slim_boy_fat
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Dieselman 63
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Compressor motor decided to expire late on Saturday, trip to Machine Mart on Sunday to buy a replacement along with a new pulley as I broke the old one trying to persuade it off the motor shaft
Gutted it didn't hapen last Saturday (6th) as I had a VAT free MM voucher that expired on the 7th
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Had email today, MM have given me a 2nd chance with the VAT free offer
Anyone need a code?
Ok last night not today I finished the stairs hall and landing it's was painted 1.5 years ago but I said not no point in the carpet untill we fish the house with all the dust picked up this carpet for 8x4 meters for 80 quid it's was very cheap the carpet place 2 pound a square meter they only deal to the trade normally but every 3 to 6 months they go through the ware house and clear out stock they had laying round for a while hard sell stuff small pieces etc in well happy took all day I started a bit late did not finsh till 9 pm
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Did you lay that yourself? If so well done, it's not an easy job & it looks to be a great job. I bet you knees hurt from using the carpet kicker!
A good carpet fitter makes the job look easy, unfortunately they are hard to find. Our local carpet shop had a great guy who had to retire with a heart condition & a new young guy came to lay vinyl in our kitchen. Unfortunately I wasn't there, if I had I would have kicked him to the road & fired the vinyl after him.
He didn't line the squares on the pattern up with the walls, on an 8' wall the vinyl is off square by an inch! Around a mat well he stuck the vinyl down, by the time I came home it had lifted & was catching the door. We got him back to fix that, I wanted him to fit trim strips to hold it down. I missed him again so he took the quick way out & glued it again & of course it lifted again. I ended up going to the carpet shop, shouted a lot & came home with trim strips & fitted them myself.I hope you took them from a vacuum sealed packet, kept them in a heated quiver & dumped the leftover rods every day!
Today I feel like Dick Turpin. I bought something today very cheaply, I almost felt guilty leaving the guys street. It was a long drive in bad conditions but I had a silly grin on my face all the way home - I got some strange looks in Burger King! 
It wasn't quite the same bargain that my ML7 was, but not far off!
Oh, you want to know what I bought? It will have to wait until I get it out of the car, assembled & photographed - someone is sure to ask for photographic evidence.
- I got some strange looks in Burger King! It wasn't quite the same bargain that my ML7 was, but not far off!
Oh, you want to know what I bought? It will have to wait until I get it out of the car, assembled & photographed - someone is sure to ask for photographic evidence.
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Only 1 thing to do ,withold full payment until happy with work carried out....Did you lay that yourself? If so well done, it's not an easy job & it looks to be a great job. I bet you knees hurt from using the carpet kicker!
A good carpet fitter makes the job look easy, unfortunately they are hard to find. Our local carpet shop had a great guy who had to retire with a heart condition & a new young guy came to lay vinyl in our kitchen. Unfortunately I wasn't there, if I had I would have kicked him to the road & fired the vinyl after him.
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No been kept in a controlled atmosphereI hope you took them from a vacuum sealed packet, kept them in a heated quiver & dumped the leftover rods every day!
Farm workshop
I will check the issue date on the vac pack 2008 oh dear il better give mesel a final written
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Did you lay that yourself? If so well done, it's not an easy job & it looks to be a great job. I bet you knees hurt from using the carpet kicker!
A good carpet fitter makes the job look easy, unfortunately they are hard to find. Our local carpet shop had a great guy who had to retire with a heart condition & a new young guy came to lay vinyl in our kitchen. Unfortunately I wasn't there, if I had I would have kicked him to the road & fired the vinyl after him.
Yes fitted my self it's quite surprising how easy it is when you know the basics but I'm not fast took me 11 hours a carpet fitter takes just over half a day I did have to underlay the stairs and gripper them so a little extra work
zeppelin builder
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No hydrogen induced cracking as yet lifts my wee moped a treatI hope you took them from a vacuum sealed packet, kept them in a heated quiver & dumped the leftover rods every day!
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I got this today, not that old, early 50's. Had not looked into it.
The movement seams to be working. I will look at it after food.
Plus this.
Any guess for a bit of fun.
Oh yes, after laying around for a short bit of time. I got round to cleaning these sugar tongs up.
The movement seams to be working. I will look at it after food.
Plus this.
Any guess for a bit of fun.
Oh yes, after laying around for a short bit of time. I got round to cleaning these sugar tongs up.
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just acquired this via ebay i had sent an offer in for it but decided to pay full price for it
its a bradley hand shaper polygon range of shaper
http://www.lathes.co.uk/bradley/
there is no info about the vs on the lathe site but on found info it quotes
The v blocks are to hold a shaft, then swivel the head 90 degrees and cut a keyway or splines. CF the Drummond hand shaper has a hole through the head to enable this. If you think about it keyways and spline are very much something you would want a mill for nowadays as it is difficult in a lathe so as a hand shaper was the poor man's mill it is desirable to provide this facility. You might also use them for putting flats on a shaft, again a good selling point.
ive been wondering how to cut a rack and pinion gears and this will make them with careful thought and build.
ive already come across a site that can provide those type of gears and able to print them off
its a bradley hand shaper polygon range of shaper
http://www.lathes.co.uk/bradley/
there is no info about the vs on the lathe site but on found info it quotes
The v blocks are to hold a shaft, then swivel the head 90 degrees and cut a keyway or splines. CF the Drummond hand shaper has a hole through the head to enable this. If you think about it keyways and spline are very much something you would want a mill for nowadays as it is difficult in a lathe so as a hand shaper was the poor man's mill it is desirable to provide this facility. You might also use them for putting flats on a shaft, again a good selling point.
ive been wondering how to cut a rack and pinion gears and this will make them with careful thought and build.
ive already come across a site that can provide those type of gears and able to print them off
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I have the exact same machine
lovey piece of kit
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all the gear no idea
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gaz1
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I have the exact same machine
i hope you dont mind but i will be asking questions about it
other than that what am i looking for in wear or broken bits on it when i go to collect it from owner ?
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gaz1
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it would be but heres a few to look at
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Metal-Hand-Shaper-Model-Engineering-Shaping-Machine-Adept-No-2/253166603564?_trkparms=aid=111001&algo=REC.SEED&ao=1&asc=49138&meid=964ed2548610456692a782836bab0962&pid=100013&rk=5&rkt=12&mehot=lo&sd=192429631561&_trksid=p2047675.c100013.m1986
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRADLEY-POLYGON-SWIVEL-HEAD-METAL-SHAPER-BENCH-HAND-SHAPING-MACHINE/131536912394?_trkparms=aid=111001&algo=REC.SEED&ao=1&asc=49138&meid=964ed2548610456692a782836bab0962&pid=100013&rk=4&rkt=12&sd=192429631561&_trksid=p2047675.c100013.m1986
every place ive looked there around the same price roughly as ive used google search for adverts placed on sites
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Metal-Hand-Shaper-Model-Engineering-Shaping-Machine-Adept-No-2/253166603564?_trkparms=aid=111001&algo=REC.SEED&ao=1&asc=49138&meid=964ed2548610456692a782836bab0962&pid=100013&rk=5&rkt=12&mehot=lo&sd=192429631561&_trksid=p2047675.c100013.m1986
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRADLEY-POLYGON-SWIVEL-HEAD-METAL-SHAPER-BENCH-HAND-SHAPING-MACHINE/131536912394?_trkparms=aid=111001&algo=REC.SEED&ao=1&asc=49138&meid=964ed2548610456692a782836bab0962&pid=100013&rk=4&rkt=12&sd=192429631561&_trksid=p2047675.c100013.m1986
every place ive looked there around the same price roughly as ive used google search for adverts placed on sites
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whats the item in the middle pic!!!!
tool for putting new valves in tyres
Yes it is.
Here it is almost cleaned up.
Tinbasherdan
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just the usual, i wont pretend im an expert in these things! as long as it all moves smoothly theres not a lot to go wrong. ive only had mine a few months, bought it off a forum member
