The_Yellow_Ardvark
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DAPPH
as dyslexik as I'm daft
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Looks like it's a hot seat Ardy
Not so long ago I was offered a steam cleaner by a transit driving happy tapper who came to the gate.
Him " Ya wanna buy a steam cleaner good price going cheep only £300 cash bud ? "
Me
" Steam cleaner as in steam generator or hot water atomised spray ?"
Him " It's hot guv "
Me
" I bet it is ...….no thanks , my brother is copper "
He left pretty sharpish .
Not so long ago I was offered a steam cleaner by a transit driving happy tapper who came to the gate.
Him " Ya wanna buy a steam cleaner good price going cheep only £300 cash bud ? "
Me
" Steam cleaner as in steam generator or hot water atomised spray ?"
Him " It's hot guv "
Me
" I bet it is ...….no thanks , my brother is copper "
He left pretty sharpish .
zeppelin builder
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ive had it for years its Marked Crl and no 1 on the t other side
presumably it held the rail to a sleeper but cant figure our what tbe curved profile was for
makes a nice swage block
presumably it held the rail to a sleeper but cant figure our what tbe curved profile was for
makes a nice swage block
Tupers
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I think it was around £530 for an inch thick sheet.
brightspark
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is that the one that was nicked from museum
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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What’s artistic about it, it’s a toilet and an American one at that
I no nothing.
Apart from it is cold to sit on.
@Parm asked me to look after it
angellonewolf
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^^^^ getting melted quick then
Had to visit the great metropolis of Stockton on Tees this morning and as I had to drive past Machine Mart, I thought it’d be rude not to call in. Picked up this storage set-up:
A few minutes drilling it to the wall and my assortment of margarine tubs full of screws and nails are on the way to being sorted, in keeping with my recent efforts to tidy up the mancave:
The bench is a tip as it’s covered in parts after I removed the stairlift from my late MIL’s house this afternoon. ‘‘Twas an absolute sod to remove, and ended up being stripped down to its constituent parts, which admittedly yielded a large quantity of useful hardware, the motor and drive unit next to the aforementioned margarine tub on the bench, and this:
...a 13’ by 5” length of extruded ally. Not sure what to use it for, but thought about getting rid of the fins off the bottom where the rack was bolted on, then cutting it into 4 equal lengths and bolting or welding them together to make a surface plate. Had my Spinal Tap straight edge on it and it’s surprisingly flat, so might be a project.
A few minutes drilling it to the wall and my assortment of margarine tubs full of screws and nails are on the way to being sorted, in keeping with my recent efforts to tidy up the mancave:
The bench is a tip as it’s covered in parts after I removed the stairlift from my late MIL’s house this afternoon. ‘‘Twas an absolute sod to remove, and ended up being stripped down to its constituent parts, which admittedly yielded a large quantity of useful hardware, the motor and drive unit next to the aforementioned margarine tub on the bench, and this:
...a 13’ by 5” length of extruded ally. Not sure what to use it for, but thought about getting rid of the fins off the bottom where the rack was bolted on, then cutting it into 4 equal lengths and bolting or welding them together to make a surface plate. Had my Spinal Tap straight edge on it and it’s surprisingly flat, so might be a project.
brightspark
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its the pits 
northwest
Searching for the Holy Grail.........
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so £150 fine english pounds was a bargain then eh
Wearing a mask then were you?
Olderisbetter
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A nice gold toilet might be very posh and a great status symbol but what happens when a drunk guest goes into the music room and finds this?
With beer goggles they look the same...
Maker
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I had a couple of those extrusions in the garden for years, finally chopped them up and took them to the tip last month. Seems a shame to chuck it but the rounded profile on top makes it hard to do anything with (unless you can weld alu
). I think I sold the motor to a member here, still got the rack and pinion somewhere.
Farside
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I wonder if it's part of a points set. Just an off-the-wall idea, but the curve might be to counter a tendency for the outer rail to splay under load.
Never seen one like it, so possibly it was a design for something very specific that never saw a wider application.
Olderisbetter
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Is it auto? and how scary is the road tax?
scottmk1
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No, it's a 5 speed manual. Tax is the same as any other pickup, registered as private light goods which is about £260 a year I think.
northwest
Searching for the Holy Grail.........
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Hard to describe but it is a flat spring, sort of snail shaped and it holds the rail in place but has a bit of give to it. Someone should be along shortly to give it it's proper name.
bigegg
Scream Not Working Because Space Make Deaf
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i've been considering a piece to make a "woodrat"/"routerboss" for a couple of years.
its far down my project list though.
Ali
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A door frame from B&Q. Highly disappointed after ripping the (external) old frame out, to put this together and discover that someone in the factory had put it in the jig upside down:
I needed to cut the bottom off anyway, by roughly that amount so not too much trouble to adjust the top end instead. So...trip back to the orange shop to show them and said I would take it anyway if they gave me some cash back - they agreed, so scored this at half price.
I needed to cut the bottom off anyway, by roughly that amount so not too much trouble to adjust the top end instead. So...trip back to the orange shop to show them and said I would take it anyway if they gave me some cash back - they agreed, so scored this at half price.
