Scrap Yard Find

[DalboyParticipant @dalboy]

My stepson works in a scrapyard and found this Mamod engine which needs some TLC. It needs a new chimney and certainly a good clean up, there are a couple of repairs that need doing but nothing major.

The above faults are only those that are obvious, but it needs a good inspection which may or may not find other jobs that need doing.

It does surprise me what people will just throw away.

[OldironParticipant @oldiron]

Nice find. With a few repairs it will be a nice piece. I have one which I have not touched for probably the last 25 years or so.

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Nice looks like SP5 engine/boiler

H

[Robert Atkinson 2Participant @robertatkinson2]

I’m never amazed what people throw into the scrap. It’s a shame that safety concerns mean that the days of “poking around” in a scrap yard have mostly gone. However the last time I was cashing in some scrap I noticed the back of a blue box with a mains connector in a stillage. Ask if I could see it and it was one of these:
https://www.tester.co.uk/time-electronics-dc-voltage-calibrator-0-02-percent-accuracy
Can I buy it? “yes I’ll just weigh  it” OK, £1.50……..

And it works perfectly. Even if it hadn’t the OEMs fixed price repair service would still have been a bargain. A Time 1010 voltage calibrator 0.02% that currently costs £1500. I got £200 for my 30 year old 0.05% model.

Robert.

[Chris CrewParticipant @chriscrew66644]

I found a two-speed Union pillar drill on a scrap heap. I asked why it was there and was told it’s ‘knackered’, yours if you want it. Didn’t need telling twice. The only fault on it was the backgear shaft had slipped through its bushes so the spindle wouldn’t drive in low speed mode. Tidied it up, new starter, new chuck and plastic knobs, runs true and looks good.

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

These days it’s impossible to have a rummage everything is dropped straight into large skips. When I worked at the local steel works there were 3 ‘scrap yards’ No 3 yard being the most rewarding my self and my colleague would sort out starter motors and dynamos which we would pay for by weight then in our spare time we would rebuild them new bushes if required and new brushes with most of the starters they required a new drive dog once do we would keep them in  cupboard and sell them on to co-workers for a fair profit.

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