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

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Alfred Herbert ltd edgwick arbour press.
No2
No info but looks around the 6tonne Mark.

Lots of interesting stuff laying outside of Milton Keynes museum. Bagged it for 49 notes.

Siezed as been sitting outside for a year or so.
Can't see any reason it won't work well after some TLC

Anyone want a new welding bench.
Table is surplus.

 

[Seadog]

Whip the cover plate off and you'll get the ram out pretty easily, I would imagine.

I was going to bid, too, but forgot

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Whip the cover plate off and you'll get the ram out pretty easily, I would imagine.

I was going to bid, too, but forgot

I was driving as they all started ending. They had a few items I wanted.
Managed to get a bid on this one though.
Shouldn't be too hard to get it going
First job is the siezed bolts holding it to the table.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Skil 77hd worm drive saw. Paid sensible money via eBay global seller program. Came with a new blade. It's a wonderful saw, provided you aren't a safety Nazi, and are right handed. The gearbox and motor are so quiet.



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Here's some photos and measurements of a Skillsaw guide, in case you can't acquire one or decide to make your own. The standard size is 12" long and made from 1/8" thick by 9/16" wide bar stock. The cross piece is 3/4" wide by 3 7/8" long with two holes for attaching a longer guide bar if desired. Hope this helps.

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[Arc Tourist]

Alfred Herbert ltd edgwick arbour press.
No2
No info but looks around the 6tonne Mark.

Lots of interesting stuff laying outside of Milton Keynes museum. Bagged it for 49 notes.
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Siezed as been sitting outside for a year or so.
Can't see any reason it won't work well after some TLC

Anyone want a new welding bench.
Table is surplus.

So you bagged it, Nice tool to have !

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Items in a Charity shop, what they can not sell.

Bubble stick, has glow in the dark markings.
Pruning saw, hand loppers and scissor. Sharp or can be classed as weapons.

Hammer, simply because it has a loose head.

 

[DAPPH]

...(after 3 years of rolling my van and OH’s car forward by all of 3 feet to open the up and over door, and almost blocking the footpath in the process), a pedestrian door in my man-cave. Just spoke to OH who says the builder has done a grand job, especially cutting out for the bottom of the new doorway, which I reckon started life as a stone wall and is well over a foot thick!

No more messing about moving vehicles when I get home on a Friday night/Saturday dinner, now I can go straight out of the kitchen door and into the workshop to practice my manly pursuits. And as a bonus, my wazzock of a neighbour will have no idea I’m in there. I swear blind he listens for the up and over door opening so he can attempt to borrow something/ask me if I wouldn’t mind fetching a bed that he’s bought from somewhere in Newcastle/tell me all about his latest “girlfriend” that he’s met via the internet/show me the latest litter of kittens his cat has had/talk to me in an unintelligible northeastern accent, etc, etc.

I predict workshop based bliss from now on

It's real bliss when you have a remote electric insulated roller door . It keeps you warmer in winter & ain't so easy to lift up if you remove the manual device . ( I've had one for five years .. absolute bliss Key fob remote open from inside the house and push button control closing on the control box in the garage .

 

[4String.]

It's real bliss when you have a remote electric insulated roller door . It keeps you warmer in winter & ain't so easy to lift up if you remove the manual device . ( I've had one for five years .. absolute bliss Key fob remote open from inside the house and push button control closing on the control box in the garage .

Remote electric door, how very ”twentytenties”, or whatever this decade is called . No, as the garage is now a workshop, the original up and over door is now firmly secured from inside and covered with insulating foil, the handle is off and the God awfully flimsy latching mechanism is disconnected and cable tied to the door track, to be replaced when I finally convince OH to sell up and head north. About 9 hours’ sailing north of Aberdeen, to be exact.

 

[4String.]

And today, courtesy of rummaging in a skip at a construction site near Coventry airport, I acquired a trio of new 5 ton ratchets c/w long straps. The site lads took them out of the box but they couldn’t figure out how to work them so they skipped them . Also in the skip were a dozen brand new long series sds masonry drills, along with a pair of 3 ton 6 metre webbing slings, still in their packaging. It really is shocking to see such waste, and while individually they don’t cost much, relatively speaking, a lot of not muches soon add up.

Now at said customers’ premises near Wembley Stadium awaiting unloading on the morrow, and I have my eye on some choice looking lengths of 50x50 box section that might just form the basis of a new bench in my workshop, if my scrounging talents are up to the job .

 

[arther dailey]

A mitsibushi L200, 2006, spares or repairs due to EML coming on, so far really pleased but the eml hasnt shown up yet so going to get on with service and go over to see anything comes to light.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Hammer, simply because it has a loose head.

'Smith's or farrier's hammer?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

About 9 hours’ sailing north of Aberdeen, to be exact.

Have a drink in Busta House for me please.

 

[DAPPH]

'Smith's or farrier's hammer?

I could be wrong but I thought it was a boat builders dunt hammer used when making clinker built boats . They come as pairs usually . One is used inside the boat the other on the outside to swage the copper rivets tight .
Dunt .. Scottish ship yard terms for a heavy hammer or blow as in " He needs a good dunt between the eyes to sort him out ".

I say that because of the elongated head faces allows you to work the curvature of the sides without damaging the wood work . One hand on the shaft the other on the free face to hold it on the rivet head as an anvil when it's struck from the other side of the wood .

 

[Dieselman 63]

A farriers hammer looks like a clawhammer but the claw has a steeper slope, and the hammer is a little smaller.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

If it needs a home let me know

PM in bound.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

'Smith's or farrier's hammer?

Not sure yet, either way the shaft is the wrong one and useless.

 

[fizzy]

Finally at last.
An Elliott Progress 2gs.
On EBay
Good working order it said.
£122 So can't complain!
Bloke put it on a pallet for me which was good of him but not a very good job of it. At least it got here intact.
Better than I thought but needs a new motor as shaft is bent. Front pulley has a chunk out of it and the spring recoil has gone.
Well worth a restoration though.

 

[fizzy]

 

[Tangledfeet]

Earlier in the week my bargain Optrel Crystal helmet shell (£18) arrived and today I came home to some gold coated glass lenses so couldn't resist sticking one in and having a wee play in the workshop after walking the dogs - very, very impressed!

 

[4String.]

(...and it really is no use to me at all)

A “Patrolman’s “Fishbolt” spanner. Fully insulated, 36” long, for tightening 1.5/8” square bolts.

Honestly, I have no idea how I ended up with it . Collected a 17 metre rail crossing today, and I jokingly asked the nice rail man if I could have his spanner. Got to the delivery point and found it it in my lifting gear tray behind the cab. God forbid I get stopped in a spot check, if they see this it’ll be Peter Sutcliffe all over again.