nick952
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Bill Edwards
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No but I'm sure you won't be disappointed, I don't believe there have ever been any bad oil cooled welders produced!
julianthegypsy
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It looks suspiciously like a pickhill, who made all the oxfords, olympic and cytringan oil filled welders. Cracking kit, very smooth and you'll be amazed how quiet it is too!
Parm
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I've always wanted an oil filled stick welder, this came along at the right time and price for me
Cobbler
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I've always fancied one as well, you beat me to it. When I looked at the ads, you'd already got your name down for it. Beaten by a few minutes. I rarely get the stick welder out, so it would be a waste for me to have bought it really, it was just a fancy, enjoy it.
123hotchef
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I just acquired 20 or so old plastic chopping boards a trolley full of old pots and pans with some lids a dozen or so sifts don't know what I am going to do with it all seems criminal to bin it all, I do like a chopping board or 2 though
just got some more goodies a microwave working going in the garage lots of baking sheets some Yorkshire tins more pans a few woks I need to make a sculpture or something.
Unless any one needs any bits?
just got some more goodies a microwave working going in the garage lots of baking sheets some Yorkshire tins more pans a few woks I need to make a sculpture or something.
Unless any one needs any bits?
Parm
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Although I have the Clarke 135 TE, stick is what I use the most as I find it easier and more forgiving than the MIg for the type of agricultural welding I get up to. Its also quite timely as my old hand me down Buzz box went up in a puff of smoke last week
Im sure another one will come along soon
bigegg
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Sifts are good for sand if you're into casting?
Plastic chopping boards are usually UDHP which is really good for sliding surfaces and as a general engineering material - I made some clips to hold the grille on my car once with it.
Glass lids are good for glass doors for wood stoves.
Steel pans are OK (not good - just OK) for crucibles or burn pots for oil burners.
Pudding tins/baking trays make raw sheet stock for car repairs or folded to make storage boxes/drawers
Bun tins/ bread tins make ingot moulds - although bread tins can be converted into linbins by rivetting a strip of steel (from a baking tray?) to one end as a hanger
I made a three tier fountain from different sized woks - they also work as bird baths, or roofs for birdhouses when inverted.
Aluminium stuff I just melt down for stock.
123hotchef
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cool thanks for the ideas I use chopping boards for all sorts
baking sheets are very thin though less than 1mm
I do have 80L of oil so I really should make a burner for it
Parm
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I made some 80mm squares from a plastic chopping board as feet under a garden table I made last summer. It stops the end grain of 4" timber sucking up the water
123hotchef
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good idea mate, I have used them as anti vibration washers, relay boards brackets, spacers normally purchase them from ikea or eblag but these are free
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Recused from the skips at a friend’s work.
The Bosch kit needs batteries, “Hello E-Bay, my old friend. I come to spend my money again”
The Welder, looks goods, not welded with it, yet. Oh yes the bad apple, Silverline welding helmet.
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Oh yes, 4 of these.
Cobbler
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My mate closed his business a few months ago & put a 140amp stick welder in the skip, he asked if any of the workers wanted it, no one did so he skipped it. I wish he'd said, my arc welders knackered! It was old & battered but it would have done me as its only for occasional use.
Appyasme1
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Did Robinsons take over Hartleys Brewer from Ulverston?
All gratis from a mate.
tinman123
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never seen them before, but im not a massive iron maiden fan either i guess but upon a google i see they are worth between £10 & £25 quid each..
might come to the price of a battery..
I spent today in York with the other half. I always pop into a hardware store called Barnitts in the city centre when I get dragged to York for the day. They have quite a wide range of tools which makes a change from all the other shops in the city but these days they seem to stock pretty standard DIY grade stuff. They also have a small engineering tools display cabinet. I picked up this Moore & Wright micrometer for £14.99 which I thought was a very good deal. I think I would struggle to get a potentially battered second hand one for that price. It measures to one ten thousandth of an inch. Brand new in the bag with the brown paper still on it. The fella who served me in the shop agreed it was a bit of bargain and he had picked them up dirt cheap as they were imperial and the demand for them was very low. He reckoned that the metric equivalent would have cost 58 quid. They still had two or three left in the cabinet if you are passing and want to harness your inner Yorkshireman. The micrometer is a 1961B. It's quite a novelty to buy something made in England these days.
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