Thread: Brisbane's Timber and Working with Wood Show

I thought it was a great show. I am surprised they don't open at least Fri evenings for the workers.

I was a (paid) volunteer to do a bit of demonstration work for Northwood Tools &#190; hrs on – same off – so had lots of time to wander around and speak to the other exhibitors. General feed back I got was it was a very quite show. Friday was thin; Saturday looked busy but still thin trade wise for a lot of stalls and today was very quite. Obviously the big boys looked pretty busy most of the time but I got similar comments from them. <O></O>

I had been saving my cents for a nice long shopping list so got: -

• Sanding drum kit for bench drill
• Porter Cable biscuit jointer
• Sherwood – 4” Belt & 8” Disc sander with dusty (end of show – take off shelf price)
• Ryobi model BID-1211 Cordless Impact Driver
• 2 hp Hare & Forbes D3 dustie (used at show etc) for very nice price- thanks to Colin at Northwood.
• Some of Neil’s EEE Ultra shine
• Years subs to Australian Woodsmith
• Other bits

That it – nothing for the rest of the year – honest.
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Now will have to re-plan my roll out cabinet I was about to build to store the belt/disc sander. And, work out where, how I’m doing to store/plumb up the dustie.
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I’ve just been thinking about hanging the belt/disc sander “bat-like” under my worktop and being able to pull it out and flip it straight onto to the work surface. A bit adventurous – but has anyone done or seen this. If so would love to see pics/solutions/drawing.