Thread: A Bit of Lotto Fun

1st purchase would be the block next door that has just had a house slab poured on it - would make a fantastic new workshop slab

First up I would equip my workshop with the best tools and machines that GMC and Ozito could supply. No expense would be too great.

Sorry, that was reality talking. So, what was the question. Oh yes, I better get back to you with that!

"IF you won the $50m Lotto jackpot this week what equipment would be purchased for your workshop next week?"

None because I would have purchased them all this week... next week would be the red Ferrari!

Here we have several companies that sell pre fabricated steel buildings that are designed to be erected over a slab. I assume that something similar is available in OZ.

So, first station with a home and room for one of these buildings, about 12m x 20m. Except that instead of a slab there would be raised floor with space underneath for dust collection plumbing. Then, oh then...

1/2m planer
1/2m jointer
Mortiser
Wide belt sander with 2 or 3 belts
Large band saw
Cabinet table saw
Multiple lathes
More routers than I can handle
A wet grinding set up
More hand tools than can be inagined
Compressor and various nail guns and sanders
An electrical generator with enough capacity to run the shop and house A/C.
And a tree farm!

I would buy nothing, because if I did I would have to tell SWMBO that I had won

• I'd buy next door, extend the house (as they have real nice view towards the Yarra Valley) then knock our house down, and build a ruddy big shed in place of it.

Then refit my shed with:

• A Hammer b/saw with all the trimmings

• a Saw Stop with all the trimmings

• lots' of Kanefusa 10" blades for the t/saw

• a few more Hitachi TR-12s

• every conceivable Kanefusa and Whiteside r/bits

• an Infinity coping Sled

• fair dinkum a/comp and bits

• full range of A E Berg chisels in mint condition to be used

• a stash of Japanese high end chisels and a few saws

• some handplanes of various makes - Hotleys would be nice just because I could.

• a Powermatic 8" jointer (I'd keep my 6" 'coz it was my Grandad's)

• oodles of beautiful timber

• some more Festool gear (the bug would bite if I won the Lotto, otherwise not)

• stacks more Bessey K body clamps.

• a bigger Dusty, maybe a few Dusties with a cyclone

• a room air filter

That'd be about it.

donate it all to charity





get the tax refund for doing so





then go collect it being that I'm the benifactor/charity



Buy my own tool company so I get 1st try at new tools

A domino, some more blackwood and a bottle of titebond II.

Then bomb Japan and invade New Zealand.

1. Buy a company that sells tools so I could get an employee discount*
2. Hire someone to teach me how to use all my new toys properly.

* And I'll get the profit from the company, plus they'd have to stock whatever I wanted.

Of course I'd offer discounts to forum members

Originally Posted by Wongo

...invade New Zealand.

so...what would you do with the other $49,900,000???

A Martin tablesaw.

Buy forest, in Australia and PNG, lots of it,

I'm just about out of 320 grit,
so I'd get me some more of that,
maybe even some of that colour coded stuff.

Not a lot that I want in the way of tools or machinery.

But, I'd buy someone to do my hand sanding all day.