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tree-frog wrote:... mind you I don't keep any Vaseline in the house...

I am intrigued .... where do you keep it?

I love it when there is a winner, especially when it's one of our own! However The word Vintage gets banded around a lot and is meaningless unless it's immediately accompanied by a year. * My car is vintage 2003 * My PC is vintage 2006 The word gets used I suspect because it implies age and desirabi...

Ah ... so you bought it?

Pencils, Steam Irons, Washboards, Vegetarianism ?????
Thank you everyone you have just given me so many reasons for not getting involved in this particular travesty of our hobby!

Sorry .... I know this is entirely off topic, but .........

Am I the only one who cringes every time I read: -

BEAVER TATTOO VENDING MACHINE

The mental pictures are scarring me! Or do I mean scaring me?

There speaks the voice of a patient artisan ............... if this were me I think at this stage I'd be reaching for the 6" nails and my very special thumpometer

Thanks for that ....... very helpful detail, I certainly didn't realise it was so big.

Try a little ptfe tape around the thread

This all seems ripe to me for a bout of practicing a few new adjectives whilst learning how aerodynamic your tools are..........

I agree, fantastic ... pity about the machine that's in the way

My flabber has never been so gasted.

330442397461 THIS LOT IS A VINTAGE CAST ALLUMINIUM HOUSTON'S GUM BALL MACHINE Vintage as in "now" as my local gadget shop still sells them. I REALY LIKE THIS Don't sell it then. IT HAS SOME AGE So do the tomatoes I bought from Sainsbury's this morning THE COIN SLOT LOOKS TO ACCEPT QUARTERS...

Put them on the auction here at PennyMachines.
https://pennymachines.co.uk/cgi-bin/Auc ... pe=current

Guest wrote:Let us all know if you get a reply, as I am am still waiting for mine, but it is 100% the right address!!

Jack was as good as his word - the new MFP catalogue landed today. I must laminate it before I get dribble marks all over it.

Hi Andrew ....... Welcome to the site. Your machine is probably suffering from the same dry grease syndrome that Slotalot was just describing. How familiar with the mechanism are you? Would it help if I said clean the grooves the wire brakes run in on the reels? Clean the pivot bearings where the re...

We're wasting money on the same script writer Mr PM

Hmmm? ............. methinks I may have started a trend here!

Don't despair though Tom; in my experience somebody eventually turns up from many miles away clears your garden for you and presses folding money into your sticky little hands having just let you play with his dog.

I tried to take photos of the corner plates for you (don't laugh Jem) but until the words are picked out in paint the letters are too flat to show .... sorry

Well JC it's because my body clock is buggered ....... my mind got buggered over ten years ago :burp: and now it's the body's turn. :#: ..... you'll be my age one day. :!?!: By the way superb photos Mr Pennymachines. About twenty-twelve years ago I had a nice little side line buying up old and batte...

Whoever buys it will feel flushed with success