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

[angellonewolf]

^^^^if it savess money then its worth it

 

[angellonewolf]

and if not i could take them off you for postage of course lol

 

[zx9]

BTW there is only one dog I know which is more mental than a Springer, it is a Sprollie, mentalness of a Springer and stamina of a Collie.

We were given one of those when I was a nipper almost fifty years ago, the off spring of a gun dog and the farm's pig herding, I kid you not, Collie. She was a great dog but I was stunned that people actually pay money for them and call them Sprollies these days.

 

[zx9]

One thing they are very useful for is tying up power tool cables before storing them in their boxes.

Handy for looming up equipment racks, when all the cables are in and tested you can swap them for the usual single use kind.

 

[Barking Mat]

Page 237, a spanner with a bottle opener and a corkscrew. Sheer brilliance. Might start modding all my spanners to include this design brilliance.

 

[wookie]

How do you trim it? Circular saw?

I usually use a 9" diamond blade but just be careful as it can chip the edge, and to finish off the cut I've successfully used a belt sander, it polishes it up to a lovely finish, just keep it moving rather than on one spot and try not to breathe in the dust.

 

[dobbslc]

A tasty muffin......








Well it made me laugh!

 

[Keith 66]

Today i acquired from a friend who is a retired Toolmaker. He turned up down the club pulled up next to my boat & said is this lot any good to you?
A small Elliot dividing head complete with dividing plates, banjo brackets, drive gears, faceplate, three jaw chuck & tailstock. And an instruction book. So if i ever need to do slined shafts or helical milling i am sorted.
An Elliot 6" precision rotary table. Both in first class condition.
A large carrier bag full of engineering books, Workshop practice, Measuring technology, workshop technology & several catalogues from verdict & starret.
Price, free. He does not know it yet but my friend will be getting something in return , one of my Cigar box guitars.
Fair exchange is no robbery!

 

[Seadog]

Jammy wotsit

 

[Maker]

Today I sort of acquired a Butler sink. Mum grew strawberries in it a few years ago and it's say in the garden growing weed ever since so today I cleaned it out and its going on the wall behind the garage for me to clean stuff in, with those two bits of slate either side of it.

It's all got to sit on a wooden frame so I went to where I found all those 2x3s a few months back and found...

Sadly not wood, rather a stainless steel submersible pump and a 50 year old fire extinguisher full of "1,1,1-trichloroethane", AKA halon.

The bottom half is the IP68 rated pump (I'll start a new thread as I've got some questions about it) and the top half is some kind of axial pump. The motor has leaked and is (was) full of water and I can't get the pump end apart.


The ali casing unscrews from the head to reveal a brass cartridge of halon (It's full too, you can hear it slosh a bit). Not sure if I can unscrew the cartridge without venting it, perhaps Mr TYA can advise?



Before anyone lectures me about the dangers of halon, I know, and I have absolutely no intention of releasing any, I just think it looks cool.

 

[Seadog]

"1,1,1-trichloroethane", AKA halon

Not quite, Halon is Bromotrifluoromethane.

 

[dobbslc]

Tric 111 is a bit flammable I thought!

 

[Beeezer]

Still use it in helicopters, over £300 for a tiny little extinguisher.

 

[Maker]

Not quite, Halon is Bromotrifluoromethane.

I's always thought halon was a collective name for halogenated hydrocarbons, so both are halons.

EDIT: It seems halon is short for halomethane, so what I've found isn't technically a halon but is very similar.

 

[Parm]

@Maker

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Seems using it has been an offence since 2003

Perhaps @The_Yellow_Ardvark or @Parm can offer some advice on making it safe

No idea, never seen one before

 

[Seadog]

Our shiny new system room had a Halon system, that was in 1991. We were all very aware of the dangers, mainly from being blown off your feet or hit by flying floor tiles if it ever discharged I seem to recall

 

[GW8IZR]

Our shiny new system room had a Halon system, that was in 1991. We were all very aware of the dangers, mainly from being blown off your feet or hit by flying floor tiles if it ever discharged I seem to recall

Hmm back in about 1990 I had one that had been wired wrong and the 'disable' set the thing off and frightened me to death. That equipment room was situated in an underground car park in London - all the telemetry was telling the operations centre that nothing was wrong while I tried to stop the mayhem on site :-)

 

[Farside]

Wasn't there something really, really dodgy and dangerous about being in a server room when the halon FE system went off? Like, dying, or something like that?

 

[wookie]

Yeah, it's designed to asphyxiate a fire and would just as easily do the same to a human.

 

[Robotstar5]

Our shiny new system room had a Halon system, that was in 1991.

All our conveyor control panels/cabinets had plumbed in Halon systems when they were installed in 1979.