Guess what this is - antedote to the Holympiks

[Chris]

Well other than the archery, it's been a bit dull, so at knock off, I ventured into the Man-cave with the express purpose of entertaining you all.

So what is Chris up to now?


(No prizes, it's just for fun and if you vote after the lines have closed you'll look a right dummy, charges may apply, calls from a phone are quite normal)

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[TonyP]

Erm, its a pipe you made on the lathe

 

[fridayman]

Olympic torch? Telescope? Table leg? Cattle prodder? Olympic relay baton? Peg leg?

 

[Bat21]

A lathe, a hose pipe.... and a fork stanchion from a motor bike

 

[Chris]

Table leg????? Damn, I hadn't thought of that. 3 more and I'd have.. err... 4 of them.

Nope OK next instalment

Here's the next piece

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Which screws into the first like this

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Chris

 

[Chas]

It's a very long Olympic torch?

 

[Chris]

Re: Guess what this is - antidote to the Holympiks

Nah. It's f*** all to do with the sodding Olympics - that's what antidote means

Come on, you'll really dig this.

Chris

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

small spade?

 

[Chris]

Ahh, Jon.

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At the weekend, someone bust the 'andle on my shovel. So I decided to make a sectional one in aluminium. It needs some finishing and smoothing out, plus I have to fix it to the pan head, but yep. It's a shovel.

Said you'd dig it.

Chris

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

Said you'd dig it.

Yep, that was a bit of a give away, not normal Chris speak that

 

[Chas]

Ah! the old original shovel, it's got a new shaft and it's got a new 'andle but it's the old original snovel.

 

[Rob]

I like it, nice work Chris

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[TonyP]

Ah nice...

 

[chadr]

Lovely handle, shame about the shovel !

You know you're just showing off don't you..?

 

[Chris]

It's looking pretty good now after some fine tooling!

Chris

 

[MuckyPup]

That's a proper engineers shovel that......

 

[Chris]

Not sure a REAL engineer would be seen dead actually digging. Guess that makes me, errr, not exactly Isambard then.

Can't leave it on my truck now. Going to get pinched. It does look pretty tidy. Might have to spray it black to fool the magpies.

Chris