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Tiny Duplex Steam Pump
« on: February 02, 2021, 03:41:50 pm »
Found this at a flea market. Needs some work, but you can see that it functions all right.

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« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2021, 03:53:58 pm »
What a cute little thingie that one is, congratulations  :)

Like that Palmgren vice as well, some good quality tools they make (or made for all i know, as i´ve only encountered some older stuff from them).
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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2021, 04:05:41 pm »
You have some of the best flea market finds  8)
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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2021, 04:44:47 pm »
Quote from: classixs on February 02, 2021, 03:53:58 pm
What a cute little thingie that one is, congratulations  :)

Like that Palmgren vice as well, some good quality tools they make (or made for all i know, as i´ve only encountered some older stuff from them).

Oddly enough, the Palmgren vice cost two bucks at a yard sale, and it is used almost every day!
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Re: Tiny Duplex Steam Pump
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2021, 05:02:06 pm »
Wow...what a find!
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Re: Tiny Duplex Steam Pump
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2021, 05:10:23 pm »
Quote from: Jim on February 02, 2021, 05:02:06 pm
Wow...what a find!

Ah, but which one? The pump? The vice?
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Re: Tiny Duplex Steam Pump
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2021, 05:20:25 pm »
Quote from: Nick on February 02, 2021, 04:05:41 pm
You have some of the best flea market finds  8)

I kind of think that it's because there is little interest in model engineering in Canada, so a lot of stuff ends up in flea markets and yard sales.

Until 2007, I lived in a small city some 50 miles north of Toronto, Ontario, and found all kinds of stuff at yard sales and flea markets. Since then, however, I have lived in a farming community of about 2500 in eastern Ontario, where there are about 1/50th as many as sales, but it's still amazing what I find out here in the boonies....

Seek and ye shall find, say I.
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« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2021, 05:29:50 pm »
Every garage sale around here is about 3/4 baby baby clothes, nothing good  :D

The flea market is the first area I hit at the steam/threshing shows, but I’m lucky if I find a Mamod tractor at those. They’re turning into a bunch of junk from Harbor Freight and Dollar General that people are trying to re-sell.
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« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2021, 05:44:30 pm »
Quote from: Hero on February 02, 2021, 05:10:23 pm
Quote from: Jim on February 02, 2021, 05:02:06 pm
Wow...what a find!

Ah, but which one? The pump? The vice?

Both great bargains!
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« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2021, 05:46:22 pm »
Yeah, the baby clothes and plastic toys are here, too, even in my little farming community.

Still, I have found things even here on occasion, like my calliope, a yellow Mamod Meccano donkey engine, a 3-ton arbour press, 119 good Clarkson Autolock end mills in a lot of almost 200 end mills for $10.00 (honest!), and a Cameron precision drill press.

Just gotta keep looking....
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