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« on: June 09, 2018, 03:47:01 pm »
Hello guys, if any of you need small parts turning up I can offer you that service. I built a small machine shop when I retired, with a nice little lathe and universal miller, Both made in England, there'd be no charge just the cost of the material and postage.
I know sometimes we need little brackets or mounting posts or such like made.
I reckon this forums already eventually saved me the cost of a new radiator so i feel it's the least i can do.

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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2018, 04:47:28 pm »
That's very kind of you Sutty.

I'd offer my 3D printer on a similar basis but I'd need to be supplied with the model!
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« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2018, 06:29:32 pm »
That is very kind of you Mick. I might take you up on that sometime.

When I was in the aircraft industry at Rolls Royce, I could get all sorts of parts machined, but sadly not any more.
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« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2018, 07:02:35 pm »
No problem Tom..
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« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2018, 07:10:33 am »
I do love the old style machine shops.. I remember taking many a cylinder head in to get it skimmed and valve guides renewed

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« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2018, 12:25:52 pm »
Cheers Rob, my millers not quite big enough to skim a head but I have some fly cutters and a nice little boring /facing head for facing out the bottom of awkward holes.

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« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2018, 12:48:40 pm »
I have a Chester Conquest mini lathe but no milling machine, I'd love a milling machine but my double garage is pretty full of other machinery and finding somewhere to put a milling machine would be difficult  :-[

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« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2018, 03:37:50 pm »
I know the feeling well Rae, I bought a really nice Harrison M250 that was from a school and they only let the students turn nylon and wood on it, it's in first class nick and well within .0005" over a  10' length. I also managed to find a very nice Tom Senior M1 that I fitted a 3 axis DRO to. Both a pleasure to use. It came with a Senior dividing head and I've since acquired a Slotting head for it.

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« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2018, 04:33:46 pm »
I would have to get rid of my cast iron table saw, router table, bandsaw, Festool mitre saw bench and a whole host of other carpentry and woodworking tools to fit in anything else in.  ;)

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« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2018, 05:19:43 pm »
I would have to get rid of my cast iron table saw, router table, bandsaw, Festool mitre saw bench and a whole host of other carpentry and woodworking tools to fit in anything else in.  ;)

And that's all under the seat, Rae?

Or am I on the wrong thread again? ;D

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« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2018, 05:29:39 pm »
I don't keep woodworking tools under the seat Rich, just the microwave, toaster and a Z bed

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« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2018, 06:01:02 pm »
I'd love a decent sized shop, I had to put my Emco bandsaw on wheels and build a small annex on the shed to house it. I've spent the last 4 or 5 years building half scale cars for the grandkids and in the process had to build several machines, ring roller, English wheel, bead roller, louvre press, thumbnail shrinker, then had to rent a garage to store them in. Plus storing the cars cos my daughter says she has no room.

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Re: Payback
« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2018, 06:30:12 pm »
...and from the other side of this dilemma...

About 2-3 years ago when I couldn't get in my guest bedroom for stuff that 'should' have been in the garage I didn't have and couldn't get into the summer house for stuff that 'ought' to have been in the workshop I've never had, I had a monumental clear out, gave stuff away and eBay'd perfectly good things like router tables and ginormous WorkMates.

Three months later I decided to move home and now have a 6m by 3.5m garage cum workshop!

Oh, and nothing to put in it...

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« Reply #13 on: June 11, 2018, 06:44:31 pm »
I do have 3 garages as well but the bike lives in one that I use as a welding come workshop. The war departments transport in one then the other is like a machinery store, It would be heaven to have a shop that size.
When I want to put the bikes on the lift I have to shuffle everything round.

Regards.  Mick
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« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2018, 07:20:36 am »
PM sent Mick  :)