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

[Maker]

Not got it yet but coming tomorrow is a 1.5m x 1.5m x 30mm plate, used but straight for the grand sum of £85 delivered the 40 miles or so from Barrow in Furness... 1.2m x 2.4m from my steel supplier £580 plus delivery!!

He has nearly a 100 of them so if anyone wants one after I've got mine to see condition etc I'll pass their no. on.

I don't suppose he'll deliver to sunny Suffolkshire?

 

[Freddy0309]

Why does all these things happen the other end of the country, wonder what the delivery charge to Swindon would be.....

 

[Bill Edwards]

Not got it yet but coming tomorrow is a 1.5m x 1.5m x 30mm plate, used but straight for the grand sum of £85 delivered the 40 miles or so from Barrow in Furness... 1.2m x 2.4m from my steel supplier £580 plus delivery!!

He has nearly a 100 of them so if anyone wants one after I've got mine to see condition etc I'll pass their no. on.

Ohh, jealous.

I don't suppose he'll be delivering to North Yorkshire, why are these things always so far away!?!?!?

 

[dan.taylor.1]

I can pass their no. On to you guys tomorrow if you want, I'll check what the plate is like first.tbh it's so cheap if its not flat I'll either keep it for when I need some heavy plate or weigh it in when the price goes up.

 

[julianthegypsy]

Damn, that's a long way from Rugby too, but I'd be up for a couple!

 

[Mikey D]

Picked up a pair of mole grips from a boot sale 50 p , they are painted orange I don't know if that was a standard finish tho ?

How much would those steel plates weigh ??

 

[brightspark]

Picked up a pair of mole grips from a boot sale 50 p , they are painted orange I don't know if that was a standard finish tho ?
QUOTE]yes i have an orange pair and a green pair from new

 

[dan.taylor.1]

Plates weigh just over 500kg.

 

[tomsutton529]

build a rather well armoured shed out of that...weld all the joints...keep the thieves busy for a while

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You haven't seen the news about the Hatton Garden Robbery have you..

 

[Maker]

Do you know how this guy ended up with nearly 50 tonnes of steel plate?

 

[dan.taylor.1]

He's a scrap merchant at a biggish yard so I'm assuming/hoping legitimately!!

 

[rosinante]

Hi Today I acquired -- a coin found in a playing field in Kent, looked like a 2 p thought cant be bothered to pick it up, then I thought it looks more like an old pre decimal penny so picked it up ,turns out it was a pawn brokers 1 penny token dated 1874 from Fremantle WA, a bit of googling show that it was commissioned by a John Henderson convicted burglar back in 1851 transported to Oz for 14 years servitude, made good and became a pawnbroker, there is a 10 page history on the web + lots of pics of these tokens in various museums and auction houses. Now htf did this get from Oz to a playing field in Kent UK 141 years later????
One sold this month on the bay for £260
Amazing
Chris

 

[dan.taylor.1]

Plates are on eBay now 301609820255 at £90 collected

 

[CRB]

Hi Today I acquired -- a coin found in a playing field in Kent, looked like a 2 p thought cant be bothered to pick it up, then I thought it looks more like an old pre decimal penny so picked it up ,turns out it was a pawn brokers 1 penny token dated 1874 from Fremantle WA, a bit of googling show that it was commissioned by a John Henderson convicted burglar back in 1851 transported to Oz for 14 years servitude, made good and became a pawnbroker, there is a 10 page history on the web + lots of pics of these tokens in various museums and auction houses. Now htf did this get from Oz to a playing field in Kent UK 141 years later????
One sold this month on the bay for £260
Amazing
Chris

Too bliddy far away again

 

[sardine]

Sounds like ship building plate, don't they use that kind of thickness ?

 

[dan.taylor.1]

It is in barrow and it looked like a dock side in the pics!

 

[brewdexta]

It wont be flat then, it will be ship shaped and Bristol fashion.......

 

[CRB]

 

[tomsutton529]

Took them a while to drill through it

plenty of less "armoured" sheds around...lol

I saw a thing on the BBC that indicated it could have taken a lot less time than people think.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

Whelp its as flat as my stabilla level is along all four edges and diagonally, and not a ding or mark in sight! Well chuffed, plus I bagged 10 osborn 5.4mm drills from my steel merchant out of the bargain bin cos he couldn't find them on on the computer!

Also got a few bolts for nowt as 1.03 before vat wasn't enough to bother printing an invoice for!!