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

[dobbslc]

To divert the attention.....
I have these,
two new saws for 50p each.

A trolley thing I didn't need but will come in handy for something £7....

A Bisley filing cabinet for free! Boot for scale.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

drop your wallet on it?

My wallet is empty.

 

[Westfield-builder]

Blimey, that's four words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . !

 

[seriesonewelder]

Keep an eye out for a saw vice. I think Disston made them and Woden (Wednesbury) definitely did.

fixed that for you

 

[slim_boy_fat]

A Bisley filing cabinet for free! Boot for scale.

Sorry to read about your mis-step? You have PM.

Those cabinets are ace! I have a 5-drawer one on the welding trolley and am currently watching this with a view to bidding

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bisley-5...540529&hash=item1eeea184ca:g:ndkAAOSwUalb6IFA If it starts to get too high, I'd be just as well getting a new one at £45 - and who knows, with Black Friday week on us.......

There's also this, but it's maybe getting a bit on the high side for where I'm planning putting it

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SMALL-BI...565414?hash=item3b21e28b66:g:hmEAAOSw0Btb4XaG

Watch this space!

 

[Dieselman 63]

Something fun, box artwork is lovely. 1974 kit.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Well, technically yesterday. The hammer from @The_Yellow_Ardvark arrived safely and now resides to hand and in pride of place [i.e. not tucked away in tool boxes etc ]



I managed [I think] to decipher all the stamps on the head, aided by the lens from a long-dead fax machine - remember never throw anything away

One side says



and the other, again I think..... "H Chappell & Co 34 Fulham Road SW"



Google has an H Chappell & Co at #135 but they seemed to make these

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original...e-Cover-and-Holder-Complete-Set-/222790323687

There's also an S Chappell & Co at New Bond Street who made high end musical instruments, notably pianos.

https://www.piano-tuners.org/history/chappell/index.html

I wonder if the Chappell H & S were brothers? Probably never know as there's no mention of it in the last link

 

[Dieselman 63]

a long-dead fax machine - remember never throw anything away

Heh. I decided to terrorise a friend with a fax machine he threw away. The thing kept 'reappearing' on his desk, til he finally threw it in a big skip. I saw him do it. I waited til he went home, retrieved it, and put it in his desk drawer. As it turned out he didn't use that drawer very much at all so about a week later I heard a scream and rushed to see the fax machine being thrown down onto the floor with the words motherf___r

He never found out it was me, and blamed someone else who swore innocence (and rightly so!)

 

[slim_boy_fat]

What is the world coming to when you need training to use a pallet truck .

An old post of yours, but you get the idea......

OT, but you don't seen to be posting as much as you did, all OK in sunny Espana?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Heh. I decided to terrorise a friend with a fax machine he threw away. The thing kept 'reappearing' on his desk, til he finally threw it in a big skip. I saw him do it. I waited til he went home, retrieved it, and put it in his desk drawer. As it turned out he didn't use that drawer very much at all so about a week later I heard a scream and rushed to see the fax machine being thrown down onto the floor with the words motherf___r

He never found out it was me, and blamed someone else who swore innocence (and rightly so!)

Mine was fried by a power spike, Contents Insurance refused to pay out and Scottish Hydro refuted claim for a replacement, denying at first there's been a spike then later that even if there had been, it couldn't possibly have caused the frying.....

And remember, fax was Hi-Tech[ish] back then.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Mine was fried by a power spike, Contents Insurance refused to pay out and Scottish Hydro refuted claim for a replacement, denying at first there's been a spike then later that even if there had been, it couldn't possibly have caused the frying.....

And remember, fax was Hi-Tech[ish] back then.

One time photocopying was even bond worthy (great scene btw, I still get nervous watching it)

 

[slim_boy_fat]

One time photocopying was even bond worthy (great scene btw, I still get nervous watching it)

You can imagine how we felt about fax, which was almost instant transmission of huge distances, then.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Found an old pic with the Bisley in place - I actually measured the height of the middle shelf so that it would just fit there....

If I need to remove it, the shelf has to come out, irrc

 

[Hopefuldave]

Sorry to read about your mis-step? You have PM.

Those cabinets are ace! I have a 5-drawer one on the welding trolley and am currently watching this with a view to bidding

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bisley-5...540529&hash=item1eeea184ca:g:ndkAAOSwUalb6IFA If it starts to get too high, I'd be just as well getting a new one at £45 - and who knows, with Black Friday week on us.......

There's also this, but it's maybe getting a bit on the high side for where I'm planning putting it

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SMALL-BI...565414?hash=item3b21e28b66:g:hmEAAOSw0Btb4XaG

Watch this space!

I have, erm, a few of those, rescued from the World's Best Skip, bloomin' marvellous when you've Too Many Tools (not, really, no such thing) - the pair of tall ones either side of the mill have lathe tools in one, mill cutters and collets, clamps the other and a few more under the "clean bench" - just the right height to prop the middle of the front, at 8 feet of lightish box section it would sag!

The double height drawers are good, but they always put 'em at the bottom so you have to bend for the heavy stuff...

Dave H. (the other one)

 

[Dieselman 63]

I have, erm, a few of those, rescued from the World's Best Skip, bloomin' marvellous when you've Too Many Tools (not, really, no such thing) - the pair of tall ones either side of the mill have lathe tools in one, mill cutters and collets, clamps the other and a few more under the "clean bench" - just the right height to prop the middle of the front, at 8 feet of lightish box section it would sag!

The double height drawers are good, but they always put 'em at the bottom so you have to bend for the heavy stuff...

Dave H. (the other one)

I love filing drawers. The little green ones and the silver ones cost me $20 each, the grey ones were pulled from a skip. It’s amazing how they instantly fill! It’s also got me questioning whether I need nine pairs of straight pliers...

 

[Seadog]

To divert the attention.....
I have these,
View attachment 159788 two new saws for 50p each.
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A trolley thing I didn't need but will come in handy for something £7....
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A Bisley filing cabinet for free! Boot for scale.

I've been looking for a cabinet with the larger draws for ages. they're always silly money or light years away from me

 

[God mode restorations]

Today I acquired.
This very early lorch small bench lathe. No power feeds. All manual . It's in very good condition. I went to view it this morning and struck a deal. Will pick it up next week.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Well, sadly this one's out. I messaged the Seller to ask if he'd wrap it 'sensibly' so that I could organise a Courier uplift,

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SMALL-BI...565414?hash=item3b21e28b66:g:hmEAAOSw0Btb4XaG
Flatly refused to consider it...... "No, collection only" Well, thanks.....I can read... DOH!

 

[God mode restorations]

Well, sadly this one's out. I messaged the Seller to ask if he'd wrap it 'sensibly' so that I could organise a Courier uplift,

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SMALL-BI...565414?hash=item3b21e28b66:g:hmEAAOSw0Btb4XaG
Flatly refused to consider it...... "No, collection only" Well, thanks.....I can read... DOH!

Shame. They are nice

 

[bigegg]

you got a tk maxx near you?
seen today.
small orange one was marked at £17.
larger pink one at £119

other small ones, no price (and no staff to ask)