Urgently Wanted – Sewing Machines !

We especially need older model Zig Zag machines.

These have a drive pulley wheel showing (not hidden away inside the machine) which means they can be used on a treadle base – like the one pictured.

Hand crank and treadle machines are still highly desirable for when the electricty supply fails.

THANK YOU

Workshop Open to drop off tools & sewing machines: 

Mon – Fri: 9.30 am – 3.30 pm,  Tues & Thurs: 7.30 – 9.30 pm.

Saturdays: 10.30 – 1.00 pm

Ring us on: 0330 355 0122 (calls charged at local rate) or

Ask us how to donate tools

Tools wanted for our SIDO/TFSR Cymru Tools Workshop in Mwanza.  We are happy to accept all hand tools, but the following are the most urgently wanted:

Carpentry Kit

  • Mortice chisel

  • Corner clamp

  • G – Cramp

  • Claw hammer

  • Mortice gauge

  • Oilstone

  • Metal Jack plane

  • Metal Smoothing plane

  • Metal Try plane

  • Plane blades

  • Rebate plane

  • Plough plane

  • Sash Cramp

  • Sash cramp ends

  • Saw set

  • Spoke shave metal

  • Tape measure

  • Carpenters vice

Blacksmiths Kit

  • Anvil

  • Bolt cutter

  • Hand grinder

  • Sledge hammer

  • Pillar drill

  • Pipe bender

  • Pipe cutter

  • Pipe vice

  • Tap & die set

  • Swage block

  • Engineers vice

  • Hand vice

  • Leg vice

Bicycle Repair Kit

  • Foot pump

  • Bicycle track pump

  • Adjustable spanner

  • Tyre levers

  • Puncture repair kits

Tinsmiths Kit

  • Riveting punches

Leatherwork Kit

  • Awl

  • Cobblers hammer

  • Lasting pliers

  • Rotary hole punch

  • Wad punch

  • Tailors shears

  • Steel rules

Builders Kit

  • Chalk line

  • Pins and line

  • Plumb bob

  • Builders tape measure

  • Builders square

  • Breast drill

Mechanics Kit

Industrial Quality: –

  • Electric drill

  • Electric grinder

  • Screw jack

  • Chain wrench

  • Metric spark plug spanners

“People cannot be developed: they can only develop themselves”
Julius Nyerere  –  Father of the Nation  –  Tanzania