Thread: Alternative uses for collectables

If they’d rigged up an old bicycle dynamo and had a lamp that lit up if you pushed hard enough that would be interesting.
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It's very easy to make fun of these post Brexit innovations in light of the very minor economic hiccups that have beset the UK such as the drop in living standards, reductions in exports and the relocation of British enterprises to Europe. However, I for one support their efforts in trying to redevelop European markets that have slipped from their grasp over the last six years since the referendum. Experimental tools such as the above plane is typical of the "Make Britain Great Again" ethos that has swept the country. Unmentioned by the member who started this thread, who is obviously tempted to scoff at British innovation, is the thinking that has gone into this particular plane design. In an effort to support them I bring some of their thinking to your attention

Recycling: There must be many hundreds of thousands of wooden planes now lying dormant throughout the UK now that European carpenters cannot readily cross borders to work there. Repurposing these tools for export seems obvious given that home grown tradesmen will not be available to use them until they finish their apprenticeships.
Night work: The lamp fitting at the front end of the plane is genius. With a decent extension cord, plugged in next door where they can still afford to pay for electricity, one can undertake night work on site.
Site mobility and smooth planing: I have combined these two benefits conferred by the wheels. Perhaps this could be extended to an all terrain usage given there is six wheels.

Yes. The industrial revolution continues on in the old dart and we can only wish them well.

Originally Posted by Doggie

Experimental tools such as the above plane is typical of the "Make Britain Great Again" ethos that has swept the country. Unmentioned by the member who started this thread, who is obviously tempted to scoff at British innovation, is the thinking that has gone into this particular plane design. ... Yes. The industrial revolution continues on in the old dart and we can only wish them well.

Doggie, quite possibly you are correct and I scoffed too soon. Yesterday I came across another example of MBGA.
Sorry about the picture orientation but I had to take them in portrait.
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I rest my case HPF. Another sterling example of modern British innovation lighting the way forward. Bracing themselves against a hostile world by adapting a nineteen century brushless drill to generate cheap energy to replace the gas once supplied by one of Mr Putin's companies. Just turn the handle old chap and the 85 inch flat screen comes back on. Who cares about soaring inflation, food security, covid on the rise, European wars, rising intrest rates, unstable government and labour shortages when good old British innovation comes up with ideas such as you photographed. I'm filled with admiration for them. The UK will be back on top in no time.

Hpf

I rather like the steam punk scene and in the first post those wheels, if I am not mistaken, are from a Meccano set. Oh... the nostalgia.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

those wheels, if I am not mistaken, are from a Meccano set. Oh... the nostalgia.

At the risk of offending Doggie, a waste of a wooden plane and vintage Meccano hardware?
Maybe like the Simpsons episode where Homer arrives home wearing a tweed jacket with leather patches on the elbows.
Marge says - Homer, you have ruined a perfectly good jacket.
Homer replies - No, I have ruined 2 perfectly good jackets!

Originally Posted by Doggie

I rest my case HPF. Another sterling example of modern British innovation lighting the way forward. Bracing themselves against a hostile world by adapting a nineteen century brushless drill to generate cheap energy to replace the gas once supplied by one of Mr Putin's companies. Just turn the handle old chap and the 85 inch flat screen comes back on. Who cares about soaring inflation, food security, covid on the rise, European wars, rising intrest rates, unstable government and labour shortages when good old British innovation comes up with ideas such as you photographed. I'm filled with admiration for them. The UK will be back on top in no time.

Good Lord Doggie, do we have to fear a second wave of colonisation if your scenario comes true?

I have been told that caravans of economic refugees are already massing at major British ports awaiting passage to Australia from the people smugglers (airlines). Apparently we are in danger of being swamped by 10,000 pound immigrants from the UK who will take over our pubs, warm our beer and encourage their daughters to become Prime Minister. People are saying they cannot be assimilated and will form Sloan ranger enclaves within our cities and open Tesco's and Boots chemists and their mothers will never learn to speak Australian.

I notice that the blade can be seen protruding through the bottom of the plane which suggests this might actually be a hand thicknesser perfectly set up for producing wood to a thickness of 12.7 mm.
However, the target piece of wood can be no wider than the plane.

Alternatively, you could do this to a tool:

Old hand saw tractor cows themed | eBay

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Originally Posted by hiroller

Alternatively, you could do this to a tool:

Old hand saw tractor cows themed | eBay

s-l500.jpg

hiroller

You could, but not recommended in my shed.



Regards
Paul

PS: It is my turn to buy the beer at our next meet.

Yes
But it is still usable. It still has teeth and can cut wood. Surely this type of decorated saw is more entertaining for a woodworker than the plain old sort with just blank shiny metal? Where is your soul people. Sing with the angels and be uplifted with the artistry of it all. It would not surprise me that this saw is probably very similar to the tool that Vincent happily cut his ear off with (or ted Bundy used to lop his friends to freezer size).