sardine
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Pm your address and I'll send it , probably a couple of quid, I'll let you know.
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plewlandsbob
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plewlandsbob
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Also acquired this, Facom spanner. 13 x 15mm open end. It is ,
Model scientific depose. Does anyone know anything about this. Haver never seen this before.
Model scientific depose. Does anyone know anything about this. Haver never seen this before.
Johnnybravo
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About 350kgs of scrap aluminium billet. Time to build a furnace and start casting things
winchman
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70's I think judging by the paint, Winchboy is a bit more accurate than me I will ask him for an Appraisal.
zzr1200
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Box and it's layout are the same as the britool socket set, that were on sale when l started my apprenticeship in 1972....
PS. Including the Whitworth sockets which were still required in those days.
Blue Chips
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Stopped at Liberty Tool Company yesterday and visited a couple of antique shops on the way home. Naturally, a few items followed me home.
First, a little antique wooden scroll saw. I don't know if this was supposed to be a toy or someone's hobby saw. It looks sort of home made, but if so, it's nicely done and shows good attention to detail (except for the crude wooden base that someone stuck it on). It actually does work pretty well if you're not in a hurry. (The usual cup included for scale.)
An old Stanley 191 rabbet plane, in pretty good shape and complete except for the depth gauge. I just ordered a gauge for it on eBay, and if/when I have time, I'll clean it up and sharpen the blade.
This rather formidable-looking bad boy is a Gilchrist No. 50 ice chipping tool, left over from ice box days.
I liked the look of this old flat-tank blow torch with the pump in the handle. The filler port is on the bottom, and the shape of the bottom forms a built-in filler funnel. I think it could be made to work again, but for the time being, its function is decorative.
More coming...
First, a little antique wooden scroll saw. I don't know if this was supposed to be a toy or someone's hobby saw. It looks sort of home made, but if so, it's nicely done and shows good attention to detail (except for the crude wooden base that someone stuck it on). It actually does work pretty well if you're not in a hurry. (The usual cup included for scale.)
An old Stanley 191 rabbet plane, in pretty good shape and complete except for the depth gauge. I just ordered a gauge for it on eBay, and if/when I have time, I'll clean it up and sharpen the blade.
This rather formidable-looking bad boy is a Gilchrist No. 50 ice chipping tool, left over from ice box days.
I liked the look of this old flat-tank blow torch with the pump in the handle. The filler port is on the bottom, and the shape of the bottom forms a built-in filler funnel. I think it could be made to work again, but for the time being, its function is decorative.
More coming...
Onoff
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Gas? Electric? Hope you'll start a thread!
Blue Chips
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This appears to be some kind of sampling tube. I forgot to include a cup for scale, but the metal part is about a foot long. It's too flimsy for a soil core sampler, and it's configured differently from grain samplers that I've seen. I figure that the sliding disk is probably meant to push out whatever the sampled material is. Does anyone have an idea of what it was designed to sample (or any other purpose, if my sampler idea is way off the mark)?
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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The blow torch is a Kerosene fueled item.
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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It is for taking chesses samples from a large round of chesses.
Blue Chips
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That sounds logical, as it would be strong enough to sample a semi-soft material like cheese. @sparkysy, the diameter of the sample it takes is about 1-1/4 inches, which seems like a pretty large sample, but for really large rounds of cheese, maybe it would be a good size. I don't know much of anything about cheese making. Edit: Maybe it could also work for butter sampling.
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Onoff
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Cheese I reckon. Used to make those smoked cheese, sausage shaped things. Did it come with the accompanying tool to inject the bits of ham?
NB: I may be talking b******s
Cheese PossessedCheese I reckon. Used to make those smoked cheese, sausage shaped things. Did it come with the accompanying tool to inject the bits of ham?
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NB: I may be talking b******s
Never try making cheese on toast with it!
Onoff
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Cheese Possessed
Never try making cheese on toast with it!
I used to love the stuff.
Did you ever have the tinned Cheese Possessed the Army had in its ration packs?
Dad used to bring those home off Exercise as no-one would eat them.
I used to like it on digestives or biscuits, brown
but the stuff just would not toast - it sort of melted and burnt at the same time.
Sort of like melted PVC insulation.
Onoff
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Used to love those ration packs. My big brother would rig up a bivvy in the garden when he was on leave. All good stuff in gold tins with just the name written on top, biscuits in little green packets and Kendall mint cake. All cooked up on a hexamine stove.
