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

[dobbslc]

Why is it being tax-free significant?

Anything tax free these days has to be celebrated!

 

[northwest]

Good to see your making good use of the kids inheritance! I really should do more of that

I have told them: "Do well at school, get good jobs, because when I go we are going to be in a negative equity situation"

So far they are paying attention.

 

[dobbslc]

I'll try that on my two, I'm not sure they'll listen...

 

[addjunkie]

I'll try that on my two, I'm not sure they'll listen...

Did you listen when your old man preached to you!

 

[angellonewolf]

Continuing on with my "I am not going to be able to do this much longer" thinking this arrived today, it is the third to have been delivered, bloody nightmare, had the wrong one delivered twice and I am pleased I stuck to my guns and stayed with 12volts as the thought of yet another battery charger and batteries fills me with dread.

With a bit of luck I will never need to hand hacksaw anything ever again. I know it won't be able to do absolutely everything, but it will be close:
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Lovely and smooth and the blade went on without a struggle. Now all I need to do is decide whether or not I am keeping the case, or slinging it and if I am keeping it, where to store it? Once in a while I have a purge on boxes/cases and some I have never used since the day I acquired the tool and that can be a couple years so a purge once in a while can be good.

i tend to keep boxes of stuff not used very much easyer to store them but on regular stuff i use getting them out abox every time is a pain
a tote bag that houses screwdrivers cutters hammer etc i do most jobs where i work with that
i have a tool trend work box that has all the regular use stuff grinder plane drill impact driver etc

stuff like nailers biscuit jointer i have stored in boxes as i use them every few years or months and months so the hassle of get out of a box massive reduced

 

[sako243]

I bet your arms/shoulders know you've done it.

They're fine actually (not too old but always done manual labour for home projects so what muscles I have are proper ones not gym ones).

Use of scaffold pipe make things much easier. It was only the last one that put up a bit of a fight, popped loose after leaving it sit for 5 minutes but then put up a fight and didn't get easier as it came out. Turned out after 3 liners in the same place the thread was getting knackered and the nut seized on. Cut off the excess and there was just enough left that that nut could be used at the bottom next to the puller and a new bit of thread just stuck out the top of the puller enough to get a new nut on.

I did have a complete new length of bar but seemed a shame to waste it especially when I've got to pull the new liners through as well.

 

[MattF]

Now all I need to do is decide whether or not I am keeping the case, or slinging it

That's the type of case I dislike. I keep them for a period of time just incase the tool needs to be returned, but then they get binned. They're no use bar for what they came with.

 

[OJCar]

A new look to the front garden wall courtesy of an idiot driver.

 

[Memmeddu]

As promised

 

[AdventuresInMetal]

Missing out on a recent thread of flap discs for sale got me browsing ebay to see if i could find a decent deal, that I did, this lot came to £106, them starrett holesaw drills are worth £3 to £4 each, that would be £60-£80 alone.

 

[Gragson]

GPS tracker, nice solid device, minutes to setup £30 amazon.
Salind - German outfit, subscription £55 p/a - piece of mind, kids are using my car a lot more these days, no understanding that fuel is not free!

 

[prepman]

I find the problem with narrowboats is they are too....well, narrow! If only it was a widebeam!

Can't you just use it sideways?

 

[prepman]

The glycerol itself is the molecule split off from the triglyceride when it undergoes transesterification to a methyl-ester. In laymans terms, its the bit left over when you meddle with the cooking oil.

Flash Gordon used it in his interossiter I think. Or was it Island Earth?

 

[Onoff]

Got given some locally produced charcoal. By a nice man from the pub who made his own charcoal burner. He also has a shack in the woods and plays the harmonica. Deliverance?

Locally bought MAPP torch got it going:

 

[indy4x]

As you may have seen from another thread, we are currently travelling around the North of Scotland.

We are stopping randomly as we go along to look at views etc and someone had left this behind





I do usually pickup the odd bit of litter that the numpties have dropped cos it really ****** me off, I'll count this one as payment for all the bits of litter I've collected

 

[MattF]

Deliverance

Just hope you're not the piggy.

 

[cheb]

It's indy4x that's heading north of Ullapool...

 

[indy4x]

@cheb Yep, tis me

 

[MattF]

no understanding that fuel is not free!

Start charging them.

 

[Gragson]

Start charging them.

This is the plan, cars on a fuel card, so all think its free despite constant hectoring that it gets taken from my wages.

One of the boys asked if he could take it to cream fields this week, had no idea he was into diary work, agreed but he will be paying the fuel once i track the bugger!