More carboot tools

[tombear]

The Wednesday flea at Burnley wasn't a lot of cop this week but I did pick up a bunch of brace bitts in excellent condition, for once I won't citric acid or wire where them, just wire wool with oil them to get the surface crud off and touch up edges with diamond cards. £6.

Not really relevant but it made the eldes s day, 80+ GW high elves, half of them metal (and 50 goblins to eBay)for 10 1quid

Also paid for and will pick up on Saturday when herself can ferry us in the Mondeo a lovely hardwood display cabinet which should take all the Space marines I've been painting for the little bugger over the last 5 years.

ATB

Tom

 

[tombear]

I've finished up restoring the 2 chippies tool boxes that needed it, they are solid again and ill use them for tool storage until I get more chests of draws in the shed.

In the meantime i'll build up basic tool kits for my three sons, good quality uk made stuff so when they leave home they'll have a start.

ATB

Tom

 

[Chris the Fish]

Who ever suggested citric acid for rust, my elbows thank you. I now have a surplus of grease


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[Chris the Fish]

Before and after shot of Sunday's wet car boot purchase, a no1 axe head

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[tombear]

Had quite a good haul at the Huddersfield , a lovely day out after a week incarcerated in Manchester Children's Hospital and I found a great tool shop in Keighley that specialises in stuff for modellers and hobbyists.

I wasn't quite as tight as I usually am as I found a few bits I really wanted.

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10 inch blade beech and another so far unidentified wood for the stretcher bow saw, Ibbotson Ltd 1952 board arrow C/2206. Should clean up lovely with very little work. I'm chuffed to bits with this one as Ibbotsons are rather good £5 which isn't too painful.

Inside the above a really well made shape tracer £2

Curved surform blade for a handle I got a while back, I think I paid e full whack for it a £4 but its the first curved one I've seen , all the local places only have the flat ones.

3lb ball pein £3 , no visible makers mark yet but should clean up lovely, a bought handle would cost me more so I turned my nose up at a bunch of £1 heads on their own.

Small leather workers knife thing 50p , bought for the blade to make myself a little reaping knife for collecting soft rushes in a couple of weeks. Ill be remounting it and making a sheath. Marked "Thos Temporal Sheffield Diamond Edge". 3" cutting edge. Must be pre 1954 as that's when the company was wound up.

5" scissors 50p Rawlins Sheffield England, just needs a polish.

Next to it 6" scissors 50p Wostenholm Sheffield England IXL Chromium Plated 6in. Should clean up well.

Tin of drill bits £1 bought fr the tin really as its either a post war reuse of the tins used in Bren Gun spares kits or the prewar commercial item that was adopted for the Bren. Minus the stamping. Oh and I get a bunch of well made drill bits!

Top right old school 1980s I guess, B&D hand pump £4 pretty much brand new. Replaces a cr@p drill powered job I had for stuff like emptying blocked sinks or baths of citric acid solution that can't be lifted without th whole thing slopping about and ending down my shorts....

Some excellent new Japanese made wire cutters £2 , more like a scaled up pair of spruce cutters than anything else.

Brass mat h box candle stick 50p. Shiny, will mount a beeswax candle in it for next to the bed.

9" tailors board scissors, 50p "JP John Potter Sheffield" small broad arrow but oddly no date. Should be as good a new when I'm done. Must be pre 1940 could be late Victorian. The top blade is so shaped so it won't snag on layers of cloth folded over the top on the cutting out bench.

After pics to follow when I'm done.

ATB

Tom

 

[Samon]

What's that little tin above the middle scissors?

 

[tombear]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]Tin of drill bits £, bought for the tin really as its either a post war reuse of the tins used in Bren Gun spares kits or the prewar commercial item that was adopted for the Bren. Minus the stamping. Oh and I get a bunch of well made drill bits!

embosed with "INTAL HIGH SPEED TWIST DRILLS SET OF 7 DRILLS 1/16 to 1/4 by 1/32 INTERNATIONAL TWIST DRILL CO. LTD MADE IN SHEFFIELD ENGLAND."

the firm was running from before the war to the 1980s.

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tom[/FONT]

 

[badoosh]

Like your posts and the bits of history that go with the tools.
Love your finished stuff too.
More patience than me.

 

[johnbaz]

Hi all

I went to the bootsale this morning, Don't have a lot to spend as i've been off work for around ten months with a bad knee!

Managed a few bits though!

96 Alkaline AA batteries in holders- 10p for a pack of 8 had to buy 12 packs so that I won't have to pay three or four quid for four from the supermarkets!!

There are four per side to each pack!

A little Fuji camera to just keep in the glovebox of the car, Fully working though the seller wasn't sure if it would work so it was just a quid!!

Deffo works!!

Padded gunslip with a pocker for a fiver..

And a smashin' set of 8x30 bins for three quid!

Also got a couple of brand new cheapo silicon watches for the missus!!, She has over a hundred half decenmt watches but favours these type which are normally a fiver each from the watch stalls inside markets!!, I paid a quid each still sealed inside the packaging!!

Had to open them to see if they worked, They had little bits of plastic holding the crown out to stop the batteries from running down!!

John

 

[tombear]

Not a bad haul! Better than me today anyroad! we did 3 boots and didnt find much although we did arange for me to get a small anvil ( well not that small, small enough to carry in and out of the house when I want to use it without killing myself!) when herself can ferry me to the guys site to pick from the dozen or so there. I did get a large file off him for £1.50, marked MAGIC STEEL on one side and Waterfall and Barber with a cute little witch on a broomstick trade mark on the other. It weighs in at a staggering 2 lb 8.5 oz. it it doesn't clean up well I think it's a prime candidate for turning into a long/broad saex or similar large blade. The firm was based in Sheffield from 1862 to 1919 at the Prometheus Works . To be honest it looks just clogged with cement and a bit of rust, not worn out.

On the last stall we looked at there was a box of brass grommets and tools to set them so at 10p a packet I blew my last fiver. There were some other potentially useful bits so I got them on spec'. About 15 packets of grommets should last me!

So at least I won't have to handsew a load of rope grommets next time I'm making a basha sheet!

ATB

Tom

 

[johnbaz]

Not a bad haul! Better than me today anyroad! we did 3 boots and didnt find much although we did arange for me to get a small anvil ( well not that small, small enough to carry in and out of the house when I want to use it without killing myself!) when herself can ferry me to the guys site to pick from the dozen or so there. I did get a large file off him for £1.50, marked MAGIC STEEL on one side and Waterfall and Barber with a cute little witch on a broomstick trade mark on the other. It weighs in at a staggering 2 lb 8.5 oz. it it doesn't clean up well I think it's a prime candidate for turning into a long/broad saex or similar large blade. The firm was based in Sheffield from 1862 to 1919 at the Prometheus Works . To be honest it looks just clogged with cement and a bit of rust, not worn out.

On the last stall we looked at there was a box of brass grommets and tools to set them so at 10p a packet I blew my last fiver. There were some other potentially useful bits so I got them on spec'. About 15 packets of grommets should last me!

So at least I won't have to handsew a load of rope grommets next time I'm making a basha sheet!

ATB

Tom

That's a fab haul of stuff

I came across a great vice, It was large, hefty and had an anvil built in!! Ordinarily I would have snapped it up for the £20 being asked but since we have to watch the cash now, I thought better of it and walked away!!


John

 

[tombear]

Cheers!

We had a long session derusting and sanding stuff bought over the last couple of weeks.

The scissors still need tightening and a diamond sharpener running over the cutting edges but ill do that tomorrow. Evidentially citric acid removes chrome plating, no biggy as it was patchy in the first place. Ill polish the faces of the hammers as well, and apply more linseed oil, I may stand them in a bath of the stuff so the wood swells really tight inside the heads, not that they are loose. The brace bitts need touching up as well, I've not bothered to polish the insides of the spoon bitt thingies, couldn't see the need.

I'm especially chuffed with the surform, the handles had this horrible thick purplish varnish on them and feel much better sanded down and oiled, the citric loosened the remains of the paint and it polished off. The new blade finished it off nicely and I can see it being my go to surform with a curved blade, my other has a file rather than a plane type handle.

The file had cleaned up lovely and is practically unused despite being at least a century old. I'll handle it tomorrow as banging on the thing would be a bit anti social at gone midnight!

All in al, satisfying afternoons pottering!

ATB

Tom

 

[johnbaz]

Did anyone go this morning??

I went to three and thought I was going to blank!!

I then found five big hefty files for 50p each and an 8" 3/4hp grinder/rotary wire brush!!

The grinder has an electric light built in to each side!!

John

 

[tombear]

Didnt get to a boot today, was visiting a mate over in Notts so we ended up at a living history thing at Newark Castle . Had a good chat with some of the bods there, cribbed some ideas for things to make and herself treated me to some bronze belt fittings, and when we got home ordered some 1.125 wide 1/8 veg tan strap for me to fit them to.

ATB

Tom

 

[Robson Valley]

Lower RH corner of the pic in Post#310 is a rather good, red-handled electrical tool: cut wire, strip wire and crimp connectors, most common copper wire sizes.
I'd be rather lost without mine.

 

[sausage100uk]

These two bad boys. For no real reason other than having them...

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[British Red]

I would love to have them. Clean, set, re handle and sharpen. Then use!


How much?

 

[tombear]

Nice finds! Which reminds me I still need to make a guard for the edge of mine. Oops!

ATB

Tom

 

[sausage100uk]

they were 8 quid the pair! already started to get some of the rust off, the larger one is in need of a new handle and bolt as the original has rusted into one lump.

 

[sausage100uk]

Cleaned and oiled

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