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

[zx9]

I use my Bosch oscillating multitool at work for cutting in dry lining electrical back boxes in plaster board, it's a god send.
I used to have to stab the wall with a plaster board pad saw then cut the required shape out, not as easy as it sounds when you have to cut through a double layer of acoustic plaster board.

Same here thought I am usually have to deal with 12mm ply faced with a sheet of plaster board, just about impossible with a pad saw. The ply is there to take the weight of a monitor or display screen, works up to about a 70" screen beyond which the screen getting as little too heavy for a MF wall.

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Same here thought I am usually have to deal with 12mm ply faced with a sheet of plaster board, just about impossible with a pad saw. The ply is there to take the weight of a monitor or display screen, works up to about a 70" screen beyond which the screen getting as little too heavy for a MF wall.

I had to add an extra network socket next to a display screen and I wondered what the hell I'd cut into before it dawned on me that it was a plywood support backing!

 

[zx9]

I had to add an extra network socket next to a display screen and I wondered what the hell I'd cut into before it dawned on me that it was a plywood support backing!

I have to do a Sharp 90" next weekend, it will need a little more support.

 

[DAPPH]

Saw a Migatronic KDE 400 with wire feeder in a skip behind an engineering company today, obviously its karked it, but is it worth anything for spares is the question ?

Of course it's worth asking for it .
It may be a simple DIY repair , new board or worth a few bob if you strip the copper etc out of it .

 

[MikeBB1970]

I wanted one of them oscillating multitool jobbies, I just about have an excuse for one with some door hinges and some awkward sanding to do and people keep saying they are the dogs danglies and you'll find loads of uses once you have one. So I saw a body only Milwaukee C12MT for £54 inc VAT and delivery on t'internet, elsewhere 75 quid cheapest. It is now mine, and since delivery the supplier has upped the price to 70 quid



I have a fair bit of 12v Milwaukee now, nice and light and powerful enough for my use. I shall try it out in the morning, I daren't in the afternoon as I'm off to a beer festival at lunch time
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It came with a saw blade and the usual triangular sanding pad and I've since bought a variety of finger sanders, rasps and blades from multitoolworld. It's minutes since I have bought a tool and I was getting withdrawal symptoms, I'm going sober for October so the savings in beer will pay for it.

Cheers
Andy

I have one at work and they are so useful, I really need one for my own workshop.

 

[MikeBB1970]

I have one of the early green bodied Bosch , triggered glue guns & have frequently had problems getting the required 12 mm dia hot melt glue sticks .
As a result of the problem I found out …..
You need to make sure you know the diameter of the glue stick replacements before you use the originals all up as there are now three of four different diameters on the market .
There are also different strength grades of the rods, my translucent ones are nowhere near as hard as the dark green or dark brown ones .

Ahh, thank you for the info..

 

[Tangledfeet]

A major stroke of luck as I for chatting to our neighbour when I got home from work, he'd had a Gumtree 'no show' and was wanting only £15 for two old 18" Stillson wrenches (one Record and the other Ridgid, Idaho) and the wee anvil. We agreed that I could have them if the Gumtree chap hadn't got back to him by the time I was back walking the dogs; he hadn't so they're now mine.

 

[Hood]

I bet that was the shortest walks the dogs have ever had

 

[Tangledfeet]

I bet that was the shortest walks the dogs have ever had

Bit of a nip in the air now so the boys were quite glad to be back inside and on the sofa...

George, our neighbour, is in his 70's and thinking about getting a new place with his new girlfriend (he was widowed a few years ago) so slowly clearing stuff out; says he has more old tools yet to see the light of day... he was a welder on the rigs back in the day.

 

[Olderisbetter]

today and yesterday i was helping someone move house and these items were not going to the new house.. a record vice a big old safe complete with the key a few old fuel cans a pile of blue wall coping stones a very long sink and a shorter version and a fibre glass ramp which is use full for getting things into my van on a sack truck and a Subaru engine

 

[Tinbasherdan]

today and yesterday i was helping someone move house and these items were not going to the new house.. a record vice a big old safe complete with the key a few old fuel cans a pile of blue wall coping stones a very long sink and a shorter version and a fibre glass ramp which is use full for getting things into my van on a sack truck and a Subaru engine View attachment 154930 View attachment 154931 View attachment 154933 View attachment 154934 View attachment 154935 View attachment 154936

i was eyeing up one of those silkolene tins the other week but it had sold by the time i got back to it. lovely artwork!

 

[Olderisbetter]

i was eyeing up one of those silkolene tins the other week but it had sold by the time i got back to it. lovely artwork!

I have a stash of things for my man cave when it gets done and yes i love the art work

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Bit of a nip in the air now so the boys were quite glad to be back inside and on the sofa...

George, our neighbour, is in his 70's and thinking about getting a new place with his new girlfriend (he was widowed a few years ago) so slowly clearing stuff out; says he has more old tools yet to see the light of day... he was a welder on the rigs back in the day.

Nice! And it might work to your advantage for some of his future disposals. He'll get a fair price from you for bits you need/want [or even, work out a job lot deal with him, since you'll be in no hurry for him to sort through it] and he'll be saved the chore of listing them & dealing with the online 'messers' - so win:win.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Today I was trawling eBay for Myfors parts [the reason for which in my other post here https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/stuff-you-have-made-today.67127/page-198 and came across a set of MT2 e32 collets which would fit the ML7, so I set a max bid at what I thought was a reasonable bid - £46.....and I won them!

They go up to 19mm, not sure what the smallest is but I rarely turn very small parts [so far] and I can always add from Banggood if I specially need later. You can see they appear in very good nick, in fact the Seller described them as "very lightly used" and seven are unused & still in their boxes. If you enlarge it's difficult to make out makers details, but a bit of pic enlargement in P/shop and Google research shows they originated from WNTTools so good, 'proper' German(?) manufacturing [not inferring Cheapenese wouldn't be as good, but......]. They don't seem to make the equivalent sets, but still make collets to take larger work-pieces, so now geared to the professional engineering sector perhaps?

See here....https://www.wnt.com/mastertool/?fcode=m_ca_bd_catdetail&m_ca_bd_GV_objky=82662320&L=1

At least they're not simply drop-shippers for Eastern stuff. This would seem to bear out my thinking https://www.wnt.com/mastertool/?fcode=m_ca_bd_catdetail&m_ca_bd_GV_objky=82662320&L=1


I've sent off to Banggood for this collect chuck holder - paradoxically , but after reading @doubleboost's reports and all the online reviews - 45 give 5-stars [even if you discount half of them, that still seems favourable], with one saying he'd checked run-out at less than 0.002" https://www.banggood.com/ER32-MT2-M...-p-997701.html?rmmds=myorder&cur_warehouse=CN Can't go wrong at that price

Off now to update my post in "What you have made today"with pics........

 

[Hood]

Excellent deal and yes WNT sells good stuff. Their list prices are sky high but you can usually get a decent discount but even then they are not cheap.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Today I was trawling eBay for Myfors parts [the reason for which in my other post here https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/stuff-you-have-made-today.67127/page-198 and came across a set of MT2 e32 collets which would fit the ML7, so I set a max bid at what I thought was a reasonable bid - £46.....and I won them!

They go up to 19mm, not sure what the smallest is but I rarely turn very small parts [so far] and I can always add from Banggood if I specially need later. You can see they appear in very good nick, in fact the Seller described them as "very lightly used" and seven are unused & still in their boxes. If you enlarge it's difficult to make out makers details, but a bit of pic enlargement in P/shop and Google research shows they originated from WNTTools so good'proper' German(?) manufacturing [not inferring Cheapenese would by as good, but......]. They don't seem to make the equivalent sets, but still make collets to take larger work-pieces, so now geared to the professional engineering sector perhaps?

See here....https://www.wnt.com/mastertool/?fcode=m_ca_bd_catdetail&m_ca_bd_GV_objky=82662320&L=1

At least they're not simply drop-shippers for Eastern stuff. This would seem to bear out my thinking https://www.wnt.com/mastertool/?fcode=m_ca_bd_catdetail&m_ca_bd_GV_objky=82662320&L=1


I've sent off to Banggood for this collect chuck holder - paradoxically , but after reading @doubleboost's reports and all the online reviews - 45 give 5-stars [even if you discount half of them, that still seems favourable], with one saying he'd checked run-out at less than 0.002" https://www.banggood.com/ER32-MT2-M...-p-997701.html?rmmds=myorder&cur_warehouse=CN Can't go wrong at that price

Off now to update my post in "What you have made today"with pics........

I was thinking about getting a set of those until I found a full set of Burnerd Multisize collets for a very low price - $250. The shape of them always reminds me of the Apollo mission capsules.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I was thinking about getting a set of those until I found a full set of Burnerd Multisize collets for a very low price - $250. The shape of them always reminds me of the Apollo mission capsules.

Very nice! But I'm afraid they'd not fit my wee ML7

 

[Dieselman 63]

Very nice! But I'm afraid they'd not my wee ML7

I needed to get a special chuck for mine, it’s a fair old lump and wasn’t cheap, lovely engineering though. Makes the machine so much more capable.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I needed to get a special chuck for mine, it’s a fair old lump and wasn’t cheap, lovely engineering though. Makes the machine so much more capable.

Please stop posting these, I'm getting 'lathe-envy' here......

 

[Dieselman 63]

Please stop posting these, I'm getting 'lathe-envy' here......

Well you won’t envy my finances... another $15 shelled out for more etch primer this morning, some pics posted on the grinder rebuild