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

sardine · Nov 7, 2016

Don't ever try and put together a set of those shelves by yourself, unless you are an octopus.

Or you like crying.

Paulbarrett · Nov 8, 2016

My builder mate Steve handed me these today!
I've done really well getting my tooling together for the lathe and mill now for not a lot of money

MattH · Nov 8, 2016

Got my grubby mitts on a package of machinery today.

ML07 Tri Lever lathe with stand, 3 jaw, 4 jaw, face plate, change gears, fixed and traveling steady.
GEO Taylor MKll milling machine
FJ Edwards Box pan folder

slim_boy_fat · Nov 8, 2016

MattH said:
Got my grubby mitts on a package of machinery today.

ML07 Tri Lever lathe with stand, 3 jaw, 4 jaw, face plate, change gears, fixed and traveling steady.
GEO Taylor MKll milling machine
FJ Edwards Box pan folder]

See, I just know that Myford's going to be wasted on you, whereas here.........

slim_boy_fat · Nov 8, 2016

Not sure if this allow, but it could come under the heading 'I'm hoping to acquire' for someone - usual disclaimers etc

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Boxford-B...0a64a56&pid=100005&rk=2&rkt=6&sd=272440635410

MattH · Nov 8, 2016

slim_boy_fat said:
See, I just know that Myford's going to be wasted on you, whereas here.........

I only wanted the folder. Both the Lathe and Mill will be for sale at some point.

slim_boy_fat · Nov 8, 2016

MattH said:
I only wanted the folder. Both the Lathe and Mill will be for sale at some point.

Why is everything sooo far away?

(Depending on price, of course, I could be interested - although could be logistically 'difficult'.......)

MattH · Nov 8, 2016

slim_boy_fat said:
Why is everything sooo far away? (Depending on price, of course, I could be interested - although could be logistically 'difficult'.......)

I could strap it down to a pallet as it's not that big.
PM me if you are really interested as this isn't the place for it and I don't want to incur the wrath of the Mods.

ukracer · Nov 8, 2016

MattH said:
I only wanted the folder. Both the Lathe and Mill will be for sale at some point.

That's good the Mill already has my name on it.

slim_boy_fat · Nov 8, 2016

MattH said:
I could strap it down to a pallet as it's not that big.
PM me if you are really interested as this isn't the place for it and I don't want to incur the wrath of the Mods.

You have PM

penfold · Nov 10, 2016

penfold said:
The signs of water ingress were truthful; a bit of a swimming pool in there, lots of corrosion on PCBs and the grinding noises were thoroughly banjoed plastic planet gears in an epicyclic gearbox. It's a curious mix of quite well engineered and utter chod inside.

The main PCB is utterly fritzed, so it will either be stripped for the motors and the rest binned, or if I can summon enough tuits I will investigate piggybacking an Arduino on it.

Wedg1e · Nov 10, 2016

brewdexta said:
The missus played one similar to that, it sounded like the Spanish inquisition were torturing a heretic cat. I bought her a half decent UK one and it made all the difference, she sounds pretty good now.

According to the learned historians of a museum we visited in Malta, the Spanish inquisition was little more than a friendly chat with your neighbourhod constable... 'grass thy neighbour', as it were. Very little torture and murder was, it is alleged, committed. Well that's what the Cardinal told us, anyway :whistle:

Tinbasherdan · Nov 10, 2016

Two record 24 vices in good condition

Dieselman 63 · Nov 10, 2016

Perhaps less impressive, but whilst scouring the charity shops for tools I got an Airfix Harrier GR3 starter set for $8 (normally retail $30) only to find a kit of the Meteor stuffed inside too! Happy days

Woody.v8 · Nov 10, 2016

A little piece of plate, 4m x 1.5m x 50mm , should do nicely as a bench top.
Free gratis, the only stipulation is I've 10 days to shift it, What are you lot doing on Saturday? :laughing:

Paulbarrett · Nov 10, 2016

Sod that!

arther dailey · Nov 10, 2016

50mm ? you might go a whiter shade of pale moving that ! result though eh :thumbup:

Paul. · Nov 10, 2016

2355 kg, should fit on the roofrack ok...

brightspark · Nov 10, 2016

just had a nice I beam put on my van roof rack. said to the guy at steel stockists hope u don't have a powercut when the beams up in the air over me van

I don't think he got what I meant looking vacant at me. err leccy magnet power off get my drift :vsad:

eSCHEn · Nov 10, 2016

Woody.v8 said:
A little piece of plate, 4m x 1.5m x 50mm , should do nicely as a bench top.
Free gratis, the only stipulation is I've 10 days to shift it, What are you lot doing on Saturday?

Dunno. I'll have to ask the wife :whistle:

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