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

[zx9]

Today this arrived, £19 off the 'Bay and destined for the cave after the last one developed a mind of its own....
Works perfectly.

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I take it they sound ok or you would not have looked for another? I have a near identical one in Yorkshire, I ought at least see if it works or if it too has a mind of its own.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I take it they sound ok or you would not have looked for another? I have a near identical one in Yorkshire, I ought at least see if it works or if it too has a mind of its own.

The original one was an even cheaper Bush set-up , did me well for a few years but I suspect the damp air in mid Winter went for it.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Thanks to johnny7, I found a perfect use for one of the clamps I received yesterday; can mount to a table, door, pipe or whatever.
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[Slowcoach]

I have acquired a new love for cows.
She tried to eat me but I let her a bit.

Gold top milk?
We used to skim the top off the bulk tank at the weekend before the paddle started, fantastic on cereal.

 

[Olderisbetter]

My mate is a trainee skip diver and came back today with this oak hall table which i have him a score of 7/10 for, I picked up a decent amount of cassettes and a tray of car leads and power supplies.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

My mate is a trainee skip diver and came back today with this oak hall table which i have him a score of 7/10 for, I picked up a decent amount of cassettes and a tray of car leads and power supplies.

I'm not sure who got the better haul there.

 

[Olderisbetter]

I'm not sure who got the better haul there.

Neither am i but he is still only getting 7/10 mainly because he forgot to get the oat milk for my tea from the shop.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

New toy arrived this morning.
Did I get to play.

Nope
Stolen by the 3yo

No patch leads unfortunately. Some on order now

Just chucked an offer on synth No2

 

[johnny7]

Well

The scope arrived today, It was posted by special delivery on monday but something went wrong and it was a day late!!

I was miffed again when I unpackaged the scope as it has the biggest fungal bloom on the objective lense that i've ever seen

I'll be contacting the seller to return it as I this wasn't mentioned in the description


John

 

[johnny7]

Thanks to johnny7, I found a perfect use for one of the clamps I received yesterday; can mount to a table, door, pipe or whatever.
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That's a brilliant idea!!


Cheers, John

 

[jimbo84]

Well

The scope arrived today, It was posted by special delivery on monday but something went wrong and it was a day late!!

I was miffed again when I unpackaged the scope as it has the biggest fungal bloom on the objective lense that i've ever seen

I'll be contacting the seller to return it as I this wasn't mentioned in the description


John

That's a bad one, I've managed to strip down a few old (camera) lenses to clean the elements but if the fungus is too bad it eats into the glass or the coating on the glass and remnants of it are there forever then.

 

[sardine]

Saved from the allotment skip...thrown away because a few nuts and bolts fell off.

I'm just going to fix it up for now ...might repaint the frame just in case the original owner tries to reclaim it...people are funny like that sometimes I think.

I saw spare wheel barrow wheels in Aldi last week.

 

[Kayos]

A new laptop

Having to lose the desktop and being stuck with the old one was starting to become tedious.

https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/len...-15.6-inch-fhd-windows-20rw0001uk/version.asp

Treated myself to this as I still wanted a Thinkpad, the new touchpad has taken some mastering but I like the full size keyboard and being latest generation processor its very fast. I didn't want to spend the extra on dedicated graphics as I'm not a gamer and the CPU is more than man enough for the bits of video editing I do. The NVME hard drive is crazy fast, so much so I've replaced my old external drive with a 1Tb Samsung NVME drive in a metal enclosure, over USB C the transfer speeds are nothing I've ever seen before, although I am old enough to remember USB as being new and having to buy a PCI card to add it to my PC.....

Decent sized screen means the ignore button is easy to find as well

It's nice having a machine I can run Lightroom on again, I even took the camera out today

 

[zx9]

That's a bad one, I've managed to strip down a few old (camera) lenses to clean the elements but if the fungus is too bad it eats into the glass or the coating on the glass and remnants of it are there forever then.

The coating or more usually on an old lens the balsam cement in compound elements is what the fungus is living on / in. If it is a special lens it can be polished and re coated but it will cost an arm and a leg and the lens will never have the same properties that made it 'special'.
That said some old glass can take on a new special which is loved by some, I've got a L39 Canon 50mm f/1.4 which technically is scrap but it turned out some very 'atmospheric' monochrome negatives.

 

[8ob]

So this just arrived. View attachment 232815 View attachment 232816

Review please

Bob

 

[Springerdinger]

Review please

Bob

I will add one over the weekend. So far really happy with it. Watch this space

 

[MikeBB1970]

'Hope everyone is well. Keep up the good postings.
What is this woodworking tool please , the middle one ?

Regards , Mike.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

'Hope everyone is well. Keep up the good postings.
What is this woodworking tool please , the middle one ?

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Plough plane

Basic version of that

 

[MikeBB1970]

Plough plane

Basic version of that

Ahh a grooving plane? Thank you.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

'Hope everyone is well. Keep up the good postings.
What is this woodworking tool please , the middle one ?

Regards , Mike.View attachment 233192

Plough/ rebate plane.
You are missing the blade and wedge.
The wedge is easy to replace, the blade not so.

But can be made from old files.

Top plane is missing a "Leg Wedge" to hold the blade.