Carboot Sept 09

[Racers]

Hi, Chaps

It was packed but slim pickings tool wise.

The 3 Record G cramps and the saw £4

The Engineers clamp and the Trend corner chisel £2 the Peltor Optime 3s £3

The Spear and Jackson saw was 50p it needs retoothing.

Pete

 

[Evergreen]

Hi Pete

Looks pretty reasonable to me.
Those Record G cramps should clean up a treat and the small tenon saw (or is it a dovetail saw?) looks like it has a decent handle which probably indicates a reasonable quality tool. Who's the saw maker, may I ask?

 

[jimi43]

Nice one Pete. I particularly like the toolmaker's clamp. I am trying to collect engineering bits now I have the milling machine but would you believe it...they all disappeared since!

I wiped out my entire budget on two items...one of these for Annie....

I got it from a guy I see there regularly..he wanted £30 but gave me a discount so I got it for a score!!!

He hadn't tested it recently so he didn't ask much..the blade needs a sharpen (done!)...and the cut out cable had snapped (new inner tomorrow at the bike shop!). But it started first time! It's a John Deere JS61 mulcher....built like a tank (as is everything American...

It's not quite in that condition...but not bad at all...I have it in bits now to service it...but will take picture tomorrow.

The fiver left I spent on some steel toecap trainers...a blinkin' bargain!

There wasn't one tool to be had...really strange....strange year all round really...mostly because of the weather.

Jim

 

[AndyT]

You old romantic Jim!

 

[Racers]

Hi,

Evergreen

The saw is by W Kaye & Son of Nottingham, so it hasn't traveled far! its a rip saw a bit cows and calfs so in need of a tickle up, but better than the other one, the teeth have all rusted away at the handle end.

I removed the cement (not had that on a clamp before) and rust from the clamps and thet look very nice now, loverly ACME threads.

Jim

Cracking price on the mower, I find if you go looking for something you never find it, I didn't want any more saws!

Pete

 

[jimi43]

You old romantic Jim!

Annie is the "TERMINATOR" of powered garden equipment,,,,she likes nothing better than whizzing around the garden with copious horsepower decimating the flora and the occasional fauna! :mrgreen:

Quick question guys....what are your best recommendations for a bespoke V belt supplier? I forgot to say...the drive belt is missing for the power drive...I need a 39 1/16" by 3/8"...don'tcha just lurve our colonial friends!!!

Jim

 

[mancsteve1]

Hi Jim
Nothing to be had plane wise for me this weekend apart from an Eclipse SF70? coping saw minus one screw clamp for 50p.
Granted i was on home turf and not at my caravan and usual haunts around Lytham/Blackpool, Christmas decorations seemed to be filtering in #-o

Steve

 

[TobyC]

Hey Pete,
Nice W. Kaye & Son, for me that would be the best thing on your table.

You've probably seen this already http://tskayeandsons.weebly.com/index.html

Toby

P.S.

He visited tool-makers in Sheffield regularly to order his stock (which he ensured was always stamped with the 'Kaye' brand)

 

[Racers]

Hi, Toby

I was going to look up Kaye today thanks for that, it is a nice saw, 3 split nuts on such a small saw mark of quality.
I will have to get on with cleaning and sharpening it.

Pete

 

[Phil Pascoe]

The mower hadn't been tried, probably because it had only just been stolen.

 

[bugbear]

The Spear and Jackson saw was 50p it needs retoothing.

Pete

That's a bit more shaping in the handle than is usual for a modern S&J - some kind of "transitional" tool, or user intervention, do you think?

BugBear

 

[jimi43]

The mower hadn't been tried, probably because it had only just been stolen.

I'll let the seller know Phil....he shouldn't have any problem checking...he's a Police firearms officer! :mrgreen:

He got it as a job lot at auction...untested....didn't have any need for it. :wink:

Jim

 

[Racers]

Hi, BB

It looks old-ish and untouched, it has the reinforcing bolt/screw through the handle, if that helps dating it.

Pete

QMC on the other saw stands for Queens Medical Centre the big hospital in Nottingham, might be difficult to sterilise :shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[Richard T]

We got there yesterday for the first time since festival season and my favourite two sellers were there. So I got this lot from John's Junk:

Stanley (England) #5; really sturdy - seems oldish, yet to look it up. A I.Sorby vice, small but VERY well made and the first I've seen and another angle - on - a stick. Useful one as the wing nut does not protrude past the sides to snag on anything.

And from Stefan:

Must be the season for toolmakers' clamps Pete - he had a few. 6" Carborundum stone hardly used and coarser than my other one. Swiss tweezers for micro splinter removal, a knife edge Swiss file and a Sheffield depth gauge.

 

[TobyC]

The Spear and Jackson saw was 50p it needs retoothing.

Pete

That's a bit more shaping in the handle than is usual for a modern S&J - some kind of "transitional" tool, or user intervention, do you think?

BugBear

I don't think I've seen one exactly like that one either. That style of handle doesn't usually have a "v" notch in the front of the "fingers hole"

Look at these. http://www.backsaw.net/index.php?op...=showthread.php&t=111&highlight=Spear+Jackson

Toby

 

[TobyC]

Hi, BB

It looks old-ish and untouched, it has the reinforcing bolt/screw through the handle, if that helps dating it.

Pete

QMC on the other saw stands for Queens Medical Centre the big hospital in Nottingham, might be difficult to sterilise :shock: :shock: :shock:

I thought they had a wooden dowel through the handle?

Toby

 

[Scouse]

First for me for a few weeks too, but worth a wander through a muddy field...

A week of screwdrivers, an un-named small perfect pattern, a William Marples London pattern turnscrew and an Eclipse no. 171 centre punch

Star buy this week though, a North Brothers Yankee no.30 (no spring).

Dates from between 1900 and 1906 with brass barrel and locking ring. Lovely.

 

[jimi43]

I love all things "Sorby" but that vise is beeeeeutiful Richard!

Bravo!

Jimi

 

[Richard T]

Lovely set of kit there Ellis. I've yet to see an Eclipse centre punch. And a Lie Nielsen rule?? Beware the American inch ... they're bigger.

Jim: I know; it's nice innit? Though you'd think when arranging a casting he could have managed a "J" ...?

 

[jimi43]

Oh LORDY RIchard....stop it!!! :mrgreen:

That is just beautiful!

And it's IIMI by the way!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Iim