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

[zeppelin builder]

a tame sparky and a totaly new power supply and led lighting , ramp wired up , old
oerlikon welder with miller voltage sensing suitcase on top , main unit set up for alu ans suitcase for msteel rigged up an extra + bulkhead plug and a toggle switch to lock line contactor on

 

[bigegg]

Just a quick, unrefined sketch. You'd obviously want a smooth curve.

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I've got one of them in no.3 shed, with a load of other wierd chisels. I wondered what it was for...

 

[The Artilleryman]

Today I acquired this cherry picker

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And you are too far away from me, I need one for a small job of moving my cctv camera's higher up, but porch sticks out too far to do it any other way.

 

[zeppelin builder]

I've got one of them in no.3 shed, with a load of other wierd chisels. I wondered what it was for...

a drift to remove gib keys when the boss is below the rim of the pulley

 

[DAPPH]

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 looks identical to my 33 yr old Nu tool drill press , the tables on them tended to be a fraction out of true ie leaning down 2.5 or so at the front .
I carefully set the table up side down on my lathe cross slide ( Compound slide removed ) and used a fly cutter to recut the mounting boss face at a very fast fine cut . If it is the same model as mine look after the chuck key ...these days they are like hens teeth . I keep my chuck key on the front of the press body with a three inch torroidal feromagnet out of an old scrap microwave .. still mis-place it sometimes but not often .

My pal had one too and discovered some quality thicker walled steel tube 2 mtrs long the same diameter as the pillar pole at his work place so he purchased it. . He cut the tube to about five feet long , I helped him set it in the right places then chemical anchor the elongated press to his workshop floor .

 

[DAPPH]

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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?

No bath ... we don't have one ...took it out last week .
Do you really like festering in a warm pool of water and your own dead skin , cream cheese , clinkers & pubes etc ?

My wife & I haven't had a bath in 16 years .. we use the power shower instead.
The freed up space is now taken up with new indoor drying rack area , thank goodness I had the tilers tile the floor & wall that would be hidden under the bath as it was planned that if my disabilities got worse we might have one of the sit up in the bath jobbies with a side door to it .

 

[DAPPH]

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.

That or a set of mole grips with a simple stirrup adaptor over the adjusting screw of the grips and fit it to the slide hammer

 

[DAPPH]

Just spotted this on my way home left out for scrap
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" Wolverhampton police are seeking to apprehend the thief who stole a record vice model N0 23 mounted on a small angle iron stand that was stood outside the owners house as they were opening their back gate. "

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

" Wolverhampton police are seeking to apprehend the thief who stole a record vice model N0 23 mounted on a small angle iron stand that was stood outside the owners house as they were opening their back gate. "

Don be daft.
If the did catch him, they will not make any money on it.
Oh me just being cynical.

 

[DAPPH]

A new set of ladders. I just became fed up with a succession of DIY store rickety ally rubbish.
So I went overboard. A set of Little Giant "King Combo" ladders that are 3 in 1. Sounds a bit like a fast food takeaway meal to be honest:

The bottom rung has a bit of a full width insert in it that I think is going to get old fast. When you step on it it gives a loud audible "CLICK" so you know you are on the bottom rung.......

It opens up to make a 3m long ladder. Very strong, very stable. Not the lightest thing in the world but very solid.

Question .

I'm in the market for my final three way ladder that will see me turn my toes up an 20 or so years . My 40 year old B&D 3 way died two years or so ago when the plastic locking slots at the top of the front section got sheared off by a , " borrower ( aka ***T " . Who didn't say anything about it when they put them back up in the overhead storage rack for me the next day . Does the rear part have narrow rungs or the same wide tread step as the front step ?

I'm not bothered about the £ 143 price I want something useful and serviceable for I have had to purchase a new but a crap set of rung'd three ways that hurt my feet .

You and me both. I don't mind scaffolding or anything where there's a stable base, but I loathe being up a ladder. It's not helped by the fact that none of the ground around my house is anywhere near level, so getting the ladder onto a stable base is far from trivial.

Am I to take it that joyriding between gable ends 10 feet apart 25 feet up on two 20 footers lashed together isn't quite your cup of tea then ?

 

[Dr.Al]

Am I to take it that joyriding between gable ends 10 feet apart 25 feet up on two 20 footers lashed together isn't quite your cup of tea then ?

 

[northwest]

Does the rear part have narrow rungs or the same wide tread step as the front step ?

It has narrower rungs but no narrower than a good quality extending ladder. If I have any concerns, it is the weight, which of course is a double edged problem. Because they are heavy, they give a very stable platform not easily upset by knocking them. But that is it, they are heavy. You cannot have everything all ways up.

If the width of the rungs is a deal breaker for you I would look at the WAKU range because they double up. The price is more than double too but if you have ever used a Waku ladder you will realise why they are not cheap. One of the very best.

On the whole I am very pleased with them and although the price looks a bit "up there" you can see why the second you use them. I especially like the push button operation of the mechanism.

 

[droopsnoot]

A bag of spanners from the penultimate (or last, if it's raining on Sunday) car boot sale of this year.

A fair bit of Britool, a Stahlwille, a couple of Snails. Not sure why I bought them, as most of them are duplicates, but there are one or two where I have the same size but not the same shape. The adjustables feel better than the cheap ones I keep in the car, so I'll swap those over at some point. I don't think the spark plug spanner fits any of my cars. No Elora 203s.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

a Stahlwille,

A difference has become clear to me currently:

Over in the Vise thread recently, it was about which rust removal method gives the more pleasing finish - citric acid or electrolysis with washing soda.

I compared and there is no universal answer to this in my opinion.
However, in the case of Stahlwille wrenches, I can clearly say that electrolytic rust removal give a better result after finishing. These were both specimens from the same period.

Carsten

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[plewlandsbob]

Just a quick, unrefined sketch. You'd obviously want a smooth curve.

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Just a quick, unrefined sketch. You'd obviously want a smooth curve.

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These came from a ,Claas machinery dealer. These are not genuine Claas ones. They are expensive. The dark one , is made from an old lorry leaf spring.

 

[plewlandsbob]

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Another method of pulling the key.

 

[bigegg]

These came from a ,Claas machinery dealer. These are not genuine Claas ones. They are expensive. The dark one , is made from an old lorry leaf spring.

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Those are what I would call "offcuts"

 

[plewlandsbob]

Pardon our interruption...

 

[Scruffywelder]

Pardon our interruption...

Them's the fellers!

 

[MattF]

However, in the case of Stahlwille wrenches, I can clearly say that electrolytic rust removal give a better result after finishing. These were both specimens from the same period.

It's by far the better method. As I've said multiple times before, the results from citric are unpredictable, & on occasion, dire.