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

[Farside]

Finally got a Michelin-pattern tyre lever, ironically enough from the US (but bought from Vaculug in the UK). A Ken-Tool 22" jobby. It's quite beefy for its size.
I have a vague memory of using one of the originals yonks back, so looking forward to using this and see if it really makes any difference.

 

[Kram]

After my losing brush with the brick gate pillar this morning and searching s/hand genuine bumpers up and down the country, I chanced upon this. At the price and local pickup I couldn't not. Still got to get it painted of course.

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Do you have spraying kit?
..not that I should start any more tasks... If its prepared and ready to spray I could do it on a good warmer afternoon (so it dries in a reasonable time)

 

[Onoff]

Do you have spraying kit?
..not that I should start any more tasks... If its prepared and ready to spray I could do it on a good warmer afternoon (so it dries in a reasonable time)

My BiL has thanks. A litre of Panther Black is cheap enough and should thin down to double that. Needs lacquer on top of course. I'll probably leave until the warmer weather tbh. For now I've hit the gouged metal with some zinc paint and plastered the rest of the damage in black gaffa tape.

Later it'll be bumper off and pull out/beat/fill the metal etc.

 

[JOEPRO]

An 8 inch metal shear from Scamazon, £76 delivered. Appears decent, razor sharp cuts paper as well as metal!

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Update, I tried this out tonight.

It is very good indeed. My intended use is for cutting and shaping of car MOT repair patches on my classics. To remove the noisy angle grinders from some stages and speed up.

It cuts the thicker galv sheet steel I use for repairs very cleanly and easily. It's also possible to shear off tiny slices around 0.5mm wide accurately and can do small curves.

 

[Shox Dr]

Update, I tried this out tonight.

It is very good indeed. My intended use is for cutting and shaping of car MOT repair patches on my classics. To remove the noisy angle grinders from some stages and speed up.

It cuts the thicker galv sheet steel I use for repairs very cleanly and easily. It's also possible to shear off tiny slices around 0.5mm wide accurately and can do small curves.

Less grinding dust as well

 

[badabec]

Well I've saved 350 euros for buying tools .
Anyway didn't went there for nothing, since I've bought 6 pieces of 40x80 by 3mm thick box tube ,6 meters long for 10 euros each

https://durasheds.eu/products/duramax-eco-8x8-anthracite

European company with catalogue and delivery set to Italy

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

My intended use is for cutting and shaping of car MOT repair patches on my classics. To remove the noisy angle grinders from some stages and speed up.

I have an old one that I use for the same purpose...works really well and saves a lot of dust/noise/hassle. I mounted mine on a metal frame so I can clamp it in the vice (small garage).

I've been looking for one that allows curves to be cut too but they rarely come up.

 

[Onoff]

An 8 inch metal shear from Scamazon, £76 delivered. Appears decent, razor sharp cuts paper as well as metal!

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Is it this one?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/VEVOR-Cutting-Thickness1-Machine-Benchtop/dp/B089SNJPTR/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?

 

[JOEPRO]

Is it this one?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/VEVOR-Cutting-Thickness1-Machine-Benchtop/dp/B089SNJPTR/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?

Yes that's the one

 

[Onoff]

Yes that's the one

Thanks. I'll pass onto my brother. He was looking to buy one for copper sheet trimming, 0.7/1mm thick. Always good to go on a recommendation.

 

[Dcal]

No

Update, I tried this out tonight.

It is very good indeed. My intended use is for cutting and shaping of car MOT repair patches on my classics. To remove the noisy angle grinders from some stages and speed up.

It cuts the thicker galv sheet steel I use for repairs very cleanly and easily. It's also possible to shear off tiny slices around 0.5mm wide accurately and can do small curves.

I've a Baileigh throatless one (another forum purchase) and it's great for cutting curves
I've also got a couple of electric nibblers and a hand nibbler.
They all get used but the small Bosch nibbler is used most, but when I want to cut 2mm sheet the monster Black and Decker comes out to play.

The Baileigh is light enough to just mount it in a vice when needed and store the rest of the time.

https://baileigh.com/metalworking/sheet-metal-brakes-rolls-shears/sheet-metal-shears/manual-sheet-metal-shears/throatless-shear-mps-1

@Onoff the EDMA hand nibbler is worth a look.
It will cut very tight curves in copper and other soft metal.
It will cut up to 1mm in steel but it's easy to snap a blade.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/EDMA-Supercoup-Built-Professional-Individual/dp/B002T4QDJW

 

[Bullet2012]

 

[brewdexta]

I ordered a couple of these before Christmas, its an NVME base for the raspberry pi 5. made in Sheffield

There are other similar devices out there but prefer this as it doesn't get in the way of other shields/hats that you may want to use on your pi as it goes underneath, not on top.

I'm using a WD 1TB NVME SSD, which I have since may prove to be temperamental with set up, at least for now, due to it having a Phison controller, but we shall see.

comes with an offset ribbon cable so you can still get to the SD card, I'll need that initially but then I'll get it to boot from the SSD and do away with that.

The pi 5 does suck up a bit more power than the pi4, so an active cooler and a decent PSU was acquired, I hate wall warts and this DIN rail PSU will supply 2 pi5.

I have 2 complete pi5/NWME base and active coolers. The first on will be used to take video from a few video cameras out in the fields and woods along with this Google Coral AI USB dongle which should allow me to run Frigate and go beyond just motion detection and only alert/record when it recognises wild life.

I'm hoping it will run 2 cameras per Pi5. If this doesn't work then I'll look at an Orange pi, over double the cost but the AI chip is built in and it has better GPU.

Once I've got it up and running I'll try and tease the 3D printer back to life and print a DIN rail case for it. The Micro-swiss nozzle was constantly blocking the last time I used it.

 

[m_c]

@brewdexta how are you connecting the 5V to the Pi5?

I happened to have a discussion with somebody this week who was going to do similar, and they're under the impression for the full 5A, you have to use the USB-C and disable the USB power management. They said the GPIO power pins can't handle the full current.

 

[m_c]

Dusted the passport of today to go and view some wood bothering equipment the other side of the border, and it happened to follow me home.

 

[brewdexta]

@brewdexta how are you connecting the 5V to the Pi5?

I happened to have a discussion with somebody this week who was going to do similar, and they're under the impression for the full 5A, you have to use the USB-C and disable the USB power management. They said the GPIO power pins can't handle the full current.

I'll cut a USB-C cable in half, strip the wires from one end, a bit of shrink wrap then stick them into the PSU. Must be a good quality cable with decent copper wire mind.

 

[Kram]

Thanks. I'll pass onto my brother. He was looking to buy one for copper sheet trimming, 0.7/1mm thick. Always good to go on a recommendation.

I have this one

Manual Sheet Metal Cutting Shears 300mm

steel-plate hardened carbon shear blades cutting mild steel long handle sheet iron stainless steel copper capacity aluminium 4-5 mm steel capacity 0.2-2 mm blade length 300 mm manual metal cutting Handmatige plaat Platschaar metaal staal Cisaille de coupe manuelle à plat métal acier Manuelle...

www.aimtools.co.uk

Good and sharp tool, mine is perhaps not as neatly welded on the feet but doesnt affect its use. They all have a couple issues.

@JOEPRO ThisOldTony has a video or two on the improvements but essentially to attach a horizontal guide plate and a rail for keeping the work square and to allow clamping.
Without a guide rail, the work will always try to rotate as the jaw moves and give an off square cut.

 

[500e]

Done that to run a iPad with moving map when we fly

 

[Kram]

Took a while...

Aerial rescue and climbing booked in for Feb/March.
Seems I need to pay them extra monies if I want an ID card from them, but they are happy selling my details on to another company

 

[God mode restorations]

Where on earth am I gonna put this one? View attachment 430618

Make it fit