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May 14, 2023 22:24:57 GMT
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I think I have given up on Bootfairs. Just absolute junk out there. Stuff belonging in a skip…. And priced not to sell. Starting to feel the same way. Everyone wants £100+ for everything, no matter how crappy it is everyone wants top dollar. Even if you step in a dogs bum rubbish they want to charge you for it these days. Bum rubbish🤣🤣🤣 I've not been to a carboot for ages. Last time I went it just seemed to be market stalls and baby clothes. Discovering the shop at the tip along with the odd visit to charity shops turns up enough decent tatt anyway. |
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May 14, 2023 22:33:11 GMT
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I've not been to a carboot for ages. Last time I went it just seemed to be market stalls and baby clothes. Discovering the shop at the tip along with the odd visit to charity shops turns up enough decent tatt anyway. Hi, Which 'tip shop' do you use? The one at Earlswood? Colin |
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May 15, 2023 17:03:28 GMT
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I've not been to a carboot for ages. Last time I went it just seemed to be market stalls and baby clothes. Discovering the shop at the tip along with the odd visit to charity shops turns up enough decent tatt anyway. Hi, Which 'tip shop' do you use? The one at Earlswood? Colin Yes, I've been to others like Crawley but tend to get better results there. |
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May 16, 2023 12:28:31 GMT
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I haven't had anything significant from the boot sales yet this year, but I've missed a few through rain cancellations, and I was at a show last week so couldn't go. I've had a few decent things from the local Facebook recycling groups - a Samsung tablet that I've just found a great thing to do with, a laptop last week, and a leather sofa to see if I want a sofa without having to buy one.
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Nath
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May 16, 2023 12:59:34 GMT
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Went to carboot this morning just because i woke up early, had no plans to go as I'm going to a mahoosive one tomorrow. Not many stalls there but i guess most are waiting until tomorrow. Found a couple of hotwheels, a pair of salt and pepper pots to replace the one i dropped last week (salt everywhere) and whilst i was looking at them something caught my eye. A Penny Farthing.   Not usualy the sort of thing id look at but when i picked it up i noticed the dates on the coins match, and they appear to be uncirculated. The holes drilled in the centre of the coins are absolutly dead centre, it rolls perfectly, the forks for the wheels are a bar thats been sawn down the centre, again perfectly, all the joints on the frame are perfect, infact its got the look and feel of a quality piece of jewelery, making me think it may be a one off made by a jeweller back in the time that the coins were minted, the only thing that makes me think it not that old is that its... mint. Cant find much like it on the net either. Anyone else think its worth more than £2? Ahem, do you still have this sir? Now it's been 6 years since you found it would you sell it now?  Edit: Noticed on the next page (after that) you put it up for Auction how did that get on? |
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Last Edit: May 16, 2023 13:19:13 GMT by Nath
Loves anything Retro - Hates Toyotas.
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May 16, 2023 17:04:29 GMT
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Went to carboot this morning just because i woke up early, had no plans to go as I'm going to a mahoosive one tomorrow. Not many stalls there but i guess most are waiting until tomorrow. Found a couple of hotwheels, a pair of salt and pepper pots to replace the one i dropped last week (salt everywhere) and whilst i was looking at them something caught my eye. A Penny Farthing. Not usualy the sort of thing id look at but when i picked it up i noticed the dates on the coins match, and they appear to be uncirculated. The holes drilled in the centre of the coins are absolutly dead centre, it rolls perfectly, the forks for the wheels are a bar thats been sawn down the centre, again perfectly, all the joints on the frame are perfect, infact its got the look and feel of a quality piece of jewelery, making me think it may be a one off made by a jeweller back in the time that the coins were minted, the only thing that makes me think it not that old is that its... mint. Cant find much like it on the net either. Anyone else think its worth more than £2? Ahem, do you still have this sir? Now it's been 6 years since you found it would you sell it now? Edit: Noticed on the next page (after that) you put it up for Auction how did that get on? It's nice to see that dragged up after all this time, it really was an exquisitely made little thing, so precise in all respects. It went to auction with a 99p start and I think made just short of £60 including postage At the time I tried to find out more about it, there are vaguely similar ones out there but nothing that looks half as nice. I wonder how much it was actually worth 🤔 |
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Nath
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May 17, 2023 10:25:57 GMT
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Good on the sale mate I would've gave similar to that if I was quicker. Definitely a quirky little thing, yeah the closest I can get to is a framed image of the frame with the wheels being Penny farthings. Gutted I missed out.
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Well, went to my second or third bootfair of the year. Only half a field full by 07.00 Mostly pink junk and stuff that seems to belong in a dumpster. Prices I heard have certainly gone way up. I found one small tin for £1.00 which maybe I could have wrangled a bit on price, but a year or two ago this was a 50p max item. I suspect that other than wetting the bed and having to get up early on a Sunday with nothing better to do, this is where I need to realise that they are not what they used to be.  |
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Jun 11, 2023 16:19:16 GMT
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I'm not a collector of vice but I couldn't leave this on market place  Yes it's had a few paint jobs and it needs a de rusting but the slide is a smooth as an ITV runners bum and the jaws still have good cross hatching. Two miles away £20 |
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Jun 11, 2023 16:33:12 GMT
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I'm not a collector of vice but I couldn't leave this on market place Yes it's had a few paint jobs and it needs a de rusting but the slide is a smooth as an ITV runners bum and the jaws still have good cross hatching. Two miles away £20 Sorry but I read this and burst out laughing, I always tell SWMBO that I love the humour in some of the threads as much as the quality of content, Fantastic, Nigel |
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BMW E39 525i Sport
BMW E46 320d Sport Touring (now sold on.)
BMW E30 325 Touring (now sold on.)
BMW E30 320 Cabriolet (Project car - currently for sale.)
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Jun 11, 2023 17:19:41 GMT
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Well, it's the first time I've got anything worthwhile from the car boot sales that was worth posting on here. First off, random bits  L-R, hand nibbler for a £1 as a good spare, tile cutter for £2, suction pump, new with missing flexi pipe, £3.  Box containing 12 new Peco OO track lengths, £1.  Box containing a selection of "Shinohara" track, some short straight lengths and some long straight lengths but most interesting were the points of various radii. £8. |
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Jun 18, 2023 16:52:02 GMT
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From the "three for a pound" stall - I think it's a cutter for rubber tube on the left, a short profile gauge that might be handy when I can't get the full-sized one in, and a rivet gun.  And then a few minutes later, after he's put all the tools and good stuff back in the van, it's "everything for free", and I picked up this box with a selection of very small screws, nuts and washers.  |
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Jun 26, 2023 16:57:21 GMT
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Not much at the car boot this weekend, but I did get yet another hand nibbler for a pound. This one has comfortable plastic handles rather than the usual bare metal ones, and it doesn't have the wide "foot" at the cutting end, which might allow it to get into smaller corners than the others do. Forgot to take a photo.
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This is the hand nibbler I talked about in the last post:  The only reason I bring it up is because I actually used it for the first time yesterday, and I can't believe how much better it is than the other ones I've got. I don't know if it's just because of the plastic grips, or something else, but it was far easier to cut around a shape than with the standard ones. |
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From the "three for a pound" stall - I think it's a cutter for rubber tube on the left, a short profile gauge that might be handy when I can't get the full-sized one in, and a rivet gun. And then a few minutes later, after he's put all the tools and good stuff back in the van, it's "everything for free", and I picked up this box with a selection of very small screws, nuts and washers. The cutters on the left hand side aren't for cutting rubber They are roofing slate cutters You mark the face of the slate to the angle/ width with a little mark then mark the rear for the slate in the same place connect the 2 points with a straight edge draw a line and then cut the slate so it's face down this then gives you the riven edge along the cut to match the riven edge around the the sides of the slate And yes I have probably gone into way too much detail on how to use them |
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The cutters on the left hand side aren't for cutting rubber They are roofing slate cutters You mark the face of the slate to the angle/ width with a little mark then mark the rear for the slate in the same place connect the 2 points with a straight edge draw a line and then cut the slate so it's face down this then gives you the riven edge along the cut to match the riven edge around the the sides of the slate And yes I have probably gone into way too much detail on how to use them Ah, thanks for that. |
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A little selection from the autojumble at Gawsworth Hall on bank holiday Monday  A couple of swivel-head socket spanners - the 10mm will be handy for the lower bolt on my modern's thermostat housing, and the other one might come in useful for something. The die stock that came with my US Pro set has recently given up - the screw has pulled out - so these two will be useful. The one on the left is marked 1" / 25mm which matches the die nuts, the other one isn't marked and I couldn't tell if it was the same size, but it's much better quality, so I had both. The two box spanners are to make a tool to undo the top strut mountings on the modern as they need replacing, and the thing in bottom right, which turns out to be a tank cutter, might be useful if it'll cut steel. It turns out I already had a 10mm spanner like this, but they were cheap. And it turns out that despite thinking I'd measured them, the long box spanner won't fit the strut. Oh well, I only needed one, and I'd have had to cut the longer one down anyway. |
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Aug 12, 2024 21:14:17 GMT
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Bought a rusty lantern from the carboot. Finally Got a candle for it today. Total cost, a fiver.  |
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