The "How Much?" / "Having a Giraffe!" Café thread...

[Chris S]

£6 for a Gary Glitter LP
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/322201504237350

 

[Chris S]

£500 for a police bike - "No offers, I know what I've got."
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2368279320028014/

 

[newts]

£500 for a police bike - "No offers, I know what I've got."
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2368279320028014/

At least it has the original saddle.

 

[Beebo]

At least it has the original saddle.

Needs a bit of breaking in before it becomes comfortable.

 

[davidphilips]

Dont know if i should post this as its not really having a laugh or giraffe know there are well over priced but look like a death trap just hope no one buys them or worse tries to use them , Car ramps £30 but look like there have been bits cut out?
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1641147470036269

 

[FrankCrank]

Dont know if i should post this as its not really having a laugh or giraffe know there are well over priced but look like a death trap just hope no one buys them or worse tries to use them , Car ramps £30 but look like there have been bits cut out?
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1641147470036269

Reminds me of my apprenticeship time - always welding up our old banger cars.
A 'rite of passage' was making a set of axle stands and ramps. Would be fair to say mine were over engineered for their intended use.

 

[davidphilips]

Reminds me of my apprenticeship time - always welding up our old banger cars.
A 'rite of passage' was making a set of axle stands and ramps. Would be fair to say mine were over engineered for their intended use.

Know few use car ramps or stands now but far better to use over engineered home made stands or ramps than something unsafe, seen really light fold up axle stands a few years ago for sale in Halfords and tbh i would not have trusted them to hold up one of my bikes.

 

[gavroche]

What you need is a proper hardware shop...The one in Holmfirth is excellent. Ask for a single small spring/washer or similar widget and the old chap in a brown smock will suck his teeth, then rummage about in one of the many drawers before producing said item. Usually for pence.


Also sells wellies, clothes pegs, and pretty much everything else.

Do they sell fork handles in that shop?

 

[Chris S]

£36.57 for a Sturmey Archer pawl spring. You can normally buy a pair for two or three pounds, inc P+P.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353945576098

 

[Time Waster]

Do they sell fork handles in that shop?

My old hardware store actually did sell fork handles. Sold everything! And the old guy in it wore a brown jacket too.

Sold the store to a younger guy who got bored and reduced the stock a lot, then started selling fish food and aquarium plants. Later the hardware went and new merged with a lady who had a pet store except for fish that is. A real shame that. You'd go in with a screw or bolt needed and no matter what it was they used to have them or something so close it didn't matter. There's not many of those stores left.

 

[FrankCrank]

£36.57 for a Sturmey Archer pawl spring. You can normally buy a pair for two or three pounds, inc P+P.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353945576098

Thanks to the generosity of a member of this parish, I acquired a rideable Raleigh Stowaway of seventies vintage, for ten beer tokens.
Kinda puts things in perspective.

 

[Windle]

My old hardware store actually did sell fork handles. Sold everything! And the old guy in it wore a brown jacket too.

Sold the store to a younger guy who got bored and reduced the stock a lot, then started selling fish food and aquarium plants. Later the hardware went and new merged with a lady who had a pet store except for fish that is. A real shame that. You'd go in with a screw or bolt needed and no matter what it was they used to have them or something so close it didn't matter. There's not many of those stores left.

There's a shop called Defty's in Spennymoor that's probably the only 'old school' hardware shop that I can think of now. When I was a lad there was Kell's in Chilton, another typical hardware shop. It was near the end of Eden Terrace on the main road (the old A1 before it became the A167). The shop was far deeper than it looked from the front, going way back with a ramp up to the latter half. Lino floors, everything in shades of brown and beige and the wonderful smell of a paraffin heater. It sold everything as you'd expect including bike stuff. I'm pretty sure back then (early seventies) every village had one similar.

 

[Fastpedaller]

Know few use car ramps or stands now but far better to use over engineered home made stands or ramps than something unsafe, seen really light fold up axle stands a few years ago for sale in Halfords and tbh i would not have trusted them to hold up one of my bikes.

One of my projects for this year is to build a pair of wooden car ramps. This may seem to be shear folly, but of course if it's done correctly the car will always be on solid wood in compression. Can be a lot stronger than steel ones.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMp_IBvlbo

 

[MontyVeda]

One of my projects for this year is to build a pair of wooden car ramps. This may seem to be shear folly, but of course if it's done correctly the car will always be on solid wood in compression. Can be a lot stronger than steel ones.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMp_IBvlbo

the little hooks look like they might just bend out of shape if driving up the ramp does push the hinge open, but otherwise, what could go wrong?

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

One of my projects for this year is to build a pair of wooden car ramps. This may seem to be shear folly, but of course if it's done correctly the car will always be on solid wood in compression. Can be a lot stronger than steel ones.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMp_IBvlbo

Back in the 70s we bought a set of “heavy duty” steel car ramps from the respected national auto parts chain. We returned them a few days later in very distorted condition with several bolt holes pulled oval. Seems heavy duty doesn’t include a 20 foot long 1969 Buick sedan.

I used only wood blocks for a lot of years after that.