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

DAPPH · Jun 27, 2019

Dieselkid 63 said:
Clearly says ‘portable hardness tester’.

Sounds like a boozed up Chav with a push bike

bigegg · Jun 27, 2019

4String. said:
...a seriously eclectic mix in today’s swag bag . A nice long length of 6mm rope, (always handy around the truck), a 14lb shaftless hammer head , various pieces of steel, and out of shot are a new sweeping brush and a 10’ length of planed 5x3/4 pine that probably used to reside behind the curtain of an artic tilt trailer. It would have been much better, but there were too many folk in the area so I had to reign my activities in a bit .

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you realise if you didnt keep collecting stuff, youd only need a transit for work instead of a 100T lorry?

Olderisbetter · Jun 27, 2019

This set of sykes pickavant hydraulic nut splitters turned up today very happy with the quality and price, I spotted the box had a broad arrow

on and a 1991 date stamp.

ronan · Jun 27, 2019

Isn't there supposed to be a second arrow to show sold out of service :whistle:

Olderisbetter · Jun 27, 2019

ronan said:
Isn't there supposed to be a second arrow to show sold out of service

They don't even look used, I only see one arrow :scared:

northwest · Jun 27, 2019

Brad93 said:
As long as you get a good shot at the neck/chest area of a crow the V-max does the rest.

.204 they go up like a feather cushion.

Arc Tourist said:
A Ruger model 77 in .22 Mag or .17 HMR makes for a great moderate range varmint gun, with the barrels being easily interchangeable.

CZ 455 (now discontinued) also accommodates interchangeable barrels in .22LR .22 wmr and .17 hmr The new 457 also is a swap barrel rifle, but as they are just out they can be a bit pricey. I like Rugers but I am not a fan of the 77 for lots of reasons mostly to do with the triggers.

slim_boy_fat · Jun 27, 2019

The_Yellow_Ardvark said:
they reminded me that I was not allowed to liberate anything.

You must have a reputation to defend? :laughing:

mpats · Jun 28, 2019

northwest said:
.204 they go up like a feather cushion.

CZ 455 (now discontinued) also accommodates interchangeable barrels in .22LR .22 wmr and .17 hmr The new 457 also is a swap barrel rifle, but as they are just out they can be a bit pricey. I like Rugers but I am not a fan of the 77 for lots of reasons mostly to do with the triggers.

I had an all weather synthetic 77 in .22lr and it was a fantastic little gun. Could easily outshoot me and I could (on a good day) pop out 5 pence groups with it. If I went for a bolt gun again I would be happy with another. Not to mention the fact it was sub £400 gun (second hand).

ronan · Jun 28, 2019

Have a ruger no.1 in .243 myself, the single shot and its also a stutzen, wood to the muzzle. Its a tiny little thing, but the large action makes it heavy.

slim_boy_fat · Jun 28, 2019

Today these turned up from the land full of eastern promise [anyone old enough to remember the Fry's Turkish Delight adverts? :ashamed:

But I digress. Following a post here, I sent off and they arrived today, ahead of expected delivery date - which is nice. Not up to toolroom standards obviously, but I reckon good enough for what I do. £9 odds delivered :whistle:

Happy days!

mrsbruce · Jun 28, 2019

slim_boy_fat said:
Today these turned up from the land full of eastern promise [anyone old enough to remember the Fry's Turkish Delight adverts?

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I refuse to answer that question, on the grounds that I may incriminate myself.

northwest · Jun 28, 2019

ronan said:
Have a ruger no.1 in .243 myself, the single shot and its also a stutzen

Lovely gun and one of Bill Ruger's finest designs (along with the Old Army but that is another story), quite rare as a Stutzen generally and very few in the UK. I have a couple of Ruger's, I might just take a pic of them later.

4String. · Jun 28, 2019

slim_boy_fat said:
Today these turned up from the land full of eastern promise [anyone old enough to remember the Fry's Turkish Delight adverts?

But I digress. Following a post here, I sent off and they arrived today, ahead of expected delivery date - which is nice. Not up to toolroom standards obviously, but I reckon good enough for what I do. £9 odds delivered Happy days!

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“Fry’s Turkish Delight, full of eastern promise...” (Made in Birmingham :whistle:

).

Reminds me of the time the celebrated Tenor that was John Hanson appeared on Morecambe and Wise. Eric asked him to sing a song, so he launched into his finest hour, The Desert Song, at which Eric retorted “Get Off, we don’t want that rubbish.”

4String. · Jun 28, 2019

bigegg said:
you realise if you didnt keep collecting stuff, youd only need a transit for work instead of a 100T lorry?

Not collect stuff??

How very dare you, Sir!

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The_Yellow_Ardvark · Jun 28, 2019

slim_boy_fat said:
You must have a reputation to defend?

Not at all.
But it is a company wide rule, is that no one is allowed to acquire items from those sites. Officially nore are the site staff.

But what is dumped is shocking.

Craig-SM · Jun 28, 2019

The Wera tools arrived today and very nice they are too especially the ratchet set.

123hotchef · Jun 28, 2019

slim_boy_fat said:
Today these turned up from the land full of eastern promise [anyone old enough to remember the Fry's Turkish Delight adverts?

But I digress. Following a post here, I sent off and they arrived today, ahead of expected delivery date - which is nice. Not up to toolroom standards obviously, but I reckon good enough for what I do. £9 odds delivered Happy days!

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I received mine yesterday too hum the small one was already stuck in when I got it after messing with it the bits flew across the room then I had to take the next size up apart to see how they went back together, poxy things took me half a hour of fiddling to get them both back together

ronan · Jun 28, 2019

slim_boy_fat said:
Today these turned up from the land full of eastern promise [anyone old enough to remember the Fry's Turkish Delight adverts?

But I digress. Following a post here, I sent off and they arrived today, ahead of expected delivery date - which is nice. Not up to toolroom standards obviously, but I reckon good enough for what I do. £9 odds delivered Happy days!

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I was watching a set of mitutoyo telescopic gauges on ebay, and stuck in a cheeky bid, luckily i won them. Great things to have, very handy. I was going to buy a set of the import adjustable parallels, anyone have a set ? Any use ?

slim_boy_fat · Jun 28, 2019

123hotchef said:
I received mine yesterday too hum the small one was already stuck in when I got it after messing with it the bits flew across the room then I had to take the next size up apart to see how they went back together, poxy things took me half a hour of fiddling to get them both back together

No problem with mine. :dontknow: