Exuptoy
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Earlier in the year I was folding stainless in a gauge that I really shouldn’t have tried bending when all of a sudden I snapped both of the folders handles.
I rung MM and asked did they sell the handles as spares? Apparently they were available at (I think?) £27 each (may have been £37 even) I had to question was that price for two? The new folder was £80 something!
Anyway, as you can imagine I didn’t pursue that line of inquiry.
I was scratching about for a suitable bolt in my neighbours garage when my mate, who works in the machine shop across the road offered to screw cut the correct thread on a couple of rods which are turned down to fit inside the handles.
He came through today so all that was left was for me to weld them. It was then that I found my Portamig won’t switch on (that’s a job for another day) so I had to Tig it.
Not looking forward to that I bit the bullet and ploughed on regardless.
Here’s the outcome. I’m quite pleased. Also this one is the best of the two but nobody shows the worst do they
Very pleased, and because they’re about 200mm long they shouldn’t snap again……also I’m not gonna take the p!sh again.
I rung MM and asked did they sell the handles as spares? Apparently they were available at (I think?) £27 each (may have been £37 even) I had to question was that price for two? The new folder was £80 something!
Anyway, as you can imagine I didn’t pursue that line of inquiry.
I was scratching about for a suitable bolt in my neighbours garage when my mate, who works in the machine shop across the road offered to screw cut the correct thread on a couple of rods which are turned down to fit inside the handles.
He came through today so all that was left was for me to weld them. It was then that I found my Portamig won’t switch on (that’s a job for another day) so I had to Tig it.
Not looking forward to that I bit the bullet and ploughed on regardless.
Here’s the outcome. I’m quite pleased. Also this one is the best of the two but nobody shows the worst do they
Very pleased, and because they’re about 200mm long they shouldn’t snap again……also I’m not gonna take the p!sh again.
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