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

[julianthegypsy]

A new very near gauge. £15 off Amazon, first impression, it's better than the ones I usually get in Aldi. It didn't say so on the advert, but as well as mm and thou, it also does fractions, which is handy sometimes. I like that the battery cover is metal and screwed in place. The placcy ones fall off or break too often. It even came with a little screwdriver and a spare battery. Well pleased for the money.

 

[123hotchef]

A new very near gauge. £15 off Amazon, first impression, it's better than the ones I usually get in Aldi. It didn't say so on the advert, but as well as mm and thou, it also does fractions, which is handy sometimes. I like that the battery cover is metal and screwed in place. The placcy ones fall off or break too often. It even came with a little screwdriver and a spare battery. Well pleased for the money.

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I want one! fractions would be great

 

[GRW]

Nah more fun surprising people on the foot path

I think you could only surprise the deaf by sneaking up on an 80cc 2-stroke

 

[25.4_mechanic]

4m length of 100x100 box

You must be a very wealthy person considered what wood cost at the moment ...

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Hi, I posted only in the vise-thread so far.

Today another old-hand-tools-haul. Pictures will follow.

Greets

Carsten

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[James1979]

You must be a very wealthy person considered what wood cost at the moment ...

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Hi, I posted only in the vise-thread so far.

Today another old-hand-tools-haul. Pictures will follow.

Greets

Carsten

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Nice mog

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Nice mog

Thanks!

Here https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/show-us-your-bench-vice-s.52872/post-1943162 a bigger photo.

Carsten

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[slim_boy_fat]

My pal built one ( I posted pics here at the time) and I had tried to dissuade him because they live at the end of a very twisty single road. I was convinced he'd kill either himself or an innocent passerby.

It was only when he fired it up that SWMBO explicitly forbade him from going past the gate!

 

[MattF]

It was only when he fired it up that SWMBO explicitly forbade him from going past the gate!

Honestly. The things we blokes have to forsake for the sake of love.

 

[Ubique]

A new very near gauge. £15 off Amazon, first impression, it's better than the ones I usually get in Aldi. It didn't say so on the advert, but as well as mm and thou, it also does fractions, which is handy sometimes. I like that the battery cover is metal and screwed in place. The placcy ones fall off or break too often. It even came with a little screwdriver and a spare battery. Well pleased for the money.

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It looks the same as the 'Laser' branded one I have at work, if so, it doesn't have auto-off so make sure you lock the sliding jaw and turn it off before you close the lid...

 

[julianthegypsy]

I want one! fractions would be great

That one is unavailable now for some reason but I'm sure if you search Amazon for the same one it'll be there somewhere. It's handy for checking steel sheet thickness when it doesn't seem to be anything sensible!

 

[25.4_mechanic]

SWMBO

That was new to me. Looked it up. Like it!

 

[julianthegypsy]

It looks the same as the 'Laser' branded one I have at work, if so, it doesn't have auto-off so make sure you lock the sliding jaw and turn it off before you close the lid...

Thanks for the tip!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Honestly. The things we blokes have to forsake for the sake of love.

Well, in this case she was right - he was 88 iirc.....

 

[MattF]

Well, in this case she was right - he was 88 iirc.....

That's a reason not to do it? When do we ever grow up.

 

[Ubique]

That one is unavailable now for some reason but I'm sure if you search Amazon for the same one it'll be there somewhere. It's handy for checking steel sheet thickness when it doesn't seem to be anything sensible!

here's the one I got from Amazon - more than you paid but it is auto off, waterproof & does fractions

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07RLZTZPQ

 

[julianthegypsy]

here's the one I got from Amazon - more than you paid but it is auto off, waterproof & does fractions

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07RLZTZPQ

Looks tidy, and still not expensive.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

That's a reason not to do it? When do we ever grow up.

Aye, but consider the potential, and I don't visit prisons or cemeteries.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

It's handy for checking steel sheet thickness

For this purpose I find this device quite suitable.
One can check the uniformity of thickness over a wider range.

From the penultimate fishing trip.

Carsten

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[MattF]

Aye, but consider the potential, and I don't visit prisons or cemeteries.

Your optimism is on a rare old roll.

 

[bricol]

waterproof
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Sorry - to digress for a moment, that reminds me - we had a "Head of Quality" some time ago, who had charge of "inspection" . .. one day he asks "what's the difference between an external and internal micrometer?" (We'll leave the obvious question of how you get to be Head of Quality for an engineering firm without some idea . . . ) - the reply he was given was "it's waterproof so you can use it outside . . ."