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Car boot sale bargain finds
micktoon:
Hi Lads , more car boot goodness gathered in today.
I called in a a boot sale that does not have much in the way of tools etc and almost all the way around the place I was muttering to myself how it was a waste of space......................... then I spied a plastic box with some milling cutters in it a Miatoyo depth mic and Tesa dial calipers and did a deal £22 for the lot.
There is a small ER collet chuck, various reamers, milling cutters and engraving cutters 90% carbide and all sharp or new, when I counted up there was 80 in total !.
Later in the day I went to two more boot sales with John Doubleboost but only got a pair of Mole grips and a small long reach G clamp but £3 for the pair I was not robbed.
Days like this make the days you get nothing seem worth it lol
Cheers Mick
krv3000:
nice hall mick
vtsteam:
Nice! :clap:
Ginger Nut:
Just got to be in the right place at the right time I am in Neither most times. Then a mate who lives don south on the coast used to go garage sale hunting and he would pick me up some tasty bargains sadly he stopped going to these..but every now and then he still comes up with Hey have you got one of these :)
S. Heslop:
Did pretty good today. For a couple of years i've been trying to find reamers at the boot sale, and today I found a whole box of them for a fiver. Imperial sizes, a few of them seem pretty blunt. One is tapered with a square end ground into one end, removing the markings except for 'No.8 HS' so i've got no idea what sort of taper it is. Also found a couple of slot drills in the bottom of the box.
Also got a Starret No.246, which is apparently a planer/ shaper gauge. Didn't know what it was at the time and neither did the seller so I got it out of curiosity. Seems a little bit useless but who knows! I'd be happy to trade it for a micrometer or something if anyone has a use for it.
Boy that camera flash makes my keyboard look filthy.
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