AKN
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Where are they on offer?
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For 24 quid I'm tempted to get one just to replace the missing dies on my genuine one!
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I still have my Dad's Whitney punch. He made the mistake of lending it and most of the dies went missing. Yeah, for £24.oo I'd also like to get one of these sets. @MetalMonkey Can you post a link please ?
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Like setting up your own local telegraph company?Yesterday if that counts I acquired a load of telegraph poles, a thousand and one uses about here
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They were, they aren't any more - they have certain promotions every so often, which together with a discount code knocks them right down.
Its usually when they have "engineering tools" on offer, but it seems arbitrary as to what they actually include.
https://www.zoro.co.uk/shop/hand-to...ole/hand-operated-hole-punch-kit/p/ZT1001882X
I missed out the last time and was kicking myself, so have been keeping an eye open so I didn't this time.
I'm sure they will do it again, this is like the third time. Also worth keeping an eye on ebay, they have them on there too and sometimes they drop the price cheaper than their website.
Zoro is one of the most random companies I've encountered when it comes to a pricing strategy.
For 24 quid I'm tempted to get one just to replace the missing dies on my genuine one!
Zoro sell the dies separately, for both the genuine and this one - but from what I understand they are not interchangeable.
My original plan was to pick up an old whitney and add the cheapy clone dies, but apparently they are different. Not certain if that is the case.
The genuine dies are about £16 and the clone ones are about £2 - so might be worth a punt if you already have the tool.
Genuine Punches
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Arc Tourist
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Ok. Thank you.
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I've been waiting for these to come on offer again.
For under £24, I think this will do for the limited use it will likely get.
Holes seem clean enough, time will tell how well the punch and dies hold up. Handles on the wonk, but doesn't seem to effect it. Otherwise seems well made.
Would have liked to pick up a genuine Whitney, but they are expensive new, and the second hand ones I've seen always seem to need a few dies.
Now this says nothing about the tool - and the different inserts make it quite interesting - but the people who developed the appearance of the product apparently suffered from an identity crisis:
Even I can tell right off the bat that the sizes are fractions of an inch.
Ok, let them metricate, be my guest .... but with the sheet thickness they revert back to old times .... maybe they didn't know how to convert ...
In the storage mold, they then find their way into both worlds.
Not important, I just thought it was funny.
Carsten
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AKN
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Thank You Carsten, of course it take a German to point this out. One for the “things that bug me” thread.
Now this says nothing about the tool - and the different inserts make it quite interesting - but the people who developed the appearance of the product apparently suffered from an identity crisis:
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Even I can tell right off the bat that the sizes are fractions of an inch.
Ok, let them metricate, be my guest .... but with the sheet thickness they revert back to old times .... maybe they didn't know how to convert ...
In the storage mold, they then find their way into both worlds.
Not important, I just thought it was funny.
Carsten
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Thanks to @MetalMonkey I’ve got an order in.
AKN
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I’m thinking aerial (antenna) farm!Yesterday if that counts I acquired a load of telegraph poles, a thousand and one uses about here
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Rather a lot of pork! 148 lbs of Cumberland sausages & burgers, five loins curing for bacon, and ten half legs curing for ham, and a considerable amount of pork joints for roasting.
Curing will be finished in ten days turning every day
then starts the slicing and packing "
Curing will be finished in ten days turning every day
then starts the slicing and packing "
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Yum! ours arent ready until November
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Its no big deal. Punch holes are usually close enough for all practical purpose, unless its for aircraft work where precision is required. I recall decades ago when we were putting in a new overhead crane rail system at one of the Lockheed facilities where they fabricated wings and other fuselage sections. I noticed that all holes for rivets were drilled.
Now this says nothing about the tool - and the different inserts make it quite interesting - but the people who developed the appearance of the product apparently suffered from an identity crisis:
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Even I can tell right off the bat that the sizes are fractions of an inch.
Ok, let them metricate, be my guest .... but with the sheet thickness they revert back to old times .... maybe they didn't know how to convert ...
In the storage mold, they then find their way into both worlds.
Not important, I just thought it was funny.
Carsten
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Today we dropped off some stuff at the local recycling centre "Shed", and while there I acquired a golf bag trolley which I'm going to modify to fit a 12 litre bottle for to & from a vehicle transport for use at an air rifle range.
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For collection certainly, but I'm rather horrified at the cost of production - Total cost to this stage was £1040 for three 6 month old pigs. Now it's all against me in the sense that they have been completely grain fed, and doing these things in small numbers is never really viable. But there's no way I can compete with (say) Sainsburys on price. Quality is superb - I had three sausages for lunch and confess went on to finish off the other three (the sausages are packed 6 to a bag. This time I went for a commercial cross breed bred for a long & lean body. Previously I've had Gloucester Old Spots, Saddlebacks, Large Blacks and other rare breeds but they carry a lot of fat. Previously the bacon needed 1/3 fat trimming off but these one have produced loins that are much better formed with a large eye and sensibly thin fat layer, as I intended.
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Decided to add a "Bacon Slicer" to my Matchless, arrived today:
who cares .
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Hope so , five months in a freeze at - 21oC r & it will still start to get the rancid pork fat taint . 30 pound of home made Lincolnshire sausages vac packed & sealed in packs of 8 is how I found that out along with 10 kg of pork shoulder in heat sealed vac packsWill any of this be available for sale to the plebs? That's me
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You mean a Ped Slicer.
I hate those things, they were banned for a good reason.
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My favourite meet! Love pork!
