Trevor,

I see you’ve yet to get a reply – unless you’ve been inundated with PMs via your supplied email address. For my part, I live in the west of the Orne department and have found that tooling (milling cutters and the like) are difficult to source locally, at least at a sensible price and, as for materials, I’ve yet to find anywhere that will supply small amounts of metals at all. I’ve resigned myself to using what I can get in the local Brico stores (very limited) and the rest I get from the UK from the various suppliers who advertise in MEW. I have, in desperation, had some stuff delivered by airmail, but I normally coincide my deliveries with visits by family and friends and have the heavy gear delivered to them so that they get the hernia and bring it over with them. Actually, I’m off to the UK at the end of the month for a couple of days and hope to have a bandsaw delivered to my son-in-law’s for me to bring back to France in our car – saving a whopping 50% or so on what I’d have to pay for one out here! Fingers crossed. I wish you success with your search, if you find a good source, please share it with the rest of us.

John

I guess that you have tried C.A.V. to track down other model engineers in the same area?

 

Regards,

 

Phil

There is an on-line tool shop OPTIMACHINES prices are a bit scarey though.

 

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