a revolutionary new tool

MBGitW and I went to a certain tool suplier today and  on wenesday a “revoluntionary” new machine will be added to my workshop. This will cause a fair degree of upheaval as i’m having to rebuild the workbench and machine tool storage to accomodate it and move the dust extractor.

If i told you that its 85cm high by 60cm wide by 55cm deep , you would probably guess that it was a router table … but you would be mistaken.

If I told you it was largely painted white except for its logo and control switches you might assume it was a TS200 table saw , but again you would be wrong.

If i told you it had a rotating drum the speed of which can be varied by the control setting you could be forgiven  for thinking i’d aquired an ocilating drum sander – but this would be inaccurate.

 

no the new wonder tool that is booked to enter the mooses workshop and change its layout for ever is…………………………………………………dud dud deeer

 

a beko tumble drier 

Going like clockwork

Well  i didnt get a great deal done today on account of the dog being ill all last night (i’ll spare you the graphic detail but suffice to say i was tempted to resort to the airace to cut the smell).

however  two nice  packages turned up – one from stiles and bates and one from clock parts – the clock parts one was ten pendulum movements and 10 smooth constant movements plus hands – I know this is more than i need but i buy them in bulk for reasons of cost.

The stiles and bates package had new bags for my DX5000 , 2 skeleton clock movements (quality , i’ll be buying more of those), a round tuit, a cabinet scraper, and 3 35mm clock/watch movements – and a “happiness is a shed full of shavings” mug – I did have a muppet moment when i first opended the box tho because it appeared that the round tuit and the 35mm movements were missing but they had sent me a garden solar light instead – I got as far as ringing the nice lady at stiles and bates up to complain before I realised that the solar light box had been recycled and the small parts oif the order were inside it !   How stupid did I feel