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

[Pete.]

A very nice bit of paper, with numbers and words on it.

£768.98.

Shame I can not spend it.
Took a load of dead jewerly and a few dead watches to a dealer I know and weighed them in.

Funds going to MIS to pay off our consumable account with out hitting our limite reserves.

Next time you have to do it try Hatton Garden Metals. They do a very good postal service and pay good rates with no fuss next day. They'll even remove any jewels from any jewelry you send in and post it back to you if you ask them to and provide an anvelope.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Next time you have to do it try Hatton Garden Metals. They do a very good postal service and pay good rates with no fuss next day. They'll even remove any jewels from any jewelry you send in and post it back to you if you ask them to and provide an anvelope.

Something toi look into.

I dealt with this guy in the past. His prices are good. Local as well.
All the stones etc are removed. Watches are sold for the weight, plus a bit more for the workings.

Sets are given a better price, if we set them up.

Plus if we have the box's he buys them as well.

 

[arther dailey]

A very nice bit of paper, with numbers and words on it.

£768.98.

Shame I can not spend it.
Took a load of dead jewerly and a few dead watches to a dealer I know and weighed them in.

Funds going to MIS to pay off our consumable account with out hitting our limite reserves.

think you should be getting a medal for services rendered above and beyond , thankyou for the work you put in on their behalf.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

think you should be getting a medal for services rendered above and beyond , thankyou for the work you put in on their behalf.

NO.
NO
NONO
Oh yes
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


There is more to MIS than me.

I am a small cog.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

think you should be getting a medal for services rendered above and beyond , thankyou for the work you put in on their behalf.

Oh yers.
NO.

 

[DAPPH]

Who says you cant live like a king on a peasants income!!
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If they are any good I will go back for the other 30 packets tomorrow!

They store well for a few months in suspended animation in a deep freezer set at - 18 oC. or lower .

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Skip dived this morning.
Got a lot of hemp rope and some Astro turff off cuts.
Plus a bit more stuff.

Details to follow soon.
Having a dirty pint.

 

[DAPPH]

As soon as i spotted it i knew it would make a nice looking item for my pre 50's room which is going to get filled with nostalgic items

I guess you'd like a proper antique two slice toaster . This was the first one I had as a newly married lad in 1970 .. It cost me half a crown at a local church jumble sale .. complete with original carboard box , rubber lead covered in cotton with a13 amp round pin plug. Don't think it had ever been used as there were no crumbs or discolouring of the doors or the element forms

If you do get open element electrical things for your 50's room cut the earth , live & neutral off short so they cannot be connected to live , neutral or an earth so the is no chance of them being plugged in to a live socket & electrocuting kiddies or idiots.

 

[DAPPH]

They screw on instead of valve caps and push the valve.
I think they transmit constantly, not really had much of a mess with them as I only got them last night so fitted and paired to the app and then the pic above was when I came home in the van this evening and parked outside the garage.




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With the sensors fitted do you have to have the wheels balanced incase you go above 50 mph?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I am a small cog.

We'd heard the rumours.....

 

[25.4_mechanic]

It's getting serious ...

the good thing: I can pick up an Arboga U2508, the Myford ML7 might get company;
the bad thing: the drill-mill is in a narrow basement with a very low ceiling height and a very narrow, steep, angled staircase as the only access.

The machine should be broken down into as many parts as possible, there are only two of us and we are no athletes.

I'm thinking about one of the well known engine jacks - it's the head that worries me the most:

My choice would be the familiar textile loops, choking - so tightening itself, end by loop - passed around narrowings.

If I make it as above, the head will be quite front-heavy with the gearbox, so more like this:

Question:
- Is the head hanging securely?
- Can I break anything with this solution?
- Do I have to remove all switches, levers, etc. from the head to rule out damage?

Further:

Once we have the head on the ground, we want to secure it upside down on a piece of cardboard cut to size on a hand truck with straps.

- Is there any soup coming out of the head? This is the oil sheet:

What do you think?
Any other suggestions?

Thank you very much!

Greetings

Carsten

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[slim_boy_fat]

You DO like creating challenges for yourself [and your friend], don't you.

Have you been reading @mangocrazy's thread re getting a stone slab out of a cellar? Wait until he's done it and get him over to help.....

 

[MattF]

You DO like creating challenges for yourself [and your friend], don't you.

Those challenges make seeing it sat in your workshop all the more enjoyable.

 

[JMS1972]

It's getting serious ...

the good thing: I can pick up an Arboga U2508, the Myford ML7 might get company;
the bad thing: the drill-mill is in a narrow basement with a very low ceiling height and a very narrow, steep, angled staircase as the only access.

The machine should be broken down into as many parts as possible, there are only two of us and we are no athletes.

I'm thinking about one of the well known engine jacks - it's the head that worries me the most:

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My choice would be the familiar textile loops, choking - so tightening itself, end by loop - passed around narrowings.

If I make it as above, the head will be quite front-heavy with the gearbox, so more like this:

View attachment 329147

Question:
- Is the head hanging securely?
- Can I break anything with this solution?
- Do I have to remove all switches, levers, etc. from the head to rule out damage?

Further:

Once we have the head on the ground, we want to secure it upside down on a piece of cardboard cut to size on a hand truck with straps.

- Is there any soup coming out of the head? This is the oil sheet:

View attachment 329148

What do you think?
Any other suggestions?

Thank you very much!

Greetings

Carsten

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Pop a big lump of wood on the table and wind it up to max height to support the weight of the head whilst unscrewing.

You can then lower the head on the table to get to a more convenient height if desired.

 

[Hood]

With the sensors fitted do you have to have the wheels balanced incase you go above 50 mph?

Won't be an issue, my stabilisers are only rated to 40mph.

 

[roblane65]

Yesterday I acquired 2 x 3m lengths of 80 x 80 x 6 angle for nowt

It was going to the tip ,my mate drives a caged 7.5 tonner for the council not that exciting but I can feel a nice bench coming on .That is once I start the other roundtuit jobs in queue !

 

[roofman]

Yet another rental

 

[25.4_mechanic]

You DO like creating challenges for yourself [and your friend], don't you.

Have you been reading @mangocrazy's thread re getting a stone slab out of a cellar? Wait until he's done it and get him over to help.....

Yes, a challenge now and then, something you've never managed before ... and the friend is my big son, he has no choice.

I read through the thread and learned a lot more than I expected - let's see how it turns out ...

This idea came in:

Nice evening

Carsten

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[dobbslc]

I finally bought a new tube of this,

It's really good sealant.
The Hobgoblin isn't bad either!

 

[brewdexta]

lots of techie stuff

first, an ATX PSU dongle as per @Stueeee, I shall test it later

Then some mains electricity monitoring kit. First and transformer, AC 250 to AC 9v, no rectification, his is for monitoring supply voltage

This plugs into this board, it takes up to 3 current transformers and on voltage sensor. This is ideal for 3 phase monitoring but lechacal.com, based out of Edinburgh have lots of other combinations. This one fits on to a Raspberry pi

Then a parallel to serial ATA (and visa versa) converter, if I can then convert sata to USB then I have IDE to USB.

Using one of these I can then connect SATA drives to USB, transfer the contents to my NAS then crush the drive.

Same with this Msata to 2.5" sata converter

and working with the old msata drive out of a knackered laptop

And and a M2 Sata drive to USB converter.

So with all the above, I should, with maybe one addition and some SCIS exceptions, be able to get rid of about 20 drives littering the place up.

The PSU adapter works and powers 3.5 disks and with the 2.5" sata to USB adapter I have a started transferring data, along with the msata from my laptop I've made a good start, all on the NAS now and will get replicated to the other NAS overnight.

Cheers
Andy