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

[Olderisbetter]

Doubtfull.

It's in my friends loft at present, hiding from my partner.

She won't care about the small sum of money I paid for it. She will, however, care about the cubic footage of volume another bit of 'junk' will take up!

Incidentally I purchased this one at the same time -

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Sorry the photo is upside down. I'm uploading from my phone and can't rotate it.

Sadly young people today only know how to play racing games on an Xbox or Ps4..I have a small collection of scalextric from my younger days that still works and the plan is to try and make a working section of track in the mancave that will house just let the cars zoom about or get displayed.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Olderisbetter

We still have sets from the 70's,80's and 00's.

We hold drink driving nights.
We set up a course, the drivers pick their cars and drinks. Then race.

Safe fun.

 

[Kayos]

£3 or so from Lidl, going to hardwired through a switch to keep an eye on my second battery

 

[Olderisbetter]

@Olderisbetter

We still have sets from the 70's,80's and 00's.

We hold drink driving nights.
We set up a course, the drivers pick their cars and drinks. Then race.

Safe fun.

I had no idea until recently that Scalextric is still going and making sets, But beware racing Scalextric after you have had a drink, You could end up getting points of your Hornby license

 

[brightspark]

thought Scalextric was triang

 

[Olderisbetter]

thought Scalextric was triang

They might have been at some point but i think the last time i dealt with them they were a hornby product, Hard to say these days with all the selling of names.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Had Some storage boxes turn up this week so i started clearing all the cardboard boxes and plastic bags from the old cars, I separated the tat from the useable and nice bits but i found an old Barnacle tax disc holder for a Ford dealership in Blackburn, Maybe around late 50's early 60's.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Up early today. Needed to get a few things done before Mrs. TYA was awake.

Job1.
Make coffee, no. The milk has curdled, les than 14hours old. So back to Tesco. They were very good and swooped it out, without any problems.

Job2. Go home. decided to cut through the estate. On the way home there is a house being cleared. I lent a hand to shift a cooker into a trailer. Good deed done.

Job 3. have coffee with the family clearing granddads house. I see in the skip this.



A very fine tip soldering iron. I asked if I could "Liberate" it and was told yes.

Next to the skip was this.



This has been liberated as well.

Job 4. Go home.

job 5. Get home, make coffee. realise I left new milk on edge of skip.

Job 6. drive to Tesco, get more milk.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

£3 or so from Lidl, going to hardwired through a switch to keep an eye on my second battery

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I just stuck a little digital volt meter in the dash for mine.

Up early today. Needed to get a few things done before Mrs. TYA was awake.

Job1.
Make coffee, no. The milk has curdled, les than 14hours old. So back to Tesco. They were very good and swooped it out, without any problems.

Job2. Go home. decided to cut through the estate. On the way home there is a house being cleared. I lent a hand to shift a cooker into a trailer. Good deed done.

Job 3. have coffee with the family clearing granddads house. I see in the skip this.

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A very fine tip soldering iron. I asked if I could "Liberate" it and was told yes.

Who's the iron made by?
Looks very familiar.

 

[Kayos]

I just stuck a little digital volt meter in the dash for mine.

I've got a volt meter, just figured a quick press of a switch will let me check either battery, depending on isolator position

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Who's the iron made by?
Looks very familiar

It is a RS Soldering Iron.

 

[Chillitt]

This was not the restful Sunday morning I was looking for.

Also had most of a sheet of 20mm ply and 8 1 metre squares of checkerplate. Now I've got to get most of them out of the van so I can go help a friend clear out her Dads tool shed..

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A few weeks ago I acquired some old carving chisels, old but good steel.
I mentioned to a friend how I wished I had a full set.

That friend has just left, he also just left me a small gift.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

realise I left new milk on edge of skip.

All that excitement was clearly too much for you - you need to rest.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I bought a 'box of contents' at an auction which contained 4 M16 feet like yours. Paid for the box but when I collected it there were only 3 feet in it. There were other boxes beside it & some tea leaf must have slipped it into their box. Complained to the auctioneer but their policy is 'look after it as you buy it'. I think I paid less than £10 for the box so they were cheap but 4 feet are much more useful than 3!

Took me a while to find this post. Saw it early in the morning and didn't have time to respond.
In the market for 3 machine feet. Mines levelled via 3 points,
Do they need a new home

 

[bigegg]

Took me a while to find this post. Saw it early in the morning and didn't have time to respond.
In the market for 3 machine feet. Mines levelled via 3 points,
Do they need a new home

if not, i got a load from the bottom of some shower trays i bought by accident.(don't ask!)
it might take me months to find them, but youre welcome to sone if i find them.m12 i think.
You might be better placed to obtain some next time youre doing a bathroom?

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

if not, i got a load from the bottom of some shower trays i bought by accident.(don't ask!)
it might take me months to find them, but youre welcome to sone if i find them.m12 i think.
You might be better placed to obtain some next time youre doing a bathroom?

Thanks for the offer. Il make some up worst case. Lathe is about half a tonne so the 16s would suit better.
Thought I'd ask as there were only 3 in the set

 

[eddie49]

It is a RS Soldering Iron.

It may be sold by RS, but originally I think it was made by Antex

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

It may be sold by RS, but originally I think it was made by Antex

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That gels with what I expected to hear actually.
Looks identical to my fathers old iron I learnt to solder with years ago.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

C:\Users\Stuart Newell\Desktop\Max\Work Fun\Workshop\Saws\Abrafile saw

Thanks for that, but it has RS on the sticker.