More carboot tools

[johnbaz]

Had family stuff to do so didn't get to a boot at all, shame as the weather was good. Nice find of the gun case, it's the issue one for the Sharp shooter rifle isn't it?

the huge cow horn was a good find too, I only ever seam to find squitty little ones with the holes drilled in inconvenient places.

Must get out next Sunday, the Thursday flea market has gone down hill, got nowt thus last week and I spent one pound in all the 15 or so charity shops I went in in Accrington and Rochdale, and that was just for three pieces of the wife's beloved pottery.

ATB

Tom

I don't know about the rifle case i'm afraid Tom but I have a very similar black one with my mk1 BSA Lightning in!, By the way, I just remembered earlier that I bought some nice planters too!

The two empty ones and the green one in the centre that I dropped an acer complete with plastic pot straight in!!

I think this pic gives an idea of the size of the cow horn..

johnbaz: you show a piece of 'art work' which looks like a lightning bolt. It is.
Very high voltage power supply, recall that the wood has to be wet.
I'm sorry I have no link but there are (slow-motion) videos on YouTube so that you can watch it happen.

Cheers Robson, I've not heard of that before!! I'll have a look on Youtube then


Cheers, John

 

[didicoy]

johnbaz: you show a piece of 'art work' which looks like a lightning bolt. It is.
Very high voltage power supply, recall that the wood has to be wet.
I'm sorry I have no link but there are (slow-motion) videos on YouTube so that you can watch it happen.

it's actually a resin with blue pigment added.
It's quite popular these days to use it in furniture, tables, shelves etc.

 

[didicoy]

https://m.imgur.com/t/art/pFaF2 Here's a link to a project applying resin to a split in a plank of wood. If you click on the link and scroll through the dozen pictures, you get to see how effective it is with glow in the dark pigments.

 

[johnbaz]

it's actually a resin with blue pigment added.
It's quite popular these days to use it in furniture, tables, shelves etc.

https://m.imgur.com/t/art/pFaF2 Here's a link to a project applying resin to a split in a plank of wood. If you click on the link and scroll through the dozen pictures, you get to see how effective it is with glow in the dark pigments.

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!!



John

 

[tombear]

Yup it's for the Army's not quite sniper rifle from back when they realised They made a mistake adopting 5.56 and needed 7.62

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Machine_and_Tool_Company

you can get cheap copies of the case but I think that's a real one

http://www.walkthisway.co.uk/shop/c...n-accessories/l129a1-sharpshooter-rifle-case/

i'm not really into modern stuff but it had the L number printed on it .

lovely day here but I'm stuck in varnishing/ staining shelf boards for the middle son's room. On no he couldn't just have them gloss varnished he wants them a rich mahogany colour which will take three coats a side.....

Not from a carboot or even a charity shop but from some skip diving ( herself asked permission from the neighbour ) we aquired a great big Belfast sink ( modern copy but looks the same ) for herself to use as a planter, a bunch of off cuts of different sized plastic tubes for me to cap one end of and use as tanks to soak long thin objects to derust or what ever and a surprisingly large amount of copper piping of different gauges. The old thick walled bits will be great for the ferrules on turned tool handles and herself will slice and open up the new bits for strips to practice jewlery making with. I've never know a plumber to chuck so much into a skip, there was enough to be well worth weighing it in at a scrappy for some beer tokens.

atb

Tom

 

[tombear]

Been run off me feet since Thursday morning so didn't get to the flea market or any charity shops but today herself took us to Colne to see if my tool guy had a certain type of hammer ( for sharpening scythes etc). He hadn't there but had some heads at home so I should be able to get one neck visit, a proper blacksmith one. Anyroad what he did have ( pics to follow ) were some good Dormer drills with morse no. 1 taper mounts and a tiny hand vice thing. They were free as we bought a couple of big bits off him.

first off is a 10" drawknife for £15 marked W.MARPLES AND SONS CAST STEEL. Perfectly useable as is but I'll clean up the handles, work the back and bevel with various grades of diamond stone until. It's shiny.

£5 got me another 10" drawknife marked ROBERT SORBY CAST STEEL. With two kangaroo trade marks. Unfortunately the handles are cracked, somebody put a secondary bevel on the front and its pitted to hell and back on the underside. Beyond economical repair is how they would put it. However not beyond being used for something so I've knocked the handles off and I when I can either get a blow torch that works ( I spent a hour try it get what I had to work, if anything would work the actually job would take 10 minutes ) I will straighten one arm and bend the thick part of the other arm into a U shape and trim it to shape. If I keep the blade itself cool I won't harm the temper etc. with a long spade type handle fitted to the now straight arm I will have something aproximating a light stock knife, something I just can't afford to have made at the moment. I can fit a staple to the draw horse I cobbled together and a replaceable chopping block where it won't interfere with sitting on it

Some advice on heat treating the new bent or straightened bits which will no doubt be quite soft after I've messed about with them would be great if any one can chip in.

if it basically works I'll turn or carve a two foot long handle with a long ferrule to reinforce where the tang will go and epoxy it in place. Prior to that I'll work about a mill off the back which will remove most of the secondary bevel and most of the pitting on then work the front down until it's smooth and sharp.

I won't claim this is my idea, way back when I was musing about getting a stock knife / cloggers knife some one suggested altering a drawknife but I was loathe to mess up one of my good / expensive ones.

We also picked up a horn comb for 30p and a stainless steel tin mug for 40p. I'm tempted to turn the latter into a partly screened candle lantern by cutting a square out of the side opposite the handle and either solder a candle holder inside or not cut all the way down to the base and instead fit a wick in the middle and fill the base with beeswax.

ATB

Tom

 

[tombear]

Here's the new acquisitions.

And here's the back of the Sorby, I could have cried when I saw it...

Still, I've got worse to a decent usable condition, just takes a lot of elbow grease given what I have to do it with.

Anyway herself has borrowed me a decent blowtorch that fits on the big green Coleman tank of propane we got last year ( by mistake) so tomorrow we can straighten one tang and bend the U to hook under the staple/ring that will be fixed to the bench/horse.

The tangs on these always seam to be left unhardened, to bend rather than break in use so can any one advise how i should heat treat them so they wont bend in use please?

ATB

Tom

 

[johnbaz]

johnbaz: you show a piece of 'art work' which looks like a lightning bolt. It is.
Very high voltage power supply, recall that the wood has to be wet.
I'm sorry I have no link but there are (slow-motion) videos on YouTube so that you can watch it happen.

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!!



Many thanks, John

 

[Robson Valley]

Yeah, everybody should watch that. Like "Kirelian" high voltage photography and the 'missing leaf' puzzle.
It's a shame that old televisions have died. The fly-back transformer for the anode cap on the picture tube was good for 20 - 30 kV.
You can build the world's better rat trap with one of those. Give them a short course in electronics.

 

[tombear]

Managed to hit Accy flea, if after midday and picked up 5 Trangia Pans, one lid. a frying pan, kettle and pot lifter for £5. If they have been used more than once Id be very suprised although ill give them a good clean with washing up liquid and superfine wire wool before they go into use here.

Blew 2 quid on some RS Flat cable cutters which I thought would be good for trimming the ends of sulphur matches and other repetitive jobs. The blades still sharp and you can still get replacements for 5 for six quid. Made in England.

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/cable-cutters/0359548/

Also got a lot of books for peanuts and a wicking T shirt for the middle son who will be off doing National Citizen Service after he finishes his GCSEs in a few weeks. In charity shops they are lumped in with the normal T shirts what ever the brand so this one was £1.10. He may as well be comfortable while hes flogging his guts out up in Fife.

ATB

Tom

 

[tombear]

Got to 3 boots today and although herself got the best bargains, six bits of Denby for peanuts including one piece from 1919 and a huge inlaid backgammon set for £30 ( looks a lot like ones sold in the US for $285 a pop, even I was impressed by the quality ), I did pretty well myself.

Epigas can base £1
Campingaz lamp with half full canister and mantle intact £1
New stainless steel decanting funnel and filter £1.60 should be ideal for filling fuel cans, lamps and stoves.
Bat brand made in England paraffin lamp glass 50p
Pearsons preserves pot with cork £1i use for storage in the shed, tougher than glass, can take sunlight unlike most plastics and doesnt rust like tin.
Big beech rolling pin to turn into handles 50p
2 100% wool hat blanks £1 each
Snugpak Sleeper 3+ sleeping bag £5 looks in great nick, some chips off the zips paint.
Partial pack of army issue mould makers 3/4" letters and numbers £4 the guy, who supplies me a lot of excellent kit says he has a full box for me at home and a box of 1/4" ones.
Big chunky eyebolt 50p for my Stock/cloggers knife project.
12" George Barnsley and Sons Sheffield, "Manchester" Nippers £5 for trimming nails or screws which have come through the soles of shoes or clogs. Should clean up lovely.

ATB

Tom

 

[Toddy]

What a haul of good things

M

 

[johnbaz]

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 of all the crew, Apparently only Sheffielders that lived in the immediate area seemed to know about this tragedy during WW2..

Paid a pound for this nice old (1980's?) GP, 21 Jewel Sekonda manual wind watch, It's kept time superbly since I bought it at around 8am!!

Also paid £1 for this good sized turntable for putting my Bonsai trees on to work on them! I had one the same and stood on it in spring, Smashed it to bits!! (Clumsy sod! )

Apart from a Sausage and tom sarnie that was tasteless, That's all I bought


Here's what I bought last week..

Sony Boom box for the cabin at work as the old one was terribly tinny and crackled every time a crane went over!!, This one actually sounds very nice and everything works! Not bad fer two quid!!

Trafalgar Qtz analogue watch that needed a cell fitting, I fitted one and it wouldn't go!, I 'tickled' one of the gears on the train with a .5mm screwdriver and it immediately sprung in to life!, There was a microscopic bit of debris jammed in, The extra push squeezed it out!!

Swiss Arms padded tactical rifle slip, Paid £4, Lad said it hadn't been used, I believe him with the condition! It's housing my number two Gunpower Stealth now!!

John

 

[johnbaz]

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

 

[Mesquite]

Big chunky eyebolt 50p for my Stock/cloggers knife project.

I hope you got an left hand thread to match the thread on the towing eye

 

[tombear]

Oh so that's what it is? A towing eye! Should be strong enough then. I hadn't even noticed it was left handed! A friend of the wife runs a garage so I'll see if she can blag a nut to fit, looks to be 14 or 16 mill, I'll measure it later. If not I'll bite the bullet and get one off ebay. I'll have to dig out my box of thread pitch gauges and what not

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A2-STAINL...5-M6-M8-M10-M12-M14-M16-M18-M20-/191768148862

Real nice score on the Dixon pricking iron, they went under in 2015 so no more are going to be made and they are really top notch kit. Before they ran out one US site was asking $99 for a 7 to the inch 1.5" wide job.

ATB

tom

 

[tombear]

Despite the good weather which normally brings out the stall holders the carboots haven't been particularly fruitful tool wise. from all sources this is all ive gleaned the last week, most of it at one boot on sunday.

Three bits to go on a model of Kenwood Chef i.ve yet to get £5 each for juicer, blender and slicer, thrown in free was the sausage making tube for the mincer i already have. I've got examples of the two other types , A701A and KM300 now I need a A900 series then I will have all three variation of attachment mountings. No biggy, of the last two one was 10 and just needed regreasing and new rubber feet and the other was free, just needed rubber feet. I've turned my nose up at perfectly good A900s in the past) once I've got the right machine to fit them on they will make herselfs prep for dehydrating etc much easier.

2 beech rolling pins 50p each for turning handles.

Horlicks mixer, 50p perfect for soaking small handles in linseed or derusting parts. I must have 7 and one giant now by now!

2 Brass zippos £1 each, one needed a engraving polishing off, no dents hardly used. While I was at the polishing wheel i did the ones I already had, two of which are also carboot finds.

Nicely done Faux Roman oil lamp 25p

Off set cold chisel marked W.D.LD £1 It was heavily mushroomed when I got it so after derusting and sawing off the curled over bits. I ground the edge to the same angle I got it with. Anybody know what its specific use is as Ive not seen a offset one before.

Cute little mini butterfly can opener, 50p marked Skyline MADE IN ENGLAND.

I have had some luck picking up reference books, woodworking ones, at between 50p and 75p a pop.




ATB

Tom

 

[Corso]

A quid for a brass Zippo damn that's a bargin

 

[didicoy]

I really look forward to seeing your carboot posts. I'm like you, a active carbooter. I'm now wondering if it needs to be considered in the Same light as hoarding? I'm sure we don't need all these things we are so pleased to buy for a few pence or a few quid. It's certainly addictive to me.

On Saterday I saw on a stall a nice black molle pouch with lifesaver embroider on it and a Union Jack., at my local carboot.. Picking it up I thought that would be good for taking a large drinks bottle on my hazard 4 slingback. Just as I lowered it Bach to its resting place on the floor. The lady said "it holds a litre bottle". I asked how much and was told 20p. At that price I couldn't refuse. Getting it home I research it and found the pouch was part of a survival water purifying set up. Inside The pouch I found a course filter RRP £2.40 a carbon drinks filter RRP £2.50 the pouch is new unused and RRP £12..00 so all in a bargain for 20p.

 

[Corso]

nice one

unfortunately I don't have any local CBS's well none I can get to without a car...