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

[cheb]

I collected stuff from a few places last week..
An odd pipe wrench (USA made), odd Bacho adjustable, sturdy vintage tin snips and an Internal / External thermometer for the house - less than a fiver each from charity shops when I was visiting Scandinavia*

Also a Fastmover FMT 1.4 LVLP spraygun and Fakita ( makita clone) die grinder from EBay.

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I love the Scandinavian bric a brack shops, open 6 days a week, folk hire a display stand and put their stuff on their stand with their personal price tag. When you pay at the cashdesk the tag tells the cashier which seller gets the money. Clever!
A shame it would never work in any country with a low trust / high theft culture <comments removed before posting>

Isn't that how a lot of large antique places in the UK work?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

£2, for the pair.

More spanners.

 

[julianthegypsy]

Isn't that how a lot of large antique places in the UK work?

Yes it is. A friend of mine has a stall in two centres selling old tools. Works very well.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Where?

 

[jimbo84]

Isn't that how a lot of large antique places in the UK work?

We have a large one near us, it’s mostly full of overpriced junk but it attracts the old dears by the coach load and it’s huge so clearly the business model works.

 

[MetalMonkey]

Not today but Thursday - a nice quality "free faze" motor courtesy of the most excellent @Smallfry who also did an awesome packing job on it.

 

[Memmeddu]

Asked my brother to go to collect those die stocks
They are full steel construction so they should take some effort to manage to break them.
And honestly not even aluminium ones are prone to fail .
Tap wrenches on the other hand if they are not made out of steel will surely break.
Anyways 25 euros
Then I've bought a battery holder for my Megger installation tester on eBay for 5 euros I think.

Went to Amazon and bought a double usb fast charger for my Parkside headlights
2 USB C cables
And 8 Duracell optimum AA batteries

Now I'm paying a rate for my notebook
It's incredible how fast money fly away

 

[Memmeddu]

My dormer drills set arrived few moments ago .
Very deluded.
8 of the 19 bit are actually Dormer
The 10mm is garbage as the shank misses at least didn't measured yet 2mm of diameter.
Salvageable for sure but not worth loosing time chucking it on a collet chuck and precisely ground the shank to size .
So I've paid 30 euros for box with dormer written on .
I think that those things happens especially on eBay auctions.
I've once got a Fein die grinder and discovered it had a grenaded armature

 

[Slowcoach]

My dormer drills set arrived few moments ago .
Very deluded.
8 of the 19 bit are actually Dormer
The 10mm is garbage as the shank misses at least didn't measured yet 2mm of diameter.
Salvageable for sure but not worth loosing time chucking it on a collet chuck and precisely ground the shank to size .
So I've paid 30 euros for box with dormer written on .
I think that those things happens especially on eBay auctions.
I've once got a Fein die grinder and discovered it had a grenaded armature

If the drills are that bad just go to order details and start return as item not as described.

 

[Kram]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0143P097Q

 

[Richiew]

Pity they don't do the P38 lightning like they did when I was a kid
It was my fave. Bought two sets anyway. Not sure why.

 

[LewisT]

Bought a three phase compressor off gumtree

We have a three phase, problem is its only to the cut out and currently a single phase is used. So how much is a cheap compressor going to cost me.

 

[julianthegypsy]

Where?

I can't remember! I'll ask him...

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I can't remember! I'll ask him...

Old age catching up?

 

[julianthegypsy]

Old age catching up?

That ship has sailed already!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

That ship has sailed already!

Sail, how old re you?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Plus a day out with a nice lady.

It is odd who you find just North of the M4.

Just down the road, from J18 of the M4 is a nice shop.


£5 got me this and that.

This.

Now That.

And now for something completely different.

And from her , far far away.

A box.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Got theses as well.

 

[jimbo84]

It’s disappointing fluke don’t sell these in this country and they’re asian market only but there are ways just without a fluke warranty but for the price the lack warranty isn’t a worry.

 

[julianthegypsy]

Sail, how old re you?

I have a fore topsoil and a stunsail. Not many of those around these days!