When SF members make things like this or this or this ............... then I would say you could hardly blame them for perking up their interest. Zeus or I with one of those in the boot of the car and pulled over would be meeting our new friend Bubba for quite some time. You guys who only have to de...

Some advice please For some time I have been looking at replacing my existing pedestal drill press with a mill/drill unit. I have the opportunity to purchase this http://www.machineryhouse.com.au/L159 at a somewhat discounted price but have no idea about lathes and am still at baby steps with my CNC...

The cheap Chinese digital ones are not accurate at all, they can vary +/-1mm or more between measurements; I know because I started out using them. The capacitive type suck most of all due to variance based on battery state. Spend the money and get a quality dial type or even better a vernier calipe...

Bought one of these years ago.
Never failed me yet
http://www.gadgetsdirect.com.au/index.p ... d0cec8dc64

PM me for some CAD files on the AUG including dimensions.

Not a very good photo but............ I made my first involute gear, milled from 22mm HDPE stock 12 minutes from start to finish and very pleasing result. Stand by for a whole lot of gear driven loading magazine, I'm thinking a drum magazine with a gear profile on the outside driven by a stepper mot...

@jsr

I hope the company car is a decent ride at least

But tomorrow I get this to play with
http://www.topspeedcars.net/gallery/toy ... ion-se.jpg

nice quick 600km run down country and back

@zeus
Think Baw Baw national park and lots of tight turns

Zoom zoom

Evilvet, wouldn't happen to be that company starting with P? I'm going for a job with them.

MG

I hope the company car is a decent ride at least

Shitbox

Well that was a day !! @JSR, you are talking about moving from Epoxyland to a real life size continent. Just to give you some perspective. I am doing a contract for a major milk company that operates throughout the state. I am doing the BA report on automating their plant infrastructure. Left home a...

I've got no car, $600 in the bank, no valuables to my name, no credit history, and no stable income, Whereas I'm pushing fifty, have 20 years proven experience delivering on projects for multinational companies and in my last role had a personal sign-off limit of $2m and a project budget of $75m (s...

Ah yes, were they also attractive blondes Some blonde but none particularly attractive, at least not to a middle aged white male. I guess it depends on your type. :oops: The single most frustrating aspect of the whole process was the total lack of engagement of any of these so-called professional r...

Completely off-topic and not really a topic at all but I JUST GOT A NEW CONTRACT and start Monday. Having been out of work for almost five months and fast approaching fifty, you have no idea how frustrating it has been sitting through interviews conducted by twelve year olds with the worldly experie...

Cheap CO2 for those who use it in Oz
http://www.velogear.com.au/bike-accesso ... nders.html

I gotts to get me one of these
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/tec ... 2izud.html

With a tiny, tiny, tiny hybrid mounted on it.