Hi All
I am still in the ongoing process of rationalising my toys and the contents of my workshop to try and make some space to actually work in and to accomadate some of the stuff from my late fathers workshop - (and also to raise a few much needed quid).
I have an 18 inch square cast iron surface plate which is very much surplus to requirements. It doesn't have a makers name cast into it, nor does it have a WD crows foot. Its probably a generic British plate from sometime the mid 50's to mid 70's. Its not inspection grade but aappears to me to be quite useable for general workshop use - definitely more than adequate for marking out which is what most people tend to use them for ;o) (waits for incoming barrage!)
The surface is pretty good - doesn't seem to have suffered the indiginty of being used when hammerinf rivets or nutserts etc!
Its currently located a couple of miles north of Cambridge and would need to be collected - tad heavy to post! I can lift it but wouldn't want to carry it more than 30 yards!
The price = £25 seems reasonable to me - a Chinese cast iron workshop surface plate 300mm x 450mm costs around £240 from J&L, doubtless you can get a cast steel plate for a lot less, but do you really want a cheapo cast steel plate when you can have a (probably) British cast iron plate for £25 quid
Interested? - drop me a mail but just remember to REMOVE THE.OBVIOUS. from the reply address
regards
Dudley