Sprayerman

I keep dipping in and out but often don’t have anything to say & when I do someone else has already said it. Don’t use any other of the social media sites – not enough time to do what I want at present without those too.

Then again they are all probably in their workshops fettling all the items they have acquired over the winter ready for the…[Read more]

Hi,

A Four Oaks Handy for £12 13s 0d in around 1939-ish being the estimated date for the catalogue the page comes from equates to nearly £700 today, £699.19 to be precise, – so £22 + buyers premium & VAT is b****y cheap.

If you want to see where I looked to work it out have a peek here :ht…[Read more]

That has come up really well – just shows what can be achieved when we look through the c..p that the artefacts often have when we see them.

And it helps when they come to pieces to aid cleaning.

I need stronger spectacles – yes there are some CP adverts but not much detail re CP syringes.
Nevertheless I did fire up the scanner and here are some of the results. They may be of a little interest.

Hello All,

Been away from the forum for a while.

No I don’t have any Cooper Pegler sprayers in the collection as to the best of my knowledge they were not Birmingham based so fell out of my ‘zone’ so to speak. That said I do recall seeing various examples around the shows when we used to go – that’s been a while too.

Having just said that,…[Read more]

Looks like its going to be a good thing there won’t be too much TV to watch over the forthcoming season, just hope it doesn’t get too cold to work wherever you will be working.

The cave system is certainly an extensive one, a long piece of strong twine is required to find one’s way back out again, particularly if one is bringing items out with you!!

That sounds like an interesting plan Paul.

Steve – you are so right – sometime it just does not matter that something does not follow your main interest – if it looks interesting that is the reason to buy it.

I acquired one of these beasts from a Hollowell auction several years ago – when warmed up and at full bore it delivers an impressive flame + sound effect too! ( while warming up it makes an impressive flame thrower !!!) It also had a sizeable thirst getting through a tank full in about 30 minutes.

I have not used Base Camp myself yet despite…[Read more]

Oddly enough I acquired one of these from somewhere long before I started collecting sprayers – now had the internet been as good then as it is now my main interest may not be sprayers? hmm..

No – I shall not go down that route –

Aah. Yes the funnel – well until I saw the funnel in one of your earlier pictures attached to one of your posts I hadn’t realised it should have one!

That said it looks like you have it located in pretty much the correct place – there isn’t the room anywhere else in the chest for it to be located.

I guess the funnel got parted from my set some…[Read more]

Hello Everyone,

A bit late joining the new forum, now winter is closing in I have a bit more time & a new PC helps, the old one suddenly developed a falling over problem ( not too much pop either!!)

What I have seen so far is looking good.

Just need to come up with a suitable Avatar, hmm …

Cheers

Hi Steve,

That’s another good looking item – looks like its had a bit of use too in its’ life.

Cheers

Hi Steve,

Finally managed to work out how to sign up to the new site.

Question re your Military FO Sprayer – on mine the plate gives a date of manufacture, from memory mine was made sometime in 1960 – just wondered when yours was made?

I also think I have got some photo’s of the inside of the crate somewhere ( just had a new PC and still…[Read more]