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

[slim_boy_fat]

thanks @fizzy for the shipping

He's excellent - he and @spencer 427 were both instrumental in getting the Amolco to me , otherwise no milling machine up here

 

[8ob]

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!
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An excellent bit of kit Mr Fizzy, also good for the jobs where you don't really want 13000rpm and the associated shower of sparks

Bob

 

[fizzy]

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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£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

Andy - thank you for that!
As I have always said 95% of problems are down to the way things are packed. Lying the saw down on it's back was a great idea - no overhang and no way it could fall over!
I had never heard of Metalclad - and to think they are from my home town!

 

[Memmeddu]

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.

Here in Italy are expensive also if worn out ...
We have only 230V and 400V ,someone sell 120V tools also but needs an insulation transformer or something like that
The rotary hammer in the picture I posted is a Bosch GBH 5-40 DCE only in würth version but basically the same machine ,the colour is the only thing that change

 

[zx9]

The rotary hammer in the picture I posted is a Bosch GBH 5-40 DCE only in würth version but basically the same machine ,the colour is the only thing that change

I did think it looked like the old Bosch drills we used to hire some fifteen years or so ago.
I have from time to time worked on sites in France, Germany and Belgium, and don't recall ever seeing 110V transformers in use during any of the refurbishments, it may be different on the new builds I don't know.
On a similar vain all the sites needed boots but most looked at you like you had fallen from space when you turned up in hard hat and high viz, generally much more relaxed than we are in the UK and I did not see any injuries as a result of poor PPE.

 

[Kayos]

A headache

Fan belt snapped, got recovered home and thought it would be a simple fix

Errr no, tensioner gone and took alternator bracket with it

 

[fizzy]

That's typical how did that happen?

 

[Kayos]

That's typical how did that happen?

Tensioner seized, must have side loaded the bracket, its only cast ally

Just glad it wasn't the block

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Damn & blast!! Never rains, eh...?

 

[Kayos]

Damn & blast!! Never rains, eh...?

It could have been worse, I didn’t know if it was a removable bracket or part of the timing cover

 

[Memmeddu]

I did think it looked like the old Bosch drills we used to hire some fifteen years or so ago.
I have from time to time worked on sites in France, Germany and Belgium, and don't recall ever seeing 110V transformers in use during any of the refurbishments, it may be different on the new builds I don't know.
On a similar vain all the sites needed boots but most looked at you like you had fallen from space when you turned up in hard hat and high viz, generally much more relaxed than we are in the UK and I did not see any injuries as a result of poor PPE.

I think that the drill is something like 20 or 30 years old
Sure is been made in the 90's
Back talking about the transformer ,here in Italy nobody have the 120V , only few workplaces have their own transformer with 15.000V input and various output ,inverter HF 24V ...
So if we need to use 120V tools we need to hanging around an insulation transformer (all the transformer are galvanic insulated between primary and secondary windings)
We generally prefer to use 48V or 72V instead 230V if is not possible use battery powered tools
This when and where we can't use 230V

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I think that the drill is something like 20 or 30 years old
Sure is been made in the 90's
Back talking about the transformer ,here in Italy nobody have the 120V , only few workplaces have their own transformer with 15.000V input and various output ,inverter HF 24V ...
So if we need to use 120V tools we need to hanging around an insulation transformer (all the transformer are galvanic insulated between primary and secondary windings)
We generally prefer to use 48V or 72V instead 230V if is not possible use battery powered tools
This when and where we can't use 230V

Chap I trained with was always 110v due to site work and that's how I started collecting tools.
Very few of my tools aren't.
Old hitachi angle drill
Small compound mitre saw as my big site saw was too heavy to lug up to customers bedrooms (now lives in the lockup unused for the most.
My big belt sander
Both tablesaws and my thicknesser.
Everything else is 110v or cordless.
Prefer the leads and the tools seem to have much better longevity.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Today [well a couple of days ago, before the snow & frost arrived] I got these FOC from the nice chap who supervises out local Waste facility. Why the two, I hear you Calor bottles ask. [one still has gas in to too
]

Well, my plan is to adapt one to hold compressed air, easier to take out to the car if a tyre needs air, rather than humph/wheel my, admittedly small, compressor out and run an extension reel from the house. [Wish I had a garage....... ] I got a suitable Calor regulator from my pal and will butcher it so that I just have the spigot on the bottle, then I can make a connector to fit my tyre pressure gauge.

I'll paint it bright, fluorescent orange or yellow to show it doesn't contain gas, and label it "Compressed Air", to be sure, to be sure. I'll know, but no-one else would.....H & S and all that, @Parm will be impressed......

The second one is a back-up in case I make a backside of the first [confident, me...]. If I don't need it for that, it might end up as a small, propane-fueled, forge for recycling cans etc.

The fire extinguisher? Well it was right next to them & looked all abandoned and forlorn so I took pity on it - I have no idea yet what I'll use it for, perhaps as an inner 'cup' for the forge.....? I'm pretty sure it's steel [forgot to do the magnet test, it's been so cold], I think these may have a liner of plastic or some such, but this in @The_Yellow_Ardvark's line of expertise so hopefully he'll be able to advise. It looks to have been painted American Army green, and the figure £4 is written on it in marker pen. Clearly it's been discharged and I have no intention of getting it refilled - it'll find more use as a sacrificial thing for a project.







Incidentally, among the gas bottle in the compound was a white one, around the same size as a13kg Calor job, with a reg attached. The fitting was bigger than the corresponding fitment on the blue ones - what would that have held [not oxygen, surely] and which Company would have it come from originally? Never seen one before

Among other bottles available were a diving one [very heavy] and a short one, about the size of a small welding gas bottle, I forgot to check the neck colour, but I may return.......

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@slim_boy_fat

PM inbound.

 

[Kayos]

Today [well a couple of days ago, before the snow & frost arrived] I got these FOC from the nice chap who supervises out local Waste facility. Why the two, I hear you Calor bottles ask. [one still has gas in to too
]

Well, my plan is to adapt one to hold compressed air, easier to take out to the car if a tyre needs air, rather than humph/wheel my, admittedly small, compressor out and run an extension reel from the house. [Wish I had a garage....... ] I got a suitable Calor regulator from my pal and will butcher it so that I just have the spigot on the bottle, then I can make a connector to fit my tyre pressure gauge.

I'll paint it bright, fluorescent orange or yellow to show it doesn't contain gas, and label it "Compressed Air", to be sure, to be sure. I'll know, but no-one else would.....H & S and all that, @Parm will be impressed......

The second one is a back-up in case I make a backside of the first [confident, me...]. If I don't need it for that, it might end up as a small, propane-fueled, forge for recycling cans etc.

The fire extinguisher? Well it was right next to them & looked all abandoned and forlorn so I took pity on it - I have no idea yet what I'll use it for, perhaps as an inner 'cup' for the forge.....? I'm pretty sure it's steel [forgot to do the magnet test, it's been so cold], I think these may have a liner of plastic or some such, but this in @The_Yellow_Ardvark's line of expertise so hopefully he'll be able to advise. It looks to have been painted American Army green, and the figure £4 is written on it in marker pen. Clearly it's been discharged and I have no intention of getting it refilled - it'll find more use as a sacrificial thing for a project.

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Incidentally, among the gas bottle in the compound was a white one, around the same size as a13kg Calor job, with a reg attached. The fitting was bigger than the corresponding fitment on the blue ones - what would that have held [not oxygen, surely] and which Company would have it come from originally? Never seen one before

Among other bottles available were a diving one [very heavy] and a short one, about the size of a small welding gas bottle, I forgot to check the neck colour, but I may return.......

Are they just std POL fittings on the gas bottles?

 

[cheb]

You might want to wash the bottles out first to get rid of the stenching agent.

If you take Calor cylinders back to their depots, not just resellers, you can get money for them AFAIK. Subject to their T&Cs.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Are they just std POL fittings on the gas bottles?

Iirc, my tyre gauge & hose are euro fittings, I've yet to check. I'm pretty sure I have some of each, either way.

 

[Cobbler]

Slim, unscrew the valve, that leaves a 3/4 BSP thread. Fit a reducing bush to fit a PCL fitting & your done. Make up an adaptor to allow you to pump up from your compressor, take your bottle outside & plug in the hose & tyre fitting. I’ve been doing this for 40 odd years, except I’ve got a tee in the top & 2 PCL fittings as I used to use it as a receiver for an old modified fridge compressor. A 13kilo cylinder would pump 4 tyres from flat if pumped to 130 psi.

I used to get all sorts of comments as passers by used to think I was filling tyres with gas, well I was, air, I just let them think on!

 

[cheb]

Here you go: https://www.calor.co.uk/gas-bottles/gas-bottle-return

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I've been advised by TYA that the fire extinguisher is Armed Forces halon - dangerous to mess with even empty, so it'll go back where I got it.