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Alpha1 wrote:

Ovenpaa wrote:You have an ML10 that has spent most of its time with you under a bench?

No were to put it I dont have the room.

It was a case of rescuing it. It was destined for the scrap skip.

I sussed the phone out and managed to email some of the pics to myself. It wont connect to my PC using USB no matter what I do.
Any way a small selection.

Some more.

bradaz11 wrote:what phone is it? what problem are you having with email?

Thanks I have worked the email thing out now. The phone is just different from my old one. Just a learning curve.

Another one.

How can people throw these things away!

strangesam wrote:How can people throw these things away!

We got paid to clear a college out all the machinery it had to be filmed being cut up

a friend bought an engineering dept 2 workshops at a london college and when he enquired about the remaining two workshops he was told the new thinking was they had to go to scrap.

same with a local school 10 years ago their woodwork dept scrapped everything to make way for IT and a cnc for demo use only

The building were these items came from belonged to a Company that supplied us with engineering/machining facilities. They also had one of the last laboratory glass blowing shops in the North East of England. The glass blower was 79 they suggested he should have an apprentice the company did not think the work load justified paying one. He passed away. Everything in his work shop went to a Company in York his lathes all the glass everything for free the cost was you pay to remove it and you can have it. In the mean time the company was told the building they had been in for the past 30 years was full of asbestos and was to be demolished so they needed to move. The Company had way over extended it self and basically went bust.
The receivers came in and everything was locked down they were given days to prove stuff actually belonged to the Company and could be removed.
Most of it was not allowed to be removed because it might be able to be sold to pay creditors.

Because the building was full of asbestos stuff was moved outside the building and put onto pallets or chucked into hired scrap skips.

Luckily on the opposite side of the road I had two lockable containers the type you see on the back of lorries.

So every morning and afternoon I went over to see what they were up to and salvaged as much as I could.
Like a Myford ML10. Band saws. Boxes and boxes of drills taps reamers. DTI gauges I have dozens if you need a DTI gauge pm me and I don,t mean Chinese crap. I mean UK made. The containers are still there they remain locked.

Stuff that went out the door never to be seen again.
Bridgeport Mills.
Hardinge lathes.

Loads of other makes I could list

But why upset my self.

If only I had a bigger shed that would accommodate the contents of my containers.

This just seem so wrong, I know there's no going back, the days of the small general engineering shop, using traditional manual skills are all but gone, but these tools are a work of art, in 50 or a 100 years they will be collectors pieces.

Just think of the stuff that was dumped/scrapped relatively recently. Think of old British motorbikes, gas lamps, brass microscopes, old clocks etc.I bought a 350cc MAC Velocette for £40 and sold a BSA A10 650cc for £26 in the 60's, what would they be worth now?

How about "re-purposing" some of them? Just needs a bit of imagination.