LadyArowana said:Been a while since I popped in here, house has been absorbing all my time. But I came away from reading through this thinking that it isn’t so bad that the only things his Lordship is hoarding are some ill fitting suits and boxes of outdated business cards! He isn’t a DIY sort of chap at all, all the tools are mine, and I don’t buy big toys. I have a bunch of things from my jewellery bench, but have used those recently on some hallway shelf brackets which the builder had fabricated and which weren’t quite finished as well as I would have liked.
philpjuk100 said:Lathe 2.JPGMy lathe, 1880s Webster and Howarth, dug out from under a demolished hosiery factory over forty years ago and is still in use most weeks, I know a nice Student or Myford would be better and are now quite cheap now our industries have shut down but the lathe and I understand each other, I don't rush it and it turns parallel and gives a fair finish. My car will be a hundred in a couple of years and I hope to be able to get petrol for a few more years, My house is 700 years old, I really need something NEW!
a twig said:I accidentally returned from an outing today with a Myford lathe in the back of the car... Has gone down about as well as can be imagined...
Craig89 said:Nice anvil, can be quite an expensive item to buy these days! As long as its got a nice "ring" to it then it should be a good un. I quite like the hollow in the face, shows that it's done some serious work in its time.
DJH said:I want one!...I don't know why but about 5 minutes ago I bought a railway track anvil.
worms said:I want one too! I sometimes borrow my son's hobby anvil and even a small one is so much better than using random bits of rock or wood to strike things against!
worms said:I guess my one tool purchase that is definitely in the toy category is my induction heater kit. It works really well for stubborn bolt removal or capillary plumbing joints in corners where you might not want to use a blow torch, but I use it so rarely that it is difficult to justify its cost as anything more than a toy.