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Does anyone still use a paraffin blowlamp? I bought this little beauty for £3 today,I spent a bit of the afternoon renovating this old Sievert paraffin blowlamp, it roars and spits fire like a Chinese dragon. I just needed something for silver soldering and I have found the gas blowlamps are...

I had a "slight" overbuy of this and I have quite a few 10" lengths of it, it's 30mm diameter. Stuff cuts as easy as cheese with HSS tools and gives a fine finish. It can be hardened / treated quite easily. I used it to make clutch hub and sprocket pullers for my Triumph bike. Open to offers /...

I have been into workshops with spot welders in use. Most appear to be a clamp with copper electrodes and I was wondering if it was possible to use a 140 amp stick welder as the power supply for a home made spotter?

Would anyone be interested in a set of plans with instructions for making a spark plug cleaner? It's mostly standard sized tubing, little bit of threading. It works on the compressed air and fine grit blast principle. The plan is actually in Model engineer from 1958 so I think the copyright...