What's your Christmas Present?

[woa2]

What have you got for Christmas? Anything interesting? My dearest Wife gave me a Black & Decker electric adjustable spanner. You press a switch and it closes or opens the jaws.

 

Anybody else got anything interesting?

[Mark]

I got nothing

[abn deuce]

sounds sweet Mark , lets see how it holds up ? wont know about gifts until much later today as its only 7:06 am here just now

[Tony B]

What have you got for Christmas? Anything interesting? My dearest Wife gave me a Black & Decker electric adjustable spanner. You press a switch and it closes or opens the jaws.

 

Anybody else got anything interesting?

 

You GOT to post a picture! The thought is mind bending. :schocked:

[Mark]

You GOT to post a picture! The thought is mind bending. :schocked:

 

 

Its been advertised on TV, have you not seen them :schocked:

[Tony B]

No My life sounds like it has been very empty!

[abn deuce]

I will admit I have seen the ads for a while but wanted to see how sturdy they were in real life use ie some else getting one and giving it a good work out before I would be getting one .

[woa2]

You GOT to post a picture! The thought is mind bending. :schocked:

 

 

http://www.blackanddecker.co.uk/powertools/productdetails/catno/A7150/

 

 

 

[Tony B]

That is a just a tool to far for my tiered old mind. I'll await product report with fascination.

[LeeEnfield]

A fridge-freezer,........... :roll: mine went down on sat. :angry: :angry:

Gotnew one delivered yesterday afternoon................ :sweat:

 

May it not be only your turkeys that are stuffed, this Christmas...................... :yay:

[Markheliops]

I got nothing

 

 

Sympathy vote - Nah. :coffee:

 

[Topdog]

I was given a Black + Decker thingy as well from step dad. The tolerance on the jaws is dreadful.....I do not have high hopes but they say the steel is good quality. Mind you adjustable spanners are, as James May would say, 'The tool of the pikey'. Gimme a good quality combination spanner anytime. Still, it will go in the Ferret toolbin.

[Mark]

Sympathy vote - Nah. :coffee:

 

 

 

You are supposed to be at work Mark, so stop playing snooker or whatever and wash the trucks :coffee2:

[rosie]

me and rcubed got drunk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

merry christmas to you all ;-) ;-) ;-)

[Jack]

Well I am waiting to see what my mother brings tomorrow...

 

In recent years it has been a book on Dorset poets ( how many do you know) a toaster and a a book on how to make bread - can't wait for tomorrow :roll:.

[ArtistsRifles]

Could be books on how to paint GMC's and repair their front ends after the towing company loses a front wheel????? ;-) ;-) ;-)

[Bodge Deep]

me n the missus bought each other tickets to the Dads Army performance in manchester in a couple of days... can't wait. Ooh and a nice lockable steel tool box that slots between the bench seats in the back of the Dodge from me brother...

[David Ives]

nice new spec slr :-D for the landy better than the wooden prop for the shows

[antarmike]

Locking door handles for the Antar, pyramid treadstrip for the Explorer and the K9 and a new semi-suspension seat for the Eager Beaver (yes I know that isn't original, but neither is it's roll cage!)

[Markheliops]

You are supposed to be at work Mark, so stop playing snooker or whatever and wash the trucks :coffee2:

 

 

But it's Christmas!!! :-D

[Snapper]

One year my late aunt Jean gave my wife a roll of J-cloths so she would "have something to open". One year the woman who is my mother gave me a box set of Bing Crosby cds. Not because I like Bing, but because.....I had a cd player. They turned out to be fakes with a soundalike doing the b-b-booms. The same woman gave my wife a microwave oven cook book. Guess what we didn't own at the time? She followed it up with a cheap shopping channel sewing machine which appeared to be made from old Frog model parts. Guess who has never done sewing (save the odd button or name tag?). I could go on.

 

But this Christmas I got the new Bruce Springsteen album from the James - a film from Emily; The Somme Then and Now and The Dams Raid Through the Lense from my bro and sisses in law and the stunning "Remembered" a photo history of the CWGC from my wife plus some clobber. No socks.

 

Today I got a twisted knee - pushing my son out of the way of a speeding Golf GTprat in Westcliff On Sea. It was less heroic than shambolic. I was then accosted by a tramp who wanted a fight. Then I had to drive here to London to do the nightshift. I'm walking backwards for Christmas.

 

Rosemary and RCubed got drunk. Picture the moment.

[abn deuce]

Oh You Poor poor Soul , if ever someone needed some good Christmas cheer !!!!

[Jessie The Jeep]

I got a few WW2 aviation manuals, actually bought a couple of months ago along with two aircraft First Aid Kits.

 

'Guide to the Army Air Forces', 'Aircraft Electrical Systems Manual', 'Aircraft Radio Shop Practice', 'Radiotelephone Proceedure', 'USAAF Report for the Secretary of War'

 

Also bought dad some Map and Aerial Photograph manuals and some navigation plotting instruments.

 

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http://www.sacarr.co.uk/jeep/access/nav/elem_map.jpg[/img] http://www.sacarr.co.uk/jeep/access/nav/adv_map.jpg[/img] http://www.sacarr.co.uk/jeep/access/nav/math.jpg[/img]

 

I quite fancy building a navigators table, seat and the side of the fuselage to display it all in, but have to work out if I can make it portable.

 

Steve

[abn deuce]

at least the amount of space the navigator had for his use was very small to start with ! I m sure with a few hinges in the right places you could have something to fit in a equally small package, and would be unique . Do you plan on using plywood mostly or metal ? Sounds like you will have good hunt to locate the bits if you do.

[N.O.S.]

I quite fancy building a navigators table, seat and the side of the fuselage to display it all in, but have to work out if I can make it portable.

 

 

Sorry to state the obvious, but surely if you build the rest of the fuselage, wings, engines et al, (having seen pics of your model, I'm sure you are capable!) you could fly the navigator's table to and from shows.......... :whistle: