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

[Gregb23]

This fine example of a power washer dropped off very kindly by Cheb. Hopefully get it apart the next few days and see if I can get it going for hot water, otherwise I'll try and get it going just as a cold water electric pressure washer. Thanks again

 

[GRW]

I aquired one of those Parkside Electric Nibblers.
Had a quick go on an offcut of galv sheet after work - and it seems smooth, fast and neat - better than my air nibbler for sure

 

[Olderisbetter]

I got a Sun CO tester and a Meccano wind up motor

 

[Johnnybravo]

Took a neighbour some runner beans. He's from ZA and has just bought a smoker. Though I didn't expect anything in return he gave me some biltong he's just done.

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Biltong is not smoked,it’s air dried

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Not quite today but thanks to a generous fourm member just before my holiday this leather and leather shears turned up for a knife sheath project

As suggested a bit of fetteling grinding the flats down on the shears and cleaning the rust off back to cutting very nice and smooth

Looking forward to butching the ancient craft of leatherwork

 

[Arc Tourist]

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Don't let TYA see that !

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Weird how I watched "I dream of wires" on Sky Arts the other week, and all of a sudden various places have stuff about old synthesisers. I expect that kind of thing from Facebook, but not on forums. Interesting documentary, if you haven't seen it. Or even if you have.

Enjoyed that. I hadn't seen it before.

That was 2014.
In the 8 years since the scene has exploded.

I was blissfully unaware and just getting back into software production after a long absence when lockdown happened and I fell down a rabbit hole.


Still falling.

My Hodge podge of new and old digital and analog.

All the top shelf are semi modular and can be patched together

 

[Onoff]

Biltong is not smoked,it’s air dried

Yep, fair enough. It's a box with a light bulb and computer fan in.

 

[Johnnybravo]

Yep, fair enough. It's a box with a light bulb and computer fan in.

You don’t even need that. Just somewhere that’s not damp with a good airflow. You don’t need heat, in fact in South Africa traditionally biltong was made in the winter months, which also coincided with their hunting season.

 

[Onoff]

I own this, untill Saturday.


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Winning bid?
£50:27p

Penny wise that's 5027p.

 

[Kram]

One folded bicycle tyre from spain. Note the protective paper packaging
Previous folded tyres have turned out to be damaged with buldging side walls, but Im hoping this one will be ok.

 

[Maker]

One folded bicycle tyre from spain. Note the protective paper packaging
Previous folded tyres have turned out to be damaged with buldging side walls, but Im hoping this one will be ok.
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Some tyres are made to be folded, I've got some gravel tyres you could screw up into a ball if you wanted. It does seem to mainly be gravel and MTB tyres though, most decent road ones I've seen have much stiffer bead/sidewall and you'd almost certainly bugger them if you folded them.

You seem to buy an awful lot of tyres, are you wearing out the back wheel doing skids?

 

[Kram]

It depends if the bead is steel wire, nylon or kevlar, but they cost a lot more - foldable tyres are generally road bike stuff?

Its the 3rd - not pairs! The first one was a 32c Cross/gravel type, and I needed another for the front. Amazon wont allow me to buy it, so ordered a pair of these 38C's. All 3 from spain, only two packed properly.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Follow up on the Evolution saw we got for block paving cuts, i really rate it.

 

[Rannsachair]

I may have a vice problem, finished rebuilding my Swinden yesterday and bought this 4" Jones and Shipman today, hope worth the £125 I paid for it:

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A few bits what came with the Record Plane irons.

 

[Arc Tourist]

I may have a vice problem, finished rebuilding my Swinden yesterday and bought this 4" Jones and Shipman today, hope worth the £125 I paid for it:
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Definitely worth the price for one in that condition. Good score.
I believe I have a slightly older version, also a Jones & Shipman.

 

[Luggsey]

This needed to come home with me from the recycle yard.
£2


Do these Carver clamps have a special use or just general use?

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Follow up on the Evolution saw we got for block paving cuts, i really rate it.

Il take a guillotine every time tbh.

 

[Rannsachair]

Definitely worth the price for one in that condition. Good score.
I believe I have a slightly older version, also a Jones & Shipman.

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I will be looking for a surface grinder next! Looks really handy.