Tools and equipment loan list/surplus list

As my 77th birthday approaches, every time I go in the workshop I see bits and pieces I have accumulated over 60 years working in various engineering companies. I also realise that I will never get round to using some of this stuff, but it is too good to throw away, and all it needs is to find a good home. Most of it is not worth much and not worth the trouble of selling it.

I am proposing that there be a thread on this site where folks like me can list our surplus stuff, available for free, with the postage being paid by the recipient. This would avoid clogging up the classifieds with odds and ends.

Also there could be another thread where folks can list special, or oddball tools or tooling for loan.

For example, many years ago I aquired an old lathe that was reputedly made in quantity by the company I worked for during WW1. The crosslide leadscrew nut was worn out, and I was able to find a set of taps in the toolroom, which had been there for 50 years, to make a new nut. I was given these taps, and made my nut. I have had these ever since and will never ever need them again, but somebody might. The taps are 9/16" diameter Acme, 8TPI, LH. Out there somewhere there probably still some of these lathes working.

I cannot throw these away, hence the suggestion of the loan list, so maybe they will come in handy for someone else.

I suspect there are a few folks who bought taps and dies to make faceplates and the like for lathes they no longer own, who could add to such a list.

Chris Gunn

Excellent idea

i for one have loads of stuff that soon I’m going to have to get rid of

Excellent idea Chris. I must confess that I misread it at first. The bit about " the company I worked for during WW1" and then realised that I had taken it out of context!

I have a couple of taps the suit the later Boxford lathe spindle that I have lent out in the past and would be happy to do so again.

Brian

I agree, a brilliant idea, one thing worrying me though Chris, if you're 77 this year you were born in 1944! Or should another 100 years be added?  Yes depends on how you read it.

I could do with borrowing a right hand 1.75" x 6 t.p.i. tap to rethread a faceplate I possess if there's such a thing.

Roger

Edited By Rockingdodge on 15/02/2021 10:56:16

Thanks Brian and Rodger, my proof reader is having a day off today. Just for the record I started as an apprentice in 1959, and the lathes were made in WW1.

I am not sure how this works, does a moderator need to approve this suggestion? Jason??

Chris Gunn

Rodger I have a standard 1 3/4 BSW tap, but that is 5TPI, I guess you are sure about the 6TPI so it is probably not much good to you. However now this thread has started, the right one may pop up.

Chris Gunn

I think this is a splendid idea. However it could be open to all sorts of problems. I.E breakage. other damages. I never received it, sort of things. I guess with member who have been on the forum for a while should be trustworthy. Will have to wait & see what the Mods say.

Steve.

On the face of it, sounds like a great idea ! As Steviegtr says, could bring problems. I expect most guys are OK but you will always get the odd one, then what do you do ? write it off like that spanner you loaned to that nabour last year and who now cannot remember ever getting it . Been there, done that !

Still, I think it is a good idea ,and fair play to Chris for thinking it up.

Chris, thanks for the offer, close-ish but not close enough, it's for a Denham Junior mkll faceplate or rather one that nearly almost fits, most frustrating

I once made a bunch of special tools for old series Land Rovers and started to lend them out to folk on a Land Rover forum.

I asked for a £20 deposit to ensure things came back to me but some folk just kept the tools and never answered e-mail chasing. A pity because it was a good service to the forum.

Thanks for the feedback, and I agree with a couple of the issues/problems that could arise, but the sort of items I would put on would not really be missed if they did not come back, and yet are too good to put in the skip, they just need to be useful to someone, and if loaned out there is a chance more than 1 person could benefit.

I am a great believer in what goes around comes around, I have had some great help in the past from members of the forum, and have tried to reciprocate also,.

As far as the materials I will never use, hopefully destined for the surplus list, if members of the forum did not take it up, it will end up in the skip for sure, eventually.

Still no comment from a moderator, can we do it?

Chris Gunn