wbleeker 24th July 2014, 06:18 PM 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
.RC. 24th July 2014, 07:31 PM It never ends... Once you have all the manual machines tools, then you lust for CNC and start pricing them... :)
simonl 24th July 2014, 07:38 PM 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
welder 24th July 2014, 08:38 PM I worry what my shed will look like in 20 years. Considering I am already onto the cnc / industrial size machinery phase :U
wbleeker 24th July 2014, 10:50 PM 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
welder 25th July 2014, 07:25 AM Wow thats alot of gear how long did that collection take. I see your in robertson is the pie shop really that good ?
Steamwhisperer 25th July 2014, 08:17 AM 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. :D
Phil
eskimo 25th July 2014, 09:09 AM 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
shedhappens 25th July 2014, 11:43 AM 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
chambezio 25th July 2014, 12:05 PM 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
Oldneweng 25th July 2014, 01:41 PM 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
jmebgo 25th July 2014, 04:56 PM 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.
welder 25th July 2014, 06:03 PM 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 :;
Burner 25th July 2014, 07:46 PM 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!!
Grahame Collins 25th July 2014, 07:59 PM 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. :D
Amen to that Brother !
wbleeker 25th July 2014, 09:11 PM Wow thats alot of gear how long did that collection take. I see your in robertson is the pie shop really that good ?
Andre, it probably took only ten years, should have started earlier though! The Pie Shop is pretty good we have owned it for thirty five years, just waiting for someone to
come along with plenty of money so I can play in my shed all day!
Will
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