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I have a wristwatch with a built in torch!, It's only ok to see a feyhole in the dark when you can't find it otherwise!! John :)

Hi all I've not been on here in ages due to my computer going bang and losing all my favourites!! Anyhow, In between having knee replacements i've still been managing to call around the bootsales hunting for sharp and shiney stuff!! Also found materials too! I bought this Mammoth...

Hi Deekin I struggle a bit with AF bins as my eyes aren't perfect, The slight difference from one eye to the other makes it a bit hard to focus through them! These are actually not as bad as others that i've had through the years, I had one set that I couldn't see through at all, They were...

The last time I went to a bootsale I found two binoculars (At two different bootsales!), Both are 7x50, One is Tasco make, t'uther is Dowling & Rowe, The D&R are auto focus, Tasco's are manual focus, Both are rubber armoured!. The AF ones when I paid, The lad asked how to focus them as there's...

Hi I think I paid around £35 for the G Shock on the right second hand off a forum, They never miss a beat, It's a Tough Solar too so daylight rechrges the cell, It also goes to sleep if not touched for a while, The display 'goes off'!! The left one came off fleabay for around £14 if memory...

I had a couple of these, Gave them away to a lad that ended up conning me in a trade!! John :)

Hi I have a large woodworking vice in the garage but I can't get to it to take a pic! I've no idea if it's even any good it's been in there so long!! Anyhow, Here's a couple of smaller ones.. An 80mm and a 100mm x-y vice.. A small home made machine vice that a lad made whilst he was in...

I wrote a post and must have forgotten to submit it!! :o Anyhow, Last week I bought this little Woden metalworking vise for £8 :cool: Also bought two packs of 10 thin cutting discs for the 115mm angle grinder for £4 I also bought a set of Stanley sidecutting wire cutters! This is...

Cripes!! There used to be a seller of brass/copper bar and plate etc at a local bootsale, I bought a piece that was 10mm thick by around 300mm by around 150mm, It's in the garage somewhere, I never used it for anything!! It was supposedly to make knuckle guards and bolsters out of!! I'll have...

I've three in different sizes!! John :beerchug:

Snap!!, I got the same type of adjustable spanner a few weeks ago at the bootsale!! Went to the bootsale this morning, I bought two packs of the thin 4.5" cutting discs for £4, Also got two pairs on Binoculars, some watches A nice little Woden vice and some wire cutters!! A nice set of...

Hi Mike The Lobster is around 45, 50mm with the crown, Top to bottom is around 52mm, Lug spacings are 22mm.. The Precisionist is 46mm, around 49.5mm with crown.. Not sure how old the Lobster is but the warrenty with the Precisionist says 9/2/12.. I also have a fancy lugged manual wind and an...

Hi all I recently traded a coyuple of my vintage Seiko watches for a couple big Bulova watches, I let a 6139 'White Helmet' mechanical chronograph and a Seiko Wolrd time go in trade and am as happy as Larry!! 300 metres rated Precisionist, The second hand has a continuous sweep like the old...

Hi Tom You could try Imgur but they may go the same way as photobucket too :( I had an hour at my local bootsale and brought a few bits back with me.. (Not tools though :p ) £60 for this Xisico B3-1 AK47 lookalike! It's actually an airgun in .22cal and as twangy as most other Chinese thrown...

I was having so much tyrouble with my photobucket account that I closed it!!, I think they now make it so horrible to use for free account holders that they get fed up and leave it to the paying ones!! :( Thing is though that at one stage I thought about opening a paid for account but as it got...

WOWSER!!:yikes: They're beauties!! :35: I've made a few sets over the years but don't seem to have taken pics of many of them :o I can only find a pic of this Junior, The grips are embarrassingly bad but better than the cracked and chipped bakelite ones that were fitted!! ;) John :)

YE GODS!!! Just done a search for Wm Dixon stitch punch, One's turned up on fleabay for £60 bin :yikes::yikes: Surely that's way way overly ambitious???!!! :wow1: John :)

I went this morning but didn't get much :( Paid a quid for this old #7 Stitch punch, I'll probably never use it but it just feels so nice in the hand!! Paid ten bob for this little book that looks very interesting about a B-17 that crashed in to Endcliffe park at Ecclesall rd with a loss...

Hi RV I found the vids on youtube, It's called Lichtenberg artwork, Strangely hypnotic, The sound is a bit like the lovely cackle of a mig welding set when all the settings are spot on!! :D Many thanks, John :)

Thanks didicoy, That's very interesting!! My brother sometimes uses luminescent powder to mix with lacquer to paint bike helmest with, He once did a whole bike for someone, It would have cost a heap as it's not cheap stuff!! :eek: John :)