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Jul 19, 2022 11:46:56 GMT
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Still surprises me what people actually throw away, although i think its because i'm a firm believer and recycle/reuse. Whilst driving yesterday, outside someones house with other scrap was this vice. A genuine old school "made in England" Record 35. Quite an expensive vice by all accounts and very good quality. My plan is to clean it up, paint it, and fix it to my workbench, as it alll works perfectly!  Thats a very rare Record as it has 5 mounting holes, no idea why but only ever seen two like this |
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It will come in handy even if you never use it
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Aug 22, 2022 10:00:36 GMT
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Thought i would add my find from the weekend Went out for a walk in the morning and saw a washing machine and a metal detector with a sign saying free scrap. I was about 1.5 miles from home so decided to leave it. Went to the shops in the afternoon and walked by the same place, turns out it was still there. On the way home i grabbed it and walked it home. Very very light Looks to all be there and only the grip is broken. Battery compartment was very clean, noones left batterys in during storage!      Looked it up online when i got back and looks like a very basic entry level detector and not worth much more than £20 when working Never used one before. Might be good for a laugh! |
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1973 MK1 2600 Capri - Located in Texas
1976 3.0S Capri - X-Pack long term Project
1978 2.0S Capri
1984 Transit County MK2 4x4 LWB 2.5DI
1985 2.8i Special Capri (v8 5.0L)
1986 2.8i Special Capri
1987 280 Turbo Technics Capri
1993 1.8TD P100 - Beater, parts collector
2008 BMW 320i Touring - Daily
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Frankenhealey
Club Retro Rides Member
And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death
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Club RR Member Number: 15
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Aug 22, 2022 12:04:01 GMT
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Looked it up online when i got back and looks like a very basic entry level detector and not worth much more than £20 when working Never used one before. Might be good for a laugh! Absolutely ideal for searching in the fading evening light for the dropped washers, nuts and 10mm sockets whenever I work on a car. I may need to get one as far more preferable than on my knees doing a fingertip search of the drive in the gloaming. |
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Tales of the Volcano Lair hereFrankenBug - Vulcan Power hereThe Frankenhealey here |
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Looked it up online when i got back and looks like a very basic entry level detector and not worth much more than £20 when working Never used one before. Might be good for a laugh! Absolutely ideal for searching in the fading evening light for the dropped washers, nuts and 10mm sockets whenever I work on a car. I may need to get one as far more preferable than on my knees doing a fingertip search of the drive in the gloaming. Always fancied a play with a detector, This comment does bring one comment though, why is it always the 10mm socket that gets "lost", I thought it was just me but obviously not, 😁😁, 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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Always fancied a play with a detector, This comment does bring one comment though, why is it always the 10mm socket that gets "lost", I thought it was just me but obviously not, 😁😁, Nigel  |
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Mar 23, 2023 15:26:02 GMT
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 Pavement gods delivered. Galvanised Brackets are 750x750 I wish I could use them. Said to Sally, wild guess is 7 x £30.00 for brackets. So easy £200 plus score. Have given them to mate craigrk He will use them. |
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Apr 17, 2023 13:05:16 GMT
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Free sidewalk find. For Sallys grandson.  |
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awoo
Posted a lot
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Apr 17, 2023 17:38:27 GMT
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I have a mate that kept finding bikes “just left on the side of the road”, turned out he was pinching them 😂
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Modern times are so weird. We complain about the cost of everything, even air for our tires/tyres at a gas station or petrol station costs from 50p upward. Yet, this week saw me gain a load of junked lifting straps, ranging from 1 ton to 3 tonnes and a variety of lengths, from a maintenance job. Expiry dates mean all these needed recertification or destruction. SO GET THIS…… RIGHT. They are perfectly fine to be used for another X-period of time. But the cost of recertification is more than the cost of replacing or repatriating them. So they were all being cut in half and thrown in a skip. Except for a few that were put aside for me.   What the hell is wrong with people, or the world. No, do not try to explain it, I do understand, but it is crazy. Next item, 9 high end, chemical vapour and dust masks, described thus: 3M 4279+ Maintenance Free Organic Gas/Vapour and Combination Particulate Respirator3MΓäó Maintenance Free Half Mask 4279+ is a simple and ready-to-use respirator with an integrated cartridge and filters. A newly enhanced valve assembly helps to reduce exhalation breathing resistance, and the close-fitting, non-silicone, textured face seal is soft and non-allergenic. Includes a resealable bag for hygienic storage and transportation. Found left over from a previous job, in a store, not on inventories, so headed to the skip. SERIOUSLY?   Also found in the same pile of now “illegal on site” left overs from 18 months ago, were some of these flame/fire retardant balaclava hoods. I should have had them when welding the Chevy Blazer a few years ago, had more than one fireball in my ear hole, not fun.   So I was thankful to be able to say yes of course my skip/dumpster is a house, I mean house is a skip/dumpster. Will I use them all? Of course not, but a few friends will all get given bits they can use. My lodger, Andy who is a welder, and helped me previously with the carport post welding during Covid and taught me some great stick welding and Mig techniques has an electric car, and I have not charged him for charging his car here, swings and roundabouts,I guess. This week he bought and brought me a new welding mask and a grinding mask as a thank you. Quite unnecessary as a thank you gift, but it does mean the old balaclavas will be used, and I will get my head into tighter spaces.   Have I mentioned recently that life is good? Nope, work has been sucking the joy out of my life to a large extent. But life is good, and as long as there is free cash about, I certainly won’t be saying no thanks. Right, time to go play with contact adhesive and vinyl once I cut the templates for the Canta. Catch you later. |
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Last Edit: Jul 1, 2023 9:28:04 GMT by grizz
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Now consider how much it costs to store stuff. And take it back to the storage. And check it's unused/still in date etc. And do all of the necessary paperwork. And convince the accountants that spending 87.9675747449% of the cost of ordering new, delivered straight to the next job is a worthwhile saving.
Last time the winching gear needed recertifying, we threw all of the ground anchors, chains and snatch blocks in the skip because they cost was horrific for gear that hadn't been used in years, and was unlikely to be again due to equipment upgrades. Lifting equipment has even stricter rules - I know of bells that were lifted into the belfry with borrowed equipment that was delivered from the local power station with the message "you didn't get this from us, and we never want to see it again"
And we really don't want to know about the legal costs of stuff like this failing.
Those organic filters look particularly handy....
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Now consider how much it costs to store stuff. And take it back to the storage. And check it's unused/still in date etc. And do all of the necessary paperwork. And convince the accountants that spending 87.9675747449% of the cost of ordering new, delivered straight to the next job is a worthwhile saving. Last time the winching gear needed recertifying, we threw all of the ground anchors, chains and snatch blocks in the skip because they cost was horrific for gear that hadn't been used in years, and was unlikely to be again due to equipment upgrades. Lifting equipment has even stricter rules - I know of bells that were lifted into the belfry with borrowed equipment that was delivered from the local power station with the message "you didn't get this from us, and we never want to see it again" And we really don't want to know about the legal costs of stuff like this failing. Those organic filters look particularly handy.... 1000% with you Nick. When Andy stayed with me during Covid, they scrapped 20 under counter fridges after a 4 month outage because repatriation was more costly. There also was a ton of other crazy stuff thrown away. David, the electrician that stayed here for 18 months offered me free of charge, 20 foot containers, structural steel stuff, because it was more costly for them to have it collected and removed after it served its purpose. I completely understand but it still screams like an air raid siren in my head….. You know me by now, if I can reuse a piece of masking tape a second time, I will. On a micro scale like here at my home, it means that it translates into a few pennies staying in the bank, and not having,to,think or plan when I need to buy a new grinder, welder, fish n chip dinner. Still………… |
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Last Edit: Jul 1, 2023 9:51:46 GMT by grizz
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Home/DIY stuff is different in two ways:
1) the cost/value overlap has very different priorities.
2) Nobody actually adds up the the cost of tripping over that tired drill-press for twenty years, even though they whinge they don't have any space to work.
Those straps are a perfect example of 1, because the £15 cost(a guess) is a lot when you only want it to lift an engine in and out a few times, and can do the same job hacking a bit of scrap seatbelt off with a Stanley knife. When you're dangling £150,000 worth of equipment that needs to be working by the end of today without any entries in the accident book, it really, really doesn't matter. Same applies to not having to explain to your customer why the thing broke and damaged the client's car when you knew you should have replace 6 weeks ago. They will last you for the rest of the time you'll be in the workshop.
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Jul 18, 2023 12:22:53 GMT
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Pavement gods were smiling today.  |
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Jul 18, 2023 19:15:17 GMT
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If that bow shackle is in the bin there will be a reason ,it's the best place for it.
Lifting gear is cheap anyway.
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Jul 18, 2023 19:30:17 GMT
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If that bow shackle is in the bin there will be a reason ,it's the best place for it. Lifting gear is cheap anyway. Farmer lost it on the roadside. 8.5 ton rating. Good enough to stuff in a sock. |
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glenanderson
Club Retro Rides Member
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Jul 18, 2023 19:39:28 GMT
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If that bow shackle is in the bin there will be a reason ,it's the best place for it. Lifting gear is cheap anyway. Chances are it got left on a van roof or suchlike. It’s tagged, so pretty likely that it was part of someone’s assessed kit, so if it was scrap/damaged it would have been disposed of in a formal manner rather than left on the side of the road. |
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Went to the tip this morning so visited the shop as you do. No bikes of interest, was looking for a draw unit but none of that either. Found this old Smiths barometer. Didn't think I needed one but it's a Smiths one and it'll look nice once I get the paint off it.  £5. Seemed 'fair'. 🤭 |
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Oct 28, 2023 14:45:33 GMT
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Just picked this up for a steal. Assumed it was vinyl but looked the part and is well comfy.  Got it home and gave it a clean. Took the seat base out and found out its actually leather.  Nice. |
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Oct 28, 2023 14:56:50 GMT
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Very nice, I sit every day in a free leather chair I got 10 years ago.
Love the chair, price was a bargain too.
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Oct 28, 2023 15:21:03 GMT
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Very nice, I sit every day in a free leather chair I got 10 years ago. Love the chair, price was a bargain too. I'd been looking at leather sofas like this for a while, but id never fit it in the car, this only just fitted in the cube. I also thought it was brown in the shop but it's red, and I'm going to be doing a lot of sitting in it now if got it indoors.  A bit nicer than the cat scratching post it replaced.  |
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