Looks like your boot fairs have more interesting stuff than down 'ere. The one at Exeter Race Course..I swear is full of the stuff that I struggle to see anyone but a waste converter wanting.
I found something else today. Less of a bargain but I could not pass it by. It was a breast drill. Not any old breast drill. I seen some ropey ones recently (including down Steptoe's Market yesterday) but this one was an amazingly over-engineered 1950s USSR one in new/unused condition, still boxed. It swear the machining tolerances on it and its gearing is done to Sputnik standards. I have never felt a winding gear so smooth and a power transfer to the headset so direct. At £15 it was no bargain but I reckon I'll add it to my greenwood working tools for the woodland workshop where there is no power and sometimes there is need for something with a bit of umph.
