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No matter what we have we are still 1000 times better off than millions of people in under developed countries who don't even have a house, let alone a spare room to work in. I was lucky to buy my house when I did (market bottomed, worst house in a good area etc) and 10yrs later I'm still working on it!. I pity young people today, as the average price in most of NZ cities/towns is close to 1 mill, and they struggle to even get deposits now, and if they do get in, the mortgage is enormous! My sons' SA friends' father, has a complete full on machine shop under his house ( he builds big scale steam trains) and every time I've been there it makes me drool, mills, , welders, plasma cutters etc, makes my small workshop look very shabby. Most of my tools have been bought on specials or sales etc (eg, was recently doing some plaster board work in the house and found an AEG wall board screw driver, - normally $265 but marked down to $98 on clearance at our local mega Bunnings hardware store. It was a bargain and makes any driving job super easy and will outlast me.) I hardly ever pay full retail if I can help it, and I'll usually stand there talking myself into it for an hour, ("if I only eat half as much next week I can afford it" ) etc. I could not live without tools and have been collecting the necessary ones since I was 12 yrs old (plus being a car and bike fanatic made it compulsory).

5 years ago by jbkiwi

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Perfect hobby machines, I'm in the wrong country!. We used to have a lot of small new for sale here in machinery outfits for around $1200 NZ but I haven't seen any for a while. I could do with a small lathe especially for boat stuff. We had a Triumph 2000 (lathe not car) and a Bridgeport mill and all the gear when I was in the site services dept in the big woodworking co I worked for. I made good use of those, plus in my workshop I had 2 German RS2000 tool grinding machines which were great for touching up all your router bits and saw/ planer blades etc and a Chinese mill which I reco'd when the other guys didn't want to use it. Made my sons cars' frame and running gear (all 10 speed bike gears modified etc', -everything adjustable for growth) while I was there . Sure great if you have the gear!

5 years ago by jbkiwi

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Workshop

"Too untidy for pictures until its finally sorted" It will NEVER be finally sorted! Model workshops adhere to the universal law of "Stuff expands to fill the space available for it!" 🤔 Attached a few pics of my workshop from 2 years ago - currently sorting again so that I can use my little spray booth! Basically and mill etc at one end, electronics with scopes, PSUs and soldering station at the other. Construction and painting in between. That's the part that tends to get cluttered with "parked stuff"🤔. Not included are the drill press and electric coping saw in the cellar for the heavy stuff. Ships all over the wall and bookshelf, more ships on shelves in the living room😉 You don't have to be nuts for this hobby - BUT IT HELPS! 😁 Cheers, Doug 😎

5 years ago by RNinMunich

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Re: Suction hose

Good stuff Michael👍 Must experiment with my . BTW; as you will see I took the liberty of editing your post with a few relevant EoLs (End Of Lines aka Returns) to break up the text block to make it easier to read for my old eyes!😉🤓 A gentle hint to several other Posters as well😉 Cheers, Doug 😎

5 years ago by RNinMunich