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Bernd:
John,

You have created a nice and cozy looking shop. I'm sure we will see some nice models or projects coming out of there fairly soon. I do envy your organizational skills though. If I had those I could be a bit more productive.

Anyway very nice model shop. Now all I need to do is save up my pennies and me and Eric will be over for a visit.

Bernd

bogstandard:
Bernd,

I know we go on in jest about the size of your workshop, but in all honesty, I think a much larger workshop would be of no real benefit to myself. I can now move and machine with ease in this one.

I think the only thing I would like is a tiny bit more space to put a small CNC mill in, and I even feel I might be able to squeeze one of those in here if a give a couple of places a little move around.

I even did a bit of machining this afternoon, I made myself that swish swarf rake I have always wanted, rather than the bent bit of rod I normally use, but I made it dual purpose. I made a fairly heavy PVC handle for it, to use as a fine persuader, instead of using a plastic handled screwdriver for tapping things gently into place..

Be happy with what you have.

John

John Hill:
John, I expect you are right about size of workshop,  I have plenty of space, least I would have were it not for clutter so I am thinking of some high density storage and a smaller shop in the space currently occupied by one cluttered shop!  I do have another 'shop' and that is where my lathe is in a small area in the end of one garage.

bogstandard:
The last parts of the jigsaw are starting to fall into place.

For the last few months, I have been trying to obtain a set of metric R8 collets. But everywhere that had reasonable prices had none in stock.
Then out of the blue, I had an email flyer from a large tooling company that are normally very expensive for things like this, but this time they were on special offer, at less cost than my normal retailers, so I got a set ordered and they arrived today.



The Imperial set and rack I have had for a while, but had not put it up until I had these metric ones in my grubby little hands.
These will allow me to get a few inches more depth of throat to play with when using the RT or dividing head, or even a large lump in the vice. They allow me to hold cutters directly in the quill, rather than having a collet chuck in there.


The other bit that turned up today as well is one of the cheapo new fangled DTI stands. This is the smallest one they do, only 5" long. For 12 squid, they are just not worth trying to make yourself.
This is the final part for my tungsten lapper project, so when eventually get to it, everything is ready to go.



I have no excuses now for hanging back on my projects.

Bogs.

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