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

[Arc Tourist]

Today I acquired an IKEA shopping bag.
Dimensions are: 330mm (13") Wide X 510mm (20") Long X 360mm (14") Deep.
Found an alternate use for it.

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[dobbslc]

Is that to keep it clean or hide it from the wife?

 

[Arc Tourist]

Is that to keep it clean or hide it from the wife?

Wife gave me the bag, and when I spotted the Tig for sale, she went with me to look at it.
I got lucky the second time around, and married the right gal.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Yesterday I acquired the urge to sort out all the screws that were hanging around in various drawers, jars, buckets, take away trays etc. I inherited a load of screws from my dad, loads of brass and steel screws, mostly slotted head which look better than cross-heads if they are visible.

Here's about half of them that need sorting, I've started on them.

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Here's round head steel slotted nearly sorted

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I've already done all the countersunk and round/pan/raised head brass, they are already filed away here, the rest will be soon.

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I've already got all the cross heads in there plus loads of stainless and BZP set screws, bolts, washers, springs, self tappers from M3 to M12 plus quite a bit of imperial plus rivnuts, captive nuts, t-nut/bolts, plugs, rivets, roll-pins, circlips etc..... The bigger stuff is going in some old metal drawers I bought a couple of years ago.

Sounds a bit anal but I keep moving this stuff around the workshop rather than sorting it once and for all, this way I might be able to find what I need and make horizontal surfaces available for more junk

Get a brew, get the music on and just do an hour a day. It will soon be done.

******, I just found a 5 litre tin of various fixings and a jam jar of electrical screws and self tappers, I think I'll call the kids in to help, it is end of term holidays

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Cheers
Andy

Did the screw boxes from the van over Xmas. Wasn't a pleasant job but moch better for getting it done.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Some pictures of superb views in Yunnan province China.

Over there on holiday, or for work?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Not today.
Back in January I was given this.
A Record No6 plane, broken handle, simple fix.
Missing blade, money fix.




But today I got this Small Quarry Mans Hammer head.



So I brought a decent 16" shaft.

 

[Jlg]

I need something better than the nasty one that came with my Lidl drill it is a little dwarfed by the Meddings Drill Thru.

I've got a 6" drill/machine vice if you're interested

 

[zx9]

I've got a 6" drill/machine vice if you're interested

Um, maybe though that might be going to the other extreme, the Drill Thu has two parallel clamping slots ( not t slots as such ) I will have a measure / think over the weekend.

 

[Jlg]

Um, maybe though that might be going to the other extreme, the Drill Thu has two parallel clamping slots ( not t slots as such ) I will have a measure / think over the weekend.

Ok it's a bit big for my aldi dril so it'll be going cheap since I'm sick of moving it and crushing my fingers with it

 

[seriesonewelder]

Over there on holiday, or for work?

Holiday. I'll put a thread together if interested when I get home.

 

[seriesonewelder]

Over there on holiday, or for work?

On holiday, I'll put a thread together if people are interested.

 

[rosinante]

Today I got this a fiver, the cannon ball , it sits lovely on the whaling harpoon grenade, ornament for the cave

 

[Arc Tourist]

Went to an industrial supply today to get a carbon-dioxide fire extinguisher and some 7018 rods. All they had were the powder type extinguisher's and a small stray box of 3.2 size 6013 rods. I decided to pass on the extinguishers but bought the cheap rods. A little later in the day we stopped in ALDI's and I noticed there was a bin full of the powder type extinguishers for £ 8.99 each, so I bought a couple as the "two" were much cheaper than the one of the same size at the industrial supply. I'll buy a carbon-dioxide unit and some Bohler rods when I find a source at a good price, but for now I want to have a go with the R-Tech I just bought on stick until I can get situated with an Argon cylinder.
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[Chillitt]

Kind of... I was hooking out the lumps of metal from the old bonfire, Ive bagged up about a tonne of ash and erm stuff to go to the tip, and found this. It's probably been sta there 20 years and I'm amazed its survived.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Today I acquired an IKEA shopping bag.
Dimensions are: 330mm (13") Wide X 510mm (20") Long X 360mm (14") Deep.
Found an alternate use for it.

Excellent , and I see from their website they're only 40 or 50p, size depending. I predict some measuring in the cave......

 

[jsf55]

Today I got this a fiver, the cannon ball , it sits lovely on the whaling harpoon grenade, ornament for the caveView attachment 176014

Just for a minute then .....

 

[MattF]

Kind of... I was hooking out the lumps of metal from the old bonfire, Ive bagged up about a tonne of ash and erm stuff to go to the tip, and found this. It's probably been sta there 20 years and I'm amazed its survived.

That's a lovely knife.

 

[Chillitt]

That's a lovely knife.

I knew if I kept turning over the piles of rubbish here long enough I'd find some treasure.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Puled from the bushes at a village church. I asked if I could have them, instead of them being skipped.



Plus this from a skip as well.

 

[Matthew92]

I know you all like a vice, so here’s one I picked up this morning Record 34. First visit to the local carboot for a long time, but we were passing so dropped in. It looks a bit rough, but it’s actually in great mechanical condition, very little wear and the jaws are near perfect.

£10 I just need to decide why I need another vice that’s all.