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slim63

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Good news with this stuff, a lot of what I am making is selling quite quickly & I have orders for at least 4 larger items so am pretty chuffed with that :D Also my chop project sold so I have space to move & store stuff + a couple of quid in the bank for a change :)

Now the bad news my supply of engine parts has dried up completely so I wont be able to make anything after the weekend until I get that sorted :(

So if anyone knows of parts up for grabs please shout up, happy to pay for scrap bike or scooter engines, in fact any petrol or diesel engines or parts even just bottom ends or cranks, cams, gears, discs & I can collect if the distance v profit margin works for me (y)
 

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Good news with this stuff, a lot of what I am making is selling quite quickly & I have orders for at least 4 larger items so am pretty chuffed with that :D Also my chop project sold so I have space to move & store stuff + a couple of quid in the bank for a change :)

Now the bad news my supply of engine parts has dried up completely so I wont be able to make anything after the weekend until I get that sorted :(

So if anyone knows of parts up for grabs please shout up, happy to pay for scrap bike or scooter engines, in fact any petrol or diesel engines or parts even just bottom ends or cranks, cams, gears, discs & I can collect if the distance v profit margin works for me (y)
Maybe a daft question...have you thought about gearbox parts...lots of lovely coggy and shafty bits in those.
 

slim63

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Maybe a daft question...have you thought about gearbox parts...lots of lovely coggy and shafty bits in those.

No daft questions Andy only daft answers (y)

Yes I have used a couple of car gearboxes in the past & no doubt will do again but they can be bugger to strip & are nearly always filthy so I prefer bike or scooter bottom ends where possible
 

slim63

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Following on from the above, car or bike diffs are great that big helical gear has many possibilities & always looks good :D
 

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Following on from the above, car or bike diffs are great that big helical gear has many possibilities & always looks good :D
There is an absolutely amazing cast iron sausage machine for sale in a charity warehouse near me.

Cast iron, must weigh a good half ton. Probably early part of the last century. You could really do something with that.:aplastao:

If only I had the means to move it and somewhere to put it......
 

slim63

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Finished these today for a young couple who want them as bedside tables it was a bit of a pig finding 2 lots of everything to get them both the same

Just started on something quite different & like the way its going so far :)
 

slim63

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I forgot about this thread until now :eek:

it seems like this is the place to put things I have made that are not for sale or have been made on commission for folk

Made for a mate who has supplied quite a few parts for other stuff I am making


A daft but of wall art originally knocked up to sell but the missus wants to keep it :eek: proper surprised me that :eek:


The other one of these frame wall art things will be on the sale thread shortly :)
 
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