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I have the plastic-bodied version of No1, which is cheap and cheerful and stocked by my local farmers' store. Does the job and is usually filled with ATF as a GP lubricant. I will be buying more of them for other lubes. No 13 in various makes has been in and out of my working life on several...

Been telling myself to get a lift for years and finally got it together a few months ago. Shamelessly nicked the extension idea from ones I'd seen on here and elsewhere, but with a slight difference, dictated by the way the table-top is folded. Not quite the same as HF, but it's essentially the...

I've done that a couple of times, on high-dollar machinery in the middle of nowhere that had to be got going again. It works ok, but slightly nervy. The trick is to get the oxy-acy torch just right, do the oxy burn just right, and leave the part alone to cool down naturally. Do it right and the...

When I went to use the scrap pipe I had to make some cordless drill holders, as pictured in post #1, I found it was just a bit on the small side, so made do with what materials were to be had, like so... It works well enough, but isn't as universal as the pipe idea - each hole is sized for a...

When I went to use the scrap pipe I had to make some cordless drill holders, as pictured in post #1201, I found it was just a bit on the small side, so made do with what materials were to be had, like so... It works well enough, but isn't as universal as the pipe idea - each hole is sized for a...

They are wonderful old vices. That's identical to mine and like you, I had the same thought that the lack of type number meant it was likely their first one. They were only set up to provide an alternative to Record, so perhaps the niceties of model numbers seemed superfluous, given they...

It rolls ok but I have some larger hospital castors I can put on it. For now though; it works well enough, and the handiest thing about it is simply having the welder in a more convenient position and higher up off the floor, as the captive lead is a bit on the short side. Feast your eyes...

I was casting around, looking for material to press into service as cheap welding curtains, when inspiration struck. I noticed some of the commercial welding screens were fibreglass curtains, but the penny didn't drop quite then, but it did later - FIBREGLASS CURTAINS! (or drapes, for you lot)...

Excellent stuff. I was quite unaware of the history of what was offered by Britool before my involvement with them as a consumer. Of course, I'd seen plenty of the strange sets of hex-drive ones lurking in sheds, and old cars, but never really used them, as half the parts were usually missing...

Struck by a need for a welding cart, and realising I had one under my nose... Take a KitKat display trolley - which had been doing sterling service as a holder of soap powder and other **** by the washer/ drier for a decade It had been so long since it was put there, I'd forgotten it had...

Man, that *****. Not in a good way.

Copying that.

When I was working in various mechanical shops, there was a free and easy atmosphere and tools were borrowed and lent between us frequently. There was a difference sometimes, between who would make a point of returning one in better condition than it had been lent in and some others who didn't...

Twenty million dollars, in the end.

I spied a couple of very useful-looking punch sets in Lidl's online flyer and popped down to have a look at them. Labelled 'OWIM', but they're just an importer of all sorts of stuff as far as I can see. Likely Far Eastern in origin, but they seem well enough made and a couple of trial belts with...

Nearly completed my original set of Britool Metric O/Es - still got a couple to go. The 16/17 is a Jenbro cleaned up and the 10/11 is an odd one out.

A set of Eclipse tap holders, to replace the crappy one that came with my crappy tap set. I felt I had to buy these after getting a long-reach one to enable re-tapping of exhaust clamp holes where the frame tubing was in the way. Not sure whether these Eclipse tools are still made in the UK...

Pound to a penny it was painted white inside along with all the other sockets in the PO's box to deter tool thieves, or aid identification once it went astray.

$10! :thumbup: You ****!

I'm doing what I hate, and quoting all the pictures just to add one line - that's fecking marvellous! Love it.