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

[Seadog]

No, a Polish chap in Golders Green.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Nice haul in the post from fleabay today. Mt2 boring bar. Quick strip and clean to remove some compressed swarf and works perfectly. Boring bars. A load of lathe tools with various grinds. Primer and paint for my lathe. 6" 4jaw (crown) needs a backplate. Another thing to make. Some rubber matting for isolating lathe motor maybe.
C spanner so I can strip my headstock and some 3mm silver steel bar and a silver soldering kit.
Still waiting for internal threading tools some gauges and I'm collecting my Warco powered hacksaw Sunday. All this goodness for a little over £120. Been an good week.

 

[Kayos]

Nice, what sorta cost did that come in at?

Bit of a bargain actually

£125 delivered including box and instructions, 18-55 lens, flash etc. I've spent a further £45 ish on lens adapters and a hand grip, I probably won't use the kit lens once my FD adapter lands. I've also installed Magic Lantern to help focus manual lenses

 

[Pete.]

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Nice drill. Why is it bolted to a railway engine?

 

[zx9]

Bit of a bargain actually

£125 delivered including box and instructions, 18-55 lens, flash etc. I've spent a further £45 ish on lens adapters and a hand grip, I probably won't use the kit lens once my FD adapter lands. I've also installed Magic Lantern to help focus manual lenses

Good price ^^^ Kayos, I paid £150 for the same camera / lens/ flash kit last autumn, I have been surprised by how good it is despite how badly it was slagged off when new though having said that I have to agree, no way was it ever worth the £500 + Canon listed it at.

PS. Mine is a black body, 25 quid for not having to walk around with a white camera, probably worth it

Edit: What hand grip did you get for it?

 

[Kayos]

Good price ^^^ Kayos, I paid £150 for the same camera / lens/ flash kit last autumn, I have been surprised by how good it is despite how badly it was slagged off when new though having said that I have to agree, no way was it ever worth the £500 + Canon listed it at.

PS. Mine is a black body, 25 quid for not having to walk around with a white camera, probably worth it

Edit: What hand grip did you get for it?

White wasn't my first choice but they are going up in price, I think because the M3 onwards have a newer sensor (same as the 7d 2) they are based on Powershot hardware and firmware so no digic processor. Besides I can get a skin for it

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00ZWPSM08/ref=ya_st_dp_summary

With the Arca Swiss dovetail means I don't need to use a tripod mount

 

[rtbcomp]

@mechman

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There is mine, waiting in line to be restored and loved again.
The blades are good steel and keep an edge.

I've got one of those somewhere.

 

[Dieselman 63]

I've got one of those somewhere.

It's a Record 075 pattern that bullnose. The 'fancier' non-painted Record bullnose and shoulder planes are actually former Edward Preston patterns. I restored an 075 recently, cleaned it, re-smoothed it on plate glass, then dismantled it and gave the parts a light coating of preserving oil, it was a bloody beaut and a gift to a friend. NZ post lost it without trace. I was a bit gutted.

 

[mechman]

Nice drill. Why is it bolted to a railway engine?

Keeps it steady.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Could not get images to transfer rom the phone to the lap top last night.

But I acquired a few spanners. A local clearing house for some big charities, they can not shift stuff like this.
This in 1/3 of my haul.



It was destined to me scraped.
Don't start me on charities and what they waste and junk.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

@The_Yellow_Ardvark Nice haul!

That spanner on the extreme left front of the table looks to have been 'modded' by someone for a specific job.

 

[brightspark]

@The_Yellow_Ardvark Nice haul!

That spanner on the extreme left front of the table looks to have been 'modded' by someone for a specific job.

look again another spanner overlapping it both ring spanners

 

[slim_boy_fat]

look again another spanner overlapping it both ring spanners

You have the eyes of a hawk, I still see that as one piece. Specsavers then.............

 

[brightspark]

You have the eyes of a hawk, I still see that as one piece. Specsavers then.............

nooo just enlarged it

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@slim_boy_fat
@brightspark

SLB brightspark beat me to the reply.

I have a bucket full of the junk what is clearly junk.

 

[Scruffywelder]

Not today but yesterday...

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Don't know if it works but I thought it was worth a gamble...

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Saved from a Facebook page. Working. Worth a punt for a tenner. Was powering an old southbend. Can anyone tell me what's going on in the box. Looks ummm. Interesting. Won't be plugging it in just yet.

 

[Farside]

It's got Deux Chevaux, so that's a start.
French, innit.
It will expire in a cloud of oily fumes and leave you at the side of the road.
And cut yer toenails.

Switching a starting cap in and out, possibly? Is that mains lead connected to a plug or was it? Do you know if it was actually running?

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

It's got Deux Chevaux, so that's a start.
French, innit.
It will expire in a cloud of oily fumes and leave you at the side of the road.
And cut yer toenails.

Switching a starting cap in and out, possibly? Is that mains lead connected to a plug or was it? Do you know if it was actually running?

Haha. Or in the case of my Renault just decide to stop working for no apparent reason for ten minute intervals.
Yes and yes. Wired up to a 3pin 240. Was working when it was taken out of the drivechain. After peeking in the box decided I'm not brave enough to plug it in. the 2 way switch reversed motor direction. He stated this stopped reversing but never looked as to why.

External reversing soft starter?? Not had much to do with electric motors until recently.

 

[mechman]

Is that a tatty in your sock.