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

[sardine]

Some HGV exhaust pipe , cut to shape & size . Perhaps a visit to a scrappies is in order. Would it really hurt if it was stainless steel & the soil fairly free of stones / rubbish.

Maybe even buy some tube on eBay or cheaper ask on your local freecycle , face book social group , " Does anyone have a broken handled rabbiting/ post hole digging spade ? ". Have a look on a car boot or in a junk shop for one as well.

I did some Googling and found out that scuba tanks are made from EN19 steel, there's a diving shop with a stack of failed cylinders round the back, I reckon this could be my materiel, depends how thick these tanks are.

I wonder what steel grade Calor gas bottles are ?

 

[zx9]

Do you also get flies and insects covering yours? They seem to be attracted to something in the oil and kamikaze to their deaths around the lid

I've not noticed that, living here in suburban London we do not usually get many flies or midges even in a hot summer like the one we had this year. Which is a blessing when painting woodwork around the house or quickly blowing over some some small parts with an aerosol or touch up gun in the garden. Forum members from the Highlands may report differently, I gather midges can be a problem up there.

 

[Dieselman 63]

I've not noticed that, living here in suburban London we do not usually get many flies or midges even in a hot summer like the one we had this year. Which is a blessing when painting woodwork around the house or quickly blowing over some some small parts with an aerosol or touch up gun in the garden. Forum members from the Highlands may report differently, I gather midges can be a problem up there.

It’s the same with paint, they seem to come from nowhere at night to deliberately ruin my machinery!

I’ll take some pics at the weekend, there should be a new ‘crop’ since I haven’t cleaned them in a while...

 

[rtbcomp]

^^ I had a fly infestation on my Landrover chassis when I Waxoyled it.

 

[bigegg]

I wonder what steel grade Calor gas bottles are ?

"welded low carbon steel' according to a quora post.

I do know it won't heat treat.
(or at least the piece I tried didnt

 

[Scruffywelder]

Saw this earlier, thought you might like it.
https://www.toolstation.com/shop/Power+Tools/d40/Batteries+&+Chargers/sd2619/Milwaukee+M18+18V+Red+Li-Ion+Battery/p29509

Thanks, I'll point the BIL in their direction. He's after spare batteries for his grease gun and impact wrench.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I gather midges can be a problem up there.

Understatement of the year - although they haven't been too bad at this side of the Country this summer.

 

[MikeBB1970]

The British mosquito control institute was on Hayling, it is a tennis centre now but the mossies are still here unfortunately. I got a number of multi bites a few times this year out shooting
They thrive in some old WW2 ponds -old bomb sites -and various other locations, we use the ' holiday' plug in tablets up in the bedroom all summer

 

[Dieselman 63]

My mum uses the 4711 cologne, she’s out in the islands working atm and the mossies leave her alone, there’s citronella in there and the insects hate it.

I gather this isn’t much of a solution for the majority of members on here

 

[Parm]

Sort of acquired, pick them up in a fortnight. Lyra and Luna, 8 week old German shepherds

I know a man who’s got dog food if your interested?

 

[MattF]

My mum uses the 4711 cologne, she’s out in the islands working atm and the mossies leave her alone, there’s citronella in there and the insects hate it.

I gather this isn’t much of a solution for the majority of members on here

Oh, I don't know. I got told I smelt like a whores handbag, by a woman, the other day just due to deodorant, so might as well go the whole yard.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

I know a man who’s got dog food if your interested?

quite possibly......

 

[Parm]

A post hole digger missing one blade. Typical Wickes rubbish tool, the rivets were made of Chineseium.

Probably not worth repairing unless I can find a bit of suitably hard or hardenable steel tube. Anyone got any ideas ?

How about a section of gas bottle cut out to size?

 

[MattF]

quite possibly......

@sardine.

 

[sardine]

How about a section of gas bottle cut out to size?

Probably the best option.

I could hard face the cutting edge , of try to oil quench it.

I went to look at some diving gas cylinders but they are too thick.

 

[DAPPH]

I did some Googling and found out that scuba tanks are made from EN19 steel, there's a diving shop with a stack of failed cylinders round the back, I reckon this could be my materiel, depends how thick these tanks are.

I wonder what steel grade Calor gas bottles are ?

Think think are just 3.5 mm or so thick zinc plated soft mild steel as it hand files well . I feel it is the curved surfaces that give them their strength .

When our 10 yr old oil boiler started to leak water we spent almost £3K on the Worcester replacement . I took the old one to bits with spanners , pipe wrenches & a four inch angle grinder for the brass & copper scrap & all the bit's of useful flat metal I could cut off . Inside the burner area there were seven 5 mm thick boiler steel plates of quality steel judging by the sparks that came off one when I out it to the grinder .

It wouldn't take long to make a carboard template of the spoon you have, then cut two flat shapes from the template . Get them cherry red hot on BBQ charcoals etc. and hammer them round a wooden mandrel or into a reinforced cut out wooden form .

 

[Parm]

Probably the best option.

I could hard face the cutting edge , of try to oil quench it.

I went to look at some diving gas cylinders but they are too thick.

Any of those still going spare ?

I could do with a few for a project ive got in mind ?

Can swap you with a gas cylinder if you want

 

[sardine]

Any of those still going spare ?

I could do with a few for a project ive got in mind ?

Can swap you with a gas cylinder if you want

How many is a few ?

What you got for swopsies apart from gas bottles ?

 

[Parm]

How many is a few ?

What you got for swopsies apart from gas bottles ?

I’ve got an assortment of stuff, tell me what you interested in and I’ll say

 

[sardine]

My shopping list at the moment is ...

Red oxide primer 5 L
An old air rifle fixer upper
Pillar drill vice
A cast iron propane gas ring or tar pot burner
Bicycle wheel truing stand
Cast iron hand cranked water pump