NHH
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14 years ago
NHH
I reconise the small cast BBQ in the background. Mine was a £5 last year, late summer bargin from ASDA. chink chink...
I think ours came from Lidl a few years ago for a similar sum, quickly turned into a planter - never really got on with BBQ's.
NHH
Nick, I am sorry to say god knows, very nice cat house, a bell that didn't get finished. You would think its a stand of some sort but I doubt that either.
Martin P
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I used a similar tool when I was an apprentice in the motor trade .Unfortunately the pecking order meant I did all the punctures/tyre changes and I was in the commercial (trucks)dept .The wheels / tyres were almost as big as me and possibly heavier(then not now :-) ). Mike.H.
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If it was a stool you needed funny shaped rears to sit on them :-))
Martin P
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Thanks Mike. Vendor (at spring Enstone) thought it might be something to do with wheelwrighting and I had a vague recollection of seeing something similar in the tyre bay at Silverstone when dad and I used to go to vintage racing days many years ago. I think your link pretty much clinches it.
Only remaining question is why did I buy it? ;-)
NHH
How was it used - an off-list respondent commented that it looked a bit low for the supposed application?
NHH
And an even funnier one to pass it ;-)
NHH
To keep your pussy dry and shaded - of course (;-(
Pete
The ghost of Mollie Sugden lives!
BugBear
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Nick,
Very good response to my quip and the reason you bought it is because you can, simple as that :-)) but how you explain that is another matter :-))
A couple of weeks ago my lady wife mentioned in passing that our garden was beginning to look like a scrap yard so as I was looking for Brownie points for Dorset, our wedding anniversary always falls during the rally, I thought I would have a cull. I loaded the trailer with stuff that I had done nothing with and headed of to the scrap metal merchants. I came home with £72.00 in my pocket having tipped 720kg's even I was surprised about the weight. Scrap prices are starting to rise again by the way.
Martin P
campingstoveman wrote (snip):
I say, that sort of behaviour is frowned upon in these parts - even the most uninspiring little rust flake should be cherished and treated like a national treasure ;-)
NHH
Ooh er Mrs!
NHH
No engines were hurt during this demonstration, I tend to find a bit of pipe on a job and think I might have a use for that and then I don't but then I find another piece of box section etc,etc :-))
Martin P
Hmm, that sounds worrying familiar. Worse still is that I *do* tend to find a use for this stuff - but usually for upwards of 5 years of storage in the meantime. (which is the real pain about moving countries - I've still got a big cache of "useful junk" back in England that I can't really ship, but keep finding uses for here...)
(I seem to be drowning in bits of ally window frames right now, although they make useful garden stakes...)
cheers
Jules
I would have expected that any bits of box section would automatically have found their way to Peter Forbes in case a new trailer needed it ;o))
Regards,
Kim Siddorn
The box section for the new trailer was procured over 2 years ago, along with the axles wheels and tyres, but haven't had time or the space to get the thing on the way yet, too much going on!
Peter
-- Peter A Forbes Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK snipped-for-privacy@prepair.co.uk
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