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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 9:13 pm
by KAMIKAZEE DIY
Anyone else guilty of buying tools they don't need.
I've ordered a stabila type 81 torpedo level last night, £37.99 plus P&P.
Im sure it's a good level but I just don't think I really need it.
Ox pro 1200 level arrived last week (unnecessarily)
And the week before estwing claw hammer (unnecessarily).
Still, I'd rather be a buyer than a borrower.....
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 9:58 pm
by seanandruby
Like most guys my shed is full of tools that go unused. I buy and sell a lot of vintage tools and never buy new hand tools to use at work. I only buy things that will earn a living ( vehicles to ) use it or sell it, don't buy for hanging on a nail in the shed ???
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:53 am
by Tony McC
I collect old tools related to the trade. I'm not one for old box planes or log saws, but I do like stone-working chisels and I'm currently trying to get a really-good-nick old diesel/paraffin roadworks lamp, the red ones we had before some techno-git invented the brash orange flashing beacons....
...and a replacement wooden maul with iron hoops, because my existing one has spilt beyond repair.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:33 pm
by jwill
I'm sick of buying new tools for joinery. Seem to invent a new tool every week! Can't do the job now unless you turn up with 2k of tools in the van. Meanwhile bricklayers getting away with couple trowels, level and line. Oh and an old bucket!
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 3:51 pm
by seanandruby
Tony McC wrote:I collect old tools related to the trade. I'm not one for old box planes or log saws, but I do like stone-working chisels and I'm currently trying to get a really-good-nick old diesel/paraffin roadworks lamp, the red ones we had before some techno-git invented the brash orange flashing beacons....
...and a replacement wooden maul with iron hoops, because my existing one has spilt beyond repair.
I'll keep an eye open for ya, i do come across them from time to time.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 9:37 am
by Tony McC
I sometimes find them, but the inner lamp is missing, or the lenses aren't a match, or the seller thinks they're going to get a family holiday in Florida from the proceeds.
At one time, we must have had 300-500 of them in the big shed at my dad's, but god knows what happened to them. I know the were gradually replaced by battery operated flashers, but where did all the old red ones go?
And fog burners! We used yo have dozens of them, but when we cleared the shed prior to selling off dad's old place after he died, not a one to be found. Mystery!
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:26 pm
by digerjones
I've probably got one you have tony. Will have a look
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 10:50 am
by Tony McC
You're a gent!
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 6:08 pm
by digerjones
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 9:27 am
by digerjones
This tony
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:30 am
by Tony McC
Lovely! Whereabouts are you?
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:08 pm
by digerjones
Audlem south cheshire. Would the bike make it that far 
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:50 am
by Tony McC
It certainly would, and it regularly does.
Not this weekend, though....unless the Luscious Miss M chages her plans to sort out her over-stuffed garage....but possibly one day next week.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 12:01 pm
by seanandruby
How much do you sell them for + postage?
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:07 pm
by digerjones
seanandruby wrote:How much do you sell them for + postage?
What would you want one for?