Bootfair today...update Sunday...

[jimi43]

The threat of rain which never materialised put most people off the bootfair today so I only managed to get one item.....

Robert Brettell Bate (1782-1847) of London produced hydrometers, saccharometers, and weights and measures for the Board of Excise and Customs, and other departments of the British government. Bate also made, or at least signed his name to, various other mathematical, optical, and philosophical instruments.

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Now far be it for me to gloat (oh go on then Jim....WHOOOPIE!)...but I love this little Bate protractor!

Darn thing cost me half my blinkin' budget...leaving only £12 for the next two bootfairs tomorrow and bank holiday Monday.....but who cares!

It has a tiny ding out of the "subtle bevel"....

....but I don't care about that either....just look at that early 19thC script...that always does it for me...

I think all children should learn copperplate script from birth...if it were up to me! :mrgreen: :wink:

I'm grinning from ear to ear and next week...when I tire of it...I can sell it on for a wee bit more than I paid for it...maybe...maybe not...I might just keep it.

I ummmmd and arrrrd about a Sweetheart compass plane is beautiful condition but at £50 I just couldn't justify it and five minutes later when I convinced myself I could justify it...it had gone. :roll:

There was also a Spiers of Ayr rabbet plane...like my Slater but alas...some TW*T had filed the mouth back...probably following a ding...and at £45 it was just too much for the damage...critical damage...so I passed.

Well....more luck tomorrow I guess...

Jim

 

[feswood]

that mr bate he was a master at this stuff :lol: ok i'm leaving

 

[tisdai]

Only 1 item Jim, you are slipping

Dave

 

[Scouse]

Darn thing cost me half my blinkin' budget...leaving only £12 for the next two bootfairs tomorrow and bank holiday Monday.....but who cares!

Lovely old protractor, Jim. I find that I get better stuff when I have a limited budget, dunno why. Bootsale was rained off here, fingers crossed for tomorrow and Monday, I need to build up a stash for the winter! :mrgreen:

 

[Jonzjob]

I'll give you a fiver for it, including postage to France of course, but only 'cause I'm in a generous mood :roll: :roll:

After all, it's damaged :mrgreen:

 

[Tom K]

I don't get up early enough for bootfairs

but I picked this up for £20 :mrgreen:

 

[Jonzjob]

I've just got back from a vide grenier (car boot sale) in the next village with nowt, but it saved me some cash to get some more wine. ccasion5:

There were a couple of wind up rotisseries, but at 200+€ not for me. They had benn reconned and were really nice!

 

[jimi43]

Not to let Dave down...I decided to up the remaining budget today by a few shillings to a score and the crowd there was a LOT better than yesterday..

The weather was better and as a consequence I picked up a few more items...

I was amazed how cheap things were...so from a tool point of view we have...yup...one of them there Metabo drills!

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it....especially since it is only the second one I have seen and the other one was on the No Skills "Another Drill" thread! How weird is that! At least I can follow that in my restoration! It's not in that sort of nick by a long chalk but still pretty impressive...a quid!

Next up...one of these:

I had no idea what it was until I got home...but it's a chuck! Pretty neat too as you pop the bit in and it locks just like that! Clockwise it grips...anticlockwise...it doesn't. Pretty darn cool that and made in Sweden!

Then I picked up two of these for a quid....

Now you know exactly what these are don't you? If you do...can you tell me please!

What I do know is that they are really useful...I don't know when they will be useful or what for but I just know they will be! :mrgreen:

Three quid for a brand new angle grinder jig to turn it into a metal chop saw...really handy for my metal work.....

The non-tool stuff was dirt cheap...easy to sell on FleaBay to buy MORE tools! He he!

A Canon ring flash...pity it wasn't a Nikon one!....

...a really superb Manfrotto fluid effect tripod head which I will use...superb!

....and a cute little airband scanner...

...oh....and yet another portable tranny..this one a Sony...cos I need to listen to the radio in the workshop and at bootfairs and I keep selling the ones I find...

All in all a far better day today...although I am still in love with my little brass protractor!

So if I take away the cost of the drawers from last week...the money I made on them was £45...so I the haul from yesterday and today was free and I'm still ten pounds up...and I still have the scanner and ringflash to sell on FleaBay so...many more tools to buy tomorrow then! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Jim

P.S. I found an oilstone but since it ain't covered in diesel...that can go in the bin! :mrgreen: :twisted:

 

[t8hants]

Now you know exactly what these are don't you? If you do...can you tell me please!

The cream colour, seems to remind me of the fittings used on the last of the table mounted mangles, but I'm probably wrong.

Gareth

 

[katellwood]

I don't get up early enough for bootfairs
but I picked this up for £20 :mrgreen:

Tommo

Correct me if i'm wrong but didnt that go through Ashford on the 12 Aug???

 

[AndyT]

Now you know exactly what these are don't you? If you do...can you tell me please!

What I do know is that they are really useful...I don't know when they will be useful or what for but I just know they will be! :mrgreen:

Only a guess but I think they might be lab equipment - remembering back to school chemistry, with vertical rods to clamp tubing etc onto.

 

[gregmcateer]

Call me a weirdo, but they look very similar to the clamps we used to have on the nursing home cotsides.

 

[Scouse]

Slim pickings again up here. The Sunday bootfair is very big, but mostly populated by non-tool type stalls. Saw a Stanley 78 with all it's bits, in it's box, but closer inspection revealed a broken nose, hairline crack and a firm £40 price tag! I assume he's still got it... On the bright side, there is a smaller but better sale in the morning if the weather holds. [-o<

 

[jimi43]

The clamps certainly are interesting and highly adaptable...I think I will make another version of a SUVA guard for my table saw...I think this clamp might be just the thing to anchor it to the bed away from the cutting area.

I always pick up things like this with no idea of what to do with them...they invariably get used for something some day.

Good luck tomorrow Scouse! I am off to a bigger one tomorrow...Annie's had enough! This does not surprise me at all! :mrgreen:

Jim

 

[condeesteso]

Jim! - one ring flash, two nipple clamps and a weird European drill. [Absolutely ignore any medical undertone.] And we agreed we don't even like drills. Call that shopping?

 

[No skills]

I dont belive it #-o

Its in better nick than the one I have, still mine was cheaper

What wood do you think the handles are made from?

 

[Tom K]

I don't get up early enough for bootfairs
but I picked this up for £20 :mrgreen:

Tommo

Correct me if i'm wrong but didnt that go through Ashford on the 12 Aug???

Well the guy who sold it said he'd inherited it but I guess he might of inferited it from an auction :?

 

[jimi43]

I don't get up early enough for bootfairs
but I picked this up for £20 :mrgreen:

Tommo

Correct me if i'm wrong but didnt that go through Ashford on the 12 Aug???

Well the guy who sold it said he'd inherited it but I guess he might of inferited it from an auction :?

He didn't make much profit from it if he did then!

You got a steal there Tom.

Jim

 

[Tom K]

Wow thats like praise from a master :mrgreen: I would of paid that for the empty chest its got some nice age to it.

 

[jimi43]

I love the chest but would like to see a close-up and more details of the little brass backsaw in the lid.....

Jim