Spent £180 so far on tools and garrage stuff this week 😀

So far this week:
*Torque wrench for the car
*6" bearing puller
*feeler guage
*vacuum brake bleeder
*axel stands
All for the sake of changeing a brake hose (and subsequently ruined disks and pads) !

Next up, a trip to B&Q to buy some 1" plywood to build a propper workbench out of 😀 😀

Then I'm off shopping for a vice 😀 😀 😀

I love my shed

Just got one of these,
http://www.proadventure.co.uk/acatalog/Small_Forest_Axe_by_Gransfors_Bruks_-_as_used_on_TV_-_the_most_versatile_bushcraft_axe451.html

I just got one of these and some pickling salts.

tinas, 1" plywood? 😯 If you can get it, can't think how expensive it would be. A reasonable compromise between cost and hardness is floor boarding. Not actual floor boards, but the glued fibre product you put down if you are carpeting over the top. Usually comes in 8'x4' sheets

Whats yon thing then ian?

about £25 for a 8×4' sheet of softwood ply at B&Q, plan is to buy a sheet of that, cut 6" strips off each side (at B&Q) then use those to make the edges double thickness for bolting the vice onto.

4×4" softwood legs x 6

Then back and sides from thin (6mm ish) ply to give the whole thing some propper rigidity.

should get a 7'x3' bench out of 1 8×4 of 25mm, 1 of 6mm, and about 20ft of 4×4".

just air drying the timber for my workbench after milling it last week, having cut it down the previous

think I may go look in the timber store and see if we we still have those 4"thick oak off-cuts

should get a 7'x3' bench out of 1 8×4 of 25mm, 1 of 6mm, and about 20ft of 4×4".

Sounds sensible. I've got my notebook in front of me when I did the calcs to get the max bench pieces out of the least amount of wood. Sadly, I can barely decipher it.

Must have made sense at the time, as I turned this:

Into this:

you turned a car into a workbench?

you turned a car into a workbench?

An impressive feat, I'm sure you'll admit.

😀

Whats yon thing then ian?

Tis a boring head for my lathe for boring things.

ian – hope it wasnt expensive – could have just let the wood it ask TJ a question he has an opinion on 😉

Hrmph, I've just spent £2000 on tools! (600 mower, 200 brush cutter, 300 henchman ladders, 600 trailer, 300 hand tools!) Will the spending ever end?

Ian that's a boring head for a r7 type head in a Bridgeport milling machine, good luck using it on your lathe

Good luck with the boring bar set, one division is one thou on the radius, that is 0.05mm on the diameter. You'll struggle to get a bearing fit with one of those! That's providing the quill is not worn.

I'm not planning to get a bearing fit, getting a chimney fit. 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcs6qXnCCk4
/edit Just checked the thread pitch it's 1 thou on the diameter for this one.

Any toolmaker could bore to a thou with one of those. Just not in a lathe.

Ian that's a boring head for a r7 type head in a Bridgeport milling machine, good luck using it on your lathe

Indeed the manufacturer's picture is of an R7 type, Well R8 if we're going to nitpick 🙂 The one actually supplied has a number 3 morse taper which fits the mill head on my lathe.
http://www.warco.co.uk/productimages/documents/P15.pdf

A thou on the diameter is better, just out of curiosity how much did it cost? Are the tools 1/2" diameter?

Tis a boring head for my lathe for boring things.

If you like. They look suspiciously like dildo attachments for masochists to me.

It was £89 with VAT from http://www.chronos.ltd.uk
It's got 3/4" holes and comes with 3/4 carbide tools and 1/2 HSS with an adapter for them. Quality obviously isn't top-draw at that price, but it should be fine for the sort of stuff I do.

Ahhhhh R8, nearly. I don't use the Bridgeport much these days.

That's one big boring head for a little lathe.

And this is now one boring thread thanks to this twaddle.

These are quite handy,

If anyone needs tooling, lathes, milling machines, pillar drills, grinding wheels, donkey saws, wood working tools, table saws, etc etc etc then let me know – I have tonnes of the stuff…

now you tell me, having just bought a miller, today. let me know if you're serious? !

Si

Axminsterpowertools.co.uk

18bikes – I am very serious. I have a fair amount sitting here. A barn full….

Every man needs an axe

Tracey

Hey there Zed, where are you, could do with a little hobby lathe myself.

Cheers,

J.

Hi Harry, I'm up in Scotland. Delivery can be arranged no problem if you can't pick up.

Don't forget to insure your shed tools against tea-leaves 😯

I once got sacked from my job for being a thou out. I was working at a bank at the time. I'll get me coat

This weeks tool buy was this

It makes light work of any tiles.

if you want a strong bench that you can hammer on get a fire door and use that as the top as its 40mm thick and block wood constriction also dont use soft wood get the framing wood for the legs

If anyone's interested the I have the following close to hand…

Colchester Bantam 800 lathe, c/w 3 jaw chuck, face plate, spindle adapter plate, steady, and coolant system etc
Colchester Student MK2 lathe, c/w 3 & 4 jaw chucks, coolant system etc
Quick change toolposts to suit lathes, toolholders and tooling to suit
Collet chucks and collets to suit lathes
Harrison horizontal milling machine c/w power feed to table, coolant system etc (machine virtually unused)
Viceroy pillar drill, c/w ½” drill chuck & morse taper spindle, capacity 20mm dia. in steel; table a bit marked but ok, has lost the rise and fall rack so raise / lower table manually.
77kg (1.5 cwt) anvil on stand
Gas forge

Wadkin and Startrite table saws
Wadkin and Startrite bandsaws
Wadkin workshop disc / belt sanders (large!)
Workshop dust extractors, single and dual 3” inlet
A few incomplete Viceroy bowl lathes

any workbenches and vices zedsdead?

it's nearly finished (I doubt it ever will be, fully), so figured I'd give it a pimp..

my ex-kitchen 😀

currently trying to accumilate a full set of park cone spanners and waiting for halfrauds ratchet spanners to go down to half price

now thats the kinda kitchen i can get behind

i'm about to go and tidy my garage after this thread