Metal Detecting

Found this radiator key at some point and due to lockdown boredom bled my radiators today.Just wondered if anyone has found something they have found useful. Profits from finds not included

Iron wedges I use as a ball joint separator

Don't know what you mean but sounds useful/painful

I always keep a good cold chisel.. I haven't had to buy one for years!
Also a corkscrew head for my drain rods.
A dog whistle and the odd usable teaspoon!
And a karabiner clip or two!

Useful find Dave, only thing is don't forget to repressurise your system, if it's a sealed system.

Done that

The pressure in my hot water system is dependent on how high I turn the wick up ss47

Davidthomas wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:48 pm Done that

Good man, I get called out to a lot of people who don't realise you've got to put water back in, particularly in this cold weather, when bleeding cold rads.

sweepstick47 wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:53 pm The pressure in my hot water system is dependent on how high I turn the wick up ss47

A lot less to go wrong with that type though sweepstick47.

I found this swivel quite some time ago and dismissed it as being not too old, I thought I might be able to make use of it on a Dog lead or a key chain. I had no idea that it was Medieval.

20200723_191642 by Terra Englandia, on Flickr

20200723_191556 by Terra Englandia, on Flickr

Found a spoon I must have lost eating my shreddies in the garden when I was younger - I can eat my shreddies with it now I'm older too

TheAndyA wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 9:21 pm I found this swivel quite some time ago and dismissed it as being not too old, I thought I might be able to make use of it on a Dog lead or a key chain. I had no idea that it was Medieval.

20200723_191642 by Terra Englandia, on Flickr

20200723_191556 by Terra Englandia, on Flickr

cool

deserves to be used

I detected my father's garden, and found a set of car keys from his old Ford Escort. They must have been lost 20 years earlier. There was a small padlock key on the ring, that I remember him using as some poor-man's StopLock. I had a rummage in his shed, and found the padlock, with a shiny second key. After some cleaning, the dug-up key worked fine. The padlock is now helping secure my garage door, and the dug-up is the spare, should I lose the shiny one.

I also found a decent quality pair of Fiskars scissors in one of his flower beds, probably 10+ years buried. With a bit of T-cut and some oil, they're good for a few more decades of light-duty pruning work.

I found the starting handle from our old S2 Land Rover several plough points from the current plough which saved a few bob, and the BMC Diesel badge from the front of the Nuffield tractor we are doing up.

I was rather pleased to find an iron 6 inch square drain grate. I'd been meaning to get one as a replacement for the useless plastic one that kept lifting off.