one supplied 25 yrs ago.A workmates' son damaged his wheely bin, as the council wanted a fortune to replace it he went onto ebay and found two for a few pounds, brilliant. Then looked at the head of the page where it said 'model railways'.
I checked with ours, and they wanted 40 quid for a replacement garden waste bin . . . but if you subscribed to the garden waste service, you could tick a box to get a bin for no extra charge -in-fact if you renewed early, you got a discount . . . so every year I ticked the box . . . every year for less then the cost of the bin alone, I got delivered a bin . . . I've still got a couple to go . . .
julianthegypsy
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Many years ago a friend of mine designed the brake lever for a tractor. He did it in millimetres but the drawing template said "all dimensions in inches". Nobody noticed until several truckloads of steel arrived!
I dimensioned some pieces of toughened glass for light fixture in mm, on a drawing saying mm - something like 3 thick, 150+/-2 long, 35 +/- 2 wide . . .
At one point, a buyer placed the order with a relative at a different company to our normal supplier, sent them a drawing . . . good inward ring me asking what to do with some lengths of 2 thk toughened glass, 1500 long, 350 wide . . .
Flippin' clowns claimed the drawing said 1502 x 352 . . . which if you squinted with one eye in the dark, from the back of the drawing, without your specs . . . it still looked nothing like . . .
My mate ended up with some 2 thk toughened glass pond covers . . .
At one point, a buyer placed the order with a relative at a different company to our normal supplier, sent them a drawing . . . good inward ring me asking what to do with some lengths of 2 thk toughened glass, 1500 long, 350 wide . . .
Flippin' clowns claimed the drawing said 1502 x 352 . . . which if you squinted with one eye in the dark, from the back of the drawing, without your specs . . . it still looked nothing like . . .
My mate ended up with some 2 thk toughened glass pond covers . . .
Cobbler
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That sounds a bit like the speed bump build on the entrance to our offices, spec. in mm, but built in inches over the weekend, total chaos on Monday morning, no-one was aware of them being built. I watched one car completely air-born, & Mercedes truck hit the prop shaft centre bearing mounting & ripped it clean out of the chassis, that was stuck solid for quite a while.I hate to think what the bills for damage must have been.
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The Chevy paint code is the same as a corvette I'm told.
Not really trying to match it when I built the trailer, I used Rustoleum Safety Yellow, available in gallons at Walmart.
