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The Shop => Tools => Topic started by: micktoon on May 06, 2013, 05:53:35 PM
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Evening all, Well after a bank holiday of serious car booting, 3 sales visited in all, with John Doubleboost, we both come back smiling :) The sun was shining as we set off with our usual arrangement (he goes one way around and I go the other) , to save any ugly incidents where we both spot the same item at the same time lol.
This is my collection at the end of the day, all in all £32.50p spent ..............not bad at all , even a Yorkshireman or Scotsman would be proud :lol:
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Its not that clear to see some of the stuff , but amongst it are 25 reamers , some tapered , an 18V Dewalt drill , a Makita 18V battery , an old heavy duty soldering iron , ideal for doing leaded glass work, a remote car alarm , a 5 lever mortice lock with 3 keys, a pull saw for wood , scraper for wood , hole saw arbor, feeler gauges , calipers , 3 files , couple a ratchet wrenches, a leather hole punch , milling cutter , couple of taps , a few drill bits, two pairs of safety goggles , 10 heavy duty rawl bolts, a tube of evostick glue , a tube of pvc weld glue ..... not bad haul :thumbup:
We both had a good laugh too , especially when I bought the reamers John had offered the bloke £15 for and the guy said no , he must have then regretted it , I then saw them , and said how much for them all he said £15 ........... I said I will give you £10 ..he must have been thinking he didnt want to regret missing a sale again so said £12 and I took them ..... much to John's dismay when I told him lol ..............there are several doubles so he will still be getting some of them anyway.
We drove back with the sound of all our bounty rattling away in the back of the car with smiles like Cheshire cats on out faces .......................Mission Acumplished :D
P.S before everyone rushes out to boot sales next weekend .................. normally its one blunt drill or something you already have three of , this was a good day indeed !
Cheers Mick.
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well dun
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Nice haul.
I filled a bag with hammers this week at the car boot sale. I've never had much luck at my local car boot sale in the past but this year i've been finding some pretty neat stuff. Nothing as exciting as all those reamers though.
A couple weeks back I got a big bench vise for a tenner. Last time I saw a vise like that was at the Hexham car boot sale where I'd offered £20 and got laughed at. They wanted something closer to £100.
It's a bit of a weird car boot sale up that way.
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It
Was
A good day for the boot sales
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John
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Here's an idea!
If you have a mill, you can use the dewalt drill motor to make a power feed. I threw two dewalts in the bin in disgust once after both their chargers failed and the replacement ones were very expensive. I wish I kept them as I think they would be a lot better motor than the cheap drill one I am using for my power feed project :(
I am hoping 3.5 amps from an 18.5 volt laptop power supply will be enough power for it.
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Hi Guys,
What a good day, I love Boot Sales especially when there's a bargain.
Cheers David
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Mick, John.
I was thriftily raised, in Yorkshire. :thumbup:
You did well! :clap: :clap:
David D
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Excellent bargain hunting! I have exactly that same pile of bound model engineers -- very interesting reading! :thumbup:
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Evening Lads
I thought I would go to a car boot sale today , I have not been to one in years , in fact I cant remember the last time :scratch: , so of I goes and came home with this wee haul .
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3MT reamer , 25mm end mill , 16 mm rippa , a few other small milling cutters , an old set of odd shaped pliers , wire strippers and a canny few lengths of silver solder :ddb: ,,,,,,,, total spent , including admission ,stopping for an ice cream half way round ,came to a grand total of £9.30 . £3 for the silver solder , seller thought they were welding rods :coffee:
Rob
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**** odd shaped pliers****
those look like relay setting pliers we used to use in the GPO days of BT.. when i were a lad :>)
Lyn.
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Hi Lyn
Do you recon that what there for , interesting , there of good quality and have a box joint :med:
Rob
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Hi Lyn
Do you recon that what there for , interesting , there of good quality and have a box joint :med:
Rob
Probably are, look a lot like the ones I had. Are the surfaces where the ends close free of serrations ???
BC
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Yes they are Dave ,no serrations ,,,,,,,,,, smooth :thumbup:
Rob
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smooth :thumbup:
Rob
:lol: Bit like you then ????
Almost certainly what they are. Still got mine somewhere ... and the other 'tool of tweak' for relay blades .. ...
Dunno why I've kept them, never used for 50 years ...
Ah, what it is to be an Owd Codger ... :scratch:
BC
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re relay setting tools - coincidentally, theres a gentleman heroically reinstating a CNC lathe who just mentioned he was going to try to repair some no-speed contactors? (http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,8261.msg93796.html#msg93796)
Dave
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Ah but those are full of electronics - there will be two relays in each, but I expect to find them as sealed units when I venture inside.
I expect that the speed sensing is simply a pulse generator derived from the motor speed proximity switch charging up a capacitor with a schmidt trigger looking at the capacitor voltage and switching the relay when at set point. (there are various external links to set the set point)
I do however well remember tweaking PO style 1000 and 3000 relay contact sets with relay setting tools thus revealing that I too am an old git!
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Whats GPO :scratch: something to do with telegraph ,,,,,,,,,,,,,Must be way way before my time ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,off too hide :lol:
Rob
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he he - those were the days - worked at both Dollis Hill and Martlesham research centres for the PO before they transmogrified into BT !
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**** odd shaped pliers****
those look like relay setting pliers we used to use in the GPO days of BT.. when i were a lad :>)
Lyn.
I've got a similar pair in my toolbox only mine are straight. We called them 'duck-bill pliers' and used them to straighten any kinks from the leads of resistors and capacitors (in the days when resistors and capacitors were big enough to see with the naked eye!) :D :D :D :D
Out of interest, I keep my eye on the tool-suppliers' catalogues but it seems 'they don't make them like that anymore'. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Someone told me that the evening before the General Post Office was split to form Royal Mail and British Telecommunications that BT still hadn't worked out how they were going to stamp their letters and Royal Mail hadn't worked out how they were going to pay their phone bill. Probably apocryphal, or maybe just politicians leaving the guys at the coal-face to sort out the nitty-gtitty.
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When I was a lad , Led zeppelin was in the hit paraded on top of the pops and I remember we had a box on the wall with a dial A-Z to turn the telly channel over , think it was cable ,,,,,,,,,,only had three channel ,,,,,,,, and they had that girl with a doll on most of the time .
Rob
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It was called "redifusion" now it is cable
John
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I it was John
http://www.rediffusion-television.co.uk/
Rob
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And do you remember the bright 'dot' left in the middle of the TV screen when you turned it off
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:lol: I do ,,,,,,,,,, and the back of the TV glowed
Rob
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I remember my Dad converting a radar screen in to a tv
The picture was Green
But no one else in the street had a tv :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Hi Rob , not a bad little haul :clap:, espicially the silver solder, a real bargain............you have hit lucky getting milling cutters/ reamer .......me and Doubleboost have not seen one between us all car boot season ( and its not through want of looking I can tell you lol ) I was going to get an ice cream last time but was trying to carry a 110v transformer , a grinder and a drill plus some other smal hand tools so gave it a miss :D
Cheers Mick
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And do you remember the bright 'dot' left in the middle of the TV screen when you turned it off
And as Neil said in "The Young Ones" that dot meant 'something really heavy man. No more telly' :D
Gary
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Really wish I could afford a car. All the boot sales within range of Sunday morning busses aren't the sort i'd ever expect to find reamers or even drill bits at.
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I'd be amazed to find anything like an end mill at a garage/tag/lawn sale here. Or silver solder.
However if you like jigsaw puzzles, aquariums missing one pane of glass, Lawrence Welk LP's, plastic tricycles, ashtrays, or assorted VHS exercise tapes, this is a paradise for that sort of thing.
Nice haul, Rob!
(especially the silver solder....)
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Well i've just had a great weekend. Was taking apart a neighbour's washing machine when the neighbour opposite noticed and came over and helped me get the drum bearings out without destroying them. Turned out he had a drawer full of bearings and offered me any I thought I could make use of.
Anyways feeling enthusiastic I headed to the Swalwell car boot sale to try my luck. Just at the very end a fella was selling a frame level for £60, which was a good price I figure but more than I could afford. I had a bit time to wait for the bus so I head back to ask if he'd take anything less, or if I could have his phone number in case I decide I want it. But then the guy offered the smaller level he'd been hiding for £20 and I snapped it up.
There's a good Geordie saying, "Shy bairns get nowt". It never hurts to ask.
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Hi
Lads
Went to a couple of car boot sales today with mick
I spent £18 in total
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The vice is hand made & of very good quality
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Books on welding (mint condition)
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A set of quality drawers
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Found this inside the drawers (open to ideas)
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Very nice camera case with keys
John
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Found this inside the drawers (open to ideas)
John,
It looks like a portable ultra-violet lamp for e.g. reading details written with a security pen.
Phil.
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I was thinking a bank note checker
John
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Good booting boys :thumbup: :clap: , that thing is both a bank note checker and a light that cecks for security pen makings as they both work on ulta violet..........I thought I heard a clunk inside them draws John :lol: .... with the luck you were having today its a wonder it was not a wallet stuffed with cash lol. .......... still a dam good days collecting John :drool:
Cheers Mick.
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Some great finds there lads!
I went to three bootsales this morning and came back with load of stuff!
I bought a Dremel multi (7.2v) for a fiver, and eezibleed system for 50p to do the bleeding when I overhaul the brakes on my Midget..
I bought some fishing lures and line for my son, a couple of nice cheap (well, i'm a Yorkshireman!!) watches od Swiss make, I bought antique furniture and pictures for the wifes antique stall!!
Oh and a guitar for a tenner! (like brand new too!!)..
a few years ago I bought a huge bundle of silver solder, I put it in my garage and thought no more of it until I needed to get some out to give a friend some, my garage had been turned over a while before I needed to get it out, it looks as though they nicked it as I never did find it :palm:
A couple of weeks ago I bought a Bosch battery drill with two batteries, a quick charger and it was cased, it cost £5, I thought the batteries were dead, it turned out they both just needed charging!, the week after I bought a spare battery for a pound, that was in good order too!!
Some more of my 'booty' finds!!
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Cheers, John :beer:
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Been back to the car boots today with John DB, this is my finds for today.
Quite a varied selection, quite a few bits and bobs of tig welding collets ceramics etc , a flexi neck 26 tig torch head, a nice big old wood clamp, some leather working pliers come hammer plier tool , a pair of end snippers, an O ring plier ? , some french chalk sticks , a carbide burr , a small rose bearing , a large tap wrench , a die wrench , a nice tack hammer and last but not least a full size resin cast of a skull !.................. beleive it or not just what I was after as I want to carve a bigger skull so perfect to work from.
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These are the Oring pliers closed
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This is them half open the three prongs all move outwards and open to about an inch or a bit more. They will work for O rings but I think I have seen this type of thing getting used to put coloured plastic ID rings on birds legs ? so that might be what they actually are ?.
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All in all a canny days booting !
Cheers Mick
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Hi
Lads
Managed a couple of car boot sales with Mick
In between painting the mill
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Not a bad collection for £ 10
The smiths car clock will be going on ebay they are hard to find now
John
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This is them half open the three prongs all move outwards and open to about an inch or a bit more. They will work for O rings but I think I have seen this type of thing getting used to put coloured plastic ID rings on birds legs ? so that might be what they actually are ?.
Mick, They are actually Hellerman sleeving pliers for fitting rubber sleeves to cables e.g over a soldered joint in a connector.
Phil.
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Hi Phil , I would say you get top marks there as they are marked Hellerman down the side, so they would do what heat shrink sort of does eh :thumbup: , I think they will have a few useful uses, I have struggled with getting sleeves , O rings etc on things before and I think these would have done the job..................... no doubt I will never come across another job like it now I have these :lol:
Cheers Mick.
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hi well they are for puting ruber sleving on and can be used for streching heet shrink i have two pers
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Hi Mick, I used to use pliers like that almost every day in the late seventies working as an electronic engineer. They were used with some weird smelling oil that was applied to the sleeve before sliding it over the soldered joint. I think we called it Hellerman oil.
Gary
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bang on Hellerman oil. smelt of roten fish to me
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Been back to a boot sale today and got a few bits and bobs. Nothing much engineering wise about but some useful stuff here.
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The round thing at the back is a new Wadkin grinder cup wheel from a knife grinder used for grinding HSS planer blades, 4 nice large spring clips ( handy for holding things when they are glued etc ), an unused Stanley number 80 scraper plane I have been after one for a while. A good quality fine small oilstone set into a wood box, two large combination spanners 32mm & 36mm , a flexible car body file, a small pair or M&W calipers and a number drill stand from 1-60. I think the whole lot came to £22 but the Stanley plane was £9 of that so a good days booting :thumbup:
Cheers Mick
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hi all well this is my hall from last sunday and thursday of this week all the items that i got on sunday was £5 as it all came from one stale the stuff that i got on thursday a drill chuck with key 30p a box with a suprise in it £1 two diy handels 50p a set of M&W deviders 50p pics
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Well done Bob , I like the box and the way the square came up :thumbup: :clap: :clap:
Cheers Mick
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Nice job on those dividers, too -- they look new now! :thumbup:
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Well the sun was out so myself and JohnDB hit a couple of bootsales once again. We both got some decent stuff, here is my haul, although I got some good gear I was still gutted to see a bloke pick up about 12 tee handled allen wrenches like the one I did get ( I have been looking for some for a while) from right under my nose a matter of seconds ahead of me and get them for £2.............. still I cant complain, I got some good stuff today.
The haul consists of a nice big adjustable spanner ( 24 inch ) it was spotted by John but he alredy has one so I picked this one up ( made in China , which I dont like in general but seems good enough quality ). A 30mm combination spanner, pair of knee pads , a Bahco hacksaw, welders chipping hammer, A welders magnetic clamp , leather hole punch , two square hole punches for sheet metal, roll pin punch , 2 hole saw arbors, a metal wedge, Roebuck small bolt cropper type wire cutters, nice wire crimpers, 1/4 tee allen wrench, small pigs tail flexible handled tool, like a tiny drain clearer tool and 1 set of brass interlocking letter stencils and 2 sets of number stencils, its the type you can assemble then spray through, like used to mark army ammo boxes etc. All at the usual reasonable car boot type prices, so well pleased.
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Cheers Mick
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Hi
Lads
This is todays haul
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Decent 3/8 socket sett
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Hammer made in South Africa has a very nice feel to it
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A good day spending less than the cost of 40 cigarettes
John
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nice hall you two no wunder thers nothing left for me as i sed ther is sum good stuff to be had at bootsales
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Hi
Lads
Another good day at the boot sales
This collection & 3 pairs of new work trousers all for less than £20
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John
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Nice one John. Drop them in citric acid overnight and they'll come up like new
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I have one of those comparator stands, and a twin of the smaller height gauge stad with the pins that poke through the base. Good haul.
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Hi lads this was my lot from today............ Only the 6 bits of tool steel and the large centre drill engineering wise. The plastic dial caliper is a decent thing but more for woodworking or rough sizing. The pliers are proper old things I have got them more as small tongs for picking hot things up blacksmithing wise really at 20p you can not walk past them ! The two pipe cutters are Momument make and work well. The knife looking tool is for hacking putty from windows and as I have a window glass to replace should come in handy, the screw driver is Spiralux ratchet type straight blade and all the little buffing wheel type things are various grades , tuffted , felt etc, the small box came with them its called 'Gloss Sticks' for restoring the gloss to porcelain after grinding , made by the Columbus dental Mfc Co, Columbus , Ohio U.S.A there is a small instruction booklet and two sticks of polish inside and judging by the way its written must be early 1900's I would say , interesting.
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Cheers Mick
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Hi Mick
The hacking knife brings back memories of slicing the PVC outer sheath off Armoured cable ...
Strewth, that stuff was damned hard at anything less that 10oC. :)
Usually felt better after weighing in the off-cut ends ... :beer:
Dave BC
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a good hall you two well i whent to whiby and got this lot for £1 a 1 to 13 mm chuck jacubs taper a hight gage two pers of scisers a tap handel and a brass brush
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hi all well not a car boot sale but a auction i got a large tool box full of stuff for £9 sum pics two Tyre levers 1 mm radius gage 1 whit thread gage 1 0 to 1" more and right mike assorted punches sum bare stock a Stanly screwdriver ratchet type two plane screwdrivers a line level for brick work a per of Stiltons a moor and right scraper 4 moor and Right calipers 3 tap handles 1 is a long retch type 1 die holder a sorted 1/4 sockets a sorted driver bits sum hacksaw bladed two hammers 1 without a Handel a sorted alien keys two valve guide cleaners 1 large folding ruler a Stanly knife and much more
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Great haul, Bob.
Round here, most traditional engineering (in Trafford Park) died out too long ago for stuff to still be coming up at boot sales. I live in hope, but it's depressing looking round boxes of old VHS tapes, cassette recorders and suchlike...
Andy
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Bob
Another nice find for you. With all these tools you keep finding you will soon have to have sale to make more room for more deals that you find. :D
What looks to be a bunch of junky old tools sure comes to life under your skill full hands. Well done. :clap: :clap:
Cheers :beer:
Don
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Great haul, Bob.
Round here, most traditional engineering (in Trafford Park) died out too long ago for stuff to still be coming up at boot sales. I live in hope, but it's depressing looking round boxes of old VHS tapes, cassette recorders and suchlike...
Andy
Andy,
You told me you lived in Sale!
I too am peed off seeing all the goodies our MadModder colleagues pick up every week. As you say, round here it's mostly crap on offer. We have one once a month at our local train station (we actually have two stations in our small town!) and I always wander down hoping to find a set of Myford Collets or a well kitted out watchmaker's lathe for £5 but when I wake from my dream all there is is boxes of mobile phone chargers, 33.6K modems, obsolete telephones, scart leads, kids toys etc. etc.
In the last year I'd be surprised if I'd spent as much as £5. (£4 on two Record Stilsons.)
There's one this Sunday and I'll be there - no doubt wasting another 30 minutes of my life!
Phil.
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Yes, Sale it is, Phil, but I reckon the likeliest source is ex-Trafford Park stuff. Sale isn'r known for industry.
25 years back, I did score a nice free heap of light section brass and stainless from a guy who had retired from Budenberg Gauge in Altrincham, but their site is now a huge apartment block.
Andy
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Hi Phil and Andy .........Well rain stopped play today so no bargains at all :( , mind dont be fooled, Me, John and Bob have put some serious hours in to find our loot lol and as for the crap we have had to look at to find our gems , well it would fill the Olympic stadium ten times over and more ! not to mention some of the sights we have seen on our journey...........other treasure hunters shall we say :palm: John DB and myself have had some proper laughs too, so even when we have only come back with token items its normally still been a good day for banter and there is always next time to find 'The Mother Load ' :drool:
Cheers Mick.
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Shame the rain stopped plat today
But like Mick said we always have a good laugh :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
John
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....... I live in hope.......
.......You told me you lived in Sale! ...........
Actually, he didn't say which hope - it could have been the one which friends of mine from Southsea & Gresford used to refer to in "Live in Hope and die in Caegwlre" !!
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This is what the boot sale revealed on Wednesday lads, not a bad day at all , this good weather is doing the job!
A smallish pair of proper 'Mole grips' locking pliers, 2 six inch Irwin quick clamps, a 240volt Dewalt 3 inch belt sander, I have been after a 3 inch sander for a while so well pleased with this find, and last but not least a full 5 volume set of Caxton books , ' The Modern Motor Engineer' 1955 I think, in pretty much mint condition too.
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As you can see on the sample pages the books have some real good old stuff in them, Volume 5 is a data and wiring diagram book , it just shows how few models of cars there were around then and how basic they were.............. this was back in the good old days where the owner of a car could actually fix their vehicle themselves without having a factory computer and special tools to do even the most basic tasks like now !
Cheers Mick.
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Nice books Mick
I have the first four (well used)
Weather is looking good for Sundays boot sales :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:
John
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good hale mick i whent to the aucshon on wedensday ther was a old lath in good working order did not see a macers name on it the bed lenth i wood say was 3 to 4 ft it was a gap bed to with a box full of related stuff and a 4 jaw chuck the hole lot whent for £80 :bugeye:
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These are not exactly boot sale bargains but they are bargains all the same, obtained from VW north west Volkwagen show today at Tatton park.
there was a stall selling spray cans for 20p each.... yes 20pence :D
anti spatter spray for welding
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got these to lube the changewheels on the lathe.....
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and PCL airline fittings for £1 each....
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unfortunately i forgot my camera so didnt take any photies for you guys, there were some very nice mots there too.
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Splatter spray :bugeye: You doing a lot of welding round machined surfaces ? or is it rough welding ?
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no, to be honest i dont use it much, but at 20p a tin i wast leaving it there, ill probably just spray the mig tip to stop the build up of spatter.
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well hi all this is my lot that i got on Sunday the clamp the two drill bits a pad saw and a punch all for £1 then a tub full of lil pant tins and brushes and a darlik £1 and pile of model engineering mags and a book for £2.50 did not no watt the book was till i got it home pics
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Well done Bob
The book is a good buy
John
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Top class car booting Bob, the Machinerys handbook is rare find still wrapped up :drool: :drool: a good day indeed Bob and your grandson will be over the mon too .....I bet he would not swap the Darek for the Machinerys handbook lol.
Well done lad :thumbup: :clap:
Cheers Mick
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Hi there, Bob and all,
I don't get to car boot sales so I rather envy you. Mind you, having been a 'tool junkie' for several decades, I probably haven't room for many more. In fact, I've reached the stage where I just know I've got a tool that's right for the current job, but where the heck did I put it? :bang: :bang: :bang:
Regarding the Machinery's Handbook, what edition are they up to now? The one Bob shows is 14th Edition - what year does that date from? I was given the then current edition about 20 years ago but I already had and retain a much older edition. If you're engaged in modern production I guess the more recent the better - however, if you ever dabble mending/adapting old equipment, it's handy to have an old enough Machinery's because they have lots of info on superseded screw threads and stuff that the Machinery's editors have decided they don't need to include in the modern versions. Just my two penn'orth.
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hi pete w well its dated 1958 ther was a pay slip dated 1970 in side ther up to No 28 gnaw
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More boot finds to report lads. Sunday I got this stuff , A Black & Decker heat gun, a slaters ripper ( you slide it under slates to be removed and pull back sharply , the hooked blade cuts the copper roofing nails off so slates can be removed without breaking them ) 2 scotch augers for boring holes in wood , a bar fits through the top like a tommy bar and they pull themselves into the wood as they cut a wood bit was thrown in with them, and a nice 6 inch imperial dial caliper.
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I have been back to another bootsale today as it was lovely day weather wise again, I took a couple of photos of the general scene, thinking people from other areas of the world may not be able to picture an English car boot sale !
This is the parking area in the foreground and the bootsale are in the distance, as you can see its a lovely day and setting, just goes to show the North of England is not as deserted and desolate as some Southern M.P's seem to think .
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This is the general scene in there , lines of cars with their good either on the ground or on tables, it can be literally anything for sale.......you name it , its there really, people just walking about inspecting the goods.
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This is what I managed to find , a nice set of metal drawers, I knew John Doubleboost was after some of these so snapped them up for him, The yellow things resting on top of the draws are suction cups for fitting and lifting glass...............good quality German made so at £2 each , you never know when you might need them.
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A set of Dormer M24 taps, the box looks like its been rattling about in a toolbox but the taps look unused.
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For once some proper engineering type stuff, a 5C collet block set and a new in the box 3/4 inch R8 collet.
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Last but not least a box full of reamers and two lathe chuck keys, the reamers are both metric and imperial, hand and machine reamers, some nice and sharp some a bit rough but the whole lot was £10
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Cheers Mick.
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Great finds Mick! :thumbup: A slate nail cutter would fit in here well, the land of slate roofs! That caliper looks identical to mine -- first measuring tool I bought when I built the Gingery lathe eleven years ago. Does it say something like OEM on the label? I really envy the 5C collet block set -- used a set like that in the last place I worked at. That must have been a satisfying day! :beer:
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well dun mick and just when you was geting fed up of seeing the same stuff
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Hi Bob thats the wonder of the boot sale ..........you never know what will be on the next stall or there the next sale :) ...................... hopefully some of this :drool: :drool: and not too much of this :palm: :palm: lol.
Cheers Mick
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Hi vtsteam , I think the caliper had something like 'China machine company' on the box and another name on the caliper, I will check tomorrow , it looks good quality not like a lot of items with Chin marked on them :thumbup:
Cheers Mick
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all i got last sunday was boobs was not till i stopet looking at them that i fawnd the stuff i came hone with
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Now that's a tough post to follow!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I was going to say here's my caliper. It outlasted two digital ones. Every time they punked out I'd reach for the old mechanical and get on with measuring whatever it was I was er, uh looking at.
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hi all its bin the weekend and i went of shopping at the booty i got a set of m6 taps a set of m4 taps a set of 2 BA taps two dies 1 m10 by 1.5 and m8 by1 and a mini tap Handel all for £2 a drill vice £2 and a pigeon clock £1.50 but all i bort it for was the fittings on the box and ges Wat was in side no not a pigeon clock have a look at the pics
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Well done again Bob , I bet you were pleased when you opened the box and found the DTI :thumbup: , a good day in all , some nice finds :clap:
Cheers Mick.
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Well done Bob
You seem to have the boot sale sorted
John
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Sundays car boot haul , the weather has started to turn so showers made the boot sales a bit on and off but still managed to find some decent stuff. Here is the days haul.
Two Scotch augers the long wood drill bits you can see at the bottom of the photo, they have short tee tubes at the top out of the camera veiw that a bar slots through and they are just wound into the wood by hand, this is a 3/4 inch and inch sizes , I have already picked up a few smaller sizes so have a set up to inch now. The box with the electric sockets coming out of it is a 110 volt splitter box so you can leave 3 items plugged in at a time, which will be handy. Three spanners 13mm, 14mm, 17mm that fit my routers for changing bits. A Clarkson 7/16 BSF tap, a long MT3 tapered reamer, a roatry wire brush, a cup wheel for a grinder, 4 Dewalt recipricating saw blades, a clamp fixture thing, that drops into a hole and will push against an object ( just looked handy for 50p ) and last but not least , the thing that looks like a punch with a knurled section on it is a 1.25 carat diamond grinding wheel dresser made by Albert Herbert so a nice bit of quality kit.
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This second photo is a small fixture that a 4 inch grinder fits into and makes it into a small chop saw, they are handy when the grinder has a thin cutting blade for cutting hardened rod etc and shortening bolts and things.
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Cheers Mick.
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Not much for me this week
A nice blower (from a bouncy castle)
A 15 inch Bacho adjustable
And best of all a Cybermans face mask
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John
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Now that's a tough post to follow!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I was going to say here's my caliper. It outlasted two digital ones. Every time they punked out I'd reach for the old mechanical and get on with measuring whatever it was I was er, uh looking at.
Hi VTsteam I forgot to take a photo of the caliper for you so took one today, its SMIEC , sorry about crappy photo The box says China National Machinery Imp & Exp Corp Shanghai Branch , they are really good quality and have a solid smooth feel to them.
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Cheers Mick.
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Hi lads , more boot sale goodies today, I dont know if its just me but the photos on my last couple of posts look squashed vertically and stretched length wise ?
This is todays finds, a random selection really.
Two tubes of brown silicone, a waterproof light switch, I need these items for planned jobs and 4 bowling balls , these are made from a very hard heavy wood called Ligum vitea and are perfect for making mallets on the wood turning lathe.
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This is the more engineering related stuff. A tool makers clamp, some nice calipers , Jennys are Starrett and have extending leg and fine adjustment too as well as lock, The large internal ones are Moore & Wright and the similar smaller ones are Brown and Sharp even through they are so alike, the small external calipers are also Brown and Sharp but look older and have pattent 5 97 marked on them 1897 ? A nice 15 inch of Elora ( German ) adjustable shifter and a adjustable wood cutting bit for the old type brace.
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Then I spotted a box with books in it ..........Umm there seemed to be foundry type books mixed with religous stuff I managed to get these ones and avoid the religous ones.
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I only really wanted the general foundrywork books so will give John and Rob the others as they like the more detailed books on the subject. I will keep these three.
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There are two of the Standard methods of analysis so will see if Rob wants the other one, I think he will also like The properties of cast iron and the Chemistry book has quite a bit on metals too as well as things relevant to his plating I think.
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I think John will like Practical ironmaking as lots of industrial action in it.
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Cheers Mick.
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nice hall mick
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iron foundry books...
:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:
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Nice finds!
I like a good mooch lol
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Hi Skyrocket , looks like you enjoy the car boots too, I have been watching some of your videos :thumbup:
This is last Sundays boot haul.
A Record chain wrench , A strage shaped hammer, a Record spoke shave and a rough old scraper tool
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This is the hammer head, not sure what it would have been for exactly but will clean up and a new handle should make it new again !
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Some taps , 7/16th BSF Presto set and M16x2 Osborn, both good makes and as new.
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A Mitutoyo 150 Digimatic vernier, it needed new battery so a gamble , but it worked fine with new battery.
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Cheers Mick
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These are todays finds.
A small Moore & Wright square , A wire and plate size gauge, one side has the standard wire gauge sizes and the other side is marked with the decimal equivalents
A triangle square with no makers name, a set of Bonhaus imperial allen wrenches and an Oakley soft spounge sanding drum to go in the drill press, these are handy for sanding curved sufraces in wood.
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This was a job lot for £3 , loads of different stencils , various sizes of lettering and symbols etc and several straight egdes, scale ratio rules, an adjustable angle setter perspex 90/45 square.
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Last but not least this was purchased on behalf of John Doubleboost, I think its his way of not catching a cold again :lol:
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Cheers Mick.
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That mask will be very handy in the shop after the curry night at the local :bugeye: :bugeye: :bugeye: :bugeye: :bugeye: :bugeye:
John
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ha ha great finds indeed!
more of the same.....
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That height gauge is a fantastic find. And the writing is indeed japanese. It's worth remembering this letter becuase it's pretty common and helps tell chinese and japanese apart: の (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%AE)
I've had bad luck getting to the car boot sale lately. It's been lovely weather for a long while, but every time I set an alarm and manage to get myself up early enough it's a damp morning.
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You ruined that height gauge, by touching the bit that says 'Don't Touch Here'. Send it to me and I'll throw it in the skip at work :)
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My local Car Boot sales rarely have anything to interest me but this little machine vice intrigued me, I've never seen one made of brass before. The jaws are lined with steel.
The micrometer is just for size.
Norman
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Some good finds there Skyrocket :thumbup: , the height guage was a good buy, I did like the bag of skulls too, I got a good life size skull a while back, that vice is unusual too Norman being brass, the sort of thing you have to bu when you see or you end up regretting it.
Good to see a few more people posting on this thread too.
I have a couple of photos to take off the camera of my Sunday booting finds, I will post later or tomorrow .
Cheers Mick.
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This is what Sundays car boot sale turned up.
A bit of a varied selection. 2 big size new files, one flat one half round. 4 x 40grit sander belts, a ' king dick 1/2inch extension bar, a nice pair of wire cutter/ strippers, a bag of cable ties, a carbide tipped drill bit, a Dormer set of easi outs and matching drill set, a Zeus data book, a Wesco oil can, 4 Britool combination spanners 32mm, 19mm, 18mm, 17mm and a Gordon open ended spanner 8mm x 10mm.
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This is some 1/2inch thick alloy plate and some 4 inch 100mm ball bearings, they are flaking but ok for what I want them for, to make formers for blacksmithing and metal bashing, they are not light for carrying about boot sales mind !
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Cheers Mick
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This are a few bits I've picked up this weekend
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The reamers were only £2 the lot not sure what type the dumpy ones are
This is a Myford compound handle lifts it up to to you scraping your knuckles not sure on make or plans its from ? Paid £1 for it
The last two pictures it looks to be some sort of grinding attachment also got some collets with it motor is dead but centre height is same as Myford this was a £5
Thanks Colin
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Tidied up- and possibly a new motor- you have a nice tool to drill and possibly mill a bit from the saddle of a Myford.
Not quite a Potts spindle( there are three varieties) but very nice addition. I have the two Potts- gave the dividing one away. Worth trying to dig into Woking Precision Models if you are interested.
Lucky you
Norman
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This Sunday turned up a good quality tripod
cost £7
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Two nice steel "bisley" drawer units
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John
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This is what I found at the car boots this week.
Wednesday, There are two cans of some anti rust spray meant for spraying on moulds and dies according to what I can make out off the can, it seems good stuff leaves a thin wax coat. A nice small Snap On chisel, A chrome brush with a handle that you can fill with fluid, turns out it was for cleaning typewriters after looking up on the net. A pack of various hooks for hanging things up, A pack of 10 car body filler spreaders and a paint mixing stick with 2-1 and 5-1 ratios marked on it.
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I also got these books, all from one stall for £10, the old steam engine one is from 1902, the decorative ironwork book is good with good photos of ironwork being made in stages.
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Todays haul was this lot.
The sockets are Halfords 3/8th drive torx type heads, 3 old style soldering irons, a blower that will be good for blowing off sand casting moulds, the two metal brackets are for hanging something up on, wire leads in my case. There are various sanding drums, grinding stones and a carbide burr, a record small G clamp, WD40 , light oil and an interesting hammer head.
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This is the hammer head , I think it must be handmade as quite irregular and not perfect, I like the 'cut of its jib' so will clean it up and fit a new handle, You can never have too many hammers !
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Cheers Mick
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Mick, Terry Aspin's book is a casting classic. And looks like a pattern for that hammer was carved out of wood -- maybe with a knife. Just imagine it as a piece of wood and you can almost see it being whittled! Fun stuff... :thumbup: :clap:
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good hallmick well i had a good day to a lil drill chuck 50p a 6mm tap 50p three drills a drill sleve and a rose bit £1 a tub of boring bars three of which are proper ones £2 i gave the drills a bath in acid and polisht up the boring bars pics
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Hi VT , Terry Aspin's book does look good :thumbup: , I think the hammer has been forged rather than cast by the look of it but maybe it could have been wood pattern carved ? , I will clean it up tomorrow and see if I can tell.
Bob , you did well again today , that acid really cleans up the stuff well , the boring bars look new :drool: ............... Keep up the good work lad :clap:
Cheers Mick
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Mick, I was wondering about whether it was cast after I wrote that. It just so looks like it was carved.
I don't imagine cast iron makes a good hammer unless somehow malleable iron. Could it have been cast steel?
I don't suppose the carved appearance could come from chipping it out of steel? Can the forge hammer actually make those gouge shapes?
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Is that hammer head not hand forged - ie blacksmith made ?
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I agree with awemawson, it looks hand forged, so possibly wrought iron?
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Hi Lads , I have cleaned that hammer head up and its been blacksmith made I would say , I will take some photos of it tomorrow and post them, its crude in one way but well done at the same time. It also looks like it was never quite finished or used as both heads are unmarked from blows and unfinished....quite an intersting thing really :thumbup:
Cheers Mick.
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Hi there, Guys,
What happened this week, Boot Sale rained off?!? :ddb: :ddb: :ddb:
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Not much for me this week
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The square is a Moor & wright
The cyberman is plastic
John
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lol wellyou shud of sed its your new project
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Hey John what's up with your specs? Looks like they got filled with smoke!
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Hi, a few tools and a bit of "useful one day" lol
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Good find on the indexed tools Skyrocket, I have been a bit slack at the boot sales latley but got a few bits I will take some photos of and post this week. For anyone interested I did take some photos of that hammer head , it looks to be blacksmith made , the cast looking surface is because it was deeply rusted but has been steeped in battery acid to remove the rust.
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It looks like it was never finished so I wonder if someone maybe ended up at this stage too far off the shape they wanted and gave up ? interesting find anyway.
Cheers Mick
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its a nice find mike are you going to machine up the striking surfaces?
more vids ha ha hmmm....
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Hi Skyrocket, You got some interesting finds again :thumbup: Yes when I get around to it I think I will have a go at finishing that hammer head.
This is todays car boot finds ..... The boot sales are dying off for this season I think now , even though its been a nice day it was more quiet in general. Two decent books £2 each , one wood carving and the other woodturning, A funny looking coping/fret saw but seems good quality, a small hacksaw, a marples tee handle hole drill, a round diamond sintered type file , meant for filing ceramic tiles I think but I want to see what its like on wood when I am carving and a nice hard smooth natural oilstone.
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Cheers Mick
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....a marples tee handle hole drill...
Is it a drill or a gimlet ? Hard to tell as it is at the bottom edge of the picture.
Dave.
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Dave you are right its a Gimlet, when I was typing the post I could not remember what they were called :D , top marks for getting it without the bottom showing :thumbup:
Cheers Mick.
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nice finds mick
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Hello Fellow Modders.
As we are an International group some folk may not know what a Car Boot Sale is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_boot_sale
Has a good description and history.
Trev
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Ref the hammer head, it looks like a ships / boiler makers riveting hammer.
The length of the head is to miss the ribs when riveting close.
Does any one have other ideas.
Trev
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hi got thees on Sunday at the boot sale the mags 50p per bundle files 50p etch drill bit £1 debuting tool 50p dividers 20p
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Not bad Bob , the mags were good find , that should keep you off the streets reading all of them !
Trev , I think the hammer might have started off as test piece for blacksmith apprentice or something and maybe not meant to be so long ? it looks like it was never finished so may have strayed from the drawing too much ?
Cheers Mick.
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hi all well the weather was bad but i still managed to get to the booty and got sum new stuff a diamond hone for sharpening knives and a large eclipse punch 50p a bundle of 4 eclipse 14 teeth per inch hacksaw blades 20p a 1 inch reamer £1 and 5 tips £1 pics
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Good work Bob :clap: you beat the weather lol, not bad stuff too , the old acid trick got the punch and reamer looking like new again :thumbup:
Cheers Mick.
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That's a nice little haul, for the right price Bob! :thumbup:
Here. The rain's finally stopped. Been at it, since Friday....... :bang:
David D
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hi went to the boot sale on Sunday and got sum new toys a thread gage for 50p a tin full of BA taps £3 and Wat is supposed to be a stop watch for 50p
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That's just the sort of stop watch you like to mend! You guys have all the luck, worthwhile stuff in car boot sales. Every time I visit my son in the South of England, i insist on going to a Car Boot sale, sometimes I get luck and find a good hammer or two, but never anything like you find up in the North!
regards, Matthew
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Another good day KRV. :clap:
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well bn at it today i got sum drills a punch and a hammer and a tool makers clamp and one of them helping hand things and sum files the hole lot £4
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Well we don't have car boot sales here, but there is Craig's list and I have been finding some good deals lately.
This week I picked up a Craftsman 12" drill press for $100. (Sears sold these for around $300 when he purchased it.) It was new in the box and never put together. The guy got it as a gift and didn't want it. The seller said it was missing one of the handles for the quill but didn't realize that one of the three handles was suppose to be different and was right there in the box. I noticed he was wrong about the handle, but didn't point it out to him as that was why he listed it so cheap.
The drill press is loaded with features and has a Led work light, Laser tracking, a huge table, and the best part is a digital depth gauge!
I also LOVE the different handle for moving the quill up and down. Craftsman stopped making this model a few years ago and the new model has way less features which is a bummer as I would like to pickup a second or third drill and set up gang tooling on them.
Here is a picture of the new toy next to my 9" drill press.
Dale P.
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hi well i whent to a difrent boot sale today and got 3 hamers for£4 1 of which im keeping the other to is for rob wilson and three tap's thort they wher ba but ther not think they are ME taps will have to look in me book to see wat they are
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Hi All , Due to mainly weather I have not been to many boot sales but got to an indoor market last week and got some new taper shank drills, a long series normal shank drill and a reamer , I got the lot for £10.
I can't remember the actual sizes off the top of my head but the long MT2 drill is 18 inches long, largest was 14.5mm I think , all good makes and unused so happy with them.
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Cheers Mick
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Gentlemen,
We don't have car boot sales here (USA), but call them yard sales, etc. I was wondering why they are called car boot sales? Because you drive to them and store what you buy in the trunk of your car?
Sorry if this is a stupid question, I was wondering :Doh:
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Things have become more organised in recent times.
Originally. The sellers assembled their cars/ vans, in a field or car park area, and their wares are displayed on the ground, or a table, around the rear of the car.
David D
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Or indeed were in the boot of the car, hence the name
(For our American cousins boot = trunk)
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Hi there, all,
Maybe a bit :offtopic: but is there any news of Bob?
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Hi Pete, yes Bob got home yesterday and all seems well from what I can pick up from the texts he sent me.............no doubt he will be reporting in over the weekend, nice of you to ask though Pete I will pass on your regards when I phone him later on today.
Cheers Mick
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Hi there, Mick,
Hi Pete, yes Bob got home yesterday and all seems well from what I can pick up from the texts he sent me.............no doubt he will be reporting in over the weekend, nice of you to ask though Pete I will pass on your regards when I phone him later on today.
Cheers Mick
Yes, please do.
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That's great news Mick! :ddb:
Regards from me too...... :thumbup:
David D
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Please add me to the list of well wishers when you contact Bob - I'm sure that we all wish him a speedy recovery and a return to normality.
Andrew
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Glad to hear Bob's doing good!
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hello! a little video on my latest finds ,regards chris
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Nice haul Chris! :thumbup:
Nicely shown too. :clap: :clap:
David D
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thanks David, I don't have the willpower to walk past a box of rust lol
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Nice find on the box of drills Skyrocket, I went to the bootsale for the first time in a while with John Doubleboost , John came back emptyhanded but I got a couple of things.
A Martindale Voltage tester, looks good quality and condition, it indicates what voltage range , if DC or AC and polarity for £2 and an angle drive gadget for a drill , seems like a good bit of kit , it swivels to all angles and is well made so for £3 it would have been rude not to have bought it
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This is the angle gadget in a few positions.
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Cheers Mick
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Hi Mick
Two nice bits of kit you have there, a nice rugged tester with plenty of insulation, and that mysterious angle drive, which I have never seen before, could be very useful. Makes my poor old 90 degree drive look very basic.
Good Finds Cheers David
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hello! a little video on my latest finds ,regards chris
Just employed this advise in a second hand shop. Bought a beat up toolbox for a fiver that'd been sitting in a dark corner for a year with stuff piled on it, along with with a nice big n sharp crosscut file. Had to use my phone to see what was inside and decided to buy it before sorting through. It has a few taps, split dies, die nuts, drills, and handles. No idea what thread type yet but they're pretty rusty and look as if they got flooded, but they still feel sharp and should hopefully clean up fine.
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Hi Chris
I agree with you about buying toolboxes, you get much better value and there's generally something interesting at the bottom.
I like your Yankee pump action screwdriver. I still use one regularly. I find the batteries are normally charged when I come to use it - unlike my cordless drill. You commented on the cost of bits - as I understand it they aren't made any more so some sizes are impossible to find - so I thought I'd show a picture of my home made solution.
I've used two hex bit holders to make bits that will hold hex screwdriver bits in the Yankees. The small one is made from a broken pozi bit and the large one I made using a bought one for the dimensions. The two big ones fit a big Yankee (from a £5 toolbox) and the ones on the right a small one (inherited).
(http://www.hockerley.50webs.com/oldtools/yankeebits.jpg)
Your sash cramp also reminded me that I found one and a half sash cramps like that in a skip. The other bit was in there somewhere but I couldn't find it so I made a replacement. The replacement part is the one at the bottom right in the picture.
(http://www.hockerley.50webs.com/oldtools/cramps.jpg)
You may not be able to resist a rusty box. My weakness is interesting looking skips.
Russell
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So ive spent all year drooling over some of the epic finds you guys have had and not found a thing all year!
I gave up several weeks ago but decided on a last minute whim to head out at 6.30am in the cold and dark this morning!
it looks as though my new hunting grounds have finally paid off :) :) :) :) :) :)
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This is my haul after having to leave half way through to find a cash machine! There seemed to be plenty more left for next time too!
12 MT2 Drills, 1 off MT3 (all dormer and presto) and a mint Sheffield made Jacobs no.34 chuck! came from 4 different stalls prices all 50p and £5 for the chuck!
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A morse taper 4 to 2 sleeve and a big counter bore on a MT2 (Head is removable) another 2 different stalls! 50p each
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A matched pair of Starrett no.268 v blocks and a nice little hardened and ground v block with clamp again from 2 other stalls! £8 for the starrett and £2 for the other one.
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A pair of Starrett dividers, moore and wright dividers, dog leg moore and wright dividers and a really really nice un marked scribing block £10 for the lot.
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A home made ball Turner not the best but I couldnt refuse for £3!
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A nice rabone level for £10
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3 grubby but full and in date bottles of loc-tite for a massive £1
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A nice boxed 12x8 surface plate with minor surface rust (seller said is wasn't but got rained on at last weeks sale!£10
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Turns out to be a decent vintage!
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An Ex MOD grade B 24" straight edge A little bit more than I like to pay at boot sales at £20 but after thinking for a while it came home with me :coffee:
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I might just have to have another trip out next sunday now :proj:
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Quality haul Steamer :thumbup: :clap:, maybe you have the tactics right :smart: .......... instead of going every week and getting this and that ..........just go once a year and get the lot in one go :lol: ..........its just hitting the right week to go :scratch: , It will be good to see what there is next week or if this was your lucky day :drool:
Cheers Mick.
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Wow that's a haul ,steamer the "dash to the cash "machine made me smile :)
Nothing worse than running out of funds when your on a roll, "tool roll"? Lol you can't get to the cash machine fast enough in case the item goes!
Also We've all done this ,seen something nice and thought " I'll come back for that" only to find it's been sold It's not a good feeling I can tell you
I hope my advise on buying the " whole box of tools for extra hidden goodies" pays off for you chaps on your future forays
Russell, nice mod on the pump driver, and well done on the skip find/ repaired sash cramps!
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Wow that's a haul ,steamer the "dash to the cash "machine made me smile :)
Nothing worse than running out of funds when your on a roll, "tool roll"? Lol you can't get to the cash machine fast enough in case the item goes!
Also We've all done this ,seen something nice and thought " I'll come back for that" only to find it's been sold It's not a good feeling I can tell you
I hope my advise on buying the " whole box of tools for extra hidden goodies" pays off for you chaps on your future forays
Russell, nice mod on the pump driver, and well done on the skip find/ repaired sash cramps!
I can assure you it did not make me smile at the time lol, I didn't realise there was still parts of the country that did not have a cash machine within a 30 mile radius! at least the lady on the gate remembered me the 2nd time around so I dint have to pay the 50p entry a second time :ddb:
it appears I am up nice and early yet again so I may head out again into the cold today and see if I can find another bargin box or 2 :proj:
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Well it looks like 'Boot season' has started at last , Myself and Doubleboost had a good afternoon car booting in the sun and it was back to the good old days of being busy and plenty to try and find.
This is my haul from Sunday.
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Not a bad collection , 2 x Moore & Wright toolmakes 4 inch clamps , a 7 inch tool makers clamp and a 9 inch both probably apprentice pieces but well made. A 3-2 morse taper sleeve and a 3-1 morse taper sleeve, thread repair file, Maun pliers, a nut splitter, a scrolling iron, a leather workers creasing tool , a coping saw, two bowling balls that look like Ligum Vitea but could be brown composite ? I will find out when I try to make them into a mallet lol, two packs of ten sanding belts for my 3 inch Dewalt sander, a nice old tack hammer, and last but not least a Sandvik loggers hook, no real reason for buying the hook other than I would rather I had it than some homocidal maniac had it lol.
Lets hope the weather keeps up as it was the first week that was at all busy. Anyone else had any good finds ???
Cheers Mick
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a good hall chaps
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Great idea about re-purposing the bowling balls, Mick, -- never thought about them being Lignum Vitae. Do they sink in water?
My big shop purchase day of the year is coming up Saturday -- the Bernardston engine show. No boot sales here , but that one show is worth the wait all year. I doubt I could afford more than that anyway!
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hey! its only car boot tool haul number 8!
keep up the good work guys , chris :dremel:
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Hi Lads , more car boot goodness gathered in today.
I called in a a boot sale that does not have much in the way of tools etc and almost all the way around the place I was muttering to myself how it was a waste of space......................... then I spied a plastic box with some milling cutters in it a Miatoyo depth mic and Tesa dial calipers and did a deal £22 for the lot.
There is a small ER collet chuck, various reamers, milling cutters and engraving cutters 90% carbide and all sharp or new, when I counted up there was 80 in total !.
Later in the day I went to two more boot sales with John Doubleboost but only got a pair of Mole grips and a small long reach G clamp but £3 for the pair I was not robbed.
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Days like this make the days you get nothing seem worth it lol
Cheers Mick
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nice hall mick
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Nice! :clap:
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Just got to be in the right place at the right time I am in Neither most times. Then a mate who lives don south on the coast used to go garage sale hunting and he would pick me up some tasty bargains sadly he stopped going to these..but every now and then he still comes up with Hey have you got one of these :)
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Did pretty good today. For a couple of years i've been trying to find reamers at the boot sale, and today I found a whole box of them for a fiver. Imperial sizes, a few of them seem pretty blunt. One is tapered with a square end ground into one end, removing the markings except for 'No.8 HS' so i've got no idea what sort of taper it is. Also found a couple of slot drills in the bottom of the box.
Also got a Starret No.246, which is apparently a planer/ shaper gauge. Didn't know what it was at the time and neither did the seller so I got it out of curiosity. Seems a little bit useless but who knows! I'd be happy to trade it for a micrometer or something if anyone has a use for it.
Boy that camera flash makes my keyboard look filthy.
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Simon, you'll find that shaper setting gauge quite handy for measuring thing in awkward places - slide and lock it in the gap - remove and measure. a bit like a stubby 'Gunters Rule' (two lath shaped pieces sliding together and locked at a particular length by a wing nut)
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That taper gage is the best thing since sliced bread.
I use it on the mill allot for finding a height for tooling, i have used it to measure my gap whilst making a dovetail, I have an adapter that fit on the top and it becomes a height gage on the surface plate.
once you start to use it you will never run out of ideas where to use it.
Anthony.
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Hi All , had another good day at the bootsale on Wednesday, Here is the collection.
Its a bit varied, Two bags of stainless cap head bolts, Some wolfcarft auto hand clamps, pair of glaizers plyers, three leaterworkers awls, 4 Lufkin toolmakers clamps, a fine DMT diamond file, a C spanner, a Kreg pocket hole jig, 14mm dewalt long reach spade bit, a slim round rasp type tool that will be good for some carving jobs, a fret saw , a centre finder for round stock, a pair of large tin snips, a panel beating hammer, a small Stanley USA plastic tiped hammer, and a nice Raborne Chesterman carpenters set square. I think it came to about £30-35 in total so good value.
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All 4 Lufkin toolmakers clamps are the same size and good clean condition.
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This is the Slim rasp type tool , it has a gimlet type end so you can bore a hole then rasp it bigger, I have not seen one before , it has no makers name on it but looks good quality.
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This is the pocket hole jig instructions , I could have done with one of these a few times so should find jobs for it.
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If the weather is ok tomorrow I will be looking for more .......its a BIG if by the look of the forecast though .
Cheers Mick.
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Nice score Mick
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Wasn't much at today's boot sale except for a couple of water fire extinguishers, except the blokes wanted £30 each since 'that's what they cost new'.
Found an Atari STFM on the way out though. It's an old 80s computer, and one i've been hoping to find for a while.
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The two interesting features are the YM2149 sound chip, which produces a nice sound if you're into that kind of thing.
(http://iforce.co.nz/i/pe0lceos.piv.jpg)
And that it comes with a midi in and out as standard, for controlling external music stuff.
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It needs a few repairs though. Haven't tried switching it on yet since it got a little bit wet during the boot sale, and the floppy disk drive seems to be missing a spring to help eject the disks. Hopefully the whole thing will work after giving it time to dry, just in case any water got inside.
Should be fun to mess around with for a bit though. There was alot of music software made for it, including the first versions of Cubase.
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Today's haul :-)
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I dropped on lucky today as myford-stuff on eBay was at my local boot sale! I got all the above from the £1 each item bins! 2 massive pallet sized boxes crammed full of alsorts!
I grabbed one of these for half the price he has them on eBay for too :-)
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Nice hauls guys! :thumbup:
Simon, too bad you aren't here -- I'd give you all my old Amiga stuff.
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Hi Guys
It really is a great feeling when you have a good day at the Boot Sales especially when you have bought quality tools at bargain prices.
Well Done it's worth the effort.
Cheers David
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Glad to see it looks like others are having some finds at the boot sales too. I found some more items today myself.
This was this mornings haul, A Mitutoyo Digimatic Vernier with data port, Weller soldering iron stand which I needed as have irons but no stands for them, a 30mm Presto tap, some worn Gilbrow tinsnips I will make into tongs, Snap On folding imperial allen wrench set, 3 flap discs, two scrapers , a slip stone, a small clamp and two strips of Moore & Wright 0.25 feeler strip.
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I tried another two bootsales in the afternoon with John Doubleboost and got this stuff, the spanner roll was kindly given to me by John I had mentioned I was looking for a spanner set so I do not have to keep going from the shed to the garage for a spanner, he never used this set so gave them to me , I will no doubt have something for him in return at some point. The other things are nice Moore & Wright scraper, a few taps, two saw type cutting wheels for wood, a pad saw blade, a small buffing wheel, CK circlip pliers, a small locking clamp pliers, A tap wrench that the seller had made many years ago, I told him it was going to a good home, A tall frame junior hacksaw, a wire brush for the drill and the two plastic things are for 8mm and 10mm pipe to bend or straighten the pipe.
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So the weather held out unlike yesterday.
Cheers Mick.
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Hmmmm Interesting :coffee:
That Kamasa spanner set looks very like the one I gave to either John DB or Rob W a couple of years ago when they came down here...
If it is, [ ask him ], It was given to me by someone who never used it. I never used it. Looks like John never used it ....
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Dave
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That is the very tool roll :D :D :D :D
I think Mick will use it
John
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Hmmmm Interesting :coffee:
That Kamasa spanner set looks very like the one I gave to either John DB or Rob W a couple of years ago when they came down here...
If it is, [ ask him ], It was given to me by someone who never used it. I never used it. Looks like John never used it ....
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Dave
Looks like the gift that keeps on giving. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Cheers :beer:
Don
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Looks like the gift that keeps on giving. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Cheers :beer:
Don
Maybe never used 'cos it's been knocking about that long they only fit Roman Chariot nuts ...
Dave
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SNIP
Maybe never used 'cos it's been knocking about that long they only fit Roman Chariot nuts ...
Dave
That would be British Standard Wilfred rather than the more recent British Standard Fred then? :lol: :lol: :lol:
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British ????
Nah, don't think so ....
Boudicca's or Beowulf's maybe
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Dave
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hello again, tools have been a little thin on the ground but I managed to cobble another car boot haul video together :thumbup:
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brill find
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You got some nice finds there, especially the saw blades. I like the jig saw table, it has some attractive features which have been mentally noted.
Cheers David
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hi all this weekend i got 4 drillbits and a file for £5 and two scribes and a punch and a hight gage for £1
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Better than us Mate
Raining all day :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh:
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Hi Lads
Did a boot sale with Mick last Wednesday
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I seem to have a thing about oil cans
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Decent collection of taper shank drills
Moor & wright chisel
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Did a boot sale this morning
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some odd sockets
look what was lurking amongst the rubbish
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Snap on 13/16 flexy plug socket
John
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Hi there, John,
That looks like a good haul!
Your photo of the cold chisel stirred my memory so I've just dug out a copy of the Moore & Wright catalogue 'of Precision and Hand Tools', 4th edition, January1963. On page 124 it shows their range of 'Sure-Cut Chisels' and says this about them:
'These chisels are made from a new non-tempering Special Nickel Alloy Steel. They can be re-sharpened with a file but are so tough that they will do the hardest work. The flat section gives a firm grip, and they will not splinter under severe service.' [Their emphasis, not mine.]
They were available in eight different sizes from 5/16" wide by 4" long (price 1s 9d each) to 1⅛" wide by 10" long (price 8s 0d each). They also give the following:
'TO HARDEN - Heat to 830° C (bright cherry red) and quench in oil. FORGE at the same heat. It is very important that the above temperature be adhered to. It neither forges nor hardens well at lower or higher temperatures.'
I still have one of the smaller ones, one of the first tools I ever bought and while I was living in the family home. My father, an accomplished woodworker, would not accept that a chisel capable of cutting metal could be sharpened with a file.
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It has the words "sharpen with a file" stamped on to it
I have some "Snap on" chisels at work that say the same
John
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good find john
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Not a car boot find, rescued from the local "amenity site".
The guys there will sell for very little money anything you fancy taking away . The latest Elfin Safety Nazi has decreed that electrical goods are not to be let go, but the lads are good souls and use Nelson's telescope when required. The few quid they raise goes to the local childrens hospice.
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A cast iron table saw from days gone by and a modern Spear and Jackson 10 inch brass backed tenon saw, not a Chinese effort, the genuine article. The blade is as straight as a gun barrel and the teeth are sharp and un dinged. It's hardly been used at all just left to go rusty; went through a chunk of hardwood with no bother when I got it home.
The table saw marked "Exon No 2, Made in England" is a good substantial tool. The bearings are smooth, underneath all the dirt the table is unmarked, and the fence is definitely sturdy ... about 3/8" cast iron. I already have an excellent table saw, but after hacksawing eight pieces off a 2" x 1" bar of EN 36 the other day I surely need a steel saw! With a bit of bodging this might very well do the job. Maybe utilise the top section as the basis of a Potts type saw to sit on the lathe?
Tenner the pair.
Eug
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Really cute little saw Eugene! :clap:
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Got myself some Barbour Wax and some reciprocating saw blades. I spotted a few on the table, various kinds, mostly full boxes. Asked the bloke how much for the lot and he said a fiver. Counted at home, 56 saw blades, all brand new (odd bit of surface rust from storage), all brand names like bosch, milwaukee etc. For less than 10p each I am very happy.
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You did well with your items Eugene, both are quality items. I like your little saw table, should cut metal nicely with one of those Rage type cut anything TC blades.
Good luck with the project, nice to see it when it is finished.
Cheers David
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Hi there, Eugene and David,
.... should cut metal nicely with one of those Rage type cut anything TC blades. ....
Cheers David
Not quite everything - according to Rage Customer Service, their blades aren't recommended for cutting cast iron. :bang: :bang: :bang:
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ooops ......
..... care to tell us about it Pete ?
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Hi there, Andrew,
Not much to tell, really. I consulted Rage Customer Service asking specifically about the Evolution's ability to cut cast iron and they replied that it wasn't designed/intended/recommended for that material. (I just looked to see if I still have their email but couldn't find it - so I can't be certain which of the three terms they used.)
I was disappointed because I had bought a chunk of cast iron from College Engineering Supplies, they advise choosing a nominal size allowing for achieving the desired dimensions if the material is -5 mm on nominal size but mine is more like +5 mm and next nominal size was well up anyway so there's a lot to come off!
I could stick it in the four-jaw and machine off the surplus but it'd take a long time and make an awful lot of unpleasant cast iron dust/swarf. :bang: :bang: :bang:
I might have been able to do the job with a slitting saw in my little horizontal mill but that's not running yet. :bang: :bang: :bang:
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I have a 10" electric saw that I equipped with a TCT blade - I was cutting some plywood clamped to my welding bench, and thought that the going was a bit slow - I then found that the timber had shifted and I was cutting through the 18 mm solid steel top :bang: No teeth were lost amazingly, and the erroneous cut was quite a good finish !
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:lol: Mr Mawson! Really! I remember many years ago helping my father cut some plywood on a workmate. We were using a massive old B&D industrial circular saw that would go through anything. Anything including the top of the workmate, off which I neatly sliced a corner. Luckily Father had checked underneat and told me I was "well clear" It was his best workmate. I was not!
Phil.
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Hi
Lads
Did 3 boot sales today
Two of them with Mick
Bought a nice clamp 2 pairs of trousers and this
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Been after one for a while now
Runs very nice
(be on this Sundays video)
John
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Nice one ,you only bought that ,so you can hoy it in the back of the car and when you go to rallies you can mack on you are an exhibiter and get in for nowt, :lol:
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That's nice n tidy John! :thumbup:
Well done....... :clap: :clap:
David D
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Too right he did Peter and I am the other bloke needed to get it off the trailer safely :thumbup: , who also gets in for nowt now because of health and safety rules :lol:
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Well this is todays car boot collection, Went to two sales with John Doubleboost, but he got best buy of the day :thumbup:
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A varied selection, a tool roll that goes with the bags further down the page, 4 center drills, some sanvik scrool saw blades, a 3MT center drill holder, small engineers square, a quite crude depth gauge but ok for wood work, a Starrett 823M internal micrometer 30mm - 300mm, a Swedish made angle finder, A indexable grooving tool for the lathe with a box of varied tips, an Allbrit planimeter, a oilstone mounted on a wooden handle, I think used to smooth off the back edge on bandsaw blades, A nice unusual old hammer, an Eclipse saw set for use when setting saw teeth and a spoke shave Record 51 these were both for a friend who I know was looking out for these. I think this whole lot in the photo came to £25 in total, god bless bootsales when you can find what you want !
The Starrett 823M
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The Allbrit planimeter, I know there looks to be a central sort od weight pivot part that is missing but easy to make and I suspect the chrome cylinder/tube with the knurled rim is not part of the planimeter, I have looked on the net and they all seem to be adjustable so the head can slide along the bar, this one looks fixed so can anyone shed any light on this? They are used for working out the area of shapes on charts etc, I did not know this when I bought it but it was only £3 so worth a gamble lol.
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I had also wanted a tool bag mainly for putting my carving gear in when I go to the club, I saw a good army holdall type bag for £2 ( the one at the back ) then after I got that I saw a pair of Bucket Boss 24 inch tool bags for £10 so got them too , so from not having enough bags I now have one for every item lol.
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Cheers Mick
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Hi
Lads
Did 3 boot sales today
Two of them with Mick
Bought a nice clamp 2 pairs of trousers and this
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(http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii63/john970s0/LISTER/S1100055_zpsf23076a8.jpg) (http://s261.photobucket.com/user/john970s0/media/LISTER/S1100055_zpsf23076a8.jpg.html)
Been after one for a while now
Runs very nice
(be on this Sundays video)
John
That's a hell of a find! Which bootsale was it?
Myself I found carbide. The collection begins...
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After looking it up the lower ones are for face mills. Doubt i'd need something like that for a while, so I could send them to anyone that might have a use for them.
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A nice unusual old hammer
Looks like a raising hammer. Would be handy for shaping sheet metal.
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Hi Simon, John went to Blaydon , then we both went to Hexham followed by Tranwell, it was just one of them good days , we will have passed plenty of other stuff too, yet the past few weeks have been very poor, so you can never tell. The hammer looks as if it could be very old , the shaft is not up to much but I will put a new shaft on it and generally clean up the head, it will be good for raising or planishing at the flatter end and ok for hollowing with the more domed end, I always get any interesting hammers I can find lol , I just can not walk past a good old intersting hammer lol. That old knife was only 50p and look at the wear on it, its got a stamp saying its hand forged stainless steel on the blade, it was too nice to leave rotting in a box full of brocken nasty cheap tools so rescued it :thumbup:, I will maybe never use it but can give it a home in a draw full of fitting draw mates :thumbup:
looks like you got some good carbide, the top ones look like thread cutting tips maybe ?
Cheers Mick
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Yeah the top ones are for threads, which i'm pleased with finding. Planning to get a bigger lathe soon so they'll hopefully come in handy then.
I recently broke the hammer-habit myself. I've got a few useful looking hammer heads lying about that need handles, but i'll wait till I actually find a use for them before I worry about that.
I really should give the Hexham bootsale another chance, the one time I went there I was disappointed when every seller laughed at me for suggesting things like their bench vises were worth anything less than £100. I'll be driving soon so it won't be as awkward to get to.
Saw a few things at the Swalwell boot sale that looked interesting, but i'm trying to cut down on the amount of interesting but probably useless (to me) junk I buy since i've got no space left for any more.
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hi all well you two got sum good stuff john i have got sum vintage ht cable that will go on to that engine and i can give you sum info on them as i have rebuilt a lot of them right my boot sale finds is a halfords ratchet handle for £1 a moor and right tap handle £1 a set of moor and right dividers £1 two center punches by Kennedy £1 a set of model making players £1 a 12x1 mm tap £1 a 8x75 mm tap £1 and a set of 2.5 mm taps £1.50 pics
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Looks like you did well yourself Bob , some good stuff there too :thumbup: , glad you liked Johns new toy , when John said he had bought it first thing I thought was how the hell are we going to get that into the car :bugeye: , then he said the fella was delivering it too :bow:
Cheers Mick
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What a pair of scroungers you two make grabbing all the good stuff................yes just jealous I know. Some top gear in that lot Mick. John watched the engine video sounds sweet.
Oh John well done in the Ice Bucket Challenge :clap:
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Not only scroungers but obviously have too much room in their play pens to store all their loot. :lol:
John B
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krv3000 I do like how you clean them up so nicely, :clap: please my I know how do you get off all the rust? :scratch:
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Not only scroungers but obviously have too much room in their play pens to store all their loot. :lol:
John B
Mick's got to find stuff to fill his newly painted cabinets not sure what John's excuse is as watching his video's he's lucky to move in his shed..........although I think there's room under that table he sits at.
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hi dadels2010 i did a post on this sum time back old car battery acid is wat i use to remove the rust and to resharpen files the trick is to remove all trases of oil by geting wat ever it is that you is geting the rust off hot to burn off the oil but not to hot as to change its culer then once cold place in a contaner with the acid
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The Allbrit planimeter, I know there looks to be a central sort od weight pivot part that is missing but easy to make and I suspect the chrome cylinder/tube with the knurled rim is not part of the planimeter, I have looked on the net and they all seem to be adjustable so the head can slide along the bar, this one looks fixed so can anyone shed any light on this? They are used for working out the area of shapes on charts etc, I did not know this when I bought it but it was only £3 so worth a gamble lol.
Cheers Mick
Hi Mick, sorry I missed this post earlier.
Here's my planimeter, bought new in 1975 for $150. I think you got a bargain!
The head doesn't normally slide along the sighting bar, though it is held by a setscrew. But I think that would only be used for adjusting the accuracy. There is a test standard included in the kit you can see it tucked into the lower edge of the box. I've never adjusted it.
The pivot bar is fixed in length. You sight throught the glass magnifier, and there is a tiny set of concentric circles for a crosshair. This follows the outline of your drawing, and area is read off on the dials -- there is a coarse dial and a vernier.
I can't get very good pics tonight -- too dark, but if you want I can take better ones tomorrow.
In the box:
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As it would be set up for use:
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Hi
Lads
Did 3 boot sales today
Two of them with Mick
Bought a nice clamp 2 pairs of trousers and this
Been after one for a while now
Runs very nice
(be on this Sundays video)
John
Sheesh, I missed your Lister, too, John, really nice!
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Ok Its not a boot sale buy BUT an Op Shop buy and freebie.
Scored a nice clean UK made Stanley No4 all in great order in a box $40 after a friends daughter asked me to check the photo out on FB as she needed a price to tag it and sell it.
LOML picked it up yesterday at her spinners group as the girls mum also goes there. One of the other ladies who huby passed away some time ago was clearing out some of his wood n tools books.
I have had a quick browse/flick through only at this stage but I think my favourite will be the Recycling Use and Repair of Tools
Interesting also is the Woodcraft Goes to The Opera this is a book of woodcrafters who were in attendance at an Exhibition in 1987 9th to 20th September the list of people who exhibited and their outline is whats in the book. I just noticed the Business sponsors on the reveres side many still around today.
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Hi Steve, thanks for posting the photos of the planimeter, mine works with a tracing ' needle ' rather than the sight glass but the dial end at the opposite end of the arm looks like its not intended to be moved as plastic bungs over the fixing screws ? I will post better photos soon.
Out of interest what did you use yours for , reading charts or have you found other uses too
Cheers Mick
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Hi Ray, looks like you git a as new plane there :drool: Stanley is a good make too. The books look to be interesting too, should keep you out of trouble for a bit while you read them lol.
Cheers Mick
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Hi Steve, thanks for posting the photos of the planimeter, mine works with a tracing ' needle ' rather than the sight glass but the dial end at the opposite end of the arm looks like its not intended to be moved as plastic bungs over the fixing screws ? I will post better photos soon.
Out of interest what did you use yours for , reading charts or have you found other uses too
Cheers Mick
Mick, yes, I don't think you are supposed to move that in relation to the arm -- that's only for calibration. It does travel over paper though.
I used mine to get submerged areas of design boat hull sections to calculate displacement via Simpson's rule or Trapezoidal rule, also needed for stability calculations. I was once a naval architect.
All done by computer now, I guess, though I'd probably still do it all manually with pen and ink on drafting film. Easier for me to adjust curves to suit what I like freehand than with a mouse, and also easier to work with a 30" wide drawing than a 14" wide screen.
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If you google 'google planimeter' there is a superb free application that allows you to measure land areas from google maps. Not a lot of good from boat sections though !!!
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Found a couple of interesting items:
a) is a thread chaser - I think. It has five positions each marked 38 which seems an odd number tpi for a thread. Can anyone shed any light on its use?
b) is a 1/2" 12 tap made by J. Whitworth & Co Manchester - which is interesting because the company was formed in 1874 and incorporated Armstrong Mitchell & co in 1897 to become Armstrong Whitworth. So this tap dates before 1897 (or soon after) and could have been knocking around in a tool box for 120 years or so :)
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Hi Ray, looks like you git a as new plane there :drool: Stanley is a good make too. The books look to be interesting too, should keep you out of trouble for a bit while you read them lol.
Cheers Mick
Thanks Mick (not sure I like being called a git tho LOL).
The plane is in excellent condition.
Wife reckons the books will cause more trouble cause I'll want to buy more tools.
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If you google 'google planimeter' there is a superb free application that allows you to measure land areas from google maps. Not a lot of good from boat sections though !!!
You can find areas and centroids of irregular closed shapes easily in SketchUp with a free third party plugin. I've never used it for boats, but have for R/C airplane designs.
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hi dadels2010 i did a post on this sum time back old car battery acid is wat i use to remove the rust and to resharpen files the trick is to remove all trases of oil by geting wat ever it is that you is geting the rust off hot to burn off the oil but not to hot as to change its culer then once cold place in a contaner with the acid
Thx krv3000 will search for your post
Dirk
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hi all well bin shopping ones more i got a box of springs for £1 two tins of pant £1 for the two a 8x5mm tap £1 a 7x1mm tap £1 a set of m6 taps £1.50 a set of m2 taps £1.50 a gas lamp £1 two pears of mine tin snips £2 for the per and for £5 a borascope can do me own probing gnaw will post sum more pics of the probe it works just the image was carp the plastic lens cover had became all scratched and i tried every thing i had to polish it but with out success so mad a new on out of glass and a digital thermometer for £2 no pics of it yet will put sum on tomorrow and a box of things for a mine drill right pics
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Hi
Lads
Did 3 boot sales today
Bought some "bizweld" fire retardant work trousers
2 nice hammers
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John
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Looks like everyone had a good day, it was nice and sunny , a big factor in the booting day lol.
This is my haul from todays 2 bootsales, quite a varied catch again consisting of : A pasta making machine £2........???? what I hear them say , ..............aye don't worry no pasta making here its for rolling out polymer clay for making a prototype for a carving project , the herb chopping knife £1 this is to chop the clay up too. 3 boxes of good Wurth woodscrews £5, two good old fashioned hand brushes £2, 4mm Tee handle Allen wrench 50p, Refco pipe clamp £2, Maun safety 12inch rule £1, 2 tubes of BOC silicon bronze brazing rods, 1.6mm & 3.2mm £6, a thin tube of Cuprotic 3.2 welding rods for copper I think £1 , some 2mm Rothenberger S2 hard soldering rods for Copper £2 and last but not least a nice rev counter from a Royal Navy type 23 frigate, it looks like it will be good for future project especially at £3.
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This is the rev counter
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The Refco pipe clamp, the company seen to do refridgeration type stuff
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The other odd ball thing was some books on Fungi for my mates wife , she is interested in this sort of thing and is laid up after an operation on her foot so these should keep her amused, or get her off to sleep , one of the two ! The other book is off Doubleboost for an old friend of mine who loves all things Roman, its a good 1933 guide to Hadrians wall, cheers John.
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Cheers Mick.
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New this girl once who married a mushroom, apparently he was a fun gi to be with!
:D :doh:
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LOL , I might inscribe that in one of the front covers of the books.........a fungus type reader should find it very amusing :lol:
Cheers Mick.
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But she had to keep him in the dark and feed him BS
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brill mick and john
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New this girl once who married a mushroom, apparently he was a fun gi to be with!
:D :doh:
An oldy and a mouldy!
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:dremel:
not a bad day at the car boot, and I found a alternative use for chest expanders :palm:
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Gee you blokes have it good with all these car boot sales and pick up's.
So how long will it take to clean all those drills up sharpen them and???
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hi well bin shoping and got this lot of one seller for £10 a mitutoyo d.t.i a starrett level a file two sets of stud extractors from kennedy and a jam jar with sum dies and a die handel most of the dies turnd out to be BA and the die handel is x army dated 1940 as per the d.t.i got a scrub up right pics
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Glad I got out of bed this morning. I've been hoping to find a scope some day for about 2 years.
It's a bit rough looking though. Not sure if it actually works yet but I want to wait a bit before I try plugging it in. Looks like it was stuck in an attic for a while since it's got a few cobwebs with bits of tinsel trapped in them, and the crud on the screen appears to be bird poo. It's clean inside though.
I think i'll have to get off my ass and finally build those desk shelves i've been planning to for yonks, so I have somewhere to put this.
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Good catch with that scope - its a storage mainframe so (if you can trigger it!) you can catch single-shot events. If I remember right its genuinely a dual-beam tube, and I think those are delayed / hold-off plugins.
Only thing with kit of that vintage is that electrolytic capacitors may have deteriorated & may need changing. :zap:
Dave
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I always wanted a scope, not that I had any use for one, or really the in depth electronic knowledge required to use one, but we had some in the physics lab when I was at school several centuries ago, and we also used them in the electrical engineering lad at college, where we used to record the number of HFT events on the mains supply in 24 hours (except when the cleaners used to ignore the "LEAVE ON" notice and turn it off) and I found them fascinating. That looks like a really nice bit of kit, have fun with it! What do you intend to do use it for?
Phil.
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Good catch with that scope - its a storage mainframe so (if you can trigger it!) you can catch single-shot events. If I remember right its genuinely a dual-beam tube, and I think those are delayed / hold-off plugins.
Only thing with kit of that vintage is that electrolytic capacitors may have deteriorated & may need changing. :zap:
Dave
Yeah the guy said it was one of the early storage ones. I think i've got to do some reading up on how to actually use the things, and buy/make some probes before I can really check if its working. From a quick look visually the capacitors look okay, haven't leaked, so hopefully they're still in order.
I always wanted a scope, not that I had any use for one, or really the in depth electronic knowledge required to use one, but we had some in the physics lab when I was at school several centuries ago, and we also used them in the electrical engineering lad at college, where we used to record the number of HFT events on the mains supply in 24 hours (except when the cleaners used to ignore the "LEAVE ON" notice and turn it off) and I found them fascinating. That looks like a really nice bit of kit, have fun with it! What do you intend to do use it for?
Phil.
I've got no real in depth knowledge on electronics either. I've found it difficult to find good information; most textbooks are theory heavy and barely talk about applying the stuff, and there's alot of nonsense in general on the internet about electronics engineering.
I'm hoping to use it to build a synthesizer some day (when i'm not as busy!) to learn electronics and they seem fairly essential for that, but from watching videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc5HRF7zjiA#t=48m32s) of various repair work work they also look fairly handy for chasing down faults and other general stuff.
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Hi
Lads
Had a good day at the boot sales
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All the above for a tenner
£10
John
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Amazing haul for a tenner, John!
Scope update: Replaced the euro plug on it, and switched it on. The screen flickered but nothing after that. I'm assuming that even without probing anything you should be seeing a line. So that doesn't bode well. It's all very modular though and everything pulls out for easy access, so hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to find the fault. I tried all the obvious stuff like checking the fuses and looking for leaky caps. Found a manual for it too, so i'll read up on that and look up some other scope repair stuff before I try figure out whats wrong with it. Hopefully it's just user error and I need to press a switch to see anything!
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Scope update: Replaced the euro plug on it, and switched it on. The screen flickered but nothing after that. I'm assuming that even without probing anything you should be seeing a line. So that doesn't bode well. It's all very modular though and everything pulls out for easy access, so hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to find the fault. I tried all the obvious stuff like checking the fuses and looking for leaky caps. Found a manual for it too, so i'll read up on that and look up some other scope repair stuff before I try figure out whats wrong with it. Hopefully it's just user error and I need to press a switch to see anything!
I'm far from being a scope expert but I've owned many since my Telequipment S51 about 42 years ago.
Try the following:
Make sure the storage is switched off.
Try pressing the Trace Locate button. Hopefully something may appear.
There's a square wave calibration output underneath the Trigger Level knob. Take that output and plug it in to one of the Inputs. (Don't worry about a proper probe at this stage.) Adjust the Volts/Div to 0.5V/Div; Switch the Trigger to Auto. Adjust the Vertical Position knob to see if anything appears on the screen.
Good Luck.
Phil.
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Hi
Lads
Had a good day at the boot sales
All the above for a tenner
£10
John
John,
Some of those threading inserts could be about £10 each!
You lucky Twastard!
Phil.
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I bought a 8 TPI acme it was £ 12 for one :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
John
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Scope update: Replaced the euro plug on it, and switched it on. The screen flickered but nothing after that. I'm assuming that even without probing anything you should be seeing a line. So that doesn't bode well. It's all very modular though and everything pulls out for easy access, so hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to find the fault. I tried all the obvious stuff like checking the fuses and looking for leaky caps. Found a manual for it too, so i'll read up on that and look up some other scope repair stuff before I try figure out whats wrong with it. Hopefully it's just user error and I need to press a switch to see anything!
I'm far from being a scope expert but I've owned many since my Telequipment S51 about 42 years ago.
Try the following:
Make sure the storage is switched off.
Try pressing the Trace Locate button. Hopefully something may appear.
There's a square wave calibration output underneath the Trigger Level knob. Take that output and plug it in to one of the Inputs. (Don't worry about a proper probe at this stage.) Adjust the Volts/Div to 0.5V/Div; Switch the Trigger to Auto. Adjust the Vertical Position knob to see if anything appears on the screen.
Good Luck.
Phil.
Expert or not, you got it working. It was a mix of everything at once I think, storage was switched on, the intensity was set low (doy), and it turns out it takes a few seconds for the tube to warm up and a line to appear. Since taking this photo the power light also decided to start working again.
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Thanks for the help!
Edit: Had to take it back downstairs. Something about it is making me sneeze like crazy. Only thing I know i'm allergic to is cats, so the previous owner must've had a few about and dust settled inside. I'll have to blow it out with compressed air or something.
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brill hall john
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good one two Mr heslop
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Hi Lads, this is my haul from Sundays car booting, I was with John and had a good day too.
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As you can see quite a good engineering related batch today, the lathe tools are 25x25 type for the big lathe some with spare tips too and a parting tool with spare blades and tips, the boring bar is 25mm and a good length, a couple of decent DTI's and a Noga mag base plus various taps, calipers etc.
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Ther is a nice old Weller 100w soldering iron and a Burgess Vibro tool engraver, a good old powerful heavy duty thing not like the Sh** you get today , its even in the original box !, a couple of de burring tolls with spare blades.
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This is the best DTI , a Rambold German made 2 inch travel guage, I have never heard of them but its good quality and feels heavy. I think everything in total came to £60 or a few quid less, so well happy with the days goods.
Cheers Mick.
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Its a wonder there is anything left after you two go shopping.
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good hall mick and i no wher them d.t.i's are gowing
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I found this small cube at my clubs table top sale, I've been after one for three or four years now but they either go for silly money on ebay or get snapped up at shows in the first hour at shows, but it was my lucky day I was first through the door and my money in the box before any one else could snap this rooster up.
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It's been well made and is perfectly square its threaded 5/16 BSF which is no problem, and its just the right size for my small mill.
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One happy bunny
Stew