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

[123hotchef]

nice! is there any going spare I would like a square chopping block, my round is falling apart after 8 years

 

[Dcal]

Well done on getting your job finished @Pete.

It's Greenheart.

Not great for a chopping block because it splits easily, but you can put a steel strap around it to hold it together.
It's evil stuff if you get a splinter, and it does burn very well, but that would be shameful.
It would make a great anvil stand though.

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

It's some kind of very dense hardwood either greenheart or balau. I know it took some cutting

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Assuming you don't have a TCT chain you must really love sharpening!

Greenheart is fantastic stuff, but it's hellish on tools, I once had the pleasure of re-sawing several balks of it down as part of my part-time job at uni... It would blunting the stellite tipped sawbands at a rate many times faster than anything I'd seen (or have since).

After a very unproductive saturday doing more band changes than sawing, I and the toolroom supervisor convinced the operations manager to ring the saw doctor we used and have one of the TCT sawbands that was in for resharpening profiled to have a much smaller rake and relief angles.

Running those blades at a much higher speed than you normally would for the TPI, and the feed unit on dead slow, did a much better job.

But it was making type 3 chips like a router, or machining "gummy" metals, as opposed to the type 2 chips you'd normally want to form when sawing wood.

That was my introduction to chip formation theory, courtesy of the long suffering toolroom supervisor.

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

Talking of bandsaws, something a bit more manageable than the ok 36" Robinson re-saw I used to run turned up in the mail this morning:

Breaking the cardinal rule of power tools by having more than one battery system in the workshop, but it was going spare so it seemed churlish not to accept it.

Have ordered a Hikoki-Makita battery converter for convenience, But...

I also picked up a Hikoki charger, I'm in the market for a ¾" battery impact, and the Hikoki WR36DFQ4 is just way better value for money than the Makita DTW1001, which are both more powerful than the Milwaukee equivalent.

This way madness lies!

 

[nickk]

Welding cable eyes,a favourite connector of mine,though the threads do jam and become unusable.
The switch is for my firewood bench saw.

 

[DAPPH]

I mean i'm not the sort... But it would make short work of even a pretty big tank now I think of it!

This may actually work against me for using it to pump gearbox and diff oil, as it will only take a few seconds between fully priming itself and filling the box...

Use a small three or four litre Killer-spray bottle & lance , remove the spray nozzle by carefully cutting it off , gently curve the end to get in the filler hole .. beauty of this is you can see the oil level at the start and judge when it filled the machine as required .

 

[DAPPH]

I wish they did one that would pump petrol

There is a plastic one using normal hose pipes that fits on a brushless battery drill , IIRC they can be safely used with petrol ...but check .

 

[DAPPH]

There's a box of bits with it. it was a bit dark to look tonight but i'll have a ferret through at weekend

Bammy Jastard !

 

[DAPPH]

They're also very good at removing fingers and flesh, so be careful.
If I'm talking to a joiner and I notice a butchered hand I will sometimes enquire and its nearly always a spindle moulder that caused the injury!

Usually these missing phalanges &thumbs are down to very high speed three phase machine incidents . It often used to happen in a noisy environment where the phase of the lighting is on the same phase as the machine , so it looks as thought the cutter is not moving . Also push sticks & push pads weren't used .

Old engineers tip .... he's still with all he was born with plus a few teeth ....
" Never put your fingers where you wouldn't put your **ck " .

 

[DAPPH]

Today I acquired - a chopping block for cutting logs for my log burner, ans also a memento from the job Ive been doing for the past 3 months.
This is a timber fender from a lighthouse we've removed from the sea bed which was built in 1970. I cut 2 chunks out of it with my £15 bargain chainsaw that I got a couple of weeks back. It's some kind of very dense hardwood either greenheart or balau. I know it took some cutting

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If you have some more of this exotic hard wood and are willing , would you send me a chunk 4 inches wide that is cut across the grain .. I'd like to try and make a few decent pens with it ( happy to reimburse you for it ) , PM me of OK and we can sort things out .

 

[DennisCA]

Well I "designed" my own service book for my Volvo. When I bought it I lacked all service history, which is why I didn't drive it after I got it home for over a week.

Changed the timing belt, serpentine belt, vacuum hoses, repaired air box flapper, renovated the pcv system, flushed the coolant and replaced it and finally oil and filter got changed. Been steadily fixing small issues one after another, stuff that happens on an old car. Everything is pretty easily fixable though, which is the pro of an old car...

Still don't have anywhere to write all this down. So I designed and had my service book printed. Vistaprint is pretty nifty and cheap too.

Also some pens because why not.

 

[Turbo]

Well I "designed" my own service book for my Volvo. When I bought it I lacked all service history, which is why I didn't drive it after I got it home for over a week.

Changed the timing belt, serpentine belt, vacuum hoses, repaired air box flapper, renovated the pcv system, flushed the coolant and replaced it and finally oil and filter got changed. Been steadily fixing small issues one after another, stuff that happens on an old car. Everything is pretty easily fixable though, which is the pro of an old car...

Still don't have anywhere to write all this down. So I designed and had my service book printed. Vistaprint is pretty nifty and cheap too.

Also some pens because why not.

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When I got my van I created a document on my laptop to record the service history. There was a moment of panic when my hard drive died but luckily I found a backup copy on a thumb drive.
I really should print out a hard copy.

 

[Craig-SM]

Well it's not Milwaukee I've gone blue

GLM 50-27 CG or 50m Laser measure was delivered early today by Mr Amazon Driver. I did look at other brands inc Milwaukee and the many much cheaper ones on Amazon but looking at the reviews they'd always be comparing them to the Bosch. It doesn't have any more features than a lot of the cheaper ones than accuracy but it does link to the Bosch Measure On app which appears to a great time saving tool and will sure as hell be better than my dodgy drawings with figures scribbled all over it that is normally lost before it becomes useful

 

[MattF]

Well it's not Milwaukee I've gone blue

Well done sir.

 

[Craig-SM]

Well done sir.

Don't worry I'll be back on red, this was just a glitch in the system

 

[MattF]

You'll be acting like a blue whore behind red's back in no time, now you've started.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

i nipped into a nice place on my way home, snaffled a coffee and a few cookies, left some money and was given this bundle.

This the reason I was happy to part with funds.

Was marked up as a "Brass Butter Try".
I new otherwise.

Next to the tray.

I liked them as, both sets are patented items.

Plus an Odd Ohm meter.

The Brass tray fits this.

 

[iverjohnston]

Pulled a Henry Hoover out of a builders skip. No hose or handle, and the builders had used it to suck up sand and grout, without a bag.
One good cleaning later, and with a replacement hose & head & handle ( less than £20 off ebay) and it's worked perfectly for more than 10 years...

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The other day I got two sets of old Railway sets.

Sorting them out, I found this in a boxed off section.

 

[MattF]

What is it?