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Pounce wheels are still used in custom vehicle painting. I use one for marking stitching holes on thinnish leather. The prongs are wicked sharp and will go through the leather, and my fingers

Very nice indeedy The best of reasons for making anything ach, just ignore Mike, he doesn't know what he's talking about,

There kinda is. You can block him in your ebay settings. In the past I and a few friends have shared the names of numpties like this one so each of us could block them ~~~ A bit of yours and a bit of SilverForgeStudio's experiences.: My #1 son used to sell 2nd BMW car parts on ebay. One guy bought an engine head. a high performance one. About 10 days later the guy put in a claim that the head was cracked. My son gave proof to ebay that the head was perfect when sent out. Ebay dropped the case. But the seller took it to court. He wanted his couple of hundred ££ plus the mechanic's fees etc back. My son waited till it was in court then he provided the judge with photos of the head in place and the car racing at a track event and a statement from a track official which stated that the seller had raced but had pulled out of the finals due to a wrecked engine. Even the judge knew you can't race on a cracked engine head. Not only case dismissed but #1 was awarded costs. #1 son used to attend a lot of the car track events and photograph cars he supplied parts for as a kinda personal record of them. edit: PS. Its soooo tempting but I never respond to the rude messages from other ebayers. I just report them to ebay then block them from bidding / buying

That is crazeee nice

For me that only shows up things to do with Harley-D motorcycles.

I'm getting the same Perhaps ebay - USA is blocking us outsiders from seeing it as we are not logged into ebay-USA

both are very nicey indeedy

Border-less and rounded corners on photo prints were common in the early 1970s. In the 1950s prints had fancy scalloped white borders and in the 1960s the prints had straight cut white borders, although straight white borders could be found for the late 1950s as well.

Tea as well, does a nice colour

an 'adjustable' a C or crescent spanner spoil-sport

sorry, NFO = Neatsfoot Oil. Should be NO really, but NFO is better. Neat or Neet is Old English [pre-Shakespeare] for cattle. Its made from the oils in the hooves and lower legs of cattle On this forum we recommend using PURE Neatsfoot Oil and not COMPOUND as the Compound contains petroleum products to which some people and animals will have an adverse reaction

There ya go with the differences in terminology. I think what you guys are describing is known to me as an 'adjustable' To me a 'crescent' spanner/wrench is C shaped with a small hook on the inside of the top curve, at the edge. Its used for loosening & tightening special nuts such as found on the handlebars head bearings and the pedal bearing box on bicycles and certain parts on vintage Austin 7 cars. The gap between the jaws of the C are measured to fit the special nut properly

Yes, but be aware that the dye will severely dry out the leather and cause it to shrink. Maybe treat with NFO first, then the dye No, but then they didn't have wood dyes either. Leather dye was made of natural things and could be bought commercially as far back as the mid 1700s Once dry the wood stain is better than wood paints in that respect. Unless you chew on the wood you'll not get anything out of dried wood stain. These days oil and spirit wood dyes are used all round us ~ to recolour woods to look like other types, to just colour furniture legs and frames, et cetera

ya jus gotta luv a piece made with a story behind it. ~~~ well I do anyways Happy birthday to the gent. I knew an old chap like that. Everyday he visited a different friend and got his evening dinner with them. You never saw him again for about 4 weeks when it was your turn again. No-one minded at all.

Try using plastic pipettes. They are cheap. Can be bought in capacities of 0.2ml and upwards. I regularly use 3ml size. They can be cleaned out and reused and when too dirty they are cheap enough to dispose. example; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100PCS-0-2-3-5ML-Graduated-Pipettes-Disposable-Pasteur-Plastic-Eye-Dropper-YNUK/123660469990?hash=item1ccabd06e6:m:mIe58KaeefBBUdGtT-qMGlA

I'm thinking there is too much NFO in the leather which is preventing and sealant from working. Try a few coats of 'Pledge with Future Shine' ** floor polish which is actually a water-thin acrylic varnish. ** it may have a different name, Pledge keeps changing the name

oh, aye ye can. I have sewing tape measures just in metric or just imperial and some with both. Some tape measures which have both have the two scales on opposite sides of the material ie, front & back and some have the measures on each edge. When it comes to rulers I dislike the ones which have the measures on each edge but starting at opposite ends.

Is it a ready-rivet or a solid rivet peened over? an idea; if you are going to replace the strap; cut away the strap from under the rivets then you'll have a gap to fit bolt or wire cutters into to get at the stem of the rivet and cut though that Rivet a new strap on

3M 77 is just about as permanent you're going to get. I've used similar, but probably poorer, versions and its lasted. . . . well, its lasted. Another type of adhesive is the heat-activated iron-on sheet. example; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sizzix-Accessory-Adhesive-Iron-On-Sheet-100-Polyolefin-1m-Roll/263974872556?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 though you need to be very careful with your heat

The speed of light is equal to the time a traffic light turns green and when the guy behind you blares his horn at you Mike; here for by length wood is sold in 'metric foot' or meter. The metric foot = 300mm. By volume its sold in the cubic yard, cubic meter or cubic 'metric yard' which is a cubic yard plus about 10% An easy way to convert US leather ounces to metric millimeter is to multiply the oz by 4 and put in the decimal point in front of the last digit, eg 5oz x 4 = 20, put the point in and you get 2.0mm, 9oz x 4 = 36 = 3.6mm. You are in fact multiplying by 0.4 Converting from and to metric & imperial and back again can lead to serious problems. Thats what happened to one of the Space Telescopes. One group in the US built one part using US Imperial, the group in Europe used metric and both 'rounded' some of the digits in the size conversions thus when the telescope was assembled in space the parts fitted but the optics were ever so slightly 'out'. They had to do an in-space adjustment repair.

If its the whole letter ~ a very small paint brush If its the outline of the letter ~ a gel ink or a fine tip paint pen

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I think your idea is sound. I would use Velcro for the closure system on the strap. Then 'one-size-fits-all'. If you think 5 oz [2mm] is too thin, line it with some thin suede or pigskin - I would do that anyway to give a smoother surface against the skin of the arm. Are the pockets for the shafts long enough?

Thanks for sharing the photos. Its so good see the factory preserved. Those gates are simply magnificient A. Its only on a forum like this that we enjoy looking at photos of an old factory! B, I can't say for Germany, but in the UK in the early years of the 20th century import taxes on goods could be as high as 75%. The sewing machine was a luxury item so was taxed at about 50% on imported ones. Thats why Henry Ford opened his first English factory in Manchester in 1917 - to get round the import taxation of 25% to 50% on Ford vehicles. Plus goods made in Britain and exported were given a tax relief. So it would make commercial sense for Singer to have a British factory. Also at that time Scottish steel and iron was superior to any in Europe and Scotland had a very big iron producing industry.

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