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Citric acid works a treat. Or Light oil and a hand full of small ball bearings and a good hard shake.

This Mamod Roller was mine for a few pounds. It did need a whole lot of work. Nothing moved. The level plug is missing, filler plug is serized and the boiler boss is spinning. Plus the whistle is broken. This is the bottom of the chimney, you can see the lime scale. The boiler was...

20% longer than the manufacture gluing times. Thats what we did when lamiating patch repairs on wooden hull boats.

B&Q do a range of rubber feet, I glue them on with impact glue. Machine mart do spares for their Clarks bench grinder if you want the push fit ones.

One of mine is M4 Standard. The other is 1/4 UNJC. You need to measure the bolt/screw. Or drill it out to a bigger size.

The Pocket watch one was used to chase 12vdc leak to earth on the negative line. The coilded ones are stowed like that by me, as that is how they arrived. It keeps them tidy and neat in the case. That meter gets used every 4 weeks. The regs do not give a a standard for probs, yet 2024 it is...

I have a few Avo mk 8 and one Mk7. The probes used on the 4.5 Mk 5, 6 and 8 had probes with 1.25" of exposed ends. The ADT supplied meter has probes with 1.225" exposed ends. Mine was new 10/10/22 so is current and still is in its Cal date. The probes are not an issue. Not the best...

Got this baby the other day. I have had a few before, but this one was being used today. Chasing a volt to earth fault. Easy to hold, easy to read. Plus. It survived a 9 foot fall to the ground.

Another vice for me to restore. This one was in the scrap pile at my local scrap yard. Some how it lept into my car.