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It’s a retort clamp. They can be quite pricey. Typical good quality old scientific equipment can be quite valuable. Things like that get snapped up by ‘interior designers’ and used to hold flowers and lamps etc I can see exactly how that happens. The flag I bought over the weekend will be going the “for sale to highest bidder” route as well, only because Nicola, my ex showed me the silly money they make. |
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Yes, lots of that kind of stuff gets snapped up for all sorts of usage, denying people the chance to use it for the purpose it was intended. I blame Drew Pritchard myself.
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turbom
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Sept 11, 2021 15:02:25 GMT
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Hoping to go to a car boot/ auto jumble tomorrow in suffolk. Hoping to get some barginns or bring some tat home..
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Sept 11, 2021 16:02:21 GMT
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Arminghall autojumble today in Norwich, got a large tabletop saw, a mk 2 Cortina drivers sill and still came home £150 up
I love days like these......😀
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Sept 12, 2021 7:09:16 GMT
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It’s a retort clamp. They can be quite pricey. Typical good quality old scientific equipment can be quite valuable. Things like that get snapped up by ‘interior designers’ and used to hold flowers and lamps etc I can see exactly how that happens. The flag I bought over the weekend will be going the “for sale to highest bidder” route as well, only because Nicola, my ex showed me the silly money they make.  |
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Sept 12, 2021 8:08:55 GMT
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Today I really did not want to go to the bootfair, as I only got about 4 hrs sleep in broken episodes, and was tired from the time on the chassis yesterday. But a 4.30 am alarm had me awake, and up just after 5.00 So I went anyway. First blood to craigrk wife, and second blood too. Plates for their new home in Shropshire which is known as The Stables. £3.50 for the plates. .jpg) She asked me to keep an eye out for a less common item……..got lucky.  The rest of the bootfairs bounty was collected within the first half of the field. Picture frame, unused £2.00 Socks 50p Small yankee candle 20p Seeing eye 50p Pile up sanding discs (I still have the attachments) £1.00 35 foot or 10 meter rubber reinforced airline £2.00 Large wooden Buddha for Sallys garden £4.00 Ornate cat for the garden £2.00 Plastic coat hangers £1.00 Stick of rock £- Free  So ultimately not too bad. Airline alone made it worthwhile for me. |
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Sept 12, 2021 12:07:00 GMT
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4 more USA License Plates for my collection today. £20 for 4. Excellent - they can be anything from £8 - £25 each online depending on the State and condition/age (And £40-odd if you want a Washington DC plate)...  |
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turbom
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Sept 12, 2021 15:34:13 GMT
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Just picked up a aa badge and we had a ice cream!! was lots there but nothing of intrest to me..
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Sept 13, 2021 12:05:01 GMT
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Only a few DVDs for me this week, but I was in a bit of a rush as I was heading elsewhere.
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Sept 18, 2021 11:27:19 GMT
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Arminghall autojumble today in Norwich, got a large tabletop saw, a mk 2 Cortina drivers sill and still came home £150 up I love days like these......😀 Sounds like a good haul, I even managed to have a good day last weekend at Aylesford Priory Car show and AJ, never been before, so I left home far to early, and got in before it opened!!!, not on the lookout for much, BUT came out smiling, Came across a fella selling his words "Old Cr-p" from his rallying days, nearly filled my bag in ten mins of looking, Magard style Alloy twin webber throttle linkage, complete £2.00!!!!!, 3 genuine Ford red plastic clutch pipes, 1.00 !!! each... New crossflow engine mounts 2.00 each, and lots of other "smalls" for pennies, and he knocked £2.00 off cos it was early and he had no change, Happy days  Walked round a bit more, theres a stall holder selling what looks like more like boot fair fodder, everybody was walking past, but I stopped, as I usually do, for a good scan around, the man started talking to me, asked me what I had car wise, looked a bit blank when I said Austin A35 Van, but Paid attention when I said Ford Classic 315, "Oh the Ford Classic stuff is in a box over there, OK I was initially a bit disappointed when the stuff was Not for a Ford Classic 315, BUT was highly delighted to find bags with Rally Design all over them, there was what looked like a full hydraulic concentric clutch release kit for a type 9, not sure if it was all there, but it looked complete, no good to me, as I have just converted my Type 9 to hydraulic, (BUMHATS) saw another bag in this box, said Quaife all over it, had a quick peek inside, A brand New Type 9 quick shift lever, How Much mate? is £40 too much? give you £30, ended up with it for £35. got home and checked the price, from Quaife, £185.00 plus Vat and Postage...... RESULT!!!!!!!! |
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Sept 18, 2021 11:36:05 GMT
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Yeah it's still possible to pick up a bargain (or three!) sometimes
Thinking about going to stickney autojumble next weekend, not been for ages, not particularly big but used to be a good range of bits at reasonable prices
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Sept 18, 2021 11:46:49 GMT
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Stickney, Thats a bit far for me, and TBH I have been car shows/Autojumbles every weekend for about 5 weeks, put my back out a Beaulieu and still walking like John Wayne, So a weekend off, well a boot fair tomorrow, lol, Then weather dependant OhSoRetro next weekend at Margate
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Sept 18, 2021 14:40:17 GMT
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Next big one for me is the vintage and 4x4 autojumble at Newbury showground, but that's first Sunday in October.
Just realized that's a fortnight! 🙄
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Sept 19, 2021 8:09:52 GMT
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Arminghall autojumble today in Norwich, got a large tabletop saw, a mk 2 Cortina drivers sill and still came home £150 up I love days like these......😀 Sounds like a good haul, I even managed to have a good day last weekend at Aylesford Priory Car show and AJ, never been before, so I left home far to early, and got in before it opened!!!, not on the lookout for much, BUT came out smiling, Came across a fella selling his words "Old Cr-p" from his rallying days, nearly filled my bag in ten mins of looking, Magard style Alloy twin webber throttle linkage, complete £2.00!!!!!, 3 genuine Ford red plastic clutch pipes, 1.00 !!! each... New crossflow engine mounts 2.00 each, and lots of other "smalls" for pennies, and he knocked £2.00 off cos it was early and he had no change, Happy days Walked round a bit more, theres a stall holder selling what looks like more like boot fair fodder, everybody was walking past, but I stopped, as I usually do, for a good scan around, the man started talking to me, asked me what I had car wise, looked a bit blank when I said Austin A35 Van, but Paid attention when I said Ford Classic 315, "Oh the Ford Classic stuff is in a box over there, OK I was initially a bit disappointed when the stuff was Not for a Ford Classic 315, BUT was highly delighted to find bags with Rally Design all over them, there was what looked like a full hydraulic concentric clutch release kit for a type 9, not sure if it was all there, but it looked complete, no good to me, as I have just converted my Type 9 to hydraulic, (BUMHATS) saw another bag in this box, said Quaife all over it, had a quick peek inside, A brand New Type 9 quick shift lever, How Much mate? is £40 too much? give you £30, ended up with it for £35. got home and checked the price, from Quaife, £185.00 plus Vat and Postage...... RESULT!!!!!!!! I never remember about Aylesford. Do like a bit of a rummage. |
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Sept 19, 2021 8:16:45 GMT
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Half a field today. Slim pickings. Screwdriver 50p Old pump 50p Stool £4.00 Bird nest 50p Leggings £1.00 each Nylock nuts n bolts £3.00 the lot  Todays technical question…… What do the numbers on these signify?  Thanks. |
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Sept 19, 2021 9:52:13 GMT
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Tensile strength??
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Sept 19, 2021 10:17:36 GMT
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yup, makers mark and tensile strengths, 8.8 being pretty typical high tensile fasteners, 10.9 higher grade, different material spec.
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v8ian
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Sept 19, 2021 12:31:05 GMT
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And the threads will be metric,
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Sept 19, 2021 13:46:11 GMT
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Couple of bargains today Complete first year of street machine in binder. He wanted £2, I gave him £3 as I felt bad.  I needed a water trap regulator, bought the Clarke one (well, it looks the same as the Clarke ones) for £5, then later bought the box of stuff just for all the 1/2 fittings. This box included 3 devilbiss reg/filters. I assume they were all set up as first stage. One has a first stage element, one had a broken first stage element, the third I can't open yet untill I can be bothered to take it to the vice. I want a second stage coalescing filter too, bit elements for these are more expensive than a new Clarke one. It looks like the housings should be modular, can you add and remove sections? If so, how!  The complete box of stuff was £10. Seems I'm over run with first stage filters now! Edit, got it open. One of the devilbiss ones has what looks like a new first stage filter, the other two ha s remnants of broken first stage filters. I assume could just leave the regs wide open on those and fit second, and even third, stage filters in them. Expensive though! Would be nice to get them in one block like a proper 3 stage, that's assuming they do coke apart like I assume they do. |
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Sept 19, 2021 14:42:50 GMT
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Well that answered the modular question  |
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Walked round a bit more, theres a stall holder selling what looks like more like boot fair fodder, everybody was walking past, but I stopped, as I usually do, for a good scan around, the man started talking to me, asked me what I had car wise, looked a bit blank when I said Austin A35 Van, but Paid attention when I said Ford Classic 315, "Oh the Ford Classic stuff is in a box over there, OK I was initially a bit disappointed when the stuff was Not for a Ford Classic 315, BUT was highly delighted to find bags with Rally Design all over them, there was what looked like a full hydraulic concentric clutch release kit for a type 9, not sure if it was all there, but it looked complete, no good to me, as I have just converted my Type 9 to hydraulic, (BUMHATS) saw another bag in this box, said Quaife all over it, had a quick peek inside, A brand New Type 9 quick shift lever, How Much mate? is £40 too much? give you £30, ended up with it for £35. got home and checked the price, from Quaife, £185.00 plus Vat and Postage...... RESULT!!!!!!!!
