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

[4String.]

Seeing as my "new" wagon is 20 years old and has an analogue tachograph, some storage for the discs, a disc analyser, and some 0.4mm tipped pens are in order, courtesy of the FTA shop. And bless 'em, they even threw in a 2020 calendar and an appropriate bar of chocolate .




Got a row off OH however, when she saw the pens. As a geographer retired from the Land Registry, she used to use pens for mapping that had 0.04mm tips, of which there's one or two in the house....

 

[Dieselman 63]

Seeing as my "new" wagon is 20 years old and has an analogue tachograph, some storage for the discs, a disc analyser, and some 0.4mm tipped pens are in order, courtesy of the FTA shop. And bless 'em, they even threw in a 2020 calendar and an appropriate bar of chocolate .


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Got a row off OH however, when she saw the pens. As a geographer retired from the Land Registry, she used to use pens for mapping that had 0.04mm tips, of which there's one or two in the house....

Rotring? I found my old set and a set of MarsMatic ones too. Lovely pens, I prefer the Mars as you can refill the cartridges yourself.

 

[jinjahbiscuit]

Not today, Monday last, a Rock Island "Baby Rock" .380 auto. Fun to come! Might have to ask Mrs Bruce to leap into action again for a holster!
Picture's not clear, taken by my bro' in law at night in a coal cellar I think.

 

[Matchless]

seeing the Karcher parts in a picture above reminded me, I finally bought a Karcher home pressure washer, cleaning the patio, caravan, motorcycle bits, eventually bought the patio cleaner head, a week later clearing out a garage a few doors up when the old couple moved into a home, saw a Karcher box, wonder what is in that I thought, only a complete hardly used Karcher with patio head...…...now have one for home and one for shed..

 

[4String.]

Rotring? I found my old set and a set of MarsMatic ones too. Lovely pens, I prefer the Mars as you can refill the cartridges yourself.

Yep, Rotring.

She's just dug one out of her stash, and a gorgeous piece of kit it is. 0.18mm diameter tip, about 7 thou in real measurements, and the tip is slightly bent due to it being "femmer", as OH describes it. She reckons the cartridges were hideously expensive, which was one of the reasons for the Land Registry going digital.

 

[Hopefuldave]

Yep, Rotring.

She's just dug one out of her stash, and a gorgeous piece of kit it is. 0.18mm diameter tip, about 7 thou in real measurements, and the tip is slightly bent due to it being "femmer", as OH describes it. She reckons the cartridges were hideously expensive, which was one of the reasons for the Land Registry going digital.

The Rotring Isograph? They're my Weapon of Choice for freehand sketches if I want to get all Victorian with hatched shading, the Isograph have detachable ink reservoirs and refill easily with the special Rotring india ink (allegedly it's ground finer to not clog the valves in the needle nib) - mine go down to 0.05mm (yep, a 2 thou" line) but NOT for use on paper, that one! Drafting film only, which is why I never use it...

Dave H. (the other one)

 

[4String.]

A new height maker for in the cab of the wagon. Not sure how it's survived for 20 years without one , but come Monday it will be nice and legal. Not sure if I'll ever need the full range of 20' 12", but hey-ho. And after yesterday I can confirm that she fits under the northbound Blackwall Tunnel, which is marked at 13' maximum height. Although the cb aerial did twang the portcullis when I went under it .

 

[DennisCA]

Today I got myself an electric hand plane.

 

[Chillitt]

I got an air freshener for the van.

 

[Shox Dr]

Today I got myself an electric hand plane.

Good bits of kit. But has no respect for flesh. I watched a guy pull the trigger while holding it in his other hand. Soon removed the callouses off the palm of his hand and some.

 

[8ob]

Seeing as my "new" wagon is 20 years old and has an analogue tachograph, some storage for the discs, a disc analyser, and some 0.4mm tipped pens are in order, courtesy of the FTA shop. And bless 'em, they even threw in a 2020 calendar and an appropriate bar of chocolate ..

Cant be doing with all the different wallets and pouches so I bought a gurt wallet that houses the lot

 

[jimbo84]

Cant be doing with all the different wallets and pouches so I bought a gurt wallet that houses the lot

Didn't think you needed storage for those ones, don't you just throw them out the drivers window

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I got an air freshener for the van.

Plus something to make a leaf crown.

 

[4String.]

Cant be doing with all the different wallets and pouches so I bought a gurt wallet that houses the lot

I can't get over using an analogue tacho again.

I've been using digitals ever since they came out, so my brain is getting a workout remembering my drive times and rest periods. Mind you, the advantages make up for that .

 

[angellonewolf]

A working stapler

notice the repair in the 2nd pic
Found near work walking picked up i notice on opening some plastic had become brittle and been smashed by the staple force so made a temp repair and all working fine (will have to make a trip up to poundland for a chopping board to file down to replace the wood stop)but if that happens before the wood bit breaks or it last for years who knows

Oh and dont try to remove Budweiser beer twist caps by taping the top off on an metal edge as it snaps the glass not opens the bottle

 

[Shox Dr]

Riding a bike makes you scan the road ahead for anything that might endanger me. It was a fair distance off, I had plenty of time to double check my mirror, the bus behind had stopped to drop off, and there were no vehicles coming towards me that might of got spooked by my sudden stop and exit.

It wasn't far off a little indy garage. I’m off past again next week, might pop in and see if any of the fitters have lost anything. I hate having one off spanners as much as I hate incomplete sets

Had a ride out on Friday. stopped by the two garages local to where I found it, neither had lost a Facom spanner. So looks like Im lumbered with it

 

[selectedgrub]

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A new height maker

How does this work if you don't mind me asking.
Never seen one before.

 

[Dieselman 63]

The Rotring Isograph? They're my Weapon of Choice for freehand sketches if I want to get all Victorian with hatched shading, the Isograph have detachable ink reservoirs and refill easily with the special Rotring india ink (allegedly it's ground finer to not clog the valves in the needle nib) - mine go down to 0.05mm (yep, a 2 thou" line) but NOT for use on paper, that one! Drafting film only, which is why I never use it...

Dave H. (the other one)

Yes I was delighted to find that you couldn’t use them on paper at uni doing landscape architecture when I bought them! Made your work look proper professional though. I’d have master drawings on film which I could scan into the printer and print onto A3, then colour, scan back in and print out full colour - got rid of any bleed through and kept your masters safe. The complete process would take about six to eight hours given you’d have to come up with a concept that worked too. It’s mostly digitised now, so that’s all a thing of the past.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

How does this work if you don't mind me asking.
Never seen one before.

Looks to be a long rolled sign and the knobs on the side wind it around. Much like old style bus destination signage.

 

[4String.]

How does this work if you don't mind me asking.
Never seen one before.

Simple piece of kit, you turn the black knobs on the side to alter the numbers, similar to how buses used to change the routes in the window above their cabs by winding a handle, like so:







@eLuSiVeMiTe beat me to it .

It's s a legal requirement in the UK that any vehicle whose travelling height exceeds 3 metres is fitted with a height warning indicator such as this, so for the sake of a few quid it's not worth not having one. Strangely, the figures are in imperial but have to be a minimum of 40mm high . And yes, in the past I've loaded to 16' 5" high on a wafer-deck low loader, which gives 1" clearance under the recommended maximum height of 16' 6" for motorway bridges .