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The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Oh darling.
vwmark
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Only ever had use for an m7. Old vw aircolled engines use a mechanical thermostat with m7 thread. Had to make a tap as no suppliers had any.Nice come in handy even off you never use them.
I too hav e large collection but the odd time I have needed one they have been a life saver.
Still not used the M7 and M9 though
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The_Yellow_Ardvark
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GM cars(astra) use M7 a lot.
Holding clutch in place.
Holding water pump as well.
VW use M7 water pump and drive shafts. And slave cylinders on rear brakes.
I have a few M7 taps and dies down here.
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No, just by chance I subscribed to their add free option a few years ago so I am ok for third party hosting untill the end of 2018. I wont be paying $400 either so all my pics will disappear after that date unless they come up with something a bit more reasonable.
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Tis a portable wouldn't have thought it would be. My old site tranny was 10kva and was hardwired to the board. Sold that before I left jersey far to cumbersome.
Have two 5kva. One rated at 2.5 cont the other at 4kva.continuous. both on 13amp sockets. Rest are lightweight's handy for domestic works. Unless your trying to power multiple trades off one portable there all more than adequate for two tools at a time I've found. 2.5 struggles a bit with two hilti breakers at the same time mind.
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Got more 110 leads than I know what to do with. Come in handy in the future I suppose. Always pick em up when I see them at the car boots. It's a compulsion lol.
Spiders (4 way splitters) are always handy under a bench.
Spiders (4 way splitters) are always handy under a bench.
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trouble is at bootsales some things are that cheap and quality u buy them just for the sake of it . I've had to stop buying hacksaws and thin british bolster chisels as I have a dozen of each 3 quid for the saws and a quid for chisels
eLuSiVeMiTe
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Aye. I'm like that with mics and vernier's etc......
Gonna be shifting a load of the stuff I'll never use on once the lathes rebuilt and I've got time to sort through it.
Reason I buy leads is because most of the new ones I've bought are crap. I sacrifice a lead now and then to replace a damaged lead on a tool or to lengthen a lead on a tool(my jigsaw was ridiculously short.
Keep meaning to buy 100m of good quality lead and make use of all the spare 110 plugs I have.
Parm
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Why is that so? Ive thrown away 2 transformers and got another that does the same
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Today I acquired... erm... that:
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Looks like it fits a 3/8" ish triangular "nut".
God only knows where it came from, I just got home, went for my keys and found it in my pocket.
A service cupboard key, but the main ones on the streets, not domestic versions.
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Bargain. I got a set of four Staedtler Mars700 pens for $15 a few weeks ago. Good going when you see they're worth about $80 each. I prefer Staedtler as you can refill these with ink, you don't have to buy the expensive capsules. I've got both Rotring and Staedtler, find the latter superior
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The inrush current when the transformer builds the initial magnetic field and flux in the core. We get it all the time with our 5kva boxes, often have to have quite an argument before they'll re-set the trip because "your plant MUST have a fault". Most times when you re-set the breaker it'll fire right up second try because the core is holding residual flux that doesn't need building again. What I do is leave it turned on at the plug when they re-set so that when they call "try it now" it's already on.
I've now learned to ask "are there any computers on that circuit, because they might go off if it trips the breaker when I turn my transformer on?"
