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    Unknown spinny tool lathe type thingy??

    Hi all A while ago I bought a Unimat small hobby lathe that came with a few other bits, This was in with the other bits but i've no idea what it is! It's threaded to a similar pitch/dia to the spindle of my metal lathe so had no business being with the li'l toy lathe!! It seems to be made of...
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    Enough clamps??

    I don't have eight more unfortunately!! 🤨🤪 John :giggle:
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    Enough clamps??

    The two in the centre are the same type as each other but one has lost the foot so there's just the ball there! 😂😂 I have pairs of sash clamps although the 3' ones I won at an auction were nicked when my garage was raided by a junkie, I know who it was but had no proof :mad: EDIT- Forgot to...
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    car boot find

    Whilst digging about in the garge a couple of days ago, I came across this dovetail jig/cutter,It came from the bootsale years ago, Never tried it out though!! Anyone ever used one or do you cut your dovetails freehand? John (y)
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    Enough clamps??

    Hi all My sons father in law has a rocking chair that the plywood top rail has split open almost the whole way through!,He brought it to see if I could do anything with it so I had to split it fully which was so easy as there was hardly any of it holding!! I brushed PVA glue thinly on both...
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    Bandsaw for the beginner

    Hi I've had loads of hobbyist three wheel bandsaws, The Clarke 12" was about the best, I also had an Aldi two wheel that went back as it was useless! I also had a small Record three wheel which was also rubbish so that went, I gave another one away along with a bench drill that needed some...
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    car boot find

    The gent I bought the planer and mitre saw from was in his 70's/80's at a guess, He was very well spoken and very smart in appearance, Not your everyday shed looter type I feel! 👍😊 There's some sellers there that I wouldn't be so confident about!,I once bought a small darkwood table/stand for a...
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    Stanley no.4 with new plastic handles

    I've a Stanley Bailey smoothing plane somewhere in the garage that's ripe for a clean up, It's prpobably even rustier than that now too!! 🙁 It's how it was when I found it at the bootsale! John :giggle:
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    car boot find

    WOW! That was a good find! :cool::cool: Do you have a battery for it? John (y)
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    Sundays haul.

    Thanks Mike, I've never known for sure what to call it! (y) I also found this ancient 'Impetus' planer too at the bootsale years ago, Can't recall what I paid for it but it's heavy (Iron), I was risking it putting it on a glass table for the pic! 😱 There was no guide or guard with it, I...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    It's lucky for me then that I don't give a flying fig for what you think (y) :giggle:
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    Sundays haul.

    I loved going round the bootsales, Hardly go now though as my knees are shot, Had two new knees in the last five years and they're both killing me again, Only had the right one domne last year, Took a tumble at work and landed straight on it on a concrete floor! 🙁 Here's a few bits that i've...
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    Fixing up an old lathe

    It looks a cracking machine :cool::cool: Here's some info on the Lathes site about it (y) CLICK ME John
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    Wilson vice identification/info

    I've a strange vise that allows for strange shape grippage! (For want of a better term!) The bit closest is on a steel swivel so that it can be turned for different shapes, The vise is aluminium, It says 'D-Vice' on it and Made in England! It's a strange thing being very lightweight ally...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    It's not the last thing I mad but I just found this and polished it up after almost thirty years of being forgotten about in the garage!! I made the rubbish stand, Not the casting!! :giggle: :giggle: I think I may make one of rock and stand the rock on a Mahogany base (y) John :)
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    Curry's. - Do NOT buy anything from them at the moment.

    Some years ago we bought a high spec laptop from Curries, It came with a six month antivirus, I think it was called Bullguard, This activated when it was started up.. Bear in mind that technology flies right over my head! One month after we'd bought it we got loads of viruses, It turned out...
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    Ash Dieback

    I have a Pear tree and an Apple tree in my garden that are full of diseases, I'm thinking of taking the pear tree down to about five feet and making a bird table of it!, The Apple tree I took down to a similar height last year, This year buds started appearing so I sprayed them with Roseclear...
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    Bad year for my Bonsai! (One in particular!)

    Lots of people go the seed method of growing but it takes an age! A great way to make a Bonsai is to keep an eye out for people removing hedges around their property and asking to take some away!, A friend of mine set off on holiday with his family and saw a chap digging a Hawthorne hedge up...
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    What a beauty lathe

    Hi Pete I work in a heavy foundry, Our pattern shop has massive lathes but they're really old fashioned by comparison with the OP's machine!! We make some pretty decent sized stuff (Up to580 tonnes), Here's a screw press we made, One of several that were used for pressing undercarriage parts...
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    Bad year for my Bonsai! (One in particular!)

    Hi Adrian My faves are Acers and Junipers, I'm pretty rubbish with Pines as they always end up really leggy with foliage just on the tips! :giggle: I've a few Scots Pines (Sylvestris) and all are too long in the limbs due to me not pinching the candles!, The others are worse than this one! I...
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