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

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

One of my housemates got the PlayStation VR for Christmas. I'm not a gamer by any stretch but the 3d effect was very convincing, I imagine a racing sim would look amazing with it

Well I'm relieved it didn't cost me much.
Support for the dev kit has been dropped.

Managed to find a old sdk and got it working with a 16 year old game.

Takes some getting used to. Makes you feel like your heads being unscrewed when your body expects to feel g force.

Kids were most ammused. My 3yo was baffled. Trying to grab the steering wheel then peeking out before donning the goggles to try again.

Finally got the game tweaked to suit my wheel and updated physics and ready for a proper VR test.

 

[Barking Mat]

Today I acquired, a 60's or 70's floor polisher with floor sanding attachements, for 12 quid! And it works.

Ok it's not an industrial floor sander, but hiring one is 60 quid a day, and it came with all the attachments and 8 abrasive disks.

 

[dobbslc]

A Stuart Turner 3 bar shower pump, new in box but old stock I paid £135 for it!
This is my home made test rig just to be sure it works ok.

 

[Tupers]

I went to an auction today and came away with a V8 engine and an angle grinder. One will be useful and the other is just heavy!

 

[Turbo]

More Milwaukee tools. My Stanley tape measure has kinked and jams so time for a replacement and being a Milwaukee fan boy i had to have a look at their offerings. Tape measures aren’t the most exciting tool but they’re used often.
I like it’s metric only on both the upper and underneath, I don’t use imperial. Big clear numbers so quick and easy to read when I don’t have my glasses on. Finger lock cutout so you can so can stop the tape retracting with just your fore finger instead of having to use switch lock all the time. Magnetic tip on the end of the tape and you can extend it nearly 2.5 metres before it starts to drop.
That’s the highlight of my Friday so far and not likely to get any better this weekend as I’m replacing the kitchen ceiling and lighting.
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You will think that the magnetic tip is great for metalwork but it's a curse. No matter what you do it gets covered in grinding dust that knocks your measurements out if you forget to clean it. It has caused me to have to recut lengths of steel because they were too short!

 

[F.J.]

I went to an auction today and came away with a V8 engine and an angle grinder. One will be useful and the other is just heavy!

That is some power supply just for a grinder!!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I went to an auction today and came away with a V8 engine and an angle grinder. One will be useful and the other is just heavy!

How big is that grinder?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I went to an auction today and came away with a V8 engine and an angle grinder.

On purpose?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

On purpose?

On foot.

 

[Barking Mat]

What kind of v8 @Tupers ?

 

[Maker]

A Stuart Turner 3 bar shower pump, new in box but old stock I paid £135 for it!
View attachment 209315 This is my home made test rig just to be sure it works ok.
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I took a couple of those out a skip once, they got a hundred quid each on eBay, I assume they're good.

 

[Chillitt]

More candidates for the magic petrol can treatment. If that works I might even knock the dust off them.. These are Not so much aquired as on a lease/lend arrangement pending functionality testing.

and these fell of of a loft space and somehow all landed in the same box..

Looks like I need to aquire a new phone...

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Looks like I need to aquire a new phone...

Or a steadier hand

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Or a steadier hand

Or change hands after 99.

 

[Chillitt]

Or change hands after 99.

Getting to 99?

 

[Tupers]

On purpose?

Well I was looking to tools but scrap tends to follow me home.

What kind of v8 @Tupers ?

It’s a little Daimler 250 engine. I’ll get a picture up tomorrow.

 

[bigegg]

this followed me home today (literally!).

the start of my sankey "oversize" workshop trailer.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

this followed me home today (literally!).

the start of my sankey "oversize" workshop trailer.

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What's going on with the bed angle?

 

[Barking Mat]

I would imagine landies are higher at the back?

 

[bigegg]

What's going on with the bed angle?

i need to fit a height adjuster plate to the ovlov.
i think it was originally for a tractor, or something, as the hitch looks as though its already been dropped about 6inches: and is a ring+pin type.(nato? or agricultural?)


it also doesnt have working brakes at the moment.
but for £100, including the ball+pin hitch, AND the light bar, i needed to bring it home.