Mick Annick
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eLuSiVeMiTe
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Keep meaning to grab one of those.
Odd occasions I could do with one
@Agroshield put me onto it, about £18 from Amazon.
lotus_esprit_s1
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A 3ton trolley Jack that doesn’t get phased by zip ties and washers on the floor!
Harveys is my favorite bitter but I was in a Sheppard Neame pub tonight so was on Archers cider !You can have a pint of Harveys at the Royal Oak at Wineham whilst you’re there
What happened to the Hailsham one,knew a butcher there.
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Two old bike lamps followed me home, i spotted the red GPO one in a pile of bits and the other was under it.
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Was after a #404 woodruff cutter, got a selection of Clarkson and Dormer second hand for the price of one unbranded new one:
Wanted some better quality metric taps and dies, got this job lot, mainly presto, some Sherwood:
He also did me a deal on some dwangs, not sure if that is in common usage, what my dad always called them?
He also did me a deal on some dwangs, not sure if that is in common usage, what my dad always called them?
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Nice
Rannsachair
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I think not a bad buy, £24.99 for the woodruff cutters and £66 for the taps and dies, there was one UNC tap in with them and a set of M12 left hand taps.Nice
Cobbler
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I heard that story about a tube company, Accles & Pollock comes to mind, Yanks sent over a sample of tube, it was returned with another inside. No idea if it’s true or not.Heard a lovely story many years ago about some yankee company who claimed to have made the smallest diameter drill in the world.
They sent it to Dormer in Sheffield who promptly drilled a hole through it and sent it back.
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I heard the same story about Fine Tubes in Plymouth forty years ago. There must have been a lot of companies making tiny tubes and drills back in the day!
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We still need a "I want button!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Very much along the lines of the USAF sending a photograph taken at high altitude from one of their spy planes of a UK RAF base and the RAF sending them an overhead shot of their spy plane taking the photograph!
Urban myths the lot of them I suspect
eLuSiVeMiTe
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RC crawler.
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I like that story that is an urban myth about the US battle cruiser that radioed another obstruction on the radar “ this is the USS ……. Please move I have right of way“ no reply, so re-sent the call, to get the reply “this is a lighthouse, your move”Very much along the lines of the USAF sending a photograph taken at high altitude from one of their spy planes of a UK RAF base and the RAF sending them an overhead shot of their spy plane taking the photograph!
Urban myths the lot of them I suspect
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You can have a pint of Harveys at the Royal Oak at Wineham whilst you’re there
What.....sherry?
