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Hi All,

Sent an email to Tracy Tools who replied overnight with their normal expedient service!

" Good Morning, thank you for enquiry, we can only help with the taps, we have in stock HSS £30.00 PER TAP, Dies would have to be made as a 1 off special, cost for 1 off would be in region of £200.00 possibly more if tooling charge was required"

Ouch! Guess I will use another thread!

Cheers, Martin

Hi All,

I am in the process of sorting out a very nice RECORD 03 Smoothing Plane that has some issues, the main being a broken off rear tote securing screw.

Naturally it has broken off right at the casting and there is also a broken off tap where someone else has had a go!

I have the body casting set up in the mill at the correct angle and have drilled the old screw & tap out. Loctited in a nice snug fitting steel plug ready to re drill and tap.

Does anyone have one that they could please check the correct thread for me? looks about 20tpi or so but I have no part to reference.

Cheers, Martin

Thanks Michael, just got one!

Martin

So perhaps gently melting the tip where the diamond was, the dropping in the replacement might work?

Also probably the way to remove the point that will be used from the old cutter?

Cheers, Martin

Hi All,

I have a very nice antique diamond Point glass cutter that sadly is missing its diamond.

Does anyone know how this might be replaced as I have several other scrap ones that could donate a diamond?

Looks a bit like solder?

Thanks Michael & Dave,

A trip to the local fire station is called for I think.

Hopefully they will be able to safely empty it and I will not lose the item which is rather nice!

Will let you know what they say.

Cheers, Martin

Was Carbon Tet the "original" dry cleaning fluid?

Martin

Hi All

I have just finished cleaning up a very nice brass fire extinguisher and mounting by ANTIFYRE which uses carbon tetrachloride.

It is almost full of liquid.

Am I allowed to ship this within the UK with the liquid intact?

If I have to empty it are there any particular things to look out for, obviously will do it outside!?

There are lots of the smaller pistol type ones on EBay which appear UNUSED ie full? Mine is like the old PYRENE pump ones.

Cheers, Martin

Hi Adrian,

Many thanks, will contact Roadhawk and see what gives, much obliged sir!

Martin

Hi Adrian,

It could be that long.

What is this week number thing please?

Martin

Hi All,

My Roadhawk HD dash cam has not been setting the correct date and time for quite a while now.

Just got around to trying to sort it out!

Works OK and announces GPS lock whenever we go out, I have an external GPS antenna built in to the car.

Is there some sort of battery in the camera that may have died? If so can I fix it?

Cheers, Martin

Hi All,

Yesterdays haul at Shepton Mallet included a stunning cased UNIMAT SL with power traverse and loads of accessories including three of these boxed components that I have never seen before, marked in different sizes?

Small part is bronze with thread to the end.

Any thoughts please?

Cheers, Martin

Hi All.

Many thanks for the info on these items.

The vacuum pump is now on its way to a French Instrument collector after a huge amount of interest on EBay.

Cheers, Martin

Hi Peak4

If a vacuum pump would there have been a bell jar on the platform perhaps on a rubbers seal?

Martin

Hi all,

Here are two more mystery items from the weekends car boot haul, probably from a school physics lab, not sure what they are.

They appear to be incomplete but I do not know what is absent:

Any info would most welcome!

Cheers, Martin

I use a scrap of old garden hose, works really well.

martin

Hi, I too would love to have that file please.

Martin

I have a recently new set of aids which have rechargeable batteries, I just pop them in the charger at night and they are ready to go in the morning.

the charger also has a drying program at the same time, useful in this humid weather.

I always found the batteries a real faff as they never ran out together!

cheers, Martin

Hi All,

Here is the NOVETTO 110 vice with rotating moveable jaws.

The scews by the handle lock each jaw in position.

Cheers, Martin

Hi David

We have had few of these over the years, they are pretty hard to come by and make very good money!

I have just got a different brand of vice that works on the same principle with rotating moving jaws; will post a pic when I have sorted it out, it is seized at this time.

Martin

Nice find!

Martin