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

[DAPPH]

Mrs Robo called in to see her mate at her new stables and left me unattended near a skip

You can never have too much storage.

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Snap a week ago I too got three really grotty Safeway crates out of a skip , one being broken similar to yours . A bit of washing soda and fairy liquid in a bucket of hot water then into a KILLER SPRAYER e and a power washing after a three minute soaking & they look like new. I now have six such crates.

 

[DAPPH]

Today I acquired the happiest drill I have ever seen View attachment 457125

Clean out the holes of shame & weld them up . Get some one like Fizzy who is not too far away and has the right gear ( for a modest fee ?) to skim it flat again and re-mill holes where required . The table he did for his pillar drill is amazing

 

[nickk]

This supposed earth cable,despite questioning the seller it’s still wrong with too big an eye on the battery clamp,it’s even marked +ffs.
Never liked white but this cream example is acceptable,especially on my bumper and wheel rim. The thermometer is for the camper fridge.

 

[DAPPH]

Today I got not one but two light duty 600 watt small 1/4 " routers . I got the router jig for it out of my tool allowance several months ago to fit up seven replacement doors in the bungalow .

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I had purchased a light 21v battery drill from TEMU , the hand chuck on it was so gritty and difficult to tighten I complained . Temu said no need to return the drill , keep the old & drill dispose of it, we'll send you another then they asked me for the order number . Unfortunately I made an error in the order number as much of it is still the same figures as the drill order number . I'd also ordered a mini router and it was the mini router number I'd given .

So two mini routers and a light battery drill for which I've got a keyed chuck (£7 ish ) arriving tomorrow . Found out a few minutes ago there are hex adaptors to take this old chuck for a few pounds ..so I might see if I can get this crap hand chuck running smoothly them fit it to a hex adaptor as it's handy to have a quick drill change facility chuck sometimes .

 

[8ob]

This supposed earth cable,despite questioning the seller it’s still wrong with too big an eye on the battery clamp,it’s even marked +ffs.
Never liked white but this cream example is acceptable,especially on my bumper and wheel rim. The thermometer is for the camper fridge.

Could be one of those oddball multipurpose clamps Nick, some are made with enough scope to munch down on either sized post

390 × 265

 

[nickk]

Could be one of those oddball multipurpose clamps Nick, some are made with enough scope to munch down on either sized post

390 × 265

But…you won’t get much more than about 50% contact of the post surely.

 

[droopsnoot]

You can never have too much storage.

I sort-of agree, and I've been gathering up crates and stuff for ages, my recent was ten mushroom trays from a local cafe. But when I get them back to the shed and start to do something with them I always run into things that are too big, or crates that are so big that if I fill them I won't be able to move them. The mushroom trays are fine, but they're not very heavy duty so can only have quite light stuff in them.

I desperately need to tidy my shed up, but lack the space to do it. Imagine one of those tile puzzles where there's a tile missing and you have to shuffle them around to make a picture. Now imagine doing it without the missing tile. I keep seeing photos of other people's organised spaces and wishing I could motivate myself to do the same.

 

[bricol]

Create the missing tile . . . skip some of it.

If you've not used it in several years, a decade, more, then it's no use. And I know it's worth several hundred quid, but not to someone who doesn't use it. I've been getting rid of stuff and once over the initial wince as it goes over the side of the skip / in the parcel as it sold for a fiver . . . it's very therapeutic.

 

[DAPPH]

I sort-of agree, and I've been gathering up crates and stuff for ages, my recent was ten mushroom trays from a local cafe. But when I get them back to the shed and start to do something with them I always run into things that are too big, or crates that are so big that if I fill them I won't be able to move them. The mushroom trays are fine, but they're not very heavy duty so can only have quite light stuff in them.

I desperately need to tidy my shed up, but lack the space to do it. Imagine one of those tile puzzles where there's a tile missing and you have to shuffle them around to make a picture. Now imagine doing it without the missing tile. I keep seeing photos of other people's organised spaces and wishing I could motivate myself to do the same.

Sounds like you need to rationalize your gear , you appear to have , " The Magpie syndrome" . nothing used in three years , skip or scrap it unless it is very expensive & super clean . Anything not really worth repairing and selling on is also destined for scrap including several of domestic machinery motors.
I'm going through the same exercise must have a small van of scrap to weigh in , I'm surprised at the amount of old used nails rusty fasteners I've been storing for years .

 

[sako243]

A clean JCB in readiness for the engine to be lifted in.

Even the engine bay got a wash

I also had an oh **** moment, engine stand doesn't quite fit through the people door to the workshop so will need to drag the 6x6 out so that it can go out the main door.

 

[Anguz]

would it go if you took the strip of wood the door shuts against off ?

 

[Seadog]

Definitely easier to remove the stop.

 

[sako243]

would it go if you took the strip of wood the door shuts against off ?

Probably.

It's not too much bother to drag the 6x6 out. Wee tractor can tow it and push it back in. Just need to "reattach" the steering wheel.

 

[Memmeddu]

So this morning I've got ELSW , sounds like a new and unknown disease but the acronym for the extracorporeal litostrisia shock waves.
So went to the hospital scared as hell, because I'm not a fan of those places.
Almost lost the appointment because they forgot to tell me to drink a lot before to go .
Anyway no other needles or endoscopy thing through the lil boy so it was not as bad as I thought.
They lie to you when they say...
"You're not going to feel any pain"
Cause it's actually enough painful, if you ever happened to electrocute yourself touching a sparkplug, it's the exact same other than you'll have to live with that for the entire operation and first shots (they change target and move around your kidney) the pain is not much different from colics .
You have to stay in position without moving a muscle.
Next week the other kidney and hopefully kidneys stones will be gone for a little while
You feel little beaten up once finished

 

[droopsnoot]

Create the missing tile . . . skip some of it.

If you've not used it in several years, a decade, more, then it's no use. And I know it's worth several hundred quid, but not to someone who doesn't use it. I've been getting rid of stuff and once over the initial wince as it goes over the side of the skip / in the parcel as it sold for a fiver . . . it's very therapeutic.

Sounds like you need to rationalize your gear , you appear to have , " The Magpie syndrome" . nothing used in three years , skip or scrap it unless it is very expensive & super clean . Anything not really worth repairing and selling on is also destined for scrap including several of domestic machinery motors.
I'm going through the same exercise must have a small van of scrap to weigh in , I'm surprised at the amount of old used nails rusty fasteners I've been storing for years .

I'm not sure I can do that. The time thing doesn't really work for me, because some of the stuff is panels, suspension and engine parts for the classics and I daren't get rid in case I suddenly need it. Don't get me wrong, there is probably stuff that can go, but not massive amounts. Panels are really irritating things to keep because they don't stack nicely.

I do have a lot of bits of scrap metal that should go on the pile, but I do run into times when I need a small piece of 18g or 20g and don't want to cut it off a nice sheet. I absolutely don't need the offcuts that I have - they cover half the top of my main bench, and most of the top of another one. I should lose them, or at least pick the ones that are now covered in surface rust because they've been there so long. If I were a business, I'd easily say that my time searching through the pile of sharp offcuts is worth more than just cutting a new piece off a sheet, but I'm not.

One day, I'll sort it.

 

[iNf]

Nothing to exciting but free is good

 

[northwest]

Well today I finally put together my new (to me) Snap On side cab. I have been looking for one of these for several years, they rarely come up and if they do they are always strong money. This one came up on Facebook last week and I was straight down to Stoke on Trent collecting it, not in the best condition so the carcass and door have been blasted and powder coated and the drawers I used Wire wool and Petrol, came up lovely, collected from the powder coaters:



On the back of the pickup in the workshop with the runners installed:



Put the door on and fit the hardware, the hinge was a bugger to sort out:



A bit of a clue as to the state of it before I started:



In place in it's new home:



Looks really smart, the lock needs sorting and that's going to be fun:



Very pleased with it I am, the only fear is the top will become has become a dumping station for stuff I don't have a space for.

 

[Onoff]

Well today I finally put together my new (to me) Snap On side cab. I have been looking for one of these for several years, they rarely come up and if they do they are always strong money. This one came up on Facebook last week and I was straight down to Stoke on Trent collecting it, not in the best condition so the carcass and door have been blasted and powder coated and the drawers I used Wire wool and Petrol, came up lovely, collected from the powder coaters:

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On the back of the pickup in the workshop with the runners installed:

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Put the door on and fit the hardware, the hinge was a bugger to sort out:

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A bit of a clue as to the state of it before I started:

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In place in it's new home:

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Looks really smart, the lock needs sorting and that's going to be fun:

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Very pleased with it I am, the only fear is the top will become has become a dumping station for stuff I don't have a space for.

Fold up a pitched roof for it then you can't put anything up there that won't slide off!

 

[northwest]

I need some thick rubber to make a mat from, ideas anyone?

 

[Onoff]

I need some thick rubber to make a mat from, ideas anyone?

Yep, I can probably sort you out. How about a bit of old HV mat. How big?