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Thread: A Bit of Lotto Fun
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3rd June 2008, 12:07 AM #1
A Bit of Lotto Fun
IF you won the $50m Lotto jackpot this week what equipment would be purchased for your workshop next week? Let the words ring out "Money is no object."
I am keen to see what amazing stuff people would consider Also as the odds of winning Powerball are so incredibly high (1 in 54,979,155) this is probably the closest I will get to actually own any of this stuff!!!
Kirk
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3rd June 2008, 12:09 AM #2
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
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3rd June 2008, 12:14 AM #3
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!
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3rd June 2008, 01:58 AM #4
"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!....................................................................
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3rd June 2008, 08:53 AM #5rrich Guest
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!
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3rd June 2008, 10:09 AM #6GOLD MEMBER
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I would buy nothing, because if I did I would have to tell SWMBO that I had won
Bob
"If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life."
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3rd June 2008, 11:27 AM #7
• 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.
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3rd June 2008, 11:40 AM #8
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
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3rd June 2008, 12:10 PM #9
A domino, some more blackwood and a bottle of titebond II.
Then bomb Japan and invade New Zealand.Visit my website at www.myFineWoodWork.com
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3rd June 2008, 01:01 PM #10GOLD MEMBER
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Business Plan 1.1
- Buy a company that sells tools so I could get an employee discount*
- Hire someone to teach me how to use all my new toys properly.
Of course I'd offer discounts to forum membersGeoff
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3rd June 2008, 01:08 PM #11
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3rd June 2008, 01:27 PM #12
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3rd June 2008, 01:30 PM #13
Buy forest, in Australia and PNG, lots of it,
"We must never become callous. When we experience the conflicts ever more deeply we are living in truth. The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil." - Albert Schweizer
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3rd June 2008, 01:38 PM #14
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.
what if the hokey pokey is really what it's all about?
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3rd June 2008, 02:07 PM #15
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