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

[indy4x]

Was there any good stuff that you want to keep or use in what they tossed over the fence? Or mostly just dross that they tossed to save taking a few steps to the skip?

Pretty much all dross and completely unusable

There were 2 exceptions

1. Shakespear fishing box with some sea fishing reels and weights, sold these on FB Marketplace

2. Two bits of round bar, approx 15mm dia, very rusty but will chop up and use as stakes for the shuttering I'm making to put a ramp up to the garage doors

 

[Nick DV]

Here you go, I doubt there will be much interest.

Pedestal bench grinder

I got some truck parts to use.

www.mig-welding.co.uk

You're wrong, I'm interested

 

[DAPPH]

Easily done mate

It's even worse when you've turned the bottle off tight after flushing the threads & fitting the new bottle . Four months later .. no gas , bottle still turned off tight . A 36 mile round trip later I get a the replacement bottle and months later a credit note for the bottle with the faulty valve.

 

[Tangledfeet]

And today after work...

 

[Kram]

My new bottle only reads 190bar. Wheres that from?

Todays amazon, tig cable cover for the wp17 torch, which I seem to use most.

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B084JS5DLV

And torch sleeved, took some effort, should have removed the zip ties first. Half of it left.

 

[indy4x]

A trailer full of scrap, thanks to all the lovely neighbors around my lockup garage

All of this was hiding in the weeds I've been clearing around the side and back of the garage

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Wasn't expecting much at the scrap yard today, turns out there was 300kg in the trailer and I left £58 richer

 

[Turbo]

Wasn't expecting much at the scrap yard today, turns out there was 300kg in the trailer and I left £58 richer

Steel scrap price is very high at the minute, I got £45 for 250 kg two weeks ago!

 

[Tangledfeet]

My new bottle only reads 190bar. Wheres that from?

BOC.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Couple of Floor board clamps.




Google may indicate they are Woden, pre 1950.

 

[Rrobson]

New addition to the garage, suppose I could call it a happy birthday present to myself!

A 50’s (I estimate) Woodhouse and Mitchell junior with the 6” bed, optional cabinet base and L0 long nose chuck mount. Happy is an understatement considering the price, despite the patina it’s in very good mechanical condition and as a bonus had a large single phase motor installed some years ago. Makes the lights dim in the garage
To call moving it into position “difficult” is the understatement of the year. Weighing in at a literal ton it was more difficult than I’d envisaged but it placed so as long as we don’t move house any time soon it should be fine! Just need to get some metric change wheels which I’ll likely make and a 12” faceplate to complete it

 

[bricol]

New addition to the garage, suppose I could call it a happy birthday present to myself!

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A 50’s (I estimate) Woodhouse and Mitchell junior with the 6” bed, optional cabinet base and L0 long nose chuck mount. Happy is an understatement considering the price, despite the patina it’s in very good mechanical condition and as a bonus had a large single phase motor installed some years ago. Makes the lights dim in the garage
To call moving it into position “difficult” is the understatement of the year. Weighing in at a literal ton it was more difficult than I’d envisaged but it placed so as long as we don’t move house any time soon it should be fine! Just need to get some metric change wheels which I’ll likely make and a 12” faceplate to complete it

Those Aldi pry-bars come in very handy, don't they?

Glad to see I'm not the only one to use a car trailer for lathe moves - mine doesn't have an infill panels, so you can jack a lathe up, roll the trailer under it as far as possible, jack the lathe up again in-between trailer cross-members, roll the trailer back under it a bit more, until its fully on.

It was easier getting it off with a fork-lift and some decent straps though

 

[Danez]

OK this wasn't today, it was Friday, its a surface pro 4 with an i7 and 16gb ram, used but good nick for a good price. Its a revelation. All the power of a good laptop, and all the convenience of a tablet. The keyboard itself and the magnetic attachment design is superb. I get why they cost so much brand new!

I've got it all set up with onedrive for work stuff, dropbox for pictures, solidworks, and just about to see if it can handle some games

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+1 for surface computers

I'm still using my surface pro 2 i bought years ago and it's not let me down!

 

[Rrobson]

Those Aldi pry-bars come in very handy, don't they?

Glad to see I'm not the only one to use a car trailer for lathe moves - mine doesn't have an infill panels, so you can jack a lathe up, roll the trailer under it as far as possible, jack the lathe up again in-between trailer cross-members, roll the trailer back under it a bit more, until its fully on.

It was easier getting it off with a fork-lift and some decent straps though

Haha yes they do! Although I had to jack it up, couldn’t find my bigger bars and no chance lifting it with anything else. I could have done with a forklift, would have been a different unloading experience...

this trailer didn’t have anything in the middle when I got it, I put scaffold boards and screwed some 3mm ally checker plate to it so it’s useful as a flat bed. Moved house and everything with the trailer, a very useful asset.

just had the lathe spinning, half a thou discrepancy over four inches but the removal bed section isn’t quite down so a good clean and re-seat and I recon it’ll be sound. Not bad for a 70 year old and in the most worn area (generally speaking)! Absolutely chuffed
And excuse the poor centre height, I picked up the first tool and piece of scrap I could find...

even the chart aligns with the feeds! Set to cut 8tpi

 

[Kram]

Last month I ordered a couple of A2P3 filters and a full face mask from Zoro on back order. One of the filters arrived. Not only the wrong type, its 6 years out of date

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Zoro have generally been very good so I gave them another chance and ordered two more filters. Today a suprise package arrived, I had forgotten about them.

Inside a *really* scruffy old box, two more of the wrong, Pro2 filters, and both expiry dates 06/2015
Phoned customer services and Im sure they will sort it or refund tho Im not convinced they can get the correct ones.

 

[EM1L4]

I may have got a bit excited by an ebay money off voucher after a few beers It’s gonna be a kitchen island, even my Mrs approves so got lucky there! (Plan B was to go into my workshop so no difference really) i’m going to sort a wider top out so it can take the induction hob

72” Stainless, got it for a good price…

 

[Jan-DIY]

What a bloody mess over here.
Now got about 10kg of mostly unknown silver alloy here. Will never use them all till the rest of my life but I need to have them because of my passion.
There is a need for a second clean out here.
Silver is also bottom out now so it is maybe the best time to get something of it out here.

 

[roofman]

Got something that will make my life easier and that's what buying tools is about...my old 18V snap-On impact is looking its age after many many years good service, so without crying over the price the logical choice out there is this bad boy

Then another really handy bit of kit working on bikes as i seem to do more as i get older is this Induction gun,great for removing studs and bolts without flame damage to the bikes frames and parts

 

[Kram]

I dont need more boring bars. However this set of three, the pic showed the bar has laser etched depth graduations. I expect the inserts will be rubbish but I have plenty of good. Only the biggest bar was graduated.

My phones rear camera broken again, so back to badly focused front camera pics..

 

[DennisCA]

A robot lawn mower, after the gearbox in my walk behind mower literally melted (it's now a push mower) we decided it's now time for a robot mower.

 

[Johnnybravo]

A quick change tool post for the big lathe. Just need to follow up on some leads for original tool holders. Failing that, it’s an order going to Create tools in Wuhan….