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

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Would love to have a play with an rtx card to see if it really is worth it. Also portal was possibly one of the greatest games of the era.

Yup very cleverly designed game. Portal 2 is worth a play too.

 

[Turbo]

Right , as promised.... Yesterday I acquired the following.

2 x Draper #350 63mm clamps. Not the most robust and I'd not trust then with anything 'crucial', but perfectly OK for wood-bothering etc and as we all know, you can never have enough clamps. £1 each.

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Then these off the 'Bay, thanks to a link here. Oddly enough, although I can either skip-dive or buy most of my steel, chequer plate etc locally[ish], ali for some reason is thin on the ground. So, 6 x billets 'just to have' for those small jobs which demand ali. £14.99 to the door.

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Then the aforementioned freebie of Loctite HY4070
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/products/1468172/?grossPrice=Y&cm_mmc=UK-PPC-DS3A-_-google-_-3_UK_EN_Epoxy+Resins+&+Epoxy+Adhesives_Loctite_BMM-_-Loctite+-+Epoxy+Resins+&+Epoxy+Adhesives+-+1468172-_-+loctite++hy++4070++11g&matchtype=b&kwd-391943775271&s_kwcid=AL!7457!3!315304997463!b!!g!!+loctite +hy +4070 +11g&gclid=CjwKCAiAis3vBRBdEiwAHXB29PgBG5HE4227wBpd9wWkkEle2q-sFny2g0Eh9GeFhG5zw8SbukYWXBoC9FUQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I'm on a roll yesterday & today, eh....?

Next up, although it hasn't arrived yet, one of these off eBay [no telling when Lidl will have them back in stock again] because I've been using a Draper equiv of this and it's been driving me mad for years. Because it's corded, it thinks it's the Boss and will fall over without provocation. It sounded its death knell when it started refusing to feed the stick unless I physically put pressure on the end of the glue stick, and that's without the spider's web of glue over everything. The bonus is no more being tethered at the end of a cord, without running extension leads etc. So...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Parkside-Hot-Glue-Gun-PHP-500-E3/163953121476?_trkparms=aid=111001&algo=REC.SEED&ao=1&asc=40733&meid=5a62043151a54c46bde9e601c101a639&pid=100227&rk=1&rkt=6&sd=163953121476&itm=163953121476&pmt=0&noa=1&pg=2053904&_trksid=p2053904.c100227.m3827

I have an older version of that hot glue gun & it has served me well. Whilst not being strictly cordless it will melt glue for a while once you remove it from the power connection base. You can also use it corded by plugging the power lead directly into the gun.

They are back in NI lidl stores next week so should soon be in rest of the uk as well.

https://www.lidl-ni.co.uk/en/c/make-and-create/c890/w2

There's a cordless mini gun charged by usb.

https://www.lidl-ni.co.uk/en/p/make-and-create/cordless-hot-glue-gun/p23255

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The last of my Battery adapters finally arrived this morning. UPS driver was polite.
8 weeks from ordering.

This is to replace the old style 800 battery in a bicycle lamp.

 

[Farside]

For the past couple of years I've been slightly bugged by an illumination oversight in the workshop. The banks of 4' fluros I installed are off-centre, and that leaves an uneven distribution of light to one side of the bike ramp. When I've been doing anything on the ramp I had to plug in the light over the bench to fill the gap, but it's not perfect.
So I got a 5' LED single batten today that will fill that gap next to the ramp. Handily, it comes pre-wired, so just have to wire it in to the endmost fluro fitting.
It's a start; I've been looking at the plummeting prices of 4' LED tube replacements in the past year, so once I start running out of spare tubes I'll buy a few at a time and get the whole lot done in the next couple of years.

Handily enough, the price locally was almost the same as the Amazon price I nicked the picture from - it's the same unit.

 

[Pete.]

The units I bought came with a 3-pin socket in the end so you has a flex tail to wire to or you used a straight-through connector to link them end to end.

 

[Farside]

The units I bought came with a 3-pin socket in the end so you has a flex tail to wire to or you used a straight-through connector to link them end to end.

That would have been handier, but no matter. Extra ones can be wired to their nearest main unit.

 

[Cuthy246]

A working computer, only been about 5 years since the last one

 

[Shox Dr]

Today I looks like I acquired another project.



Its a mockup of a blade. I found the porpoise tail in Shetland 13yrs ago, always wanted to turn it into a knife, but couldn't get the fish connection out my head with a filleting blade I’d use once in a blue moon.
That was util last night for some reason I drew this up....and it will probably stay at this stage until I decide how it fit the tag into the tail, it would look good as a full tang but you would lose the bits at the bottom, also the top has small holes that would be cut out. Cant get any bigger as it fits my hand very well as is. Thinking of splitting the tail up hollowing out the middle I could then have a full length. Glue the blade in then dip the bone in ? Enough to protect leaving the profile to aid grip

 

[Turbo]

2 x 5l tins of 2 part epoxy joint sealer plus a 1.9l tin of Fosroc Nitoprime Zincrich plus, all new & unopened.

Looking at the specs of this it is galvafroid under a different label, £90 a tin, I got the whole lot for £20!

 

[Turbo]

All metal storage cupboard with shelves, ok apart from some rust in the bottom, £20.
It is sitting on a Clarke strongarm trolley bought for £12.

2 8ft lengths of 100x100x5mm galvanised shs steel, perfect for gate posts, £25.

 

[DAPPH]

Today I looks like I acquired another project.

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Its a mockup of a blade. I found the porpoise tail in Shetland 13yrs ago, always wanted to turn it into a knife, but couldn't get the fish connection out my head with a filleting blade I’d use once in a blue moon.
That was util last night for some reason I drew this up....and it will probably stay at this stage until I decide how it fit the tag into the tail, it would look good as a full tang but you would lose the bits at the bottom, also the top has small holes that would be cut out. Cant get any bigger as it fits my hand very well as is. Thinking of splitting the tail up hollowing out the middle I could then have a full length. Glue the blade in then dip the bone in ? Enough to protect leaving the profile to aid grip

Make the tang 1/2 the diameter of each vertebrae and make each bulge exactly like the profile so it mimics the shadow of the bones drill the last vertebrae then resin glue them in place using blu tac to hold/ seal the parts together . For that last vertebrae turn up an internally threaded stainless top hat for the nut & put a 1/4 " thick brass guard on the front . Then clean off the blu tac & se how it is before you dip the whole handle .

 

[Wozzaaah]

45 CDs for the princely sum of £15.
AC/DC, Skids, Muse, Metallica, Talking Heads, B52s, REM, U2, Manic Street Preachers, White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Paul Weller, Bob Marley, Red Hot Chilli Peppers to name a few....
Oh, and Michael Jackson’s Thriller which I'm listening to at this very moment!

 

[indy4x]

My aging Dell 7010 desktop was starting to get a little troublesome and randomly locking up.

Until recently it's only been used for surfing and general stuff but been spending lots of time using Inventor as I'm doing CAD in nightclasses so hit eBay to find some upgrade parts

AMD Firepro graphics card, this was a real Dick Turpin moment, brand new for chicken feed money



i7 processor


And bigger power supply


Was gonna order an SSD, double checked and it already has a 500Gb SSD

No more lockups and a useful boost in performance over the i3 that was in it

 

[indy4x]

And more goodies, wife offered to contribute to a new welding mask for my Birthday, so splashed out on a new Optrel VegaView and a carry bag





Now I can see how bad my welding is while it's happening

And a RAL colour chart, well why not

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Monday through to todays finds.

This lot was skip finds.


2 Almost complete Bit Sets, 1 adjustable. 1 twin setting LED Head Torch. 1 Draper adjustable Ratchet bit driver.

The sets are missing about 20% in total and the LED Head torch is fully working.
I suspect there was more lower down, but it was a very full skip.





A Charity Shop.
Both working, both will get new batteries.
£5.

 

[4String.]

Early finish today, although I did start at 02.30 this morning .

Gloucester services tonight, enroute to the badlands of Bristol for tomorrow morning, so decent ale and the biggest mince pies I've ever seen will go nicely with cab-cooked Fettuccine Alfredo for tea.

 

[Country Joe]

Of all the services to have to stay a while, Gloucester (if it's the "farmy" one I'm thinking of?) isn't a bad choice!

I was quite surprised when I first went there, after some of the other "services" I've had the mis-fortune to visit.
You look well enough set-up, not to have to actually go inside there!

All the Best,
CJ

PS - Strangely I'm up in the "Badlands" of the same Big City, tomorrow!

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Of all the services to have to stay a while, Gloucester (if it's the "farmy" one I'm thinking of?) isn't a bad choice!

I was quite surprised when I first went there, after some of the other "services" I've had the mis-fortune to visit.
You look well enough set-up, not to have to actually go inside there!

All the Best,
CJ

Always stop there on the way back from Devon with the kids

 

[slim_boy_fat]

This lot was skip finds.

Have you considered compiling a "Guide to Britain's Best Skips"? You could start small with 'county by county' and grow from there.....

I keep looking out for the Maintenance Supervisor at the hospital, just think of all the '3-castor' stainless trolleys etc they must bung out......

 

[4String.]

Of all the services to have to stay a while, Gloucester (if it's the "farmy" one I'm thinking of?) isn't a bad choice!

I was quite surprised when I first went there, after some of the other "services" I've had the mis-fortune to visit.
You look well enough set-up, not to have to actually go inside there!

All the Best,
CJ

PS - Strangely I'm up in the "Badlands" of the same Big City, tomorrow!

It is indeed the "farmy" one, owned by the same folk who own Tebay services on the M6 up in the Lakes.

Even though they're definitely better than most other MSA's, I wouldn't normally stop here, but there's no way I can get into the site tonight. Tea is cooking and I've got 150 channels on telly, so this will do for the night.