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

[Mick Annick]

today, I aquired a foot wide grin, and a hankering for a decent dram

The skies above where I live are one of the playgrounds for the french air force jets training, we often see the sky covered with vapour trails etc... All good fun good to watch..

Anyway today, working outside the workshop painting, so I cranked the music up a bit louder than usual, no neighours to speak of so why not... anyway, good loud celtic rock on the go, happened to look up, and I reckoned the pilots must have been listening in too..... couldn't have time it better, raised a big grin.....

maybe I should turn it down a wee bit eh....

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We get them too - three / four times a week, very low-level flying, and occasionally a sonic boom. Last year one banked over so low I could clearly see the pilot and gave him a wave, he turned round and came round again! Normally they just shoot down the valley.

 

[Turbo]

When we bought an MX5 as a project car, it was advertised as steering needed attention, brakes pulled to one side etc. Red paint had gone pink as well. But the price was right, so got it. driving it home it was all over the shop, never knew which way it was going to go. Drove it back from London with a few hairy moments & got up next morning & started having a look round, first thing check tyre pressures! Highest one was 18 psi lowest was 12 psi! Put the correct pressure in them, took it up the road, steering straight as a die, hit the brakes dead straight again. I thought this is too good to be true, back home & TCut it twice & it came up as one of the straightest MK 1’s you will find. We’ve had it about 15 years now, just tax it for the summer, too old to drive a sports car in the winter!

If the seller had used his noodle, checked the tyres, TCut & polished it he would have easily doubled what he got for it.

First car I bought seemed ok on the test drive but after giving it a thorough check over at home I discovered one front wheel was 20 psi higher than the other! Once both wheels had the correct pressure the car pulled badly to one side when driving. The car dealer is very honest so I'm guessing whoever traded it in had the tyres at unequal pressures to con the dealer!

The dealer sorted the fault straight away - tracking was well off.

 

[Turbo]

Reversing that trolley with the lawnmower will be fun.

When I worked on a large arable farm in Lincolnshire they had a mobile workshop that was used during harvest. It was built on a military 4 wheel bomb trailer towed by a MF 135 with a large generator mounted at the rear.

The tow hook was on the rear of the generator, 4 ft further back than normal. Add on the turntable on the trailer & it made for the most difficult thing I've ever tried reversing! When we moved fields it was my job to drive this contraption, I soon learned to plan ahead so I didn't need to reverse!

 

[Bornfree]

Is that a rietschle blower? We used them at the poultry factory I worked at. So well balanced and smooth running you could hardly feel them running.

Today I acquired one of the vac units for my flowbench via a cheeky bid off the bay of thieves

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[MCKDAVID]

We get them too - three / four times a week, very low-level flying, and occasionally a sonic boom. Last year one banked over so low I could clearly see the pilot and gave him a wave, he turned round and came round again! Normally they just shoot down the valley.

aye fairly regular occurance here too, the first time I just about shaaaat meself...., thought something had exloded, took me a few moments to figure it out..

 

[8ob]

Is that a rietschle blower? We used them at the poultry factory I worked at. So well balanced and smooth running you could hardly feel them running.

Its a side channel vac pump, that one is Chinese but from what I have seen of them they all appear to be the same/badge engineered. I need one more if you know of one

Bob

 

[nickk]

A nearly full oil can ,perfect viscosity for my power hammer.
Big grin.

 

[Mick Annick]

aye fairly regular occurance here too, the first time I just about shaaaat meself...., thought something had exloded, took me a few moments to figure it out..

It took me months to figure out the sonic booms, I ran out of the house the first time it happened, I couldn’t hear the plane, couldn’t figure out what the bang was - no quarries for miles, but none of the neighbours batted an eyelid. I asked one of them after the second or third time it happened and they explained.

 

[bricol]

It took me months to figure out the sonic booms, I ran out of the house the first time it happened, I couldn’t hear the plane, couldn’t figure out what the bang was - no quarries for miles, but none of the neighbours batted an eyelid. I asked one of them after the second or third time it happened and they explained.

In a previous life I've spent a lot of time in various aircraft factories around the world - came out of LMCO facility in Fort Worth, Tx, which is the other side of the road to a (naval) air force base where there was going to be an airshow at the weekend. The flight line was over the factory - I spent a while laid in the back of the pickup watching the F16 sales demo flight . . . inverted over my head - could see the pilot clearly. Going vertical under full afterburner directly above . . . the truck, the ground, me, all shook and vibrated . . impressive stuff.

As was watching it try not to fall out of the air trying to remain alongside a WW2 Mustang long enough to appear they were in formation.

 

[Cobbler]

It took me months to figure out the sonic booms, I ran out of the house the first time it happened, I couldn’t hear the plane, couldn’t figure out what the bang was - no quarries for miles, but none of the neighbours batted an eyelid. I asked one of them after the second or third time it happened and they explained.

We were on a campsite on a lake somewhere near the Ardenne, can’t recall quite where, the book said can be noisy due to military aircraft. They weren’t kidding, the aircraft flew down the valley afterburner on with the odd sonic boom. Very spectacular at night with the flame from the afterburner. I’m sure they did it on purpose, just enough time to settle down & boom!

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Some nice carving chisels

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Picked these up for the office last night.

 

[Bornfree]

Its a side channel vac pump, that one is Chinese but from what I have seen of them they all appear to be the same/badge engineered. I need one more if you know of one

Bob

We had 8 in the factory on scald tanks for air agitation. From what I remember they had a weird motor rating like 4.65kw. They all got scrapped when the factory closed.

 

[nickk]

A kindly ex customer donated these ,need to check wether the red ones propane friendly.

 

[zeppelin builder]

today i aquired a dirty great WODEN190,,/8A vice all steel one
not quick release though has the plain acme thread , be fun welding up and fettling all the damaged bits
might even surface grind the shiny bits
it was local too at 90lbs it would be a bit big for the postie
new jaws on e bay too surprisingly

 

[minimutly]

Today I got one of these

For my grandson and I to attach a chainsaw engine to. Not as straightforward as you might think.

And yesterday I got one of these:-

The atlas copco vtwin silentair is giving my inverter a hard time, hopefully this will be easier on it.

 

[indy4x]

Clearing out some rubbish from work, found these so they came home with me

Perfect timing as I am looking for a set just like them for a little project



These were also in the bin, no immediate need for them but that's no reason to not keep them


Unfortunately these I had to buy, PCL jobbies for my workshop

 

[Munkul]

I acquired... New wheels on my car. Bear in mind, the old ones were so horribly corroded and ugly, that I hated cleaning my car, it looked best dirty! I'm chuffed to bits with these, they're OE wheels for an Fpace but same size as my old ones, I got em off ebay for half the price I've seen them advertised for oh and they aren't cracked and buckled so it also drives better

 

[JEZGUZ]

I was bought the exact same set of carving chisels/gouges for my 14th birthday, never did anything serious with them, I think they got passed along to one of my uncles after a couple of years.

 

[Moose McAlpine]

An orange T6½ service van got delivered today.

It's very nice. 208 miles on the clock. Auto and twin arm rests. My last yellow one was a Transit Custom, will see how they compare. Had a T5½ before but this is much nicer inside.