The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Things.
Other things.
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Things.
Other things.
Rannsachair
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Christmas has come early for me, package from AJS Matchless Owners Club
lotus_esprit_s1
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I’ve had a few new Eclipse tap handles from reputable suppliers in last few years and all look suspiciously like they are made China or similar, nowhere near the quality they used to be.
MetalMonkey
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Old handles were Made in England, since then Eclipse shutdown the Sheffield plant and were absorbed by Spear & Jackson group along with many other traditional brands which are now all part of SNH which is a Chinese conglomerate. So the new genuine handles to the same pattern are now made in China.
I'd suggest the "fakes" are probably actually genuine, sadly.
Farside
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I'd better have a close look at the ones I bought two years ago.
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I lost my original scribe, so I needed another one and got one from an autojumble, then subsequently (and after the tip had snapped off the new one) found the original. This is the comparison:
It may just be that their stamping skills aren't as good at the new plant - it was the end snapping off that made me wonder if it's a fake. The spring punch thing looks better, if I recall correctly, it just doesn't punch all the time.
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The_Yellow_Ardvark
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That is why the price of bacon has gone up.I've just seen a flock of pigs fly over here.
So does that mean it if lifts one wheel, it slides to a stop with one wheel doing 80 mph . . .
Or it keeps going but breaks a diff once back on grippy tarmac . . .
Or it’s got some electric bits that worked, once, back when it was still within the boundaries of the factory in Spain/Turkey/wherever the “home of the transit” is these days?
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Ye of little faith, it’s all basic stuff.If it faulters in any way there will be an Audi V6 engine and transaxle living under that bonnet.
Bob
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Farside
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Or a FaurdiSo it will be a Fraud-I ,
Hopefuldave
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Well, it was £2 in the British Heart Foundation charity shop, and they didn't know what it was either - how could I resist? So I acquired it. It's beautifully made, and one of those "leave it for my executors to figure out" items (I have a few of those...)
The four SHCS sticking up press on and close up leaves in the closer-together anodised frames, which start out smaller than the fixed end, nothing slides back and forth...
No, the wine bottle won't fit through...
Damned if I know what it is.
The four SHCS sticking up press on and close up leaves in the closer-together anodised frames, which start out smaller than the fixed end, nothing slides back and forth...
No, the wine bottle won't fit through...
Damned if I know what it is.
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It's a router height adjuster for a trim router
Edit: e.g. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004818859418.html
Bullet2012
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It a contraption to extend the length of your winkie.
Farside
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As advertised in the back pages of the Sunday papers years ago.
