Where can I find....?

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

Anyone any experience on buying used clean 1000L IBCs as rainwater

Just got a flier in the mail box from "otthon-kert" and they have 1000 liter tanks on sale now for 12,900 HUF. I think they are local only. But if they have them on sale, then others probably do near you too.

Maybe they can deliver?  I think we'll never get a couple of them in the car.

I'm going to get my vice/vise in the UK and bring it back in the car.  They are plentiful there.

fluffy2560 wrote:

Maybe they can deliver?

They might. But delivery from western Balaton -- that may not be cheap. If interested, PM me and I can give you their phone number.

fluffy2560 wrote:

I think we'll never get a couple of them in the car.

Don't have a hitch on the car for a trailer? Even our little Suzuki Swift, I bought a hitch for it. Very useful. Very practical.

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

Maybe they can deliver?

They might. But delivery from western Balaton -- that may not be cheap. If interested, PM me and I can give you their phone number.

fluffy2560 wrote:

I think we'll never get a couple of them in the car.

Don't have a hitch on the car for a trailer? Even our little Suzuki Swift, I bought a hitch for it. Very useful. Very practical.

Thanks.

Yes we have hitches (UK: towbars) on our cars but we don't have a trailer and rental of one would cost more than delivery.  Price here is about 5K HUF a day if I remember rightly.  That's silly money.  I keep meaning to buy a trailer but never seem to get around to it nor can I justify right now.  But I'll get Mrs Fluffy on the job soon enough.

fluffy2560 wrote:

a trailer and rental of one would cost more than delivery.  Price here is about 5K HUF a day if I remember rightly.  That's silly money.

If I have someone deliver in a truck, locally, it cost me the same. My trailer is rated at only 500 KG, so above that weight (wood, gravel, sand, etc) I have to pay the delivery cost.

I have had deliveries from further, or weighing a lot (we build stone walls for example -- rocks are heavy), and costing as much as 10,000 HUF. If you can drive out and back in one day, I think the trailer is a good bargain, as custom delivery will be a lot more. But I don't know this company's delivery costs, you can only ask.

fluffy2560 wrote:

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

Definitely not cheap cheap cheap.

Interesting. I thought the ones from 11,000 to 12,000 HUF (about 30-35 EUR) were pretty cheap for a life long tool.

What price range were you looking for?

10K HUF would be OK.  Decent condition with working threads and spring.  I've searched on Ebay in the UK as well and they are in this price range.  Some worn but very serviceable ones.  I want a nice "big" one, not a small one.  I reckon it'd weigh close to 40kg so Pest county best.

Update:

Solved my problem, 12.5K HUF for the vice/vise.  Looks possibly up to 100 years old but in pretty good condition even if quite dirty. Hasn't been used in some years.  Weighs less than 20kg. Even has the spring in good condition and it screws in and out nicely.  I will give it good clean (soda blasting/possible electro-cleaning), then spray paint it and bolt it onto my outside welding bench.  Job done.

fluffy2560 wrote:

Solved my problem, 12.5K HUF for the vice/vise.  Looks possibly up to 100 years old but in pretty good condition even if quite dirty. Hasn't been used in some years.  Weighs less than 20kg. Even has the spring in good condition and it screws in and out nicely.  I will give it good clean (soda blasting/possible electro-cleaning), then spray paint it and bolt it onto my outside welding bench.  Job done.

Nice. Maybe post some before and after photos? Or do one of those tool renovation videos that are kind of fun to watch at youtube.

Oh... there already is one for a leg vice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH8XVXzb9xI

klsallee wrote:

Oh... there already is one for a leg vice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH8XVXzb9xI

Cool video.   My vice/vise is basically the same but I think slightly smaller but in better condition.   The vice table in the video is interesting too.  I'm in a bit of a dilemma at the moment.  The vice is old, if I did that kind of "restoration", I'd be destroying it's patina and obvious age. I had not thought it was actually worth anything more than 12.5K HUF but if I cleaned it up it could be worth a lot more.  I was just thinking of using it but the guy who sold it to me said that he'd seen more at higher prices in other places.

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

Solved my problem, 12.5K HUF for the vice/vise.  Looks possibly up to 100 years old but in pretty good condition even if quite dirty. Hasn't been used in some years.  Weighs less than 20kg. Even has the spring in good condition and it screws in and out nicely.  I will give it good clean (soda blasting/possible electro-cleaning), then spray paint it and bolt it onto my outside welding bench.  Job done.

Nice. Maybe post some before and after photos? Or do one of those tool renovation videos that are kind of fun to watch at youtube.

I thought about a video as Fluffyette1 is very keen on making videos at the moment.   The "in" thing is vlogging so maybe we can do one one of those.   

The guy using the wire brush on the grinder is actually abrasively removing material and that's not such a great thing to do - soda blasting will remove a very small amount but won't cut into the object.

fluffy2560 wrote:

The guy using the wire brush on the grinder is actually abrasively removing material and that's not such a great thing to do - soda blasting will remove a very small amount but won't cut into the object.

A good reason to make your own video how to do it better.

This is tedious.

I'm looking for something called a 110 block with legs.

If you don't know what that is,  you probably won't be able to find one in Hungary. But if curious, have a look here: 110 Block

I would prefer pre-wired jumper cables.  The 110 block should support say, 48 cables. 

60 block is not what I need.

If I could get a 110 block in a wall cabinet, then that'd be good.

I am prepared to consider alternatives if 110 blocks are not available here.

I do NOT want a 110 block with patch panel (I have one already pre-wired).

Could look at https://www.conrad.at/ they deleiver

SimCityAT wrote:

Could look at https://www.conrad.at/ they deliver

Hmmm....thanks, they are the Maplin's of Europe.  Not very useful I'm afraid.  There's a Conrad here but it's really expensive.  So, they aren't really the right people. 

I need like a company selling parts for telephone exchanges, possibly electricians or IT companies. 

I've searched like all last week and couldn't find anyone except possibly someone in China but I don't want really to buy from there.  They are cheap things and easy to get in say, the USA.  It's only a bit of moulded plastic with punchdown terminals.

BTW, I need 4-pair, specifically for networking (not for phones).

*Update:  I should add that I can buy "Krone" versions in Europe but these need special tools and I wanted to avoid needing special tools for the job.  I could wire the building cables directly to the patch panel but unfortunately some of the cables are not long enough for that, so I will need to put them to a punch down block with through connect (if possible) - the through connect means I can add extension cables.

klsallee wrote:

Tomato clips.

Follow up: Found basically what I need at Obi:

https://www.obi.hu/tovabbi-kerti-segede … /p/3121548

or

https://www.obi.hu/tovabbi-kerti-segede … /p/1181718

Huge pity I can not find them in any Hungarian source where I live, and needed to use a foreign big box store to get such a basic trivial item.....

fluffy2560 wrote:

.....

BTW, I need 4-pair, specifically for networking (not for phones).

*Update:  I should add that I can buy "Krone" versions in Europe but these need special tools and I wanted to avoid needing special tools for the job.  I could wire the building cables directly to the patch panel but unfortunately some of the cables are not long enough for that, so I will need to put them to a punch down block with through connect (if possible) - the through connect means I can add extension cables.

To answer my own question, I got second hand stuff in the UK via Ebay.  I had it delivered there, then when I was there, I packaged it all up and sent it to myself by courier.   Courier was £20 for up to 20kg.

I got 50 punch down blocks - includes spares - for about £20 (they were for phones or other application but I can live with it) and I also got a second hand rather snazzy distribution wall cabinet for £50.  Tried it out on a few connections - works perfectly up to 1 Gbps.

All in cost, less than £100.  New price would have been close to £1000.  Job done!

klsallee wrote:

Tomato clips. Like this:

[img align=c]https://www.milkwood.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/how-to-string-climbing-tomatoes13-1024x683.jpg[/url]

Emergency tomato/plant clip alert!

You can get these now in Aldi, 999 HUF. 

I don't have a link but they must have been there for a week as they only had a few packets left.

Get them while you can!

fluffy2560 wrote:

klsallee wrote:

Tomato clips. Like this:

[img align=c]https://www.milkwood.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/how-to-string-climbing-tomatoes13-1024x683.jpg[/url]

Emergency tomato/plant clip alert!

You can get these now in Aldi, 999 HUF. 

I don't have a link but they must have been there for a week as they only had a few packets left.

Get them while you can!

Yes, I saw them at my last trip to Aldi.

But I have moved on (giving up and moving on is a common theme in Hungary it seems), and just decided to use my $100 vine binding tool (which I already had), and just cut the tape when I need to move plants around.  I bought a couple years of tape, which is cheap.

We drove to a big Aldi on Thursday because they had a few items I wanted to look at that are never available at the smaller shop near our place.
Bought 2 items more then we had cash on hand with us, a blender and a new iron and a few small groceries. ( Had to buy a smoothie making blender that I hadn't planned on buying.. the last one in the shop)
Guess it came to around $80. some US bucks.
We then drove and made more change to go over to Tesco with.
Chilled yesterday by not going anywhere but today walked over to our local Aldi to check out some seat cushion that I was a bit short of cash to buy on Thursday.
Of course they didn't have it.
I visited HU twice in the old commie days and believe me back then you were lucky to find what you were looking for at any given time.
It sometimes feels the way here even now. Buy it now or forget about it.
Wasn't in the mood to drive to a larger Aldi to see if they had a seat cushion, one lesson to learn is to buy what you need in Hungary when and where ever you see it because it may be next week or next decade before you see it here again.

Oh, I will have to have a look at our stores. Will have to be Monday now.

I found fresh tumeric root in Budapest inside a tiny Bio shop.
It was hardly noticeable that the shop was even open.
Had a large yellow Bio sign on top of the store but no window display, one could very easily walk right past the store.
5,000 Forints a kilo not a great deal but still if you want it what can you do other then grow your own.
Located on Joseph Kourt, the large circle blvd in the 8th district . Between Penny Market and Blaha Lusza Ter.
Had some organic veggies too but didn't bother looking them over, also found some organic apple cider vinegar for about 400 forints less then most other bio shops are selling it for.
The thing is just when you get used to a business they often seem to close down.
This shop was not fancy or large at all, the rent might be very high on the blvd. so it is probably just a matter of time before they move or close for good.
Get your fresh tumeric while the getting is good.

I'm searching for a particular type of nut.

The guy in this video is restoring a vice.   I have a very similar one which I also would like to restore/get functional. 

If you see the screw thread underneath, I need a nut to fit on that screw thread (my plan is to weld it into position - I don't have thread cutting equipment (at least not that pitch and diameter).

So, tips on where to get vice spares needed please!

fluffy2560 wrote:

I'm searching for a particular type of nut.

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So, tips on where to get vice spares needed please!

Sorry, can not help.....

But...... I lost a nut for a Stihl brush cutter head. Really a 10 cent part. But impossible to find by itself. I had to buy an entire new head. Silly. Simply silly. And expensive.

To hire a machinist would probably have been less. Hex bar stock, cut and tapped. Maybe 15 minutes of work.

If I could find one to do the work.

In any normal country that would be easy.... But here...... Forget it.

Side note: Every one of these restoration videos seem to use WD-40. Which apparently is the "duct tape" of the restoration video world.

Then in this case using clamps and force to try to make it work.

Very annoying. Because it is so ignorant.

The rust problem is better solved by simply putting the tool in some weak acid to dissolve rust and loosen things up.  Basic chemistry regarding Iron oxide and ignorance there of. But I digress......

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

I'm searching for a particular type of nut.

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So, tips on where to get vice spares needed please!

Sorry, can not help.....

But...... I lost a nut for a Stihl brush cutter head. Really a 10 cent part. But impossible to find by itself. I had to buy an entire new head. Silly. Simply silly. And expensive.

To hire a machinist would probably have been less. Hex bar stock, cut and tapped. Maybe 15 minutes of work.

If I could find one to do the work.

In any normal country that would be easy.... But here...... Forget it.

Side note: Every one of these restoration videos seem to use WD-40. Which apparently is the "duct tape" of the restoration video world.

Then in this case using clamps and force to try to make it work.

Very annoying. Because it is so ignorant.

The rust problem is better solved by simply putting the tool in some weak acid to dissolve rust and loosen things up.  Basic chemistry regarding Iron oxide and ignorance there of. But I digress......

Yes, absolutely easy to fix things elsewhere.  Here, no idea.

The problem with nuts and bolts for "technical applications" is that these off the shelf ones in OBI or wherever are absolutely useless.  They aren't manufactured for any kind of stress and just turn to butter. 

I've just had to buy a "selection box" of nuts and bolts for shipping here so I can get the correct tensile strengths for automotive repairs.  It would indeed be easier elsewhere.  I can find such nuts and bolts here but I have to go to Budapest for it an it takes best part of a morning or afternoon to get there and back.  My hobby car as some really odd sizes - like 7mm - bolts.  Now who in their right mind uses a 7mm bolt?  6mm yes, 8mm yes but 7mm? Downright weird.

WD-40 I don't have a problem with - if Nasa uses it, why shouldn't I?  It wasn't really shifting for him as presumably it was just too close a fit for the WD-40 to penetrate.  I use it all the time. So he forced it and for that, I cannot blame him as it could have take days otherwise.   But maybe I would have put some heat on it. Nuts and bolts that won't turn usually give it up after applying a Mapp gas blow torch for a couple of minutes or welding torch on it for a minute.

But the guy has a shed load of tools including clearly a lathe, a milling machine and a sand blasting cabinet (I want one!).   Nice for him but not the bush fixers out there.   I have actually toyed with the idea of getting a lathe/milling machine to mess about with - 40+ years ago I used to use one in "metalwork class" which might be known in the US as "shop" (maybe? or something like it).

The guy in the video did use electrolysis rather than acid to clean up his parts in that or other videos.  I do that with heavily rusted items using borax as electrolyte (anything really will do apart from straight water).

It doesn't really work that well unless you've got a really super dumb battery charger and most chargers these days are too smart for that kind of application.  They just stop working these days as they think it's a fault. 

Problem with acid is that it'll remove material (same as grinding) whereas electrolysis will convert/move it.

OBI is a hobby store. They dont sell for industrial application (and no sane handyman buys there, same for Praktiker).

For nuts, you should try the specialist stores:

https://www.fabory.com/hu/http://www.trendix.hu/hu/fooldal.htmlhttps://info.csavarda.hu/termekek

As for the spare part, I didnt find a single store that sells vice parts. Take out the part you need and bring it to a store, maybe they can order spares.
https://www.szerszamvilag.hu/termekeink/satukhttps://www.conrad.hu/hu/satuk-o1513010.html

Rawlee wrote:

OBI is a hobby store. They dont sell for industrial application (and no sane handyman buys there, same for Praktiker).

For nuts, you should try the specialist stores:

https://www.fabory.com/hu/http://www.trendix.hu/hu/fooldal.htmlhttps://info.csavarda.hu/termekek

As for the spare part, I didnt find a single store that sells vice parts. Take out the part you need and bring it to a store, maybe they can order spares.
https://www.szerszamvilag.hu/termekeink/satukhttps://www.conrad.hu/hu/satuk-o1513010.html

Thanks.

I agree OBI and Praktiker are hopeless.  Let's not forget Bauhaus too. 

Conrad will be useless (and crazy expensive) too - more electronics oriented.

This particular vice is not that big but it's substantially made and very heavy.   The thread pitch is problematic for finding a nut but I might actually be able to make an alternative.

This kind of thing:

Maybe someone knows....

I need two pieces of sheet steel - about 30-50cm square and maybe 3-5mm thick.   

Could be even bigger as I can easily cut it.   Could be offcuts so that's it's cheaper.

Doesn't have to be new but should be clean and not rusty so I can weld it.

I want to use it as reinforcement on heavy metal/engineering work bench so I can mount a large vice on it.

I'm also interested in steel sheet, 1mm thickness of about 3m long and 1m wide. I need this to cover and reinforce yet another work bench so I can put a 4WD car axle on it.

I tried my local steel stockholders and they don't have any.  They are more into square steel profiles for fencing or rebar for building work. 

Thoughts welcome.

fluffy2560 wrote:

I'm also interested in steel sheet, 1mm thickness of about 3m long and 1m wide.

My local supplier has standard sized 2x1 m x 1mm sheets. I bought one some years ago. Still have most of it (that was the smallest they sold and I did not need that much). I also bought some 50X40x1 cm thick sheet (got that from a welding shop) for a extension for my tractor plow.

Basically, you need to go out to the country side, where there are a lot of tractors, as farmers use this kind of stuff all the time. Not city folks....

klsallee wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

I'm also interested in steel sheet, 1mm thickness of about 3m long and 1m wide.

My local supplier has standard sized 2x1 m x 1mm sheets. I bought one some years ago. Still have most of it (that was the smallest they sold and I did not need that much). I also bought some 50X40x1 cm thick sheet (got that from a welding shop) for a extension for my tractor plow.

Basically, you need to go out to the country side, where there are a lot of tractors, as farmers use this kind of stuff all the time. Not city folks....

It's a good tip. 

Welding shop is probably the best place. Probably 1cm would be a bit over-engineered.  The metal table/bench has wood insert made of heavy panels 3cm thick. I could bolt the vice to the wood with some large washers but I'd rather weld on metal sheets top and bottom and put some industrial bolts through it.  Basically make a metal sandwich with wood as the filling. 

I'll get Mrs Fluffy on the job.

Two things I am looking for:

1) Secondhand (cheap!) steel sheets (Acél lemezek), 3 or 4 of them, 2mm x 1.5m x 1m to use for vehicles of up to 2T to run over some small trenches and to protect some ground.  Sometimes called road plates.

2) Hydrocortisone cream 1% generic brand without prescription OTC.

Looking for:

1) Sugar-free(not no added sugar) peanut butter - crunchy or smooth - with no additives  Must be very low sugar (<2.5g/100g).

2) Waxoyl BLACK underseal and rust convertor for vehicles (not oil based Dinitrol - too expensive). Waxoyl doesn't seem to be sold in Hungary (made by Hammerite). I can get it in Latvia shipped but €€€€.

3) Crimped flexible rubbery hydraulic pipes and metric end screw fittings made to measure  - temperature up to  say 150-200C and oil/fuel resilient.

fluffy2560 wrote:

Looking for:

1) Sugar-free(not no added sugar) peanut butter - crunchy or smooth - with no additives  Must be very low sugar (<2.5g/100g). .

Easier to make than find it.

Buy peanuts in bulk (shelled are cheaper if you have time to shell them and those are salt free if one has salt issues), then put into a food processor. Give it some time in the processor.... it will turn into peanut butter. Been making my own peanut butter like this for decades (even when still living full time in the USA, which was in another century). Hope this helps.

Side note: You can make walnut butter, almond butter, etc the same way. But other nuts may need a splash of oil to process, as they do not have as much natural oil as peanuts. 

Looking for automotive quality 3/8" "brake pipe" compression fittings preferably stainless steel or brass.  Need about 4 of them.  Could accept flared type fittings at a push.


Note: permanently installed compression fittings on brake pipes are illegal in some countries and while they are to be used on 3/8" pipes, I'm using them for hot oil under low pressure (4-6 bar) and not for brakes.

fluffy2560 wrote:

Looking for:
Sugar-free(not no added sugar) peanut butter - crunchy or smooth - with no additives  Must be very low sugar (<2.5g/100g).

There's a store that sells English products called https://www.britishstore.hu/ you can find it in the city. I don't know if it has a specific type o a product but they'll have peanut butter I'm pretty sure.

I'm looking for an electric blanket. Something nice and large that I can put in the washing machine. I tried to order one on Amazon and it never arrived.

Edit: ----

On that note I just found this thread which talks about online shopping in Hungary, I'd rather do that I just didn't know about these.

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=719359

mr.kequc wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

Looking for:
Sugar-free(not no added sugar) peanut butter - crunchy or smooth - with no additives  Must be very low sugar (<2.5g/100g).

There's a store that sells English products called https://www.britishstore.hu/ you can find it in the city. I don't know if it has a specific type o a product but they'll have peanut butter I'm pretty sure.

Thanks.

I can buy ordinary peanut butter in places like Auchan but they usually have far too much added sugar.  It should low low low sugar.  The one I have now is made in New Zealand but I brought it back from the UK where they sell it in ordinary Tesco.

mr.kequc wrote:

....Amazon electric blanket...

If you ordered Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk either you'll never get it or you'll pay a fortune for postage.  Other thing is either of those two places will not help you electrically.  US/Canada power is different (110V/60Hz there vs 230V/50Hz here) and UK item will come with the wrong plug (it's compulsory fitted, not optional).  Plug in a US electric blanket and it will go bang and possibly hurt you or catch fire.  UK ones you can replace the plug if you want and it will work but electric blankets need some rubbery plugs I imagine.  I'd be cautious about the sizing.  Bed sheets from some countries don't fit others.  European beds are metric sized unsurprisingly and the bedware reflects it.

If you get it from Amazon.de you will get it, no problem but probably have to pay something more than you should for transport but not usually exceptional.

Many resellers stick the boot in on transport/postage if you go past Austria.  I've seen insanely stupid things like 10 EUR from NL to the UK for something but 55 EUR from NL to HU for the same thing.  Just absurdly stupid.

Just for fun, you could go old school and get someone to snuggle up to instead of the blanket.

Nah I'll stick to the electric blanket. Way less complicated.

mr.kequc wrote:

Nah I'll stick to the electric blanket. Way less complicated.

Doesn't have to be human - cat or dog are possibilties!

Or hot water bottle?

A electric blanket is really meant to (air) warm the bed in an unused room.

A hot water bottle is cheaper and a safer bet.