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

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Having picked a day when the weather forecast was a bit uncertain but still okay and on which the beach at Lyme Regis was closed for reprofiling (deliberately chosen so it would be less crowded), yesterday we went to Lyme Regis for fish & chips and to break the four month long run of not leaving our immediate locality. Had a lovely day out and Lyme wasn't too busy so we didn't find ourselves in the chaotic scenes that have been reported in Bournemouth etc. Sadly a lot of the shops were closed, but plenty of options for fish & chips & ice cream!

En route we stopped at the Vintage Tool Shop in Stalbridge and Yandles in Martock. Got some wood to play with from Yandles and also got this lot (mostly from the Vintage Tool Shop, but the fret saw blades were from ebay and the Royal Mail):

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I've got quite a lot of sharpening to do now...

You know the Back saw and the plane.
I know them as well.

I fixed them up.

 

[Windy Miller]

This isn't SIP its "Performance Power" so B&Qs own offering I think?

No stand.

I got it sight unseen. Offered it over the phone and told it sits on a table top and the blade comes up and down like on a tile cutter. Its huge! Lucky I have the space to store it. Always wanted a table saw tbh. I have a radial arm and chop saw but this'll save me keep having to go and borrow the BiLs.

I have a couple of the Performance Power tools - pretty good actually. I have a circular saw that I put a 'proper' balde on when I first bought it - absolutely reansformed it!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I may of made it to light humour and funny, but I am livid with rage what he has done.

The saw was a classic example.
As to the power sander with no on/off switch.

It's good to vent, but try to calm yourself, you'll burst something . Have these instead

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I must be getting old.

But only at the same rate as everyone else.

I did acquire something today...well. previously acquired but didn't realise I had it amongst the spares pile...this rather cool bsf spanner. View attachment 238159

Looks identical to the one I have in the "For sale" section. 14"ish but I'm not boasting

Cheap drill bits £3.99 for 40 ,

So, single use then?

 

[Onoff]

Double post.

 

[angellonewolf]

I have one of them, great bit of kit.

Get your self a nice long square and check the blade for true. It can be adjusted, but SIP will not tell you how. But it is clear when you look underneath.
The dust shoot can clog, but a gentle tap will free it.

Set up the angle pointers, they move, Loctite will solve that.

Did you get the stand?

i have a bigger rexon unit that is fine just leave it running for a few seconds after a cut seams to clear the ways so no dust removel needed when ever i do cutting in my house i just do it on the garden what comes out rots away or gets picked up in the mower

the smaller unit than ours is a b&q special and that does clog up near every time im assuming its down to smaller blade not as fast and prob just a design problem in extracting the dust so unless its a quick cut you have to use a hover to remove the dust

the only reason i keep the smaller one is very light, blades are very cheap £12 for silverline jobs but i only normaly use it for cutting laminate flooring and that seams to blunt a blade for every 1 floor i lay but as the blades are cheap i just use them for the 1 job then throw them and renew i dont want to keep dressing the teeth x amout of times as its a pain

 

[slim_boy_fat]

they will even at slower speeds I have a slither of bronze in my thumb that I cant remove tried digging it out with a Stanley knife and dug in deep but it wont remove . it skins over and leaves a lump and hurts I just slice the hard corn of skin off every few month

Get that seen to before it reaches the stage which Gordon mentions.

my Staropramen

fftopic: (sorry) but where are you getting yours? A mate told me yesterday that he's been scouring Asda, Tesco etc but no-one seems to have it ATM

 

[Arc Tourist]

……………………………………….
..................….we stopped at the Vintage Tool Shop in Stalbridge and Yandles in Martock. Got some wood to play with from Yandles and also got this lot (mostly from the Vintage Tool Shop, but the fret saw blades were from ebay and the Royal Mail):

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The top edges of the plane body look like they are flat in the photo. Is it a Bedrock model ?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

It's good to vent, but try to calm yourself, you'll burst something . Have these instead

Do those hugs come in the size of a wee big dram of Jura?

 

[MikeBB1970]

So, single use then? [/QUOTE]slimboyfat,

I have a bit sharpener but yes single use as I use each one and break each one : )

 

[rtcosic]

fftopic: (sorry) but where are you getting yours? A mate told me yesterday that he's been scouring Asda, Tesco etc but no-one seems to have it ATM

It's possible to Off-Topic on this thread?

Tesco.

But they have a habit of stocking small quantities of good stuff for short periods at sensible prices, then it disappears. I learned to take their entire stock when it appears.
I don't know if our area is a test area or if my tastes differ so much from everyone else's that they stop stocking stuff locally.

Some of the stuff that I used to buy but then vanished - or reappeared at silly prices:

• Tinned Artichoke Hearts
• Tinned Celery Hearts
• Corn fed chicken
  
• Sauerkraut - but this reappeared recently in an area labelled the Polish section for some bizarre reason
• Pilsner Urquell - reappeared at eventually twice the price.
• Budweiser Budvar - as above

Worryingly Staropramen is going the same way. Each time I visit the price has gone up and it's no longer brewed in Prague. I'm fairly sure it no longer meets the Reinheitsgebot either: I imagine I detect the presence of maize.

 

[MikeBB1970]

These artis grow near us rtcosic , wife is very into her cooking but has never asked for any of them.

Edit: one is in purple flower , hidden at the back..

 

[angellonewolf]

^^ whats this find wally

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

My allotment has someone who grows them for the flowers...the are amazing...I'm more into the eating

 

[Matchless]

My next project.

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Morris 1000, 1966 needs a good tidy up, bit of welding and a respray. Going to start stripping it tonight.

Does it have a zip across the headlining? I always look when they are that shade of blue.

 

[MikeBB1970]

^^ whats this find wally

 

[mpats]

This isn't SIP its "Performance Power" so B&Qs own offering I think?

No stand.

I got it sight unseen. Offered it over the phone and told it sits on a table top and the blade comes up and down like on a tile cutter. Its huge! Lucky I have the space to store it. Always wanted a table saw tbh. I have a radial arm and chop saw but this'll save me keep having to go and borrow the BiLs.

I wouldn't be without my table saw, very handy bit of kit. Next week off I'm finally going to get round to putting together a cross cut sled for it. Another handy bit of kit that knight be worth looking into if you have space to store it.

 

[Dr.Al]

The top edges of the plane body look like they are flat in the photo. Is it a Bedrock model ?

No, must just be the angle of the photo: it's a Bailey. The cap iron needed a little fettling (big nick on the edge) and could do with a lot more (no where near 90° on the end) and the blade had some nicks in it that took a lot of sharpening to sort out, but it's cutting nicely now. The tool shop had a LOT of almost identical #4 planes in a row, varying in price from about £20 to about £100. This was one of several for a little over £30 that looked in good-ish nick. I don't have a lot of experience with planes, so don't really know what I'm looking for, but I'm pleased with it now it's sharpened. I haven't decided whether I can be bothered to sort out the off-square end, although it does make it quite awkward to set up. I might also replace the blade with a thicker one, which looks quite straightforward (I tried the one from my #5 and it fits fine and cuts well).

 

[rtcosic]

These artis grow near us rtcosic , wife is very into her cooking but has never asked for any of them..

Nom! Does she know what she's missing?

 

[tflnemesis]

I bought this a couple of days ago, thanks to a small refund by HMRC and SWMBO letting me spend it on myself .

Its a large format 3d printer 300x300x400mm print volume. Has mains powered heated bed so warms up in less than 2 mins compared with the sometimes 20 mins on my Anet A8. I am still going to be running my Anet as it has a direct drive extruder thats works well with flexible filaments and i have got it tweaked to give good results every print.

The Tornado is printing a vase atm 220x190x330, a 27 hour print which is a huge amount of time for a vase mode print but i expected it due to the size. I will be spending the next week or two tweaking my settings so i can get it printing well.