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    Default Look what followed me home from Adelaide

    Have just returned from a couple of weeks in Adelaide with the kids and grand kids, very nice, but good to be home again.

    Whilst there I picked up an X2 Mini Mill from ozmestore (Ebay). I had been looking for one of these and H&F had one on special for $799 a couple of months ago (normal price $895), but they (surprise, surprise) had no stock. Only way to get the special price was to order one and pay up front. Having been there and done that, I wasn't about to fall for that again. Carbatec's price is $995 and also no stock. Then spotted one on Ebay from ozmestore for $730, but forgot to bid and it didn't sell. When it was relisted it had $698 on it, someone bid that and I sniped it for $708. As we were going to Adelaide anyway and had to take the trailer to pick up some empty wine barrels, delivery was easy.

    Picked it up from ozmestore warehouse in Pt Adelaide, boy do they have some stock there!

    Following Saturday went to a garage sale in One Tree Hill (daughter lives in Kersbrook) and got talking to the guy as I bought a nice little all steel hammer from him. When I told him I had just bought a Mini Mill, he told me he had quite a bit of tooling in his shed out the back and he wanted to get rid of that. Long story short, I bought the lot. There is all sorts of stuff (he used to be toolmaker), there are 60 mill bits alone, heap of HSS lathe tools, a toolmakers vise and quite a few parallels as well as V blocks etc.

    To buy all that separately would have cost me as much as the mill, picked it up for a song.

    All I have to do now is make a base cabinet to match the one for the lathe and I can start doing some special pen projects

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    Wow.

    I don't suppose you saw the 6" planer thicknesser at ozmestore ? They were selling them on ebay for ages at $280ish and I always wondered if they were any good.
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    How come none of the garage sales I ever go to have shed stuff like that? Good score.
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    Ahh BigShed if I knew you where down I could of taken you to the pub. But there is always next time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by damian View Post
    Wow.

    I don't suppose you saw the 6" planer thicknesser at ozmestore ? They were selling them on ebay for ages at $280ish and I always wondered if they were any good.
    No mate, everything in boxes etc.


    Quote Originally Posted by bollie7 View Post
    How come none of the garage sales I ever go to have shed stuff like that? Good score.
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    As a matter of fact it wasn't even in the garage sale, only that little hammer ($1 !!), he only brought the other stuff out after we started talking.

    However, we bought quite a few things in garage sales in Adelaide, for some reason their garage sales have much better stuff than garage sales in Bendigo (I have given up going to them in Bendigo, most of them have stuff that I would be embarrassed to take to the tip!

    Quote Originally Posted by footz View Post
    Ahh BigShed if I knew you where down I could of taken you to the pub. But there is always next time.
    Would have been good to meet up, next time perhaps, we come to Adelaide regularly.

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    Nice one BS , great score on the bits too
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    Big Shed now your got a Mill it has got to make you feel like a Million $$$$$$ then that bargain score on top

    Well done

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    However, we bought quite a few things in garage sales in Adelaide, for some reason their garage sales have much better stuff than garage sales in Bendigo (I have given up going to them in Bendigo, most of them have stuff that I would be embarrassed to take to the tip!


    Will definetely agree with Big Shed on the whole garage sale in Bendigo thing.

    If I want to dispose of something that's not of any real value (non garbage) I simply leave it out on the street. Last time I did that it was like watching vultures to a carcas. Watched some dude pick up an old chipboard (5 drawer) chest of drawers, shove it on his shoulders, and walk off. "But wait, u forgot the MDF bottom for a couple of drawers".

    Drawers dont work too well without the bottom in it.
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    Finally got some time between all the other projects on the go to finish off the base cabinet for the X2 Mini Mill.

    Had to rearrange some other cupboards in the shed and hang up a tool board for the lathe/mill tools.

    The big handwheel hanging on the wall will be modified to become a handwheel to turn the lathe by hand for threading and the like. Picked that up at the last Bendigo Swapmeet

    Starting to get a few drawers in the shed, have come to the conclusion you can't have too many drawers (bit like clamps really)
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    photo's are cheap these days Fred

    hey look at that there they are

    very nice workshop and those machines clean as a wistle

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    Very nice man very nice. Ahh well I better get mine looking better. LOL
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    Fred, have you got Major's disease. Not a speck of dust anywhere. Disgusting
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    Default Big shed

    Have you got me into trouble in a big way.?LOL
    The Minister for war and finance saw me looking at this post.
    She couldnt believe how clean your W/S is.
    Why cant you keep yours as clean as that.yak-yak-yak.
    Man it went on and on.If he can do it why can't you.Yak Yak.
    I showed her an item you had for sale and there was sawdust on your floor.
    There she said.See he cleaned up after using it. look how clean it is in these shots.
    Back To Car Building & All The Sawdust.

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    Yes a clean shed is a sign of a sick mind--talk about being in the right place at the right time. Good one B/S.
    Cheers Tony.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AUSSIE View Post
    Have you got me into trouble in a big way.?LOL
    The Minister for war and finance saw me looking at this post.
    She couldnt believe how clean your W/S is.
    Why cant you keep yours as clean as that.yak-yak-yak.
    Man it went on and on.If he can do it why can't you.Yak Yak.
    I showed her an item you had for sale and there was sawdust on your floor.
    There she said.See he cleaned up after using it. look how clean it is in these shots.
    Hey, will you guys get off my back! Yes, there IS saw dust on the floor and no I haven't cleaned it up.

    The area around the mill/lathe was vacuumed so I could put the new mill base cupboard in. Obviously the bench tops on both these are clean, one is brand new, the other was cleaned before I put the new cupboard in.

    I will take a general shot of the workshop tomorrow and show what a pigsty it is!

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