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

[Moose McAlpine]

Wossat?

 

[Seadog]

It's a Boxford Little Giant Toolpost Grinder. Easily £250 or more.

Shpock is well worth monitoring.

 

[Turbo]

As long as he works!

I assumed that Henry was wet & dry once. Then found out otherwise after sucking a few litres of rainwater out of a flooded car and Henry's magic purple smoke came out.

I think the wet & dry Henry has a blue base instead of red & has a float ball under the motor intake so that when the bucket fills with water it blocks off the intake to avoid sucking water into the motor.

Internally they have a different motor. The dry one blows the sucked in air up past the motor windings to cool them. So if you suck up water with it the moisture in the air will cause a dead short!
A wet vac motor keeps the sucked in air separate from the electrics & uses a separate fan to cool them.

https://www.hillreps.com/vacuum-motors

 

[8ob]

I think the wet & dry Henry has a blue base instead of red & has a float ball under the motor intake so that when the bucket fills with water it blocks off the intake to avoid sucking water into the motor.

Internally they have a different motor. The dry one blows the sucked in air up past the motor windings to cool them. So if you suck up water with it the moisture in the air will cause a dead short!
A wet vac motor keeps the sucked in air separate from the electrics & uses a separate fan to cool them.

https://www.hillreps.com/vacuum-motors

I bought a karcher wet and dry vac from b&q the other day , used it to suck contaminated fuel out of a couple of machines. Works well but did destroy the secondary filter.
They say wet but I don’t think they mean diesel

Bob

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Today I acquired this for £50

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I'm a very happy bunny

Bargain
I have plans and castings to build similar when time permits.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

A
second launchpad.
Kids are loving it and I'm enjoying getting back into music too.

Not an impressive demo but gives you an idea what il be using it for.

Also use it to control the software and as a normal midi interface with notes arranged any way you like Inc chords on one key.

 

[nick952]

Today I acquired this for £50

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I'm a very happy bunny

Nice one.
I'd been after one for years and eventualy gave up. Ended up making a Dynamic Toolpost Grinder from a set of castings and drawings supplied by Hemingway Kits

 

[stuvy]

I bought a karcher wet and dry vac from b&q the other day , used it to suck contaminated fuel out of a couple of machines. Works well but did destroy the secondary filter.
They say wet but I don’t think they mean diesel

Bob

We had a titan one from screwfix and it used to suck oil up from the floor, lasted 10 years before it gave up

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

As Mrs TYA has moved some stuff from the window sill I decided to add something small to see how long it will take for any one to notice.

 

[8ob]

We had a titan one from screwfix and it used to suck oil up from the floor, lasted 10 years before it gave up

Some of that Titan gear is poop though, my drill sharpener is made of chocolate

Karcher after ingesting about 10 gallons of contaminated red diesel

 

[Melvyn Best]

I bought a karcher wet and dry vac from b&q the other day , used it to suck contaminated fuel out of a couple of machines. Works well but did destroy the secondary filter.
They say wet but I don’t think they mean diesel

Bob

Have a look at the manual vacuum type oil sucker , used mine loads for draining fuel

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Some of that Titan gear is poop though, my drill sharpener is made of chocolate

Karcher after ingesting about 10 gallons of contaminated red diesel

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I suppose it would only be sensible to buy something with a multi fuel engine for burning that contaminated diesel. Say a 432 APC or similar

 

[zx9]

Have a look at the manual vacuum type oil sucker , used mine loads for draining fuel

Easier to use one powered by an airline.

 

[Maker]

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A
second launchpad.
Kids are loving it and I'm enjoying getting back into music too.

Not an impressive demo but gives you an idea what il be using it for.

Also use it to control the software and as a normal midi interface with notes arranged any way you like Inc chords on one key.

Always liked the look of those but unless the buttons can be remapped to hotkeys/shortcuts for other software to use it would really just be expensive pretty lights on my desk, I'm not particularly musical.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Always liked the look of those but unless the buttons can be remapped to hotkeys/shortcuts for other software to use it would really just be expensive pretty lights on my desk, I'm not particularly musical.

Funnily enough I was reading about using software to remap midi cc and note data to keystrokes via software.

Should give you some ideas.

 

[stuvy]

Some of that Titan gear is poop though, my drill sharpener is made of chocolate

Karcher after ingesting about 10 gallons of contaminated red diesel

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Most certainly is

I can’t believe you have a drill sharpener

What’s wrong with a bench grinder

 

[8ob]

Nothing wrong with hand grinding @stuvy except my peepers struggle a bit on the smaller sizes, not ready for bins yet but probably not far away.



Bob

 

[Olderisbetter]

Technically yesterday at 2am from my local hospital walk in centre i got 56 Buscopan tablets as i was in agony with stomach cramps after have a fish burger on friday night from a fast food place that sounds a bit scottish never again 3 days of pain and aches. But all my praise and thanks to the NHS and product.

 

[Farside]

Oh dear. I hope you didn't get an attack of the golden arches aches.

 

[Rig Pig]

Today I acquired a bit of history! A McDonald aluminium hard hat from the 1960's
A bargain for £6!