2004-09-18 Wood Plane

One Stanley No7 plane. Of no immediate use to me but complete and in need of a cleanup. Presumably will be snapped up by a crazy tool collectors of our acquaintance.

2004-09-18 Plumb Bobs

Three plumb bobs. Seemingly useless you may cry but not if you have a mildly insane neighbour who collects them.

2004-09-18 Percussion Oriented Tools

An assortment of thing to hit and things to hit with. What seems to be a slate splitting hammer and some other stuff. Again, only a couple of items of usee to me here but I know people who collect such things.

2004-09-18 Outdoor Chair

One portable drinking chair with spaces for two beers. One pop rivet on the back had given out but is already fixed and ready for service. Indoor usage pictured below:

2004-09-18 E-machine P3

A seemingly complete e-machine 500MHz Pentium 3 that does not appear to boot. One of the very few old machines I have found that really will not boot. No worries, the memory is useful, and the hard drive was a fruitful source of amusement.

Previous owner had a small collection of mp3s seemingly acquired from semi-legal download sites. The following is telling:

wold0126<54>My Music% find . -type f | grep mp3 | sort | tail 
./Unknown/Untitled - 02-17-03/13 - Track 13.mp3
./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/01 - Track 1.mp3
./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/02 - Track 2.mp3
./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/03 - Track 3.mp3
./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/04 - Track 4.mp3
./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/06 - Track 6.mp3
./Unknown/Untitled - 08-01-02/07 - Track 7.mp3
./Unknown/Untitled - 08-09-02/13 - Data Track.mp3
./Unknown/Untitled - 10-14-02/02 - Data Track.mp3
./Unknown/Untitled - 10-14-02 (1)/05 - Track 5.mp3

They are even missing their ID3 tags so I would have to listen to all that stuff to see what is there. The few I have so far got through were the likes of Tatu and Christina Agui-whatsit . Not promising. The word docs had some nice stuff in them and had more useful names. Former owner also seems to have had a proclivity for online gaming and dating services.

2004-09-13 3-phase drill press

I guess this counts. Relative of a friend of a friend picked up a Rockwell Delta drill press that was being chucked. It found its way to me. It is 3-phase, hence some fiddling will have to take place on the power supply front but seem very nice. Big, heavy, old, see for yourself:

Amusingly somebody had jacked a regular 110V household plug on the end of the cord in some (presumably) vain attempt to use it.

2004-09-11 Update: Compressor

For those with curious nature here is an updated picture on the Emglo Compressor. It was dismantled and had a paint job with POR-15 on the tanks and some general attention. The pressure switch needed cleaning to make it function correctly. It now seems to work fine.

2004-09-11 Trolley

Flatbed trolley. A little rusty, works fine, suitable for large welders, gearboxes etc. I may give it a coat of POR and touch up some joints with the welder (not necc in that order) but in the meantime here it is after having the wheel bearings greased:

2004-09-11 Garden Seat

Garden seat with cast iron ends and wood slats for the seat and back. To get it into Heidi for transport home we broke off all the wood slats and cropped off all the bolts. Nice. Plan for this might be galvanize the cast iron ends and put new teak slats on with stainless hardware. Rubber feet will make it the indoor/outdoor bench. Pic of the ends resting in the garden (not my pic!):

2004-09-11 Bolt Croppers

Pair of bolt croppers, about 18 inches in length, OK quality, fully adjustable, nick in one jaw, slight rust. We used them on the way home to help clean up the next item. Pic of them cleaned up and oiled here: