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(02-11-2016, 07:22 AM)the artfull-codger Wrote: [ -> ]Rob

Given it?? jammy sod!!, My brother & I wired a farmhouse out about 36 yrs ago & out of the profit we both bought a pickhill bantam set each like yours [they were made 16 miles up the a19 at Thirsk]from where I live, a fantastic set, proper old school stuff people poo poo 'em 'cos they're heavy[true] but gr8 in the workshop ,weld all day[& night] & never cut out,keep all your modern ones with electronics these things never fail, my brother took the top off recently & everything was good,no corrosion or low oil heavy to lift out though without slopping oil all over the shop!.

Aye they are not for the weak or feeble  , me being neither can hump  it about nee bother     , back in the day some would ask to borrow the old Oxford welded , I would say sure if you can pick it up  ha ha ha  

Rob

My mate had an oxford set & we used it to weld the track we were fabricating in lengths at hurworth model engineering club, we had to handle it down to the basement workshop, we had a length of wood through the handles & 2 of us carried it like a sedan chair,[Was a lot younger then Rob!!]