A new prized possession. A rather battered copy of the 1921 Engineer's year book. I guess will have to add book binder to the list of trades I know enough about to be a liability in a bit later
The book itself is a collection of old engineering advertising, engineering tables (it guess it is what passed for the machinerys handbook --
https://new.industrialpress.com/machinery-s-handbook-29th-edition-toolbox.html before that came about, such a book is what I frequent places where I can find this sort of thing looking to find but so far have only missed out on one in a charity shop), year in review, translation guide for engineering terms (English to French, Spanish, Russian and Italian, no German though it seems) and reference guide to various things.
Folder
http://filetrip.net/folder?F6pSFwej4N
Gallery
filetrip gallery
Afraid I was too lazy to name things properly
Cost for this... £2 at a car boot. Not for the first time at that particular car boot location I walked away from a stall like I just stole something.
Auger bits for my braces. Been picking these up as I really like them (speed, accuracy, finish -- in some cases better than the modern stuff and as I am looking at the older ones rather than the fancy coated but not so great underlying alloy of the ones of today it works a bit like old files and chisels), did not get all of these at the same time but I did not pay more than £4 for all you see there, £5 if you include the pot they are in. Bashed my hands up a bit filing them sharp on Sunday morning but that is probably why I should do that when my hands are not numb from cold (and it needs to be impressively cold to pull that off).
Video showcasing such things
A random old wooden hand plane, will probably give this to my friend that collects old woodworking tools again as I do not need this style of plane, however it got the seller to pay less attention to some of those bits above. I ran the blade over a spongy sanding block and it planes quite nicely though.
Oh and as this is still a gaming forum I probably should do a game
Princely sum of £1 from the local "I sure hope this is not hot" seller of second hand tools, electronics and games.
I got it mainly because I saw
and it looked exactly like my jam. Some people seem to have a thing for the 8 bit era, some older still, some 16 bit/amiga, some DOS, some doom... turns out I am all about the slightly clunky PS2 era games.
. oh well, anyways heres a little demonstration video of the PSIO if your unaware what it is. not my video btw.
