Stuff you have fixed today

[northwest]

New bearing that I had ordered prior to my "trip out" had arrived so fitted this in a good quality revolving centre:







Good for another 100,000 miles.

 

[dobbslc]

Surely you should be milking the situation much as possible? Not playing in the workshop

 

[northwest]

Surely you should be milking the situation much as possible? Not playing in the workshop

There are things to do, people to see and places to go. There are enough people polishing their arses on seats in this world, no need for me to join them!

 

[magnet]

Cleaned up my boyhood sheath knife found today in a drawer in my dads shed. I can remember carrying this from one end of the summer holidays to the other as a lad..
Happy dayz

 

[Cobbler]

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Cleaned up my boyhood sheath knife found today in a drawer in my dads shed. I can remember carrying this from one end of the summer holidays to the other as a lad..
Happy dayz

As teenagers, we all carried a sheath knife as a matter of course. … nobody got stabbed!

 

[Pond frog]

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Cleaned up my boyhood sheath knife found today in a drawer in my dads shed. I can remember carrying this from one end of the summer holidays to the other as a lad..
Happy dayz

That’s amazing I’ve got one identical to that in my shed that I’ve had since I was a boy. It’s even got the same amount of pitting on the blade where it got neglected.
I think the pommel on mine is aluminium but I could be wrong I haven’t looked at it for a while it only comes out the draw if I need to cut some turf

 

[magnet]

As teenagers, we all carried a sheath knife as a matter of course. … nobody got stabbed!

Absolutely, the fatrthest thing from our minds back then.

 

[magnet]

That’s amazing I’ve got one identical to that in my shed that I’ve had since I was a boy. It’s even got the same amount of pitting on the blade where it got neglected.
I think the pommel on mine is aluminium but I could be wrong I haven’t looked at it for a while it only comes out the draw if I need to cut some turf

Aye, the pommel on this one is ali. Its a venture made by Slaters of Sheffield. The pitting on this one is from swimming in the river,cutting sticks and cleaning fish and rabbits

 

[dobbslc]

There are things to do, people to see and places to go. There are enough people polishing their arses on seats in this world, no need for me to join them!

Fair enough

 

[slim_boy_fat]

There are things to do, people to see and places to go. There are enough people polishing their arses on seats in this world, no need for me to join them!

An admirable approach, but remember.... everything in moderation.

 

[pawsnizzy]

An admirable approach, but remember.... everything in moderation.

Including moderation!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Including moderation!

That's a forum thing, isn't it?

 

[8ob]

Fixed something before it broke, bought a set of tamperproof torx screwdrivers, came in one of those flimsy paperthin plastic organisers which are never long for this world.

Sheet of plastic over a board, this is a mistake because the foam takes too long to cure , paper would be better.

Bit of weight on it to squish out the excess.

Should last a lot longer if not forever

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

I drill this hardened sieve, widening the holes from 4mm to 5mm. Universal drill bit for concrete with carbide insert. Special drills from my supplier are over, wait a week for delivery (I took the last 2 pieces and they slowly broke). And the work needs to be done now.

 

[Arc Tourist]

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Cleaned up my boyhood sheath knife found today in a drawer in my dads shed. I can remember carrying this from one end of the summer holidays to the other as a lad..
Happy dayz

That’s amazing I’ve got one identical to that in my shed that I’ve had since I was a boy. It’s even got the same amount of pitting on the blade where it got neglected.
I think the pommel on mine is aluminium but I could be wrong I haven’t looked at it for a while it only comes out the draw if I need to cut some turf

I think that makes three of us. It brings back some good memories today. I still have my boyhood knife my Dad gave me for my birthday in 1966, and it has always been part of my hunting kit over the years. The knife looks almost identical with an aluminium pommel that has a screwdriver slotted nut to retain the antler handle. The blade has a deep hollow grind to it, and is faintly marked "carbon steel, rustproof, magnetic" on one side, and "soligen cutlery, b.svobcba, sch??gf?? germany" on the other; can't quite make out the word before germany. I replaced the sheath about forty years ago, cobbling it up from the cover of policeman's ticket book I found in the street, lol.
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[magnet]

I think that makes three of us. It brings back some good memories today. I still have my boyhood knife my Dad gave me for my birthday in 1966, and it has always been part of my hunting kit over the years. The knife looks almost identical with an aluminium pommel that has a screwdriver slotted nut to retain the antler handle. The blade has a deep hollow grind to it, and is faintly marked "carbon steel, rustproof, magnetic" on one side, and "soligen cutlery, b.svobcba, sch??gf?? germany" on the other; can't quite make out the word before germany. I replaced the sheath about forty years ago, cobbling it up from the cover of policeman's ticket book I found in the street, lol.
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Yeah there is something about the nostalgia of these old knives takes you right back to carefree happy times.
That's a lovely piece and the sheath is a masterpiece.
Thanks for putting that up.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Yeah there is something about the nostalgia of these old knives takes you right back to carefree happy times.
That's a lovely piece and the sheath is a masterpiece.
Thanks for putting that up.

Yeah, there is something about certain objects and nostalgia. The sheath's leather was too shiny so I recall spraying it with one of the flat primers I painted my hunting bow and other gear with.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

Yeah there is something about the nostalgia of these old knives takes you right back to carefree happy times.
That's a lovely piece and the sheath is a masterpiece.
Thanks for putting that up.

I remember knives of this style, made in the GDR. As a child, I did not have money for such luxuries, but I was lucky to find such a lost knife, in the summer, among the grass. In a place where in winter, cross-country skiing was massive. Part of the hilt was broken, and I made the missing part from some kind of dog bone. Just find an old big dog skeleton and use the spare parts.

 

[redlig]

Not wishing to be left out here is my contribution to our dangerous childhood. How did we survive?

 

[Arc Tourist]

Not wishing to be left out here is my contribution to our dangerous childhood. How did we survive?
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I think back in our childhood, for those of us that are past our sell by date, we had very little in regards to what kids have today, and we coveted what we did have; we also didn't live in a throw away world as it is now.