Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])

Raymond Lin said:
I bought some plastic discs

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These look interesting, how do you play them?
 
Diddums said:
Definitely lucked out on that one!

Mitutoyo is one of those unicorn brands for me, nothing else comes close. I've recently also learned of KTC tools, which is an extremely expensive rabbit hole I'm circling :eek:
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I've always been happy with Mitutoyo stuff but it certainly isn't the only decent brand. My micrometer is a prized possesion and I would hate to price one up to buy today. Incredibly accurate though, the plates on the side insulate the mic from the heat of your fingers as that will affect the readings!



This is that Chinese 600W servo motor I showed a week or so ago, I'm using it to make a 'slow' diamond lap for carbide. Being a cheapskate I want to resharpen my old carbide inserts and also make special tools. I said 'slow' because the thing will run at 5000rpm max! However I'm more interested to have it running 100-200 rpm. Only part-made, I still need to make the tool rest. Click on the image to open a short vid on Flickr.

 
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ChrisLX200 said:
I've always been happy with Mitutoyo stuff but it certainly isn't the only decent brand.
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Mine predated digital stuff, my micrometer still had the tiny little clicky screw on the end. Granted this was in South Africa where our options were fairly limited, so Mitu was the best we had. Wish I still had those.

jammir said:
They are articulated and you build them your self they just snap together.
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Cheers. Reminds me a bit of the phase I went through as a kid, collecting and building Mini 4WD kits. They were fantastic, they were tough as tanks, just needed clicking together, batteries inserting and off you went. Then there was a massive aftermarket for parts from motors, to gears, to bearings, even tyres and wheels. It was insane what you could get. It was a bit of a poor man's RC hobby, coupled with slot racing. Great fun.

I can't find anything from our era, but the 2022 catalog looks just as tasty:

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There were literally hundreds, if not thousands of these things. Street cars, monster trucks, buggies, you name it, they were available at some point.

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Dammit now I wanna give it another go :D
 
LuckyBenski said:
You've seen the RC thread right?

I think it was a bit before my time/not such a city boy activity but the common history amongst OcUKers is remarkable.
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See this is where being a filthy job stealing immigrant has its drawbacks. I have literally zero clue about what your Britishes played with as kids, and these were quite niche in Saffrica so I'd assumed it wasn't even a thing here, which is why I've never posted about it before. @Ninco!'s response, and yours, tells me that this might have been a thing here, but I'd never have known.

I think I might even still have a few at my mum's place, I'll have a look next time I'm in Holland.
 
Diddums said:
See this is where being a filthy job stealing immigrant has its drawbacks. I have literally zero clue about what your Britishes played with as kids, and these were quite niche in Saffrica so I'd assumed it wasn't even a thing here, which is why I've never posted about it before. @Ninco!'s response, and yours, tells me that this might have been a thing here, but I'd never have known.

I think I might even still have a few at my mum's place, I'll have a look next time I'm in Holland.
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Tamiya RC, models and mini 4wd were very popular in the UK. I would say the eighties and nineties were peak, where stores like Beatties (sadly closed) used to have a massive display of Tamiya models. Very expensive at the time.

We used to buy them as they looked cool. I never got many, mainly smaller versions of the RC cars (Lunchbox etc).

Mini4WD, as I'm aware, is no where near as popular in the UK when compared to Japan, no surprise!

Models have no steering and to build a circuit needs individual lanes or channels for cars to follow so huge space needed. There is no actual control, you flick a switch and off it goes! This most likely contributed to a lack of sales in the UK when compared to Scalextric or RC where there is an element of interaction.

Great to see them still being produced. I've got old Tamiya catalogues and the page you shared of newer prooducts brought back memories. :)
 
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Ninco! said:
Tamiya RC, models and mini 4wd were very popular in the UK. I would say the eighties and nineties were peak, where stores like Beatties (sadly closed) used to have a massive display of Tamiya models. Very expensive at the time.

We used to buy them as they looked cool. I never got many, mainly smaller versions of the RC cars (Lunchbox etc).

Mini4WD, as I'm aware, is no where near as popular in UK when compared to Japan, no surprise!

Models have no steering and to build a circuit needs individual lanes or channels for cars to follow so huge space needed. There is no actual control, you flick a switch and off it goes! This most likely contributed to a lack of sales in the UK when compared to Scalextric or RC where there is an element of interaction.

Great to see them still being produced. I've got old Tamiya catalogues and the page you shared of newer prooducts brought back memories. :)
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Fun fact, I moved house 8 times by the time I was 15. Due to this I never settled and had a good circle of friends. At one point a Chinese chap joined my mum's company and he also came over from China, and his kid was therefore also a bit of a lost soul. We ended up hanging out together and he introduced me to these things and it became an instant obsession. It was like going to the hobby shops to see all the RC cars you can't afford (Lunch Boxes, Clod Busters, Grasshoppers, Midnight Pumpkin, Bullhead, you name it), but these were effectively mini versions of those in that we could afford them, customize them, and race them amongst ourselves. We were thick as thieves, we weren't interested in sports and spent all our time playing with our technical toys. He even had this, which I wanted all my life:

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Many fond memories. I still have my old Lego at my mum's place, I attribute most of my mechanical engineering understanding to it.

I could go on and on about the hobbies I had over the years. I remember inheriting a Parma slot car from a cousin in the states, and took it to the slot club I was a member of, where people were racing their Ninco Mclaren GTRs. That thing absolutely shredded on the straights, but in the corners it was hopeless, to the point I actually hit someone in the face with it. We laughed about that, then they banned my poor Parma :p
 
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Diddums said:
Mine predated digital stuff, my micrometer still had the tiny little clicky screw on the end. Granted this was in South Africa where our options were fairly limited, so Mitu was the best we had. Wish I still had those.



Cheers. Reminds me a bit of the phase I went through as a kid, collecting and building Mini 4WD kits. They were fantastic, they were tough as tanks, just needed clicking together, batteries inserting and off you went. Then there was a massive aftermarket for parts from motors, to gears, to bearings, even tyres and wheels. It was insane what you could get. It was a bit of a poor man's RC hobby, coupled with slot racing. Great fun.

I can't find anything from our era, but the 2022 catalog looks just as tasty:

Hoez2b3.png


There were literally hundreds, if not thousands of these things. Street cars, monster trucks, buggies, you name it, they were available at some point.

The-history-of-Mini-4WD-1-696x370.jpg


Dammit now I wanna give it another go :D
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Wow now that's a blast from the past, I remember having quote a few of those. There was even a local independent RC shop near me that used to have a huge table top slot track that we could race them in. The 4WD ones were more fun as you used to be able to make them do wheelies or go along on 2 wheels. :D
 
Diddums said:
Fun fact, I moved house 8 times by the time I was 15. Due to this I never settled and had a good circle of friends. At one point a Chinese chap joined my mum's company and he also came over from China, and his kid was therefore also a bit of a lost soul. We ended up hanging out together and he introduced me to these things and it became an instant obsession. It was like going to the hobby shops to see all the RC cars you can't afford (Lunch Boxes, Clod Busters, Grasshoppers, Midnight Pumpkin, Bullhead, you name it), but these were effectively mini versions of those in that we could afford them, customize them, and race them amongst ourselves. We were thick as thieves, we weren't interested in sports and spent all our time playing with our technical toys. He even had this, which I wanted all my life:

s-l1200.jpg


Many fond memories. I still have my old Lego at my mum's place, I attribute most of my mechanical engineering understanding to it.

I could go on and on about the hobbies I had over the years. I remember inheriting a Parma slot car from a cousin in the states, and took it to the slot club I was a member of, where people were racing their Ninco Mclaren GTRs. That thing absolutely shredded on the straights, but in the corners it was hopeless, to the point I actually hit someone in the face with it. We laughed about that, then they banned my poor Parma :p
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Why does Lego not re-release this set? I never owned one but by gum I wanted one as a kid! :D

Surely this would be a sure fire success.
 
I finally bought an aluminium profile sim racing rig, and a new desk, and my Pimax Crystal Super VR headset also got delivered after ordering it in March. It's been a good week for me (but not my wallet)!

And yes, for those that know, that is a Staples Kashmir office chair, still going after 10+ years.



 
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Andybtsn said:
Thats a good deal, where from? Presumably ended now but I'll keep a lookout for next time.
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H Samuel had a good deal on carbon epix 47mm.
was this or saphire 51mm onlive...went in and 51mm was defo too big...so 47 it was.
Friday evening H was still showing sale price of 369 and so was the shop in the morning... got home and sale was over...
quick thinking, and I was on the way again to the shop...they accepted sale display price and I got home with new Epix
 
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