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

[roblane65]

Come on now chaps lets get it all out in the open and I'm not talking about wood or spinters

 

[Mick Annick]

If ever a thread was heading for a bit of Loctite it’s this one

 

[Onoff]

I took a couple of these from my Dad's place, one in far better condition than the other. Think they were standard issue when he worked for the then nationalised British Gas:

I have just got his old toolbox too. I've been dipping into it since he died when doing bits and pieces to the house or grabbing bits that hold memories. The time came to decide what we wanted so I grabbed the complete box. Brought it home and just chucked in the garage. I'll lay out what's left in there and take a picture. A proper box of sad

 

[Arc Tourist]

Know the feeling. I've got a couple of containers with my Dad's carpenter & machinist tools. They bring back good memories when I sometimes use them.

 

[Seadog]

I've just had my S22 Ultra returned after repair

Currently being restored, and then I can get rid of the Galaxy4Note P.O.S. that a friend lent me

It's like using a 286 PC with 300 baud dial-up

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A Green Metal box.

Army No. 12 Stove.

 

[AdventuresInMetal]

An "old" "8kw* chinese diesel heater for free because it stopped working after 5 minutes and the guy gave up after hours upon hours of diognosing an electrical problem.

I spent all of 2 minutes diognosing the fault... Turns out they run a lot better when you don't heat seal the fuel pipe shut on the exhaust?

The plan for this one is just to heat the workshop but I was planning on buying a couple anyway for some experimentation for the house, we use so little heating that by my calculations it would be cheaper for us to run on heating oil than natural gas. The standing charge we currently pay on the gas would almost cover the price of the heating oil we would use. And already got a spare barely used stainless steel cylinder kicking around to replace the combi boiler with. Some heat exchanger experimentation is in my future.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Nice find !

A Green Metal box.

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Army No. 12 Stove.

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[W.olly]

My new boat at last and tow car

time to relax

 

[dobbslc]

Careful posting those pictures here or @Hood will have a stainless steel keyring fob lazered up

 

[Memmeddu]

This hudge three phase rectifier bridge .
Now I have to figure out how many amps and voltage it can manage.
How to connect it to my single phase arc welder
The diodes are all the same

Hopefully someone here can recognise them and say me what to search to understand more about them
It belongs from an unknown big enough mig welder

 

[Memmeddu]

Update
Diodes should be
D161/250
250A 1000V
So the welder which belong from should had around 400A
Considering that my welder delivers 210A (what's written on the plate) I believe that it would be enough overkill to reliable.
I still have to find the right thermal protection switch for it ....
I'm almost thinking to use smaller ones on the various critical components and a contactor

 

[Craig-SM]

New big angry grinder. I didn't want to buy new but after visiting so many used ones that were knackered, despite the sellers claims, I gave up and bought new. After starting the search sensibly, I needed a 9 inch grinder, I then started adding extras to the tick list of requirements including rotating rear handle and anti vibes and ended up with this.

 

[dan.taylor.1]

New big angry grinder. I didn't want to buy new but after visiting so many used ones that were knackered, despite the sellers claims, I gave up and bought new. After starting the search sensibly, I needed a 9 inch grinder, I then started adding extras to the tick list of requirements including rotating rear handle and anti vibes and ended up with this.

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You won't be disappointed, I'm very much a metabo convert on the grinder front. I've 3 now. Vari speed one for mops, 1100w 5" and a 180mm one which weighs about the same as a 5" but nearly the power of a 9"

 

[Blobber]

Moisture meter from the German supermarket for a tenner, thought it might be handy to monitor a few damp patches around the house and see how the winter logs are doing

 

[brightspark]

Moisture meter from the German supermarket for a tenner, thought it might be handy to monitor a few damp patches around the house and see how the winter logs are doing
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i use my megger for testing damp in wood and plaster

 

[Onoff]

Damp patches, those were the days!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

i use my megger for testing damp in wood and plaster

Get it right, you can boil wood worm with a Meggar.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A good day was had by me.
Met @arther dailey and showed him two of my places I get stuff from. Alas the manager was not around in the first shop, no discount was asked for or given.

Another sump/Green house heater.
But stamped WD 1938.

Shop next door.

This has a WD stamp as well.
A quick Google shows it was a designed used to list art works etc. being stored in underground bunkers before WW2.

I am betting that this was not used for that. But the S/N are in the range.

Brand New!!!!!!!!!!!

Brown Grease paper still in the box.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Get home and find this on the door step.

Who can resist?
@mike os beers or naught's and cross's?