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« Reply #150 on: June 19, 2020, 09:23:27 am » |
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I scored a freebie on Wednesday - copy of a book by 'The Children's Press', 1962 First Edition of "The Secret Tunnel" by Charles E. Gibson.
Cover illustration has a sea cave with submarine, so it's going to be smuggling and/or spies!
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« Reply #151 on: June 20, 2020, 08:43:41 am » |
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Before lockdown I noticed a black thing at a car boot. 20 quid and a deal was done. Now stripped of paint and a quick dowse in toilet cleaner, I have a huge brass, possibly a valve from a fire station, the thread suits my other branches, not sure, with a little more cleaning and polishing will look nice, somewhere.  You are correct that it appears to be firefighting valve but I would suspect what you have there is a dry-riser outlet valve, something like this https://images.app.goo.gl/ErC83GxCTPrNkQMcA . I would suspect it would be from a demolition of a multi-storey building (most likely a 60's tower-block). Thanks for that idea, I never even thought of a dry riser, you are probably right. |
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« Reply #152 on: July 07, 2020, 05:35:26 pm » |
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CCWG1RaC8W5For the first time in a long time, he was free. I visited a junk shop. catch old things from the village house. Pliers, Steelyard, chapelnik (removable handle for pans). And a 1952 radio station, Carbolite. And an old box covered with postcards.
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Sorry for the errors, rudeness and stupidity. It's not me, this online translator. Really convenient?
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« Reply #153 on: July 17, 2020, 12:09:12 am » |
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Well Golly, I have been looking for a small arbor press for some time, sort of choking on the Harbor Freight price for a chinese cheapie... and low and behold one of my local thrift stores had this lovely Industrial Strength unit: AMP 91085-2 Arbor Press For Backshell Kit Tooling list price $5,985.53  fleaby price ~ $150 my price - $5 egads I'm lucky! |
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« Reply #154 on: July 17, 2020, 08:47:37 am » |
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I scored a drill press for something like that, too!
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« Reply #155 on: July 17, 2020, 02:32:57 pm » |
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Well Golly, I have been looking for a small arbor press for some time, sort of choking on the Harbor Freight price for a chinese cheapie... and low and behold one of my local thrift stores had this lovely Industrial Strength unit: AMP 91085-2 Arbor Press For Backshell Kit Tooling list price $5,985.53 fleaby price ~ $150 my price - $5 egads I'm lucky! How many tons? |
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Here is a test to find out if your mission in life is complete:
If you're alive, it isn't. -- Lauren Bacall
"You can tell a man's vices by his friends, his virtues by his enemies."
"Only the paranoid survive."
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« Reply #156 on: July 18, 2020, 03:08:30 am » |
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Well Golly, I have been looking for a small arbor press for some time, sort of choking on the Harbor Freight price for a chinese cheapie... and low and behold one of my local thrift stores had this lovely Industrial Strength unit: AMP 91085-2 Arbor Press For Backshell Kit Tooling list price $5,985.53 fleaby price ~ $150 my price - $5 egads I'm lucky! How many tons? Oddly, I haven't been able to find that spec! it is nicely overbuilt, but it was designed for press-fitting wires into cables, and pressfit the cable-end half-shells around the cable socket. prf mvl |
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« Reply #157 on: September 12, 2020, 08:07:02 pm » |
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From an antique vendor at the local farmer's market:   It is a novelty book that fires a paper cap when it is opened. The mechanism is just like a cap gun. The pages are from an old grammar textbook. |
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