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

[ronan]

I was needing a decent boring head for the mill, i have a couple, both imports from asia and both crap. So i decided to get a good one. Seen an English made Gamet boring and facing head on ebay, missed it by a £. This was my second choice and got it, they are supposed to be good, get great reviews on the American engineering forums. Bought an R8 shank for it today.

 

[Parm]

I'm guessing ali, by the dents in one?

Just checked, its definitely Stainless

 

[fizzy]

Just received this. Bought on EBay £32 brand new. Not bad!
No disks though.
Never used an air grinder. Had to do some work outside last week. No fun in the rain with mains!

 

[brianblock]

those kegs are all stainless

 

[Lazurus]

I had a result, I ordered from a well known auction site an additional compressor tank from a company which deals with faulty returns and just punts them out some with valves and switches some without.
Well I got a complete compressor which had not even had the wheels or filter fitted, and not yet been filled with oil. Now I am assuming that it will be ok as it was, factory fresh. Oil arrives today so will fire it up and see what happens. Shame really as I don't need another compressor having just upgraded from a 25l to a 50l, the one delivered is another small direct drive 25l. Still for the few beer tokens it cost me I will pass onto someone if its ok. Result.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

nice!!!

I paid forty odd quid for mine - and there's no paint on it at all.

is that the original paint colour?

Yes it is the original paint.

If it is not then in the past some one has done a very nice paint job.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Over the weekend I got a card informing me I had a parcel to collect from Local post office sorting office.
This was odd as I had not ordered anything, brought anything or was expecting anything.

I have just opened it, it was from my friend in Israel. She had visitd a Flea Market and thought I would like them.

So, what did I get?

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A battered tin.
Containing.

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A Monitor Travel Cooker.
Complete, with Prick and spare seals.

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Yes, another steam engine.
But, some here may recall it from their youth

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Meccano (Mamod) Steam engine.

It does steam up. But I need to replace the "O" rings.

The Steam engine has had a strip down.
New O rings, new fibre seals and the piston cleaned.

It is now a steam tight, with plenty of torque nice little steam engine.
A new Meths burner is needed, but that can wait a bit.

The camping stove.
There is a split where the Needle assembly screws into the base.
It fired up, but after a few minutes the fuel weeps from the screw thread.

I Have a whiteness mark, so I will clean it up and try to run some solder into the crack.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

a company which deals with faulty returns and just punts them out some with valves and switches some without

Link or Company username?

 

[8ob]

Ohhhh new boots.
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By the time they are laced up it would be time to take them off

Bob

 

[8ob]

Certain carparts place put on a 50% off "all" oils offer, punched in the product code for thier 200ltr barrels of triple QX which are already at trade and bingo Guy was saying that I got them for £60 a barrel less than they pay for them and management have quickly altered the rules

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

New landlord of Village pub has been clearing out some old stuff. Previous incumbent was doing some dodgy stuff. A lot of barrels aren’t on the system, as they don’t have a paperwork trail they can’t go back. He was told to dispose of them. He gave me a couple of pints to take them away. I have 10 in total, all different sizes

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Next up had a phone call from a mate who works for a big hire firm. They have first dibs on old hire kit when it’s taken off the fleet. It’s been fully serviced, cleaned and PAT tested, oh he gave it to me FOC

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Mine has been going for years. Brilliant grinder.
Don't think I've ever owned a grinder with soft start. Behaves the same as any other grinder. Nothing to be scared of.

 

[gaz1]

Mine has been going for years. Brilliant grinder.
Don't think I've ever owned a grinder with soft start. Behaves the same as any other grinder. Nothing to be scared of.

where used to it hes not

then again im used to most machines not having soft start on them and when i get one sorry i dont want it is my comment

 

[Ashley Burton]

Certain carparts place put on a 50% off "all" oils offer, punched in the product code for thier 200ltr barrels of triple QX which are already at trade and bingo Guy was saying that I got them for £60 a barrel less than they pay for them and management have quickly altered the rules

You must go through some oil @8ob!

I would love to know who makes their oil, I've got a feeling it's Tetrosyl

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

where used to it hes not

then again im used to most machines not having soft start on them and when i get one sorry i dont want it is my comment

Lol yup. Something else to go wrong. Always found holding a grinder loosely best. Let the grinder center itself and its weight cut. Fighting it seems to cause snatches.
First disk cutter I used would have been a 300mm stihl at about 12yo helping my old man. Top marks for his parenting.

 

[gaz1]

Lol yup. Something else to go wrong. Always found holding a grinder loosely best. Let the grinder center itself and its weight cut. Fighting it seems to cause snatches.
First disk cutter I used would have been a 300mm stihl at about 12yo helping my old man. Top marks for his parenting.

yeah just know what ya mean most kids didnt get chance near many machenery at school or at other work places unlike me that told them ive done this that and the other with some machines that would even make them squirm i always did chuckle when i mentioned that gutbuster wolf drill

you could just see them shiver as they remember it being yanked from there hands

after that i got full use of many machines and didnt half get the daggers from the rest of the kids for it

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Guy was saying that I got them for £60 a barrel less than they pay for them

You are henceforth an Honorary Scot

 

[Farside]

Würth BMH 40-SE

I have that one, as the Bosch GBH 8DCE, 240V version.
Got it cheap because everyone wanted the 110V version for site use.
It's a handy beast to have around, even if it's not as powerful as more modern stuff, it still works well.

 

[brewdexta]

First of all this Wadkin AGS 10 arrived, thanks @fizzy for the shipping, all arrived in one piece. I didn't think it had a riving knife or blade guard but it does, however although I got the extension table legs, the actual table top got left outside the sellers workshop, he's going to post it, its not cast, just pressed steel. Just over £400 including the pallet shipping which I don't think is too bad.

Then the plumber appeared with some parts we needed to fix the boiler power, a 12v transformer for the main board, so I now have heat in the workshop again.

The after work I picked up these, it would start snowing on the way back so they got a bit damp so I had to give them a rub down with an old towel and a spray with WD40 once I got them off the trailer with the bobcat.

First a Metalclad Morticer, these were made in Neath, the company Metalclad was taken over by George Cohen and Sons who formed the 600 group in 1947, named after their address at 600 Commercial Road London, as you know they are still in existence selling Colchester lathes etc.

needs a bit of TLC but evidently was working when it was pulled out of a guys workshop when he retired recently.

it also came with around 12 chisels, all good Sheffield makes, I bought a half decent 5/8" mortice chisel bit a while ago, it wasn't cheap and probably not as good quality as these, an average of 40 quid a piece for decent ones.

and then the oddball item that came with it, a saw by "Bitco" which I have never heard of and can't find anything about the company so far. It has a modern 3 kW 3ph 1420 motor on it and may find a place ripping old timber up, not sure yet. It has a piece cracked out of the apron under the saw, its aluminium, the piece is with it so I can probably get it repaired if I decide it's worth renovation.

£275 for the morticer, bits and the saw, I must admit I would have been happier at £200 but got a late bidder and decided as they were only 10 miles away it was worth bidding a bit more.

Cheers
Andy

 

[Seadog]

Interesting link to the 600 company. I hadn't realised they'd been around so for long.

 

[Parm]

Mine has been going for years. Brilliant grinder.
Don't think I've ever owned a grinder with soft start. Behaves the same as any other grinder. Nothing to be scared of.

I’m not scared, just treat it with respect