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julianf
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A 1/2 inch alloy king dick ratchet, like this one -
Chap at the boot sale gave it me, without charge, as it was all rusted (the steel bits) and siezed, it was the end of the day, and id purchased some other bits from him.
I agreed to put some coin in a charity box as recompense.
Some plusgas and a bit of effort, and its all working, with a nice, tight lock.
I know its not a massive 'score' but there's always that satisfaction with turning trash into tools.
Chap at the boot sale gave it me, without charge, as it was all rusted (the steel bits) and siezed, it was the end of the day, and id purchased some other bits from him.
I agreed to put some coin in a charity box as recompense.
Some plusgas and a bit of effort, and its all working, with a nice, tight lock.
I know its not a massive 'score' but there's always that satisfaction with turning trash into tools.
antonio costa
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Not exactly today but yesterday morning, a ck 2.4 wedge collet. Quite cool to be able to buy it locally, I've been buying ck stuff online for a few year and there is a dealer a few kilometers away from home with pretty good prices. I guess that we always search the best we can locally. Anyway, I really like this kind of collet they really last a long time and never twist like the regular ones. I only bought a new one because I don't know were I put the other one.
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no picture showingManaged to source this today, beautiful old gauge, think I might have a couple more on the way too.
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well got it sunday but only opened today got the top box ta match
well got it sunday but only opened today got the top box ta match
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Managed to source this today, beautiful old gauge, think I might have a couple more on the way too.
nice get the polish out
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Ah, lead bricks
NPL's original estimate had been 5 tonnes and we paid (if I recall right) about £2500 for it.
Eight years, 20 tonnes and two skip wagon trips later the boss netted £24,000. The guys who gave up their Saturday morning to hand-ball it all got £50 each.
What's that? The rich get richer and the poor sods get sha... on.
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It's amazing what gets binned, every time I go to the tip it makes me sad, you used to be able to help yourself but not now. I know a guy who used to deal with the plant used on Railtrack contracts. Once this stuff got to a certain age it would be scrapped, the contract had already paid way more than the cost of buying it. This guy and others had to take lorry loads of stuff and watch them put grinders through the side engines to make sure they were not used again. Why they could put them into a machinery auction I have no idea as there are no comebacks. Obviously there was quite a bit of stuff that escaped before it could be slaughtered
The most wasteful thing I heard of (a mate was there and watched it happen) was when the contract for building the oil terminal in the Sheltands was finished. All the mobile plant was driven into a huge holed and covered over. It's all still there. Landys, diggers, gensets, welders, etc, etc. All stuff that had been amortised over the cost of the job and long paid for itself, and the managers didn't / couldn't be arsed to dispose of it for money - I can see their point, as arranging a sale would have been a pain up there.
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Dig it up
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There is and has been for a while a boom in digging out basements under posh London houses, at the end of the dig the mini digger gets to dig its own grave and is concreted in which is fine................. Until the house is sold and new owner decides they want a sub-sub-basement for a swimming pool of whatever, work suddenly becomes much delayed and way more expensive as new contractors have to deal with unexpected concrete entombed mini digger
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They could have just advertised 'free stuff, must be gone by the end of the week' if they couldn't be bothered and it would have saved having to dig a hole.
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Thing is, most people who would have wanted some gear locally, already had it
and anyone from the mainland would have had to pay ferry costs and other transport for the return with the gear. That would mean the price the kit sold for would be peanuts and not worth while.Bill Edwards
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Aye, but I'm sure that if they just said 'loads of gear, just come and take it' it would have gone with no waste and no need to spend money digging the hole. No profit to be made, but no loss either!
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Oh, for sure, I would have travelled up and ferried back a running 110 Landy or whatever, but a lot of them were utterly knacked, by what I heard. Certainly, some good kit went under the ground, but also a load of scrap vehicles. As I said, a lot of locals got something out of it.
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There is and has been for a while a boom in digging out basements under posh London houses, at the end of the dig the mini digger gets to dig its own grave and is concreted in which is fine................. Until the house is sold and new owner decides they want a sub-sub-basement for a swimming pool of whatever, work suddenly becomes much delayed and way more expensive as new contractors have to deal with unexpected concrete entombed mini digger
There's no excuse for that. I've dug out quite a few London basements and leaving a 50 grand machine in there was never a consideration. There's a way to get it out if you try hard enough.
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Today I managed to get hold of a steel cabinet, 2m x1m x600mm with 9 built in drawers, an underbench tool cabinet with 5 drawers, a hydraulic lifting table 350kg capacity. About half a dozen air drills and die grinders and a dynabrade air file, plus a boat load of other stuff, mainly hand tools. It was all destined for the skip so I asked if I could have a couple of bits and bobs and was handed the stuff by a couple of the managers, just finding room for it all in the garage now.
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I got two brand new bessey sg30m clamps for 50 quid the other day, think they retail about 70/80 each!! Also picked up a 47kg propane cylinder free and a Clarke 240a Buzz box for 65 quid with a huge earth lead, with a basically new clamp (which got some brass block teeth to replace the steel ones) and new stinger.
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1 x 2 metre peice of 6 mm plate, cut off boat deck. "Do I want it " ?
Ohhh yes. Gimme gimme !
I don't buy much steel but I'm guessing that's over £100 of steel ? If someone can tell me the price so I can have a proper gloat over it I would be gratefull.
Ohhh yes. Gimme gimme !
I don't buy much steel but I'm guessing that's over £100 of steel ? If someone can tell me the price so I can have a proper gloat over it I would be gratefull.
