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

[fizzy]

Me being a mine of useless info desoutter were the company that made Douglas Baders artificial legs!

 

[Carl Wilson]

They were. They also make pneumatic aircraft engineering tools.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

They were. They also make pneumatic aircraft engineering tools.

got aa few at work, as well as some ancient chicago pneumatic gear

 

[Chillitt]

800 kg of ballast, sadly I appear to require 1000 kg of ballast...

 

[Maker]

I acquired a new laptop.

Dell XPS 9570, 6 core i7 processor, 1050Ti, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd.

It cost an arm and a d*ck but it's refurbished (Only mark on it is a scratch a couple inches to the left of the webcam) and with a student discount too I saved about £600 off a new one! It's replacing two desktops which will go on eBay to get a little more back. Currently removing bloatware and installing everything I use, a little bit of me wants to install Clover and OS X too.

My old laptop was a an 11" Ideapad 100s, made quite an improvement!

 

[Tupers]

Yes, it is complete.
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This one I am keeping.

Funny I just picked the same model vice up with a stack of tools from a friend who was clearing out their shed.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Funny I just picked the same model vice up with a stack of tools from a friend who was clearing out their shed.

And you are not offering it to me?

 

[Tupers]

And you are not offering it to me?

Well I wouldn’t be very good at hoarding equipment if I let people buy it now would I?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Well I wouldn’t be very good at hoarding equipment if I let people buy it now would I?

Just think of it:
A: Going on holiday.
B: Freeing up space to allow more hoarding more stuff.
C: The good feeling it will give you.

 

[MattF]

B: Freeing up space to horde more stuff.

Personally, I'd be quite concerned at the prospect of a horde near my stuff.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

f I let people buy it now would I?

Who said anything about coin of the Realm changing hands?

 

[Tupers]

Who said anything about coin of the Realm changing hands?

Well I would consider a trade for a box of Curly Wurlys.

 

[Slowcoach]

Hi everyone, just joined and thought as a first post I’d show the clamps and hand grinder just picked up, £5.50 and 12 mile each way Sunday afternoon type trundle. Ah, might learn how to put pics after text.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Nice little hand crank grinder, worthy of restoring.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Slowcoach

You can still get stones for those grinders.

 

[Parm]

@Slowcoach

You can still get stones for those grinders.

where from?

I could do with one for my electrically powered wet stone grinder

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

where from?

I could do with one for my electrically powered wet stone grinder

Last one I got was B&Q, but I also found them in my local hardware store.

 

[Hood]

Today I got another lathe tool, have been impressed with the SVJBR and L ones I got last week so decided to get a DDJNR for the manual lathe as I normally use a PCLNR for turning and I don't care much for them as swarf can get trapped between the insert and the work scoring the nice finish you have just cut.

This was a bit dearer than the earlier ones but still not bad at £30 plus VAT especially as it is a double clamping style.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Welcome aboard, SC. Good haul there and well done for letting us see the stuff early in your Membership.

 

[DAPPH]

Yeah definitely expensive for what it is!

Good idea though

I made such a thing donkeys years ago when they were a £5 in Exchange & Mart .
These days I'd buy an Aldi /Lidl style sig bottle ca £7 , carefully drill the shoulder and fit a modern bicycle innertube valve with sealing washer over the tube . Done by slipping three of soft wire in through the hole , making a small kink or knot if it is electrical wire make it into a full loop after getting it to poke out the stopper hole then slip the valve tube over the wire up side down and invert & jiggle the can till you can pull the valve tube through the hole. fit another sealing washer and a thick soft flat washer then put the retaining ring on and refit the valve on Use the aerosol spray & lift tube off a normal spray can & araldite it from the inside of the stopper so it is proud enough to fully depress the spray buttin ( from which you hav turned th top down to give a flat surface … don't take too much off. or you'll need to turn up a new brass plug ( and knurl it ? ) . There's loads of ways of mounting the spray head still in some of the aerosols metal body externally to the turned off stopper using a shouldered brass
With practice you can actually remove the complete plastic spray unit from a rattle spray can & insert it in a shouldered screw capped tube so it is as an insert set in the bottles stopper .

One way I've seen a homemade filler / stopper air charging point was with valve stem as a square block of brass with the air charging valve set in the side of the block via a sealed thread . One guy used /modified a large tall Brasso can for his easing oil sprayer as the screw top lid was easy to work with .


The original refillable sprayer I made was a normal tall spray can , that I fitted up with one of the older cycle inner tube 5 mm valve stem tubes fitted with a Schrader valve core that had a round base on it rather the modern ones that are fused in to the rubber . I sweated soldered it to the shoulder of the steel spray can . It was filled by taking out the valve core , then filling it using a large vets syringe and very large needle on the syringe . Reinsert the valve core and pump up with my racing bike's tyre pump .

These days the fused in valve units are easy to sort ….. Take out the valve core and then slip the tube in a small lidded jar of Nitro Mors paint remover .. it will dissolve the rubber off the stem tube in a few days , wash it clean with boiling soapy water in a washed out bean can etc. then re rinse it in clean hot water to ensure you have removed all traces of the Nitro Mors . Check it is clean on the valve seat using a cotton bud or three , then wire wool it shiny . Don't try to use a blow lamp etc to burn the rubber off or you'll spend hours & hrs trying to remove the crud and clean the valve seat . Turn up a mount sleeve & shoulder in brass and solder /sweat them to the shoulder of the can , making up a shaped brass fit on the shoulder plate if required .

Or get a lorry inner tube or a brass tyre valve brass swan neck tyre extension tube and thread or sweat that in a mount .

Test it by3 /4 filling it with water and pumping it up three or four pumps then slip it in some cool clean water that you've added a few dish drops to , to check for leaks /integrity.