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  1. 19th July 2005, 05:18 PM #1
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    Smile Minor gloat ...

    I just happened to be down at my local Bunnies (Bankstown) looking for a handful of shellac flakes, when I noticed a lonely little GMC 190mm 1000w compound-mitre saw sitting on a palate, away from its buddies.

    With the exception of a missing box, everything else was there -- tools, instructions etc. The only problem was that the power plug on the end had been badly crushed under the palate.

    For $25 it was too good to pass up. I've bunged on a new plug on, and it goes like a beaut -- as beaut as a GMC can go, right? ;-)

    It's nothing much to gloat about ... still, when a tool comes your way for half its normal price just because the plug is squashed, you gotta tell someone!

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  3. 19th July 2005, 05:41 PM #2
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    Bloody tinny bastard!!! (just jealous)

    It always happens to the other guy :mad: , when I go they have just got a new shipment of whatever it is I want & it costs 80% more & they won't be getting the cheaper ones again! :mad: :mad:
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    I also like a good find. enjoy. if it fails take it back for a new one....
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  5. 19th July 2005, 07:10 PM #4
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    Thanks gents.

    It's rare for me to get a really good find at a great price.

    Today must be my lucky day ...

    I have a friend who runs a local joinery business. I've never thought to ask him if he has spare scraps lying around. I gave him a call, and went around today, returning with a nice (free!) batch of Euro beech, American rock maple, Queensland walnut, bluegum and a beaut length of cherrywood.

    He tells me it just sits around in his massive workshop collecting dust. He also told me they had a massive throw-out at the start of the year! (

    Considering I've known him for 2 1/2 years, you would have thought I'd have twigged before now ...

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