Thread: National Swap meet mart Bendigo

Hello Ken,

Agree with you, not a lot of machine tools there except for the guy at the front of the building at the main entrance and I think in 6 hours I walked every outdoor aisle after checking my map.

Did find another site with some and he had a "Lock" cut off tool holder that appeared to be the same size as my other three Lock tool holders. Was tempted but thought I will have a look around and come back later- bad decision.

Didn't find much old Ford Sidevalve/Flathead V8 stuff either which was my main search. Seems forties and fifties cars are ancient history to most of today's car enthusiasts.

Cheers,

Jacques

Originally Posted by Jacqualos

Hello Ken,

Agree with you, not a lot of machine tools there except for the guy at the front of the building at the main entrance and I think in 6 hours I walked every outdoor aisle after checking my map.

There was a guy on the oval that had some

Originally Posted by Jacqualos

Did find another site with some and he had a "Lock" cut off tool holder that appeared to be the same size as my other three Lock tool holders. Was tempted but thought I will have a look around and come back later- bad decision.

Always happens. We have all done that one

Originally Posted by Jacqualos

Didn't find much old Ford Sidevalve/Flathead V8 stuff either which was my main search. Seems forties and fifties cars are ancient history to most of today's car enthusiasts.

Now you know how us 1920s guys feel

One thing I noticed this year was the empty spaces and some of the vendors that were inside previously were outside this year. From my discutions with some vendors it was due to cost of sites

Follwing my relative success with the cheaply acquired Mahr Supramess Comparator at the swap meet, I had a go at improving on the hand-drawn imperial dial face of my old Mahr Dezimess as well.
With the help of Josh G, I was able to 'photoshop' an original looking imperial dial face - which never existed from the Mahr factory as far as I can find out.
Here are a couple of before and after shots:
Mahr-Dezimess.jpg IMAG0905.jpg

You're getting good at these Joe. Does this mean you will corner the market in old Mahr indicators?

Michael

Ha ha ha Michael.... I don't think so

Hi

The Trafalgar swap meet held today was a washout with around 1/3rd of the usual sellers turning up .

Didn't see any machining items at all , but I did see lots of junk that should have been taken to the tip

I bought a couple of cast iron gas burner rings that may be handy for heating things, and a 240V water heating element , the type you hang on the edge of a drum of water or similar. Mike