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

[JMS1972]

It wasn't planned at all and I don't even know how to set it up yet, but please tell me yourself:
Should I have let this opportunity pass me by?!?

But one thing after the other:

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A smorgasbord of turning chisels and material for making more - clearly more on the large side.

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Then the subject of QCTP thought of in a completely new way: If you have a buddy with a milling machine and build several of them, why not change the whole basic holder?

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A box with various tools, some of which already point in the right direction ....

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Here, by the way, we have arrived at the root of the Gedore tool brand:
The name is a compound of GEbrüder DOwidat REmscheid, which roughly means "Dowidat Brothers from/in Remscheid".

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Slowly it is becoming clearer where the journey is going ....

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I wasn't looking for a "Super 7", but I was looking for a gearbox.

On the classified ads portal here, where I pull most of my stuff from, you can set alerts for terms that interest you.
However, since the system has different response times and, on top of that, I don't use a smartphone, there are sometimes delays before I see an interesting offer.

So I see this offer (at a price of less than two-thirds of my ML7 ) and immediately start writing to the offerer after seeing only one photo.
Then I look at the timestamp of the offer and realise that there is no way I can be the first.

These are the pictures from the offer:

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So I search the ad again for clues about the offerer and find enough to start looking for a phone number.
I find a phone number, call, actually get the offerer on the phone and while he is talking to me he opens his ad page ... he's completely blown away by the sheer volume of enquiries he's received on this offer and just says, "Oh, I must have offered that machine too cheap!".

But he is a man of his word, the next day I go there, the machine is connected and running.

I put down a deposit for a third of the asking price and arrange a collection date.

Now I've picked it up with my big son and I'm wondering how to set it up and what to do with the little ML7 ....


Have a wonderful day everybody

Carsten

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That looks like the same era as my S7 I think mine was built in 1965! Must have a newer gearbox though and the end cover changes with the gearbox too. Nice score

 

[25.4_mechanic]

That looks like the same era as my S7 I think mine was built in 1965! Must have a newer gearbox though and the end cover changes with the gearbox too. Nice score

Thank you!

According to the serial number, this is from the 1968-71 column and has a M at the end of the number, so it came metrificated from the factury.

And yes, the current seller, son of the owner who died 15 years ago, told me that he remembers how the father retrofitted the gearbox himself, which was well after the actual year of manufacture of the machine.

I am very grateful to the son for keeping the machine so well temperature-controlled and dry - for me - for so long.


Carsten

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[Maker]

I've been waiting to get my hands on this for weeks...



It's a scrapped hospital resus trolly, just need to hose all the MRSA off it and it'll make a wonderful tool box. It even has dividers in two drawers.



The bottom panel lifts up and in to unlock the drawers and reveal the bottom drawer.



Y'know how sometimes you find tools you forgot you lost underneath the drawers? Well this came with a pack of EKG electrodes and a tracheal intubation guide.

 

[Cuthy246]

I've been waiting to get my hands on this for weeks...

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It's a scrapped hospital resus trolly, just need to hose all the MRSA off it and it'll make a wonderful tool box. It even has dividers in two drawers.

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Nice, nothing a little bleach wont fix failing that

 

[sardine]

Drill found in bin, battery wouldn't charge so I zapped it with 12 v on the battery cells inside and the charger now accepts it, easy fix

 

[Woody.v8]

Some new wheels and tyres for the truck.

 

[cardiffrob]

Having a clear-out at work today. I found a H U G E box containing large chunks of metal. 50kg blocks of Tungsten. Not mine and not really all that easy to transport home on my Bicycle, anyway. Not exactly "Today I acquired..." material but I thought you might be interested.

 

[Bki26]

Having a clear-out at work today. I found a H U G E box containing large chunks of metal. 50kg blocks of Tungsten. Not mine and not really all that easy to transport home on my Bicycle, anyway. Not exactly "Today I acquired..." material but I thought you might be interested.

Stick the lot (metal and clear-out) on the for sale section I'd love some exotic stock

 

[Bullet2012]

I've been waiting to get my hands on this for weeks...

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It's a scrapped hospital resus trolly, just need to hose all the MRSA off it and it'll make a wonderful tool box. It even has dividers in two drawers.

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The bottom panel lifts up and in to unlock the drawers and reveal the bottom drawer.

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Y'know how sometimes you find tools you forgot you lost underneath the drawers? Well this came with a pack of EKG electrodes and a tracheal intubation guide.

Nice, got one for me ?

 

[cr500dom]

Todays FB marketplace win

An early steel record 83 QR (to match the similar one I already have) and an early 21 too (which looks identical to the 83 in all honesty)
10 miles from home and a price I couldn’t resist

 

[Brad93]

50kg of tungsten. Pure, would be worth about £350-500

 

[brewdexta]

First asparagus tip from our garden. Grown on a hugel mound.

 

[Farside]

Well this came with a pack of EKG electrodes and a tracheal intubation guide.

Enough to get the party started.

 

[Moose McAlpine]

Enough to get the party started.

*Restarted

 

[indy4x]

Some more Jeep ZJ bits

Rock Auto again



And a little trip to Englandshire saw me drop off some Jeep stuff and come home with this lot

Front skid and bracketry for a build your own 3 link long arm suspension



And front axle bracketry to move the axle 2" forward and shock mounts down by 2"



NP242 transfer box with hack n tap conversion



dog guard for the ZJ


And a pair of Orvis front grills

 

[RichardM]

A polyurathane belt FOC from Derby Bearings for my new cutter grinder.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

And front axle bracketry to move the axle 2" forward and shock mounts down by 2"

In our place, this would invalidate the operating licence of the car and the inspector would have a heart attack at the next MOT (here TÜV).

Question: Do you have to register a modification like this, with a type certificate from the manufacturer and a clearance certificate and a case-by-case test, etc.?

Or is it a case of "just work cleanly, then it will look standard, it won't be noticed and no one will ask about it"?

Serious question, by the way, you have no idea what this is like where I life ....


Carsten

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[indy4x]

@25.4_mechanic I remember from many years ago reading through the David Vizzard book on tuning the A Series engine, there was a huge section on how to tune the engine in Germany and not fail your TUV inspections

This sort of modification is allowed, you do have to declare it to your insurance company and they usually ask for the source of the modified bits but the UK MOT test wouldn't be a problem. No way of disguising the modifications, they are way different to what's on the stock vehicle

The kit is actually a copy of what you can import from the USA but the cost of shipping and import duty makes it very expensive. Kit form produced in the UK makes it more affordable but still a few £££

Have got a similar setup for the rear, to complete the conversion for both ends of the vehicle it also needs 13 Johnny joints and 2" dia, 1/4" wall tubing, that lot wasn't cheap

 

[bricol]

@25.4_mechanic I remember from many years ago reading through the David Vizzard book on tuning the A Series engine, there was a huge section on how to tune the engine in Germany and not fail your TUV inspections

This sort of modification is allowed, you do have to declare it to your insurance company and they usually ask for the source of the modified bits but the UK MOT test wouldn't be a problem. No way of disguising the modifications, they are way different to what's on the stock vehicle

The kit is actually a copy of what you can import from the USA but the cost of shipping and import duty makes it very expensive. Kit form produced in the UK makes it more affordable but still a few £££

Have got a similar setup for the rear, to complete the conversion for both ends of the vehicle it also needs 13 Johnny joints and 2" dia, 1/4" wall tubing, that lot wasn't cheap

Have you found Matts OffRoad Recovery on You tube?

Uses a modified Jeep of some description - seeming with little use of a tape measure, designs, safety gear involved in the modification - but does it work!! And as for his Morrvair . . . I want one . . . Lots of videos of the work they did on the vehicles, as well as recoveries.

Links with Fab Rats - who "do it nice, because they do it twice . . ."

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Matts OffRoad Recovery

Yea, I watch Matt's videos.

When I see what they can do to their vehicles, those are about the only moments when I feel envious of living in that country (and with the size of the properties), otherwise I'm through with them.

Which I realise they measure and calculate and control a lot more than they show.
In the videos, everything is supposed to appear effortless and carefree.

I've also seen FabRats, but I don't like the man and I can't stand his wife ....

@25.4_mechanic I remember from many years ago reading through the David Vizzard book on tuning the A Series engine, there was a huge section on how to tune the engine in Germany and not fail your TUV inspections

This sort of modification is allowed, you do have to declare it to your insurance company and they usually ask for the source of the modified bits but the UK MOT test wouldn't be a problem. No way of disguising the modifications, they are way different to what's on the stock vehicle

The kit is actually a copy of what you can import from the USA but the cost of shipping and import duty makes it very expensive. Kit form produced in the UK makes it more affordable but still a few £££

Have got a similar setup for the rear, to complete the conversion for both ends of the vehicle it also needs 13 Johnny joints and 2" dia, 1/4" wall tubing, that lot wasn't cheap

Thank you for the explanations.

So it seems that for you the regulator is a financial one (the insurance), whereas for us it is an administrative one (TÜV/Dekra).

I can still remember that in the 1980s there were several Brits working in my circle in Hamburg, really gifted in bodywork.

I sometimes talked to them about your MOT and the differences to our TÜV - back then MOT seems to have been a pure joke, today - according to what I read here in the forum - it has become much stricter.

But judging by the chassis modifications that seem to be possible, it's still not quite as strict as ours.

Good luck with the work and above all the desired effect in the end!


Carsten

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