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Car boot sale bargain finds
awemawson:
Simon, you'll find that shaper setting gauge quite handy for measuring thing in awkward places - slide and lock it in the gap - remove and measure. a bit like a stubby 'Gunters Rule' (two lath shaped pieces sliding together and locked at a particular length by a wing nut)
ieezitin:
That taper gage is the best thing since sliced bread.
I use it on the mill allot for finding a height for tooling, i have used it to measure my gap whilst making a dovetail, I have an adapter that fit on the top and it becomes a height gage on the surface plate.
once you start to use it you will never run out of ideas where to use it.
Anthony.
micktoon:
Hi All , had another good day at the bootsale on Wednesday, Here is the collection.
Its a bit varied, Two bags of stainless cap head bolts, Some wolfcarft auto hand clamps, pair of glaizers plyers, three leaterworkers awls, 4 Lufkin toolmakers clamps, a fine DMT diamond file, a C spanner, a Kreg pocket hole jig, 14mm dewalt long reach spade bit, a slim round rasp type tool that will be good for some carving jobs, a fret saw , a centre finder for round stock, a pair of large tin snips, a panel beating hammer, a small Stanley USA plastic tiped hammer, and a nice Raborne Chesterman carpenters set square. I think it came to about £30-35 in total so good value.
All 4 Lufkin toolmakers clamps are the same size and good clean condition.
This is the Slim rasp type tool , it has a gimlet type end so you can bore a hole then rasp it bigger, I have not seen one before , it has no makers name on it but looks good quality.
This is the pocket hole jig instructions , I could have done with one of these a few times so should find jobs for it.
If the weather is ok tomorrow I will be looking for more .......its a BIG if by the look of the forecast though .
Cheers Mick.
Ginger Nut:
Nice score Mick
S. Heslop:
Wasn't much at today's boot sale except for a couple of water fire extinguishers, except the blokes wanted £30 each since 'that's what they cost new'.
Found an Atari STFM on the way out though. It's an old 80s computer, and one i've been hoping to find for a while.
The two interesting features are the YM2149 sound chip, which produces a nice sound if you're into that kind of thing.
And that it comes with a midi in and out as standard, for controlling external music stuff.
It needs a few repairs though. Haven't tried switching it on yet since it got a little bit wet during the boot sale, and the floppy disk drive seems to be missing a spring to help eject the disks. Hopefully the whole thing will work after giving it time to dry, just in case any water got inside.
Should be fun to mess around with for a bit though. There was alot of music software made for it, including the first versions of Cubase.
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