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

[Moose McAlpine]

Got to excuse my sense of humour....

Who needs an excuse?

 

[Farside]

I got a (hopefully) better film / slide scanner from the local freecycle site. My old one is a Maplin one, and I've been quite disappointed with the quality of some of the scans, and a bit worried about whether I'd wrongly remembered the quality of photos that I've taken back in the day. Having found some prints that I'd made from negatives before I could scan then, it seems that it's not the fault of the negative, so hopefully this new Konica Minolta scanner might do a better job. Only works on XP, apparently, though I might have found a web site that tells me how to make it work in W10.

Yep, I've been revving up to start working through the fridgeful of film I stashed away and been looking on various image sites to see how decade-old film shows up. Some of them, scanned by decent machines, come up really well and are quite encouraging. Others, not so. I'm fairly sure the others are done on crappy twenty-quid scanners.
I've got three Epson flat-beds that I know work reasonably well without taking things to extremes. They won't work at all in Win10, but Vuescan makes them work fine.

 

[Fraserb]

This makes a lidl shopping trip seem normal, nipped out for bbq supplies and this happened.

 

[minimutly]

Come on - what is it?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

and this happened.

Nothing by half, eh?

 

[angellonewolf]

This makes a lidl shopping trip seem normal, nipped out for bbq supplies and this happened.

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im going to guess a motor bike bench/stand that rise and lowers ?

 

[Fraserb]

im going to guess a motor bike bench/stand that rise and lowers ?

Think bigger, much much bigger.

 

[Kram]

Think bigger, much much bigger.

Cow un-tipper, for when somone has tipped over an unsuspecting cow?

 

[MattF]

Think bigger, much much bigger.

That's an unfortunate typo, in that sentence.

 

[Fraserb]

That's an unfortunate typo, in that sentence.

Sorted now.

 

[Fraserb]

Cow un-tipper, for when somone has tipped over an unsuspecting cow?

We used to have one of them.

 

[JMS1972]

Think bigger, much much bigger.

One of those car lifters that goes under each sill?

 

[Fraserb]

One of those car lifters that goes under each sill?

Still a lot bigger, its not for lifting anything though.

 

[roblane65]

yesterday I got a pair of Kemppi overalls


got them of the welding and fab group on FB for a tenner , £15 delivered !
brand new heavy duty and very well made, flame retardent and actually a pretty good fit too . apparently their the old logo and their made in Finland not china says so on the label.

 

[Tigman]

Very snazzy !

 

[roblane65]

You'll not miss me !

 

[bigegg]

New car to replace the ovlov.

Japanese. 3L. RWD. Estate. Auto. Apparently "mega rare"

Lexus IS300 sportcross.

 

[roblane65]

Shoulda got a Jaaaaag

 

[bigegg]

Shoulda got a Jaaaaag

I was considering it, but decided I wanted a car that would work.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Well some bits from yesterday and some from the week.

The following were sent to me, from a good member here and already been sorted.


Tile cutter is now with a local group of handy people who do small repairs for venerable people.
The Forester bits are being held back from MIS etc, ready to go into action when the ready to use set gets damaged.
The drill case, will get it's own post.
The carboard box and handles have gone to a local charity who collect furniture to be donated to those in need.

The same with the drawer runners and the rest of the cupboard fixings. I was told the legs, hinges and fixings are very hard to find. At a decent price.



I am keeping the file card here, for the job of cleaning donated files.





The above tools are on their way to a local tool charity.

The charity who collect furniture wanted to press money into my hands, I declined.

But They did give me this.