So sorry for your loss 🙏💙 Thanks for the shout out Paul mate, have a great one

That was a very thought provoking video, particularly your promotion of other channels. I've added Kimba and Julia to my ever growing list of subscriptions. Keep up the great work. Always enjoy your content

Hi Paul, I'm late to the party.. Nice shout out for Kimber. I was the first one to greet him at the BarZ Bash last year. Great guy, as is everyone in this community. Thanks for mentioning Bear & Sami that was a sad loss. Nice finds and gifts 👍👍 Cheers....

Good film Paul. We really don't know how lucky we are in the UK. My wife recently had breast cancer. From finding a lump in her breast to having had an operation to remove it was 4 weeks. Selling your house to pay for treatment? What kind of a society is that to live in?! Greatest country on earth my arse.

You’re right about the behind the scenes KZfaq community. It’s the best part of it all and pretty much my reason for making videos at all. Some nice new tools there. I do believe in paying the bit extra for import tools from established suppliers. As well as the support - I think when you buy direct you can run the risk of getting whatever rejects are left over. I know I’ve experienced that anyway. Sorry for the sad news in this one. Too many good people taken this way. R.I.P.

Thanks love your videos

Hi Paul great tool haul there our local car boot is pretty poor for tools. A dealer tends to hoover them up. Sorry to hear about your friend 🙁 it does highlight one of the positives of KZfaq in the great community we can build. Thanks again for the shout out 😀

I couldn’t accept the drill bits free but glad you are happy

Hi, regarding your shop vac, it may be worth looking at the commutator. First a visual to see if it needs undercutting and secondly check the armature/rotor with an ohm meter for continuity and insulation to see if any windings are damaged. I know it’s old but a little bit of TLC could increase its life. Thanks for a great video

Well coming to the party a little late sometimes has its advantages. I am able to report that Kimber has now got in excess of 1030 subscribers. Well done all involved. Well done Mr Haxby too. It is unfortunate that many of the engineering contributors on You Tube are not as young as we once were and it is the way of the world that time catches up with them. In the number of years that I have been watching and learning so much from you all I have noted that many channels have gone quiet after a while. All quite sad in a way, but their input is still there for us to appreciate.

It’s nice to see you promoting other channels. Keep up the great work and thank you for all the great videos.

Hi Paul..... I agree with you about Kimber. He's a great genuine guy. Learning the ropes....

Thank you Haxby Shed !!

Some nice birthday presents there Paul, got to agree about the cobalt drills, they really are so much better than HSS. If you decide to have a trip out to RDG Tools, be careful. The last time I was there, it cost me over £600. Bit of a sad Haxby Shed, I'd dipped into both, but hadn't subscribed, at least Matty seems to have recovered well from his "rust". I hadn't realised quite how much backroom activity there is between the various creators. Maybe I should set up a channel instead of "stalking" and commenting.

Hi Paul, Well i'm new to you but we have so many channels and like minded things in common. As for the Vacuum, if things don't last me 40 year i'm disappointed, so that nearly made it.😄😄 Kimber is a great genuine fellow i have his Tee Shirt too, , ditto that to everyone who hasn't already sub'd him, to go over and give him a sub to reach that 1000, it will give him a well deserved Boost.👍👍👍👍 and the Same goes for Julia's Shed lets get her over the 1000 sub's she desreves the boost for what she does. Can't beat Tracy Tools for reliability in my humble opinion. Sad about Bear, i never had the pleasure of joining him on his YT journey Been a follower of Harold for a long time, good to hear he's battling through, miss his video's You have just given a great update here, which many people including me sometimes overlook. Now we've made contact recently look forward to having a bit of banter in the future Can't beat the You Tube Community for supporting each other (99% of the time anyway) Regards Kev

Thanks for the shout out Paul! Having seen your luck at the auto jumble, I’ve no doubt you won’t be without a shop vac for long… I got some cheap 123 blocks early on (imperial ones, I couldn’t find metric at the time). I think they slightly misunderstood their purpose in the factory as *all* the holes appear to be tapping diameter, with a selection actually tapped. The up-shot is a screw which will screw into a threaded hole won’t pass through an unthreaded hole. In other words they can’t be fastened together into a right angle. Are yours the same? Sorry to hear about BRS. His digital legacy remains… Enjoy the sunshine (and if you’re lucky the Northen Lights) Matt.

Nice haul - looks like you did alright. As always, thank you for some great honest sharing! I finally got a power feed for my small mill and wow - what a difference that makes! Looking forward to seeing what’s next. Cheers!

Indeed, Kimber is a very generous person. He did send me some things too some time ago. And Bear left an emty space in my comment section too...

Hi Paul, Looks like your shout out for Kimber has worked, he's at 1.01K at the time of writing 🙂 For the cover of your welding table I would have doused the underside in an oil, the cover I have on my cast iron surface plate is fully impregnated with decades of oil and I've never had an issue with surface rust.

Your mate was right re rusting, I made an rack for my MT tooling just a bit of MDF with parallel holes. Noticed a rust ring on some shafts just where they contacted the MDF. Put a bit of oil on the contact surfaces of the MDF now all is well.

Thx for the vid.

Oh - and I subscribed to his channel. It will be interesting to see his content. Glad to help him out.

Tracy tools are the best

Hi Paul, Great update video tinged with some sadness. I saw Michelles (Rustinox) tribute to Bear a short while ago and had watched some of his videos. He sounded a very genuine person, certainly within the machining community there are lots. I switched off KZfaq recently because my father passed away, just over a month ago now, so as you can imagine its been a difficult and busy time for us, together with a lot of travelling. Hopefully things are starting to settle now but Mum isnt too well at the moment. I thought I had subscribed to Kimber but it looks like I didnt, anyway have now subscribed and I see from some of the comments he has broken the 1K mark now. I'm amazed what you seem to regularly pick up at your autojumble and gobsmaked by the generosity of your viewers, you're going to have to wear that T Shirt next time!! All the best

Hi Paul. Thank you. What more needs to be said.

I miss Bear too. We talked regularly. R.I.P. buddy!

Vacuum you can buy a replacement motor for it, though might be almost the price of a new one. Table top the varnish on underside also means it will not warp with humidity changes, as the wood swells evenly on each side once coated.

Kimber is at 1.04K now!

hate those cobalt drills, they snap in two like nothing ( maybe i had a bad batch ?). cheers ben

I guess Vevor needs to update their website. 😉

Are the 123 blocks clearance drilled for the threaded hole size? In other words, can you blot them together using the threaded holes?

Amusing, we have used Tracy Tools for as long as l remember 😊 RDG as well. Sharp Cobalt drills come from uk-drills. Kimber subscription done. You must have noticed how youtube is becoming a trusted source for circumventing both marketing hype and price hiking. Reviews on tooling, materials, quality and methods are invaluable, especially where everyone can contribute their own views. It even provides free products for the youtube channel - honest reviews, honest manufacturers, no price gouging.