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does the motor spin with no belt on the pulley?

My method would be to bend it cold in a two pin jig bender. As I don't use photo host sites I can't post a picture of mine, but basically get three two 200mm lengths of 25mm bar or tube and a short length of 100mm. Weld the short length between the long ones creating a fork deep enough for...

Generic 'blacksmith's' style vice, could have been made by any amount of small scale foundry/forges. Is there any evidence that the leg has been cut off? Bench mount are not common, but I have one with a screw clamp for bench mounting, a very nice find.

Oh Dear on the post costs, but what I like about Toolstation over Screwfix, is the simple fact, that at TS you order, then can view your goods and then pay, where SF demand payment first then they will fetch the items and then you have to deiced if they will do the job.

Given up on nearly all box cutter type knives, I like the Paul Sellers folding blade type for nearly everything except perhaps roofing felt.

Can't give you a value, because I suspect you name a price and see if it sells. I rescued mine from becoming hardcore as the muppet who chucked it there couldn't work out how it worked, or that you only needed to undo four bolts to get it moving again after it had rusted up. Apart from that it...

I think the two bronze G clamps are off a Seagull outboard motor.

Found mine on ebay, M4 M5 M6 M8 M10 Carbon Steel Tee 2 4 Spot Slab Based Welded Pips, Holes & Flat, is how their listed

I bought my box of 20 for £1.00 at a jumble sale back in the 70's and have added a few since. Thanks to Paul though I can't keep up with the rise in price for router planes, I am still looking for one.

Spring back on round bar is inevitable and it never will be consistent, because the consistency of the bar plus the stresses of the it being formed will never be the same. Looking at your shape and If I was a one man operator (which I am) I would only bend the top. If I didn't want to to do...

Automatic execution for anyone who wants to restrict, confine, define, inhibit, restrict, hold back or prevent the evolution of the English language, or link it in anyway, to long dead inferior languages of the Mediterranean basin.

The 'shears' may also act as a punch so you can rivet it all together. There was a similar but smaller tool set made by 'Juniero', so you could produce your own Meccano.

The Victorians knew how to deal with tool thieves!

Just an update on my 'little' problem, after a busy weekend away from things, try as I might I can't get the dishwasher register anything on my multimeter now, even with combinations of other domestic appliances working or not. What ever the fault is it is very intermittent and the weather has...

My wife said she thought she had got a mild electric shock when touching the interior of the dishwasher and the s/s sink simultaneously. So armed with my multimeter and no other skill, I set the dial at 20v and sure enough I got a reading of about 0.3v, very low, but a reading non the less...

Not if its going to get wet, you will make a battery and the ali (IIRC) will slowly corrode away.

The American Civil War, would give you years of study, good Generals, B.A. Generals, dumb tactics, evolving tactics, hints of what was to come . The Ken Burns documentary 'The Civil War' (now on the tube) is probably the best ever TV military history documentary series, any book by Shelby Foote

If the motor is noisy, it may just need new bearings. It appears to have an end flange, which the Myford motors did not, so it is a replacement. A modern motor (often Chinese) may not be of the quality of the one you have, unless you are prepared to pay for quality. What happens if you take...

I worked in a fab shop since 1990 and we only used Metabo, they were used almost all day and abused to the point of cruelty, but the kept going. If one did pack up we kept the remains and rebuilt one from the next to die. The company closed five years ago, and I still have three, still going...

Kitchener of Khartoum was Sirdar of the Egyptian army when they went off to defeat the Mahdi of Sudan, in the Sudanese campaign of 1897, so you have a nice jingoistic saw. Jones'y of Dad's Army would be thrilled.