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

[SwissTony]

Acquired a carver clamp yesterday and opened it the parcel to find this.
Turned out to be one of the heavy duty versions. Slightly bigger than I was expecting, probably to big for what I need.
Pic is it next to a standard 6 inch.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Slightly bigger than I was expecting, probably to big for what I need.

Keep it long enough and you'll find a use for it.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Oh nom nom nom.

 

[SwissTony]

Keep it long enough and you'll find a use for it.

Far to big for anything I am ever likely to weld.
Probably chuck it up for sale and buy some standard ones.

 

[MattF]

You'll be kicking yourself when you need it.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

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Oh nom nom nom.

Only a few Nom Noms for me.

The rest has gone.

To my local A&E.

They will enjoy them more than me.

 

[northwest]

Well, I acquired it a while back but finally managed to get it to my place and in it's new spot. Hoping to be able to utilise it as a small surface grander. Has all the attachments though. Need a small magnetic table next.

 

[8ob]

My niece is staying here for a few weeks and was doing some baking , today I acquired a cake

 

[Matchless]

That's a good buy, I was just under £80 for 20 square meters from Costco.

I filled three Tesco trolleys, used one so far, not quite the same tiles as yours but very similar, they were slightly used, I was very happy, seen the same as mine
for £7.00 a tile!

 

[Olderisbetter]

This came my way, It is from an old factory used to sort mail in the office.

 

[dobbslc]

For chisels and plane blades I use one of the guides with the little rollers. Designed to run on stones. Work great in a belt. Takes me minuites to sharpen a set

I was doing my chisles yesterday, I've got a belt/disc sander combo but didn't think to use it
Do you still finish them with a stone?

Here be crumpets [note I've cleaned MY mug ]

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Here also be the thinking man's crumpet, but I didn't get one of those.....


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Lovely.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I was doing my chisles yesterday, I've got a belt/disc sander combo but didn't think to use it
Do you still finish them with a stone?



Lovely.

Just run em down my trousers or a bit of wood to take the burrs off .
The extra stoning it will achieve will be lost as soon as it's used so what's the point

Keep a diamond block in the van for a quick tickle through the day.

Give it a test. Compare the two methods with one you already sharpened.

 

[Pete.]

Well, I acquired it a while back but finally managed to get it to my place and in it's new spot. Hoping to be able to utilise it as a small surface grander. Has all the attachments though. Need a small magnetic table next.

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Is that a combined T&C/surface grinder? Looks like the wheel is directly on the motor shaft.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

As I said in @Chillitt Thread.
Things in Skips.

I found a skip today.
I asked and was told take it.

The item was only mine for a few hours.



The item is now in a care home for the staff to enjoy.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A good swop. choccy for football.

The Lindor chocolate balls. did not make it home.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I also got a box.



Inside the box was a bundle of joy.




My brand new replacement Wet and dry grinder.

 

[Dr.Al]

Yesterday I went out for my daily exercise (a walk) and decided to go down to the main road via a different route. On the way I passed a skip full of metal. Mostly rusty oil drums and a shocking number of rusty stanley knife blades, but I noticed some big leg vices (or post vices or whatever they're called) in the skip.

I knocked on the door of the house and asked the lady there whether she'd mind me taking them out of the skip and she said they weren't hers but she'd ask and let me know.

She rang today and said I was welcome to help myself. So I did (and gave her a bottle of wine to say thank you although she was adamant she didn't want anything for the rusty metal).

This is what I came back with - 3 leg vices and a bench vice:

300 mm steel ruler for scale. I can (just) lift the two smaller leg vices and the bench vice on my own but don't stand a chance with the big one next to the bench vice.

They all need a heck of a lot of TLC. I've never used a leg vice (and to be honest hadn't even heard of one until I read @Screwdriver's thread about restoring one), but I rather enjoying restoring old tools and I'm sure one of the leg vices will be useful. Regardless of the leg vices, if I can get that huge bench vice back in working condition I'll be a very happy bunny.

I'm going to need a much bigger electrolysis tank...

 

[Chillitt]

Yesterday I went out for my daily exercise (a walk) and decided to go down to the main road via a different route. On the way I passed a skip full of metal. Mostly rusty oil drums and a shocking number of rusty stanley knife blades, but I noticed some big leg vices (or post vices or whatever they're called) in the skip.

I knocked on the door of the house and asked the lady there whether she'd mind me taking them out of the skip and she said they weren't hers but she'd ask and let me know.

She rang today and said I was welcome to help myself. So I did (and gave her a bottle of wine to say thank you although she was adamant she didn't want anything for the rusty metal).

This is what I came back with - 3 leg vices and a bench vice:

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300 mm steel ruler for scale. I can (just) lift the two smaller leg vices and the bench vice on my own but don't stand a chance with the big one next to the bench vice.

They all need a heck of a lot of TLC. I've never used a leg vice (and to be honest hadn't even heard of one until I read @Screwdriver's thread about restoring one), but I rather enjoying restoring old tools and I'm sure one of the leg vices will be useful. Regardless of the leg vices, if I can get that huge bench vice back in working condition I'll be a very happy bunny.

I'm going to need a much bigger electrolysis tank...

There is going to be all sorts of good things either going in that skip soon, or went in the last one.. You did ask about anything else, didnt you?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Yesterday I went out for my daily exercise (a walk) and decided to go down to the main road via a different route. On the way I passed a skip full of metal. Mostly rusty oil drums and a shocking number of rusty stanley knife blades, but I noticed some big leg vices (or post vices or whatever they're called) in the skip.

I knocked on the door of the house and asked the lady there whether she'd mind me taking them out of the skip and she said they weren't hers but she'd ask and let me know.

She rang today and said I was welcome to help myself. So I did (and gave her a bottle of wine to say thank you although she was adamant she didn't want anything for the rusty metal).

This is what I came back with - 3 leg vices and a bench vice:

View attachment 220478

300 mm steel ruler for scale. I can (just) lift the two smaller leg vices and the bench vice on my own but don't stand a chance with the big one next to the bench vice.

They all need a heck of a lot of TLC. I've never used a leg vice (and to be honest hadn't even heard of one until I read @Screwdriver's thread about restoring one), but I rather enjoying restoring old tools and I'm sure one of the leg vices will be useful. Regardless of the leg vices, if I can get that huge bench vice back in working condition I'll be a very happy bunny.

I'm going to need a much bigger electrolysis tank...

Or you could give them to me.
I can make a big tank.

 

[steviec_lj]

Yesterday I went out for my daily exercise (a walk) and decided to go down to the main road via a different route. On the way I passed a skip full of metal. Mostly rusty oil drums and a shocking number of rusty stanley knife blades, but I noticed some big leg vices (or post vices or whatever they're called) in the skip.

I knocked on the door of the house and asked the lady there whether she'd mind me taking them out of the skip and she said they weren't hers but she'd ask and let me know.

She rang today and said I was welcome to help myself. So I did (and gave her a bottle of wine to say thank you although she was adamant she didn't want anything for the rusty metal).

This is what I came back with - 3 leg vices and a bench vice:

View attachment 220478

300 mm steel ruler for scale. I can (just) lift the two smaller leg vices and the bench vice on my own but don't stand a chance with the big one next to the bench vice.

They all need a heck of a lot of TLC. I've never used a leg vice (and to be honest hadn't even heard of one until I read @Screwdriver's thread about restoring one), but I rather enjoying restoring old tools and I'm sure one of the leg vices will be useful. Regardless of the leg vices, if I can get that huge bench vice back in working condition I'll be a very happy bunny.

I'm going to need a much bigger electrolysis tank...

What a fantastic haul!!

Always fancied a leg vice, just to say I’d got one really. Not sure what use they are. But again, what a fantastic haul!!