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  1. #1
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    Default When does it all stop lol

    I think I must be a compulsive tool/machinery buyer! Do they have meetings?
    I have an Isuzu truck, bought it new in 1989 well in 2003 it was getting a bit tatty, needed a new roof
    and a couple panels around the windscreen were rusted out, I got a local panel beater to come and have a look at it and he said yes
    I can do that it will take about six weeks in my spare time, it took him about six years! And I put it all back together myself.
    Well anyway I haven't needed it so it has just sat in the shed- until now! I want to get a load of hay next week and the only thing I
    need to do is replace the mudguards on the body.
    Well I decided a folder would help make the mudguards so off to H&F on Tuesday, then on the way home I thought a Guillotine would
    make cutting them easier, located that, an AP Lever 7B picked it up yesterday, made the guards this morning and went to remove the old ones
    with the plasma cutter it went bang again, so I found my self with a brand new 100 amp one, and still have to finish the job tomorrow!
    Will

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    It never ends... Once you have all the manual machines tools, then you lust for CNC and start pricing them...
    Gold, the colour of choice for the discerning person.

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    It never ends. Even my wife is awake up to that fact. I told her that all I need now is a SG and she said yea right!

    Simon
    Girl, I don't wanna know about your mild-mannered alter ego or anything like that." I mean, you tell me you're, uh, super-mega-ultra-lightning babe? That's all right with me. I'm good. I'm good.

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    I worry what my shed will look like in 20 years. Considering I am already onto the cnc / industrial size machinery phase
    BETTER TO HAVE TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED THAN TO NEED TOOLS YOU DON'T HAVE

    Andre

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    Well i already have the Tormach PCNC1100, Syil CNC Lathe, just got the larger Boxford CNC lathe, Takisawa TAL 460 Lathe , a Hare and Forbes equivalent of Takisawa, a very good Taiwainese Bridgeport clone on steroids, Tool and Cutter Grinder, Surface Grinder , Cylindrical Grinder, Shaping Machine, four belt drive drill presses, Geared head drill, 2 grinders with linishers and two others with assorted accessories, Tig welder, 2 mig welders, stick welder and oxy acetylene, 2 plasma cutters (when I get one fixed to run a plasma table) as well as the Box and Pan Brake,Guillotine and 48 Bramley Rolls
    Will

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    Wow thats alot of gear how long did that collection take. I see your in robertson is the pie shop really that good ?
    BETTER TO HAVE TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED THAN TO NEED TOOLS YOU DON'T HAVE

    Andre

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    Well done will,
    I can assure you this is only the beginning.
    It only hits home big time when you have to pack it all up and move house just how much 'stuff' you have accumulated.
    I even found stuff I thought I had lost some 12 years ago all found in a box I was using to hold a shelf up.
    Before I left I was looking in the shed lamenting a chapter closed and thought, 'I wonder if I put anything in that box' and "Voila" there was the antique generator I thought I had lost.
    Still, the list grows of things I need/want and will make to get the job done.
    It never ceases. Death, taxes and workshop stuff. It aint gunna stop.

    Phil

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    Quote Originally Posted by simonl View Post
    It never ends. Even my wife is awake up to that fact. I told her that all I need now is a SG and she said yea right!

    Simon
    ditto .....

    Simon, tell her what I tell mine... won it in a raffle

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    Quote Originally Posted by eskimo View Post
    ditto .....

    Simon, tell her what I tell mine... won it in a raffle
    I don't even have do that anymore, the other week i put another mill in the shed and no one has
    noticed it, not even the mrs, seems to me that the trick is that if'n it aint new and shinny it will just
    blend in............

    shed

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    Way back in 1980, we were married less than a year, our local Woolworth store was selling drill presses. Taiwanese maker and badged "Bergin", 12 speed 5/8" chuck, bench model, 240 Volt. (I had always wanted a drill press since high school days). I suggested to SWMBO that I could lay-buy the $200 drill. She agreed and in due coarse I paid the last instalment and took the thing home. I got home before her and started to unpack the drill and assemble it in the lounge room of our single bedroom flat. When she got home .......she said "I didn't know it was going to be that big!!" I must have down played the description of the item when I asked if It could be lay-buyed.
    Since then she has witnessed all sorts of acquisitions from far and wide and still asks why do you need that (item) when you are retired and not working.
    So yes, I am one on the list of acquirers that keeps looking for the next machine/tool. May be I should go to the adicts meetings too
    Just do it!

    Kind regards Rod

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    Quote Originally Posted by chambezio View Post
    Way back in 1980, we were married less than a year, our local Woolworth store was selling drill presses. Taiwanese maker and badged "Bergin", 12 speed 5/8" chuck, bench model, 240 Volt. (I had always wanted a drill press since high school days). I suggested to SWMBO that I could lay-buy the $200 drill. She agreed and in due coarse I paid the last instalment and took the thing home. I got home before her and started to unpack the drill and assemble it in the lounge room of our single bedroom flat. When she got home .......she said "I didn't know it was going to be that big!!" I must have down played the description of the item when I asked if It could be lay-buyed.
    Since then she has witnessed all sorts of acquisitions from far and wide and still asks why do you need that (item) when you are retired and not working.
    So yes, I am one on the list of acquirers that keeps looking for the next machine/tool. May be I should go to the adicts meetings too
    Good idea. You are sure to find some tips on finding even more stuff. You could always offer to assist other sufferers by taking things off their hands. I don't like your chances tho.

    Dean

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    On a related note, it would be interesting to hear everyone's stories on how they actually got into metalworking. I had the misfortune to wonder how a mechanical watch worked... it spiraled from there.

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    I have had an interest in it all 19 years of my life. When I was 4 I played with all dads tools and left them everywher, my favorite toy was an angle grinder with the cord cut off for safety
    BETTER TO HAVE TOOLS YOU DON'T NEED THAN TO NEED TOOLS YOU DON'T HAVE

    Andre

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    Default Iron deficiency is hard to cure, I keep trying!!

    My agronomist says that I must have a big Iron deficiency. Growing up on the farm I inherited a desire for a better tool or machine to make the job easier and also stuff that is interesting. I started with small, hobby woodworking gear, saw, lathe etc and handtools in primary school and graduated to a big old Foster capstan lathe before I left high school, and an old tractor! Then as I servred my time as an apprentice Fitter & Turner the machines and tools kept coming and then toolmaking opened new ideas. When I returned to work on our farm I needed more machines as I no longer had access to works machines and machining stuff on the farm is always helpful. It goes beyond workshop stuff to trucks, tractors, farm machines, motorbikes, quads, trailers, pumps, chainsaws and on and on it goes, even books about all that stuff. Running the farm buisness has hidden a lot of the cost and the shed that once stored all our farm machinery and truck now can't hold all my machine tools let alone anything else. I also have a fascination with old machines of all the already listed items. I have it bad!!

    I only want an old planer, and maybe a mandrel tube bender, I have the formers, maybe a profile cutter, powerhammers are fun to use, lineshaft and engine for all those old flat belt machines, and on and on it goes!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer View Post
    Still, the list grows of things I need/want and will make to get the job done.
    It never ceases. Death, taxes and workshop stuff. It aint gunna stop.
    Amen to that Brother !

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