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

[slim_boy_fat]

Today I acquired [from the 'Bay of Everything] one of these - I'm hoping it will be useable as a fly-cutter in the Amolco - if I go very easy on wider stock/workpieces. Time will tell - I might have to check the contents of the first aid kit before I start, but I have other things to address before that.....

Halls Powerbor 50mm one [similar to this] - I know these are designed for mag drills but for what I paid it'll do for the odd job as a drill if it doesn't work the way I hope

 

[julianthegypsy]

I'm old enough to remember when no-one had calculators....

When I did my city and guilds in Ag Engineering, we were the first year that was allowed calculators in the exam. The format was eight half hour questions of which you could pick five. We practiced on old exam papers and could do all eight questions in half an hour. We thought this was brilliant until we sat the exam, they just made the questions several times harder, and I was crunching until two minutes from the end. Phew.

 

[Kram]

50, 65 and 100 bar. Postman was not too happy, warned me its heavy I didnt tell him there is more on the way.

 

[Fintray]

Quite simply the best calculator on the planet...if it was the 1980s .

It's mint condition too...I don't get on with the new ones. For example if I want to calculate 10 squared my brain expects to type 10 and then press the squared button...the modern stuff expects the opposite which makes no sense to me!

I used to have one very similar but mine didn't have the hard case...it really is mint....I trashed mine back in the day!

Thought that looked familiar, have the same one in my toolbox.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

I'm old enough to remember when no-one had calculators....

yea me too.....does anyone remember the calculators pre LCD screens. I have a very vague memory of one with individual red led pixels when I was a kid because I used to love playing with it.

 

[Cobbler]

yea me too.....does anyone remember the calculators pre LCD screens. I have a very vague memory of one with individual red led pixels when I was a kid because I used to love playing with it.

I had a red LED one, must have been about 1973ish. Cost best part of a weeks wages if I recall, within a few weeks you could get one for about a quarter of the price. I can’t remember who made them then, could well have been Sinclair.

EDIT, just seen Wallace’s post below, Casio rings a bell as well. Could say “it all adds up” coat, door ........

 

[Wallace]

I have two '70's Casio calculators that still work, I'll dig them out.

 

[Olderisbetter]

yea me too.....does anyone remember the calculators pre LCD screens. I have a very vague memory of one with individual red led pixels when I was a kid because I used to love playing with it.

I remember mates having Texet calculators like the ones in this link http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/texet.html

 

[sardine]

I still have my British Thornton slide rule somewhere. I never did work out how to use it very well

They are easy to use, just wait until someone bends over and " whacko ".

 

[Wallace]

 

[fizzy]

I had an FX19! Saw me through my degree.

 

[Parm]

yea me too.....does anyone remember the calculators pre LCD screens. I have a very vague memory of one with individual red led pixels when I was a kid because I used to love playing with it.

Ive still got an old TI with a red led display, no idea where it is though

 

[zx9]

Ive still got an old TI with a red led display, no idea where it is though

Like this?


That would have been my A level Pure and Applied calculator from 1983 / 84.

Unfortunately Dad modified the battery clip to be outside the case.

 

[Parm]

Like this?
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That would have been my A level Pure and Applied calculator from 1983 / 84.

Unfortunately Dad modified the battery clip to be outside the case.

Yep that's the chappie

 

[Arc Tourist]

A couple of days ago while taking an exercise walk, I spied this clamp screw fitting in a skip.
Thought the rounded stem on the threaded nut might fit in the hold down holes in my woodworking bench (and it does ), so it came home with me.
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[selectedgrub]

I wonder if anyone can spot this

 

[Dcal]

Today I acquired a square, thanks to @northwest

I had to get it when it came up, as I just broke my old one earlier the same day.
I had no choice, honest.

 

[Olderisbetter]

I wonder if anyone can spot this

Is it a cup?

 

[selectedgrub]

Too easy.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Too easy.

I had one in my work vehicle and some thief walked bye grabbed it and ran for his life, I bet he was thinking he was in the money lol.