ruffgeezer Posted June 10, 2013 Posted June 10, 2013 Ok so Eddisons will, every now and then email me about a dispersal sale or two, and usually they are far enough away from me to not even bother entertaining the idea of bidding on any of them, well that is until last week... In a small unit outside of Nottingham lay a cavalcade of tat for the picking, from mega expensive engineering equipment right down to boxes of crap for mere mortals like me, I bid my bids, went to work, bid a bit more and then logged off, for fear of getting last minute trigger happy. I bid on 6 lots, I won only 3, these are they: £5 + fees for this one, there is a tap and die kit with it also (not pictured) A little over budget on this at £16 but all the drawers are roller bearing jobbies, and there are a load of cutting/ sanding discs in the top of it. Lastly this one, which I'll admit was a bit of a boo-boo on my part (Cost £11): I took the ratchet to be a longish 1/2" drive job, and well, it isn't it's 3/4" making the scale of the box much bigger than I was expecting, the box was so heavy it required a forklift to move it from the upper floor of the unit! Well it all got loaded into a rather creaking Xsara and whisked back to Ruff's Garage for analysis... This is the biggest shackle I have ever seen, it's rated to 5 1/4 Tonnes! (biro for scale) Lots more shackles amongst the chod in here, I haven't had time to look through them properly yet though! I'm assuming this is part of a lathe or a drill press? It has a maker's mark of BSA tools. Bearing swivels, used for pulling out cables apparently! These appear to be turn plates, but I'm not sure on the purpose of them. I am more than happy with the cabinet and some of the tools, but I could do with finding out what some of the other stuff is before I chuck it on ebay.
Formula Autos Posted June 10, 2013 Posted June 10, 2013 I've got a socket set just like that green Draper one, except it's in a (otherwise identical) red tin, and is labelled as some other firm's wares (The Oomba Goomba Tool Co., or somesuch). 1/2" drive isn't it? I got it in about '96, from a builders' merchants, and it's been ACE. If it is the same set as mine, only with different branding, you've done well there. Mega jealous of the other stuff too. There's some roller bearing Microfiche drawers in my office (pretty similar to what you've bought there) that we're supposedly getting rid of soon, and I'll be bringing them home if possible. As an added bonus, they're beige.
ruffgeezer Posted June 10, 2013 Author Posted June 10, 2013 To be honest I only bid on the last box for the pullers that were in it, and you're being kind calling it a socket set, I haven't checked closely but I strongly suspect its a set with all the useful sockets missing or broken already, so I'll just fill the tin with the odds and bods I have in the garage already.
doug Posted June 10, 2013 Posted June 10, 2013 The BSA tool thing looks like a tapper for tapping holes with a drill. ** **This might be pish.
holbeck Posted June 11, 2013 Posted June 11, 2013 ^^ what he said, without seeing the end of it, the BSA tool thingy looks like a die box, Are there dies or 4 slots to take dies when you look end on?
ruffgeezer Posted June 11, 2013 Author Posted June 11, 2013 I will have to have a look when I have a bit of free time, we had a call to arrange a viewing on our house this weekend, so it's been all ahead clean! Since I got in.
jonny69 Posted June 12, 2013 Posted June 12, 2013 The Morse taper suggests to me it goes in a lathe headstock. It could be a die holder, but I think I remember the one I used was a lot shorter and had a couple of long handles on it. Actually, now I think about it, I think the die end was fixed (but could slide in and out) and I rotated the chuck by hand.
ruffgeezer Posted June 13, 2013 Author Posted June 13, 2013 It's a BSA Tapper, here are some more pics: Also during the big garage tidy, I got the green socket set to look like this; if anyone has any of these: 19, 21, 24 or 25mm bihex sockets spare, or any of the other bits the kit is missing, please pm me! Also, what is this for?
Dermist Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 That is a tool makers clamp and very useful they are to!! They can be used to hold bits together when brazing / welding or use in a drill press by clamping two bits together and enabling you to transfer a hole through into something else.Really the uses are almost endless.
holbeck Posted June 14, 2013 Posted June 14, 2013 ^^ Yup tool makers clamp. I had to make one of those when I was an apprentice.
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