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

[AndersK]

Bought one of those external deburring tools.
Didn't expect it to be good but at 4£ delivered to my door I just had to try one.

Well, it arrived cracked. About 30sec later it was refunded and I didn't need to return neither.

Welded the crack and was surprised that it actually worked quite well.

Not as fast and effective as in the commercials but good enough on mild steel tubes. Faster than a file and more even than flap disc.

Deburred about 40 pcs of 20mm pipes and still sharp.

 

[mpats]

This pitched up the other day, used it earlier to find something in the garage. Its chuffing bright! And was getting quite warm! I'm impressed.

 

[Mike Pinches]

Today's acquisitions

 

[8ob]

Yesterday, this arrived from Lithuania, and very nice it is, too.
Unfortunately, if I gut the existing binnacle to fit it, I lose the fuel gauge, which is invaluable.

Yep, wont be many revs going on if you run out of fuel.

Bob

 

[chriscase]

In that condition I would sell it to a restaurant and buy the steel for a proper heavy duty welding table.

Nah I like the size of it , it's on wheels and easy enough to move about , the drawers are fairly deep and will hold 3 or 4 115mm grinders plus it's nice and shiny

 

[pcwizme]

Ordered this chainsaw chain sharpener a few days ago after killing the new chain on some embedded barbed wire (GRRRR....), it arrived today and after about 5 minutes filing - 3 strokes per tooth - the chain cuts better than new!
I went for the cheap Chinese copy off eBay, £11 delivered - instead of the proper Stihl tool at £30 so I'm very happy with it.

I use the genuine one personally but only as I got it cheap at our local suppliers. Best thing for sharpening chains in my opinion

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I use the genuine one personally but only as I got it cheap at our local suppliers. Best thing for sharpening chains in my opinion

Got to be very quick with a flat and round file by hand. Lots of practice when i was in the trade

 

[DAPPH]

Got myself a cheap little welding table today , all stainless steel with 2 drawers and on wheels ,I'm happy View attachment 202806
It's not big , Size is 1200 x 595 x 790 but it'll do for me and like I said it was cheap

Slap a 10 mm mild steel sheet on the top & give an overhang of 60 mm to one side & the front , so you can cut a 10 mm slot for mounting a vice on a drop in " T " bracket that can be lock/bolted in place & easily / quickly removed if needed .

 

[pcwizme]

Got to be very quick with a flat and round file by hand. Lots of practice when i was in the trade

The thing with these (and I use my saw probably 3 times a week on average) is they do the flat file for you at the exact rate, also much more comfortable to hold for speed

 

[DAPPH]

Yeap Horsley tip indeed. Really can't get my head round why re-use of stuff is discouraged. Surely it's better than recycling in terms of energy use etc. Whatever happened to "reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order"?

It's to do with the council being held to account for Public liability for injuries to a member of the public from using something technically owned by the local authority , not as many seem think to make a profit or to be niggardly .

 

[brightspark]

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and the price ??

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

It's to do with the council being held to account for Public liability for injuries to a member of the public from using something technically owned by the local authority , not as many seem think to make a profit or to be niggardly .

Most are run by third parties for profit

 

[Farside]

Yep, wont be many revs going on if you run out of fuel.

Bob

I can easily get a KUS fuel gauge, but there's the hassle of matching the existing sender and perhaps even more hassle if the existing sender breaks anyway, as it's bloody old and really done a load of miles so it's probably ready to peg out, which would mean getting a KUS sender to fit, somehow. Not impossible, so I got to thinking...

 

[captain-destructo]

After having to send the first one back due to some dodgy quality control my long awaited English Wheel arrived.

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I also got a couple new sets of allen keys to replace my miss matched black oxide set.
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hmm step drill been thinking about getting one of them how much was that one? and let us know how well it performs!

 

[Mike Pinches]

£80 for the pair, both brand new. A local engineering shop has changed owner and is getting rid of stock he doesn't want as he is focussing on fasteners, drills, taps and some hand tools now. Could probably have got them a bit cheaper as he took my first offer which surprised me slightly given the normal retail price of them.

 

[jimbo84]

Not with buying anything unbranded with batteries or LEDs off eBay, the Chinese tell whoppers about the wattage and amp hr capacity.

Like the 200 amp welders that only put out 120 amps.

Someone should make a conversion app from chinese units to british units. Having said that halving it will probably be pretty accurate.

 

[zx9]

Someone should make a conversion app from chinese units to british units. Having said that halving it will probably be pretty accurate.

We have found that LED light sources used in modern projectors have a rapid burn in, yes you may have bought a 10,000 lumen (example off the top of my head) projector and you may have been very impressed when we installed it but a couple of months later it appears to be not so impressive. The older metal halide machines had a much slower reduction in light output which could be mitigated by fitting a new lamp though obviously this did nothing to compensate for yellowing of the heat filters or prisms in the optical path.

 

[pcwizme]

Actually yesterday these arrived. Cost from the states is about £900 each, cost me less than 150 for the 2 delivered.

I'll be using them for wild food prep events when I need hand washing facilities for hygiene reasons

 

[sardine]

Someone should make a conversion app from chinese units to british units. Having said that halving it will probably be pretty accurate.

Everyone would buy the Chinese copy off BangGood and we be back to square one.

 

[mpats]

Got hold of a few nice bits today in a local secondhand/antique/bricabrac shop.
One 4 1/2 for me, a 4 for a friends christmas present and the surform was a bargain, I've a bouple of other blades for it rescued from the metal skip at work from someone having a clear out of the workshop. The one that was on it is unused on one side and barely used on the other.