Being tight-fisted again...

I recently had a painful bout of 'Spenditis' and set to to find a nice ready-made hand pump of the sort commonly seen all over the place in the 1950s and a stone trough or cistern with which to pose it. Halfway through the attack I went into remission because

a.  I could find nothing to suit me 
b.  Growing pains in the back pocket area

Sites such as Harburns Hobbies, Langleys etc left me gasping for air so I resolved to make my own, using Fimo modelling clay for the stone trough, various bits of plastic from the scrap box and a redundant signal box fire bucket that I drilled out and scraped to a more acceptable rim thickness with a scalpel, replacing the over scale handle as I did so with jewellery wire.

This occupational therapy completely cured the nasty attack, I shall probably invest the savings in some S.L.W., now that interests rates are so low.



Doug

That is impressive Doug.
Does it work though?
It's amazing what can be done with a bit of thought and loads of scrap bits.

Nice therapy… Time well spent and money well…. ah…. repurposed :cheers

Very nice Doug.   :thumbs

Much better to buy some more RLW with the savings …..

Actually Doug could make a lot of them, sell them & purchase good quality RLW !

By the way, Bl@@dy good job…

I nearly broke out in a cold sweat then !   Doug spending SLW tokens on ..on.. Stuff !!  :shock:

Nice looking bath tub there young Sir  :thumbs. Bit drafty though don't you think ??  :hmm

Cheers

Matt

Draughty?  Nah, toughens yer up. Nice job there, I can just see meself in the bath having a scrub.

MAD!! Mad, I  tell you…

D

Very nice. Looks very in keeping.