Jodel

He just had to go one better than me I've had a murex 160 since the early 80s brilliant welder so never let me down , Why has he gone one better than me =cos his knob goes to 8 mine only goes to 6

Good choice Ian, quite powerful, and a very smooth arc.

A bit of an update on this.. My new Mig welder arrived today (thanks to all the people involved in transporting it to me) and you might say I'm a happy bunny..
 
Ok, it's not "new" but it is very well made and should outlast me
 
A Murex Tradesmig 165...
 

 

 

Dial Indicator now lives in it's padded box-

 
 

Came home the other week with a free box full of bits to sort out and to keep any of them I felt would be handy.
Lot of work cleaning years of storage dirt and some rust to reveal many items never used and mostly very good serviceable condition.
Top row- 4inch dia tin full of assorted sized steel round head rivets. Stainless precision ground reference Angle Plate. Bronze/Copper Gauze and below that is a superb 0-3/8" Jacobs Chuck with a strong detent wheel for up to 30 degree indexing at the other end  in a precision ground steel body.
 

 
The PS Stubbs files, Machine Reamers (H6/7 grade) are mostly unused. The Slocombe Bits (Centre Drills) are the retained good ones, I junked a lot of them.
As for the 2 Tins in the centre they were completely blackened with age. I resisted opening them until I had carefully cleaned them to find the printed images underneath.
The Meggezones one dates from the 1930s and contained finely ground HSS Lathe tools and Tool Blanks. The other tin has shakeproof, Single Coil, Double Coil Spring Washers and 1/8" Roll pins-

 
Final challenge was to try and rescue a Plunger type Dial Indicator from around early 1950s made by British indicators Ltd. It's had a hard life and is quite heavy (plated Brass)
It was a mess and took a long time to carefully clean and polish the Clear bezel lense as it was so badly scratched and opaque, I  could not see the Dial.
All very loose parts and a flickering needle. dismantled and adjusted as much as poss and reassembled to find it working smoothly, although the small hand needle is still out of sync with the Dial markings, but is irrelevant to my use as it counts the 4 main needle rotation limit (0.040").
It measures in 1/10,000 ths of an inch and I've since checked it against my Lathe dials, Digital readout on the Mill and the Victor Lever type D.I.  , so it's as good as I'll ever need, real pleased as I needed one. Dial is 1 5/8" (41.3-ish  mm) -
 

 
 Got to make a soft storage box for it now and reduce the slack in the Bezel rotation. Only too glad to give these bits a good home after knowing they once belonged to someone with similar interests.
  

More photos...
 

Whilst Ian and Joseph were making the journey down South for RPT, we were heading up to Norfolk for the Starting Handle Club Summer show
 
We also visited some other friends in Norfolk on the Sunday before heading home, so a good weekend
 
The Starting Handle Club show is a great and friendly event with all classes well supported, here's some photos, including some of the items in the auction...
 

I did at Newby hall. He doesn't say much though. Couldn't get a word out of him.

The good looking guy in the awning is a newbie on the rally scene please  say hello to Ken .

Here are some photos from the rally at Biggar sunday 12th of August 2018  we all had a good day Had a wonder round the rally field I was displaying the Mayfield Croft mk 25. Also displaying the green Vivian Lloyd. The sun came out as the rally was finishing.