Ebay Droppings Thread.

[GraemeCook]

There is a moral in your story, Jim, but not sure what it is. "You get what you pay for" doesn't seem appropriate here ...

Au contraire. Jim paid nothing and got nothing!

... I'm a very nervous on-line shopper, and only very occasionally go that route but have still managed to get bitten (by) a mob like Ali Baba, selling a very wide range of stuff from tools to fashion ...

Whoever named Ali Baba was very prescient or had a wicked sense of humour. Remember the full name of the original children's book?

[IanW]

Au contraire. Jim paid nothing and got nothing!....

Well, sort of, Graeme. If the parcel had never turned up then he really would have had a square deal - nothin' for nothin'. That would be fair in my book, but instead he's now got a rather dubious ring-in & the inconvenience of having to bin it...

.....Whoever named Ali Baba was very prescient or had a wicked sense of humour. Remember the full name of the original children's book?

I do - it ends "and the 40 thieves". But Ali was the good guy in the story, remember (though he ended up with all the loot & the girl).. Hmmm, there's a moral there too, but it's all getting too complicated...

And let me hasten to make it clear it was NOT Ali Baba who took my money & ran off to a cave. I've had a couple of dealings with Ali Baba buying brass sheet and both times got exactly what I expected within the time specified, so I have no quarrel with them. The real robbers were a mob masquerading as an A-B-like company (my card was debited to a bank in Cambodia, my bank informed me).

The amount I was done for was about a slab of beer's worth in total so I wasn't quite bankrupted & I certainly learnt a valuable lesson, so while I didn't escape unscathed, you could say I emerged with only minor injuries....

Cheers,

[Chris Parks]

I too am a bit nervous when it comes to using the common Chinese suppliers but I find that if I buy something that Dennis (a sometimes contributor to this forum) has recommended on his YouTube channel Hooked on Wood then I will get what I ordered. He gives a very good & honest review and on lots of different Chinese tools in his series of videos specifically done for that purpose all with links to the suppliers.

[Pete57]

Not eBay but this must be a joke…
Log into Facebook

- - - Updated - - -

Not eBay but this must be a joke…
Log into Facebook

[mattocks]

It can be made for right handers too.
So there's something in that.

[IanW]

The things you can do with 'Photoshop', eh?

[aldav]

A little gem on Gumtree. Maybe I should have said last table saw, not sure how long you'd last if you started using it.
ACCEPTING ANY OFFERS!!! WOODWORKING TABLE SAW | Power Tools | Gumtree Australia Wollondilly Area - Tahmoor | 1280925246

[GraemeCook]

Intriguing, aldav.

Any ideas why one would mount a B&D Workmate bench-top on a pivot on a sawbench top? Picture shows it holding two wide planks 100mm above the sawbench; but why? Obviously I have a deficiency in my education!

[derekcohen]

Rats, it is 3-phase! That's me out of the game.

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Pete57]

Looks like pallet wood project.

[Chief Tiff]

The seller is suffering from addanoughtitus; an affliction that causes Ebaygumbookface sellers to overestimate the value of their goods by a factor of ten.

There is one particular sufferer on Ebay whose been trying to sell the same pile of rusty junk for two years now; there needs to be a limit on the number of times you can re-list items without accruing charges…

[Bushmiller]

This is a listing on US Ebay. Not an abomination, but not right. It comprises two parts, the first of which I have no problem with. It is for a No.248 Stanley mitre box with a Simonds saw. The asking price was US$200, which is a lot more than I would pay, but not unreasonable for the mitre box and saw.

Simonds mitre saw with 248 box.jpg

The second part is supposedly for a Disston No.22. This is where the problems start.

Disston D-22 Not.jpg

So what is wrong with this?

Disston D-22 Etch Not 2.jpgDisston D-22 Etch Not 3.jpg

Well, the D22 was a regular width saw and discontinued around 1922 before the Disston range was rationalised. The "22" should therefore appear inside the "D". The number itself is difficult to see, but the addition of "lightweight" in the etch means it was not a full width saw. So that is two strikes down.

Now on to the handle. The D 20, D21, D22 and D23 all had upmarket features. They had nickel plated saw screws in the early era. Admittedly, if you clean the nickel plated saw screws hard enough you will end up with plain brass, but I would expect some remnant of plating. The medallion on the handle (Philada) was not used after 1917 (the saw plate has to be no earlier than 1928 because of the D-23 with the hyphen, which it is, being a narrow or "lightweight" version). The four D20/23 series all had wheat carving on the flat as well as the grip. Early models were apple, but later models were just stained miscellaneous hardwood. This handle is a later style but still not quite right as tit should have an indent in the forward part of the hand hole.

Another four strikes:


Disston D-22 handle Not.jpg

It looks as though there is some discolouration on the plate around the handle where another slightly different handle originally sat. That handle looks like Beech.

Later saws under the HK Porter ownership may have used this handle, but the saw plate shown is from the pre-1955 ownership under the Disston family.

Caveat Emptor.

Regards
Paul

[Simplicity]

This is a listing on US Ebay. Not an abomination, but not right. It comprises two parts, the first of which I have no problem with. It is for a No.248 Stanley mitre box with a Simonds saw. The asking price was US$200, which is a lot more than I would pay, but not unreasonable for the mitre box and saw.

Simonds mitre saw with 248 box.jpg

The second part is supposedly for a Disston No.22. This is where the problems start.

Disston D-22 Not.jpg

So what is wrong with this?

Disston D-22 Etch Not 2.jpgDisston D-22 Etch Not 3.jpg

Well, the D22 was a regular width saw and discontinued around 1922 before the Disston range was rationalised. The "22" should therefore appear inside the "D". The number itself is difficult to see, but the addition of "lightweight" in the etch means it was not a full width saw. So that is two strikes down.

Now on to the handle. The D 20, D21, D22 and D23 all had upmarket features. They had nickel plated saw screws in the early era. Admittedly, if you clean the nickel plated saw screws hard enough you will end up with plain brass, but I would expect some remnant of plating. The medallion on the handle (Philada) was not used after 1917 (the saw plate has to be no earlier than 1928 because of the D-23 with the hyphen, which it is, being a narrow or "lightweight" version). The four D20/23 series all had wheat carving on the flat as well as the grip. Early models were apple, but later models were just stained miscellaneous hardwood. This handle is a later style but still not quite right as tit should have an indent in the forward part of the hand hole.

Another four strikes:


Disston D-22 handle Not.jpg

It looks as though there is some discolouration on the plate around the handle where another slightly different handle originally sat. That handle looks like Beech.

Later saws under the HK Porter ownership may have used this handle, but the saw plate shown is from the pre-1955 ownership under the Disston family.

Caveat Emptor.

Regards
Paul

Paul,

We’re would we be with out your detective work, an knowledge.
Even dipping into the Disston range, not those high end Saws you collect, I’ve forgotten there names, mainly because I keep to my self, down the back end of town.

But I do hope you weren’t up on a full moon pacing the hallways screaming at the top of your lungs.
There wrong there bloody wrong it’s not a D8 there bloody ignorant fools.
Who the Hell do they think they are ………[emoji2959]

Cheers Matt.

[Bushmiller]

But I do hope you weren’t up on a full moon pacing the hallways screaming at the top of your lungs.
There wrong there bloody wrong it’s not a D8 there bloody ignorant fools.
Who the Hell do they think they are ………[emoji2959]

Cheers Matt.

Matt

I must take more note of my behaviour during the full moons, but in the meantime I can reassure you I lost no sleep over it.

Regards
Paul

[Simon.T]

Dawn No 8 Wood Vice see pictures | eBay

I guess in theory there's enough of it left you could make it sort of work.