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Here you are then: Have you heard about the lawyer parks his brand-new Porsche in front of the office to show it off to his colleagues. As he's getting out of the car, a wagon comes flying along too close and takes off the door and does not stop. Distraught, the lawyer grabs his phone and...

Called in the supermarket the other day my how things have changed, an automatic water mister to keep the produce fresh, and just before it turns on you hear a distant rumble of thunder and smell fresh rain. When you go to get a bottle of milk you can hear cows mooing in the fields and smell...

I've had two Eclipse "Auto's" all my working life purchased in the 60's, a large one with a pack of five replacement ends and there are 4 left unused, then a fine point one never had to sharpen, and later I also picked up an "optical" one, buy the best you can afford and they will last you out...

I was talking to Tom the farmer next door the other day, he'd bought a new Bull cost him a few grand, he put him out with the herd of cows but took no notice not even a smell of them just content eating the grass. He was worried he had paid too much for a non performer so decided to call in the...

I came from a farming background so I asked if I could make a vise for a milling and grinding machine (now rusty) a bearing puller, (that has lost 2 of the small linkage arms) a few small hand tools that have been lost over the years, and the small vice above.

Very nicely made I like the sub base to hold it, quite a lot better than my ones, the one I use most is like one of yours but instead of the round post I have a flat plate to hold in a vice, I use it all the time when I am working on clocks I fitted leather faces to protect the work.

Nice job cleaning it up, yes 1960's was a very good time to be making vices i too have one somewhere in the back of the shed I also made a machine vice, and a very small vice you held in a std vice I use that to hold small parts in clock making and a bearing puller, I should go and look where...

One drill I have not seen talked about here is the spot drill it is more precise in drilling a starting hole or a through hole in not so thick material, a spot drill does much the same as a centre drill, but there are two differences. One is that the spot drill has thinner tip than the centre...

I offered it to members on here first as no one has come back to me so still for sale I was just about to list it on another site, anyone interested please PM me with your contact e-mail then I can advise address.

Hi Peter, DE56 Derbyshire If your interested PM me your contact e-mail for further details.

This is a lovely little metalworking lathe with screw cutting gears, 250mm between centres with 90mm centre height with hardened bed, it has a 3 jaw chuck with outside jaws as well, it has a face plate, there is a tailstock chuck and centre both 2 morse taper a box with all the spare gears in...

No they are too wide I need 8mm dia ones.

This is woodwork related but made out of metal, I have some very small 3mm stepped rounds to cut on a wooden clock that I am making I had a look at the offerings for sale but they are mostly made out of plastic unless you want to pay big bucks I had the idea to make this to help out, looking...

Do you have the parts list here is a screen print: Can confirm 6203z is the correct bearing.

John, That's the one I was talking about on mine there is like an inverted U over the V to lock down on the work.

There was what was called a cross drilling part that fit onto a Morse taper that fit in the tailstock and had a V cut across the end, you put the centre drill/drill in the headstock chuck and moved the work in the tailstock up to it to drill , I had one but cannot find it at the moment. Phill

Yes I do it, I turned a disk out of ally and put two cuts into it to hold the blade, grind a feather edge on each end when you put the blade into the cuts it hold it at a slight radius braze it grind the edges clean slip out of disk fit to saw, job done never had a joint break. I can get an...

I like the Holly podlet with the round bulbous base looks like it has just grown there

"I'll post pics if you want," Yes we want more pic's please, bigun's littleun's and any in between and thanks to Andy for the new thread some nice work there.