Your ideal garage?

Champ wrote

No small, well diminutive actually but perfectly formed and given away
free with every tenancy agreement from that nice Mr Rackman.

 

Ooh I love big FO compressors me. What will you find to blow up with
it?
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DA attack on the outfit.

 

Welding clamps?

 

Nice.

I've just taken delivery of a Sip 3donkey compressor. It would be fine
if TNT hadn't played lob the parcel with it. Bastards.

 

Ooh, no. I'd use those whenever I weld bits back on the lawnmower.

I think they might be for cutting slates or tiles. Or rather, for breaking
them down a scored line.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon says...

Builder's speculum

 

Cleavage adjuster.

 

Wanker's cramp?

 

I must ask - which of the two parts of the anatomy involved, is
affected?

 

Kate Dicey says...

I'm more used to sewing zips into leather and scratch making leather
seat covers for the cars. A different thing to you, but the principles
are the same. Now, coming to a joint in a top stitched cover, where
you've got 8 thicknesses of leather to go through and only one spare
bayonet needle, that's difficult.

 

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Well, of course. Who'd have thought such a thing?

(Can someone tell me what she's talking about?)

 

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Please, sir - can I be next at not finding a use for it? It'd look dandy
hung on the grj wall.

 

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I unforget some bloke at school[1] being asked "Wanker's cramp - d'yer
get it?"[2] and replying "Sometimes in the middle of an exam." He'd got
Frankauria and heard it as /writer's/ cramp.

[1] unrotted in deference to the bikers.

[2] The idea being that if you said no you were silly for not
understanding the joke, if you said yes - well there you are. That's
12YO boys for you.

 

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Should one use rubber solution glue?

 

It's as interesting as a detailed conversation about the innards of some
loved old motorcycle, except I don't know what they're on about either.
There is something you can do though - just substitute "bayonet needle"
with "gudgeon pin", say, "zip foot" with "2nd gear layshaft pinion" etc,
and do similar with all the words and activities you don't understand,
and all of a sudden you'll get a real feel for their enthusiasm - an
empathy with their obsession!

 

Kate Dicey says...

And I thought my old machine[1], a 1940s Singer with aftermarket 4hp
Mundlos motor fitted, was getting on a bit.

[1] Sadly sold on :-(

 

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Uh? Is that 66K buffer memory?

 

Nah... This:

http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk/Sewing_Room/jenny/jenny.htm

The K means it was built at the ole Singer factory at Kilbowie, now
sadly gone. The factory, that is, rather than Kilbowie, wot was still
there last thyme I passed that way.

 

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My neighour's Brother industrial was far quieter than any domestic I've
ever heard. Big well balanced motor, oilbath mechanics, lovely stuff.
The Bellows feller was noisy though, as were her several overlockers.