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

[Mick Annick]

A dog , goat or llama cart ?

It may just be a hand cart, ready for me to go to hell in!

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Freiburg,

Home of sex tourism, and our German office.

No relation.

Freiburg im Breisgau -> Student city in southern Baden in the area of the southern Upper Rhine, fourth largest city in Baden-Württemberg, area with the highest average temperatures in Germany.

I didn't know about the sex tourism, but (if it's true) it's very beautiful and worth living there, and if you're not very focused on your studies, you can easily become a permanent student there ... which raises the question of how to make a living .... France and Switzerland are both just a stone's throw away ...

On the other hand:

Freiberg, a district town and mining city roughly in the middle of the Free State of Saxony between Dresden and Chemnitz.
Site of the present Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, at whose predecessor the chemist Clemens Winkler found the element Germanium in 1885/6.

Up-and-coming location of semiconductor production and solar technology - and unfortunately also of right-wing extremist morons and conspiracy caps.

The two cities are just over 650km/6.5h apart by car.

A wonderful day to all

Carsten

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[droopsnoot]

Been looking for a set of Dunlop tracking gauges for a while.
They need a really good clean but are all there and work

I was given a set of these a year or two back, I downloaded the manual from somewhere to show how to use them but I haven't got around to trying them out yet. I usually use a Gunsons Trackrite (that thing you drive over) which seems to work OK, but these look like they're a decent alternative and with less space required.

 

[DAPPH]

I found that there was too much give on the old Dunlop gauges for them to be any good on a modern car where the steering alignment is to an accuracy of half a degree rather than millimeters or parts of an inch . They were OK on military Lorries etc. & Landrovers though . I think we ended up with several sets of Churchill drive on's & a shed load of other Churchill stuff. Including a light beam & mirror alignment kit which was rarely used because no one knew much about how to use it .

 

[indy4x]

@DAPPH used them years ago when I worked for a guy restoring Triump sport cars and they worked ok given that they weren't exactly modern

The set he had were old then and really well made, very little flex. This one I've bought is newer, definitely not as rigid but the price was good

I've been watching quite a few on eBay and the older ones seem to go for just over £100 collection only, if the seller offers postage they can hit £200

Most of my stuff is old, I do a bit of green laning and occasional Pay and Play and its to keep the tracking close to where it needs to be

Currently using a PCL measuring stick which works well but is just a bit of a faff. Unfortunately I drove over it so it's not as smooth to use as it once was





Also have the Gunson Trackrite laser jobbie but it doesn't do big wheels and tyres on 4x4's



If an earlier Dunlop set pops up locally for reasonable money I'll upgrade but for now it'll do

 

[Onoff]

...another Fakita 18V grinder. £23 I think, brush less, what's not to like. Would have preferred a different colour mind. The first one I got is bright orange and has been brilliant. This one destined for use as a power file.

Think I ordered the 100mm one but got sent the 125mm one.

 

[Kram]

...another Fakita 18V grinder. £23 I think, brush less, what's not to like. Would have preferred a different colour mind. The first one I got is bright orange and has been brilliant. This one destined for use as a power file.

Think I ordered the 100mm one but got sent the 125mm one.


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Link please, could do with a new one.

 

[Mikes]

A Woden screw jack (didn't even know they made them). Rated at 3 ton. Only very short. Removed from a derelict workshop that I was asked if there was anything that I would like to take before it's flattened. Also took his little mate which doesn't have a make on it. And a bucket full of large taps and dies which all look to have escaped the ravages of time. Loads of other stuff but a lot to far gone to be of any use. Have another visit due later in the week as some other bits look salvageable.

 

[Onoff]

Link please, could do with a new one.

This one. Just chucked a battery on on it...it works, says 12000rpm on the label. I'll try it in anger at the weekend.

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[Aff]

Link please, could do with a new one.

I would recommend spending a couple of quid more and going for the ones that use the stolen makita castings and moldings.
They are significantly better quality in almost every way. I took a few apart in another thread and the internal components are almost identical to the genuine makita.

Keep an eye on them and they routinely go into the £25-30 range

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[seriesonewelder]

A few things from Zoro.
The plier set is for the wife for crafting, a pair of the clamps and the screwdriver was cheap - should've had another. The pliers and screwdriver came in the big white box and the clamps in their own.

 

[Onoff]

The plier set is for the wife for crafting

To think mine moans I bought her 5L of car shampoo and another of screenwash one Christmas!

 

[nickk]

A new Frizzen spring,thanks to @ronan ,this is one of a pair 17th century.
Never repaired a gun before,hope it doesn’t end with a bang!

 

[roofman]

As I’m one of the only people left on the planet who doesn’t have FB I’m missing out on these used bargains!

+1

 

[roofman]

My nutter of a sister , a born again Christian , rekki healer & Buddist has apparently just been ejected from the extended family Faceache group for her stupidity wrt the anti vax rubbish she has been posting . I know it's not nice but I often hope that she will get a near death dose of it and suffer long covid so she knows exactly how hundreds of thousands who have had it are struggling because of numpties like her .

How is it your sisters fault people have had Rona?

 

[Pete.]

How is it your sisters fault people have had Rona?

I read that she had been booted out of the group for trying to foist her beliefs on others, not because she was responsible for people being affected.

 

[Barking Mat]

Freiburg im Breisgau -> Student city in southern Baden in the area of the southern Upper Rhine, fourth largest city in Baden-Württemberg, area with the highest average temperatures in Germany.

I didn't know about the sex tourism, but (if it's true) it's very beautiful and worth living there, and if you're not very focused on your studies, you can easily become a permanent student there ... which raises the question of how to make a living .... France and Switzerland are both just a stone's throw away ...

On the other hand:

Freiberg, a district town and mining city roughly in the middle of the Free State of Saxony between Dresden and Chemnitz.
Site of the present Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, at whose predecessor the chemist Clemens Winkler found the element Germanium in 1885/6.

Up-and-coming location of semiconductor production and solar technology - and unfortunately also of right-wing extremist morons and conspiracy caps.

The two cities are just over 650km/6.5h apart by car.

A wonderful day to all

Carsten

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Freiburg in Breisgau.

FKK Palast, I'm not going to post a link, all legal in Germany.

No, I've not visited.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

all legal in Germany.

Pardon? What's illegal about that with you?

When two adults with free will (if there is such a thing) decide to exchange a service for a sum of money and a third party provides the necessary premises?

I have no need for it, I don't know the establishment, and judging by the pictures on the net, it would be far too kitschy for my liking.

But it should be clear that something like this exists everywhere in one form or another - whether legal or illegal ... better official, clean and controlled - I would think.

How are your laws regarding this subject?

 

[Pete.]

Pardon? What's illegal about that with you?

When two adults with free will (if there is such a thing) decide to exchange a service for a sum of money and a third party provides the necessary premises?

I have no need for it, I don't know the establishment, and judging by the pictures on the net, it would be far too kitschy for my liking.

But it should be clear that something like this exists everywhere in one form or another - whether legal or illegal ... better official, clean and controlled - I would think.

How are your laws regarding this subject?

Dunno about HIM coz he's in France where they're so randy they probably do it all day for free

Over here paying for sexual services is legal but operating brothels and soliciting on the street etc is not.

 

[MattF]

I read that she had been booted out of the group for trying to foist her beliefs on others, not because she was responsible for people being affected.

I read it as unvaccinated people are being demonised as being carriers/transmitters, whilst vaccinated people aren't.