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JD:
Hi Barry welcome to planet Zod.
A fellow shedder, I belong to the Gosport Shed formed in 2013.
You have probably come by your tools from donations sounds like a good haul you have.
Look forward to any future projects you have.
John
 

BarryK:
Thanks for the welcome folks -  :nrocks:

Shame about missing the drill press, we have got one (new from Screwfix) but it sounds like a bag of spanners and doesn't have a Morse taper socket...........just recently replaced the pulley bearing on my old (1942 vintage) Tauco drill press , now it purrs like a kitten, don't think that Screwfix one will ever purr.......  :(

AdeV:
Welcome Barry! Remember....  :worthless:  :lol:

I used to live not far from Basildon, I initially moved south to Ilford, then over-shot and ended up in Benfleet, then Rayleigh, then it all went Pete Tong & I ended up on Canvey Island for a while... I finally came back home to here in the frozen North - ironically, not that far from Mike (although I didn't know that until I read this thread), up here in Merseyside. I was actually born in Chester & lived in a village a few miles south for most of my formative years.

I remember Basildon well, not the most salubrious of town centres (but, then, Birkenhead town centre is no better), but it has a couple of decent restaurants lurking about the place...

So... when do we get to see some of your projects? :)  :thumbup:

BarryK:
Hi Ade - "So... when do we get to see some of your projects? :)  :thumbup:"

Projects, what are they? I'm very tied up with The Shed at the moment, mostly making things ('orrible wooden things..) for others and fettling the new lathe.

When I do get around to project work, items include: modding a small machine vice to allow it to tilt,  making a new spool for one of my old centre pin reels, modifying another (home made) centre pin reel and making yet another cp reel of my own design - as you may be able to tell, I'm pretty much in to vintage and pseudo vintage fishing tackle............

Cheers
Barry

PS - Also making and modding some bits for the new Shed lathe, including rear tool post and removing some of the 'stiction' from the bloody awful gibs and ways.

howsitwork?:
welcome

soon there is a chance to increase the number of tools in the collection-- Doncaster cometh ! Ok not Harrogate show but venues easy to find from A1!

With apologies to those on other continents! :nrocks:

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