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

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Car boot number two was more traditional one.
Still a lot of rubbish, some one said:
Where's there's muck there is brass.



Wolf Drill lathe. I missed the Wolf drill by mere minutes.
Shame

So I brought a drill, but it will not fit the Wolf Lathe.






I am assured it works, but as you can see it does need to TLC.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Free food, I can post this, as my friend is taking a bath.

That means the room will smell of perfume and other ladies stuff.

Why do some modern houses have 2 toilets, one shower and no bath?

 

[James1979]

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Free food, I can post this, as my friend is taking a bath.

That means the room will smell of perfume and other ladies stuff.

Why do some modern houses have 2 toilets, one shower and no bath?

Why do ladies have so much stuff?! I have a can of deodorant and a toothbrush in the bathroom. Shower gel in the shower. That is it.

 

[Cobbler]

Car boot number two was more traditional one.
Still a lot of rubbish, some one said:
Where's there's muck there is brass.

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Wolf Drill lathe. I missed the Wolf drill by mere minutes.
Shame

So I brought a drill, but it will not fit the Wolf Lathe.

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I am assured it works, but as you can see it does need to TLC.

That drill looks very much like a Nu-tool one, is it?

 

[MattF]

Why do ladies have so much stuff?! I have a can of deodorant and a toothbrush in the bathroom. Shower gel in the shower. That is it.

If you ever find the answer, let us all know.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

That drill looks very much like a Nu-tool one, is it?

It does, but no name on it.

 

[Divingdad]

Opened the box today and took delivery of a 50 pack of GYS 1.6 6013 Electrodes. Well packaged or what !

 

[Kram]

The Amazon Ginour lid arrived. True colour with side windows. Looks a very good design, light weight. *Have not tested welding yet* The lens is very good, 100x better than my old cheapy. Light is shade 3. Dark is 5 - 13
I may be prefering this cheapy over the GYS Alien! If it arrives..

Couple of minor annoyances - the headband looks a good design and feels very comfortable when on but may need adjustment. It doesnt move down enough for access to the controls,
edit- amazon video shows how to adjust it, sorted. Which are hidden right up the top behind headband. Better if they were below and easily accessable. I rarely mess around with them, so not a big problem I think I will leave it shade 11, highest sens, longest delay and never touch it again if anything like the old cheapy. I should have upgraded sooner! Thirty three pounds!

Could use some flame stickers

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08RMV21KC/

 

[KimB]

What do you make of that sealey stuff? Not really used it for one reason or another but it’s cheap enough for a truck box.

It’s not actually bad. I have one of the spanner sets already. They’re only around £35 with a lifetime warranty. Things I can’t get from Halfords I have been tending to buy from sealey.

 

[James1979]

That’s good to know.

I’ve never had much to do with it. There’s one Sealey dealer here but his prices are high. It’s cheaper to buy Teng from the other guy.

Thing with truck tools is it’s a balance, they need to be cheap enough to risk breakage or going missing and good enough not to let you down when you need them.

 

[knighty]

^^^ I really like USPro tools for that, good enough to use, cheap enough not to worry about

normally buy them on ebay, but there's a tool guy comes around with the same stuff

tbh, now I'm typing this out I don't think I've killed/damaged any of my uspro stuff and I'm pretty hard on tools, the impact sockets stand up to the big milwaukee impact driver and I've seen plenty of snapon sockets split by them

90% of the time when I'm fixing stuff it needs doing in a hurry so I'm more concerned about getting the job done than looking after tools, so there's screw drivers used as chisels, sockets battered onto stuck bolts etc. etc. and the USPro stuff has taken it all in it's stride

 

[James1979]

^^^ I really like USPro tools for that, good enough to use, cheap enough not to worry about

normally buy them on ebay, but there's a tool guy comes around with the same stuff

tbh, now I'm typing this out I don't think I've killed/damaged any of my uspro stuff and I'm pretty hard on tools, the impact sockets stand up to the big milwaukee impact driver and I've seen plenty of snapon sockets split by them

90% of the time when I'm fixing stuff it needs doing in a hurry so I'm more concerned about getting the job done than looking after tools, so there's screw drivers used as chisels, sockets battered onto stuck bolts etc. etc. and the USPro stuff has taken it all in it's stride

I’ve not used their stuff apart from a 21mm socket that lives in my truck for the wheel nuts and that’s been used about twice, and I also have a power probe of theirs. I know there is a bit of marmite-ness about power probes but as a way of poking voltage into a circuit to test it like trailer lights etc, it’s fine and sub £20 I don’t worry about it too much

 

[zeppelin builder]

Some tools for a little tool box and new phone finally. Was on iPhone 7 for years but this is such a godsend now. My iPhone 7 was like triggers broom

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knipex cobras are brilliant

 

[Kram]

 

[Pete.]

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Optimus Kram

 

[GRW]

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The Amazon Ginour lid arrived. True colour with side windows. Looks a very good design, light weight. *Have not tested welding yet* The lens is very good, 100x better than my old cheapy. Light is shade 3. Dark is 5 - 13
I may be prefering this cheapy over the GYS Alien! If it arrives..

Couple of minor annoyances - the headband looks a good design and feels very comfortable when on but may need adjustment. It doesnt move down enough for access to the controls,
edit- amazon video shows how to adjust it, sorted. Which are hidden right up the top behind headband. Better if they were below and easily accessable. I rarely mess around with them, so not a big problem I think I will leave it shade 11, highest sens, longest delay and never touch it again if anything like the old cheapy. I should have upgraded sooner! Thirty three pounds!

Could use some flame stickers

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08RMV21KC/

And you get to look like a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica. Bonus

 

[badabec]

Where is the triangle, circle or square?

 

[The Artilleryman]

This arrived today.

Might need to make an adapter to remove this

This job will have to wait, as the next job to be done is to weld on the mounting lugs/ankle protectors for the power hacksaw trolley and then paint it with red oxide.

 

[MattF]

A banana shape type wedge is what you want for removing a gib key. Point at one end, with a widening taper whilst having a curve. Unlike a straight wedge, it'll keep roughly equal pressure on all of the key surface.

 

[bourbon]

well chuffed for £30