What did you Get Today

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Well assuming you have all been good boys (and girls) throughout the year what did you wake up to find Santa had left for you?

Can we keep it to engineering, model and boys toys as I would rather not know what hankies and socks you all got.

To start the ball rolling I got Cherry's Engines, this selection of bits from ARC and a Hubsan Q4 Nano Quod

Edited By JasonB on 25/12/2014 14:44:38

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Usual crap.

New laptop and 4 axis machining centre with 7 tool autochange.

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

A load of HSS milling cutters, and a two channel DRO with two DRO bars for the mill X & Y axis, the latter from ARC.

I wouldn't have called Mr Stevenson's pressies "usual crap", but then I'm nothing but a poor pensioner!

Edited By ChrisH on 25/12/2014 15:39:33

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Electric shaver, with all the grooming bits, I think somebody is trying to tell me something. Oh,and a woolly hat, usefull in the workshop just now.

[norman valentineParticipant @normanvalentine78682]

Nothing

[Gray62Participant @gray62]

Permission to buy another lathe for a cnc conversion project, a large rotary table and a new motor and inverter for the big lathe

[Ian WelfordParticipant @ianwelford58739]

Incredibly bright Cree t6 torch, zoomable 2200lumens. Going to be of use wood turning and peering into things! Also dog walking and SWMBO has announced she would like one , as have both sons, having played with it!

Also 7mm brake allen key, I didn't believe it but in my "modest" ( _ SWMBO views it differently ) collection of allen keys I had no 7mm one! Why Volvo chose 7mm ????

R C helicopter for son may prove interesting I think!

Merry Christmas one and all!

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Digital vernier and monies towards future purchases

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

Round or button tool for radius turning, two sets of 1-2-3 blocks, T63 parting tool holder, all very useful. 😄

Bri

[Mark P.Participant @markp]

What did I get today….. cold and wet when the dogs dragged me into the river!

[Bodgit Fixit and RunParticipant @bodgitfixitandrun]

USB Microscope from China. Complete with chinese instructions. Can now make some accurate form tools.

And an RC helicopter from my daughter.

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Headache from 'joining battle' with 3-year old. Did I ever have such energy

Notebooks from other half as I keep 'forgetting' things she wants me to do.

Geoff – I will misplace said note taking apparatus

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Following long established tradition; my 'Christmas present' [the ML7-R] was wangled early. … But this morning I did receive a beautifully gift-wrapped vintage BRADES Mortar Pick.

Comparison with the modern equivalent just goes to prove the old adage; "they don't make 'em like that any more".

MichaelG.

[Barry McDowellParticipant @barrymcdowell95834]

Set of collets for my collet chuck, dial indicator and stand, new drill from daughter, 100mm (4&quot machining vice from my son.

Barry

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Checked up on that universal bender I ordered 10 days ago from Chronos and it's still waiting to be dispatched

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

I got tired yesterday, and more tired today, our first 30* temperature day of the summer.

Ian S C

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Ady- just be glad it's not coming via City Link.

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Sounds as if many of the City Link drivers owned their own vans. Now they are stuck with green and yellow colour schemes and will need to make them white again – and get a job. Good timing. What a nice Xmas present.

Murray

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Rotating arbour keyless chuck for tailstock ( to hold long tiny stuff not yet made ? ), Universal tailstock for my 4" rotab' … set of 5 imperial E25 collets 1/8" – 1/2"… & a 0.5 – 8mm MT2 keyless chuck ( M10 drawbar thread ) all succinctly hinted to family members.. & officially approved by Finance Director (SWMBO     

George.

Edited By mechman48 on 26/12/2014 11:47:08

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Two pairs of Homer Simpson socks

Main 'toy' was a 70mm Bresser telescope on an EQ mount which with the addition of a decent eyepiece camera will keep me happy until I can get a reflector.

Thinking of adding steppers to both axes (wormwheels already there, probably 144:1)

Plus I can now use the chuck I bought at MEX with Dad's funding to put dovetails in the QCTP holder (for the Wimberly) sitting in the milling vice!.

Neil

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Posted by Muzzer on 26/12/2014 11:39:53:

Sounds as if many of the City Link drivers owned their own vans. Now they are stuck with green and yellow colour schemes and will need to make them white again – and get a job. Good timing. What a nice Xmas present.

Murray

Slightly off topic, but I feel sorry for them too. From what I understand, such a franchise does not come cheap ether. The local City Link driver is well known to us and all the businesses around us. Great bloke. I guess the problems are more at regional depots. I guess the competition from certain well known couriers – Yodel in particular – may have been rough…especially as Yodels business model gives 'piece work' to independent self employed? housewives / teenagers, retired persons whose income falls under the minimum taxable allowance, allowing them to work on less than minimum wage?…morally right or wrong is difficult to answer, but as the market gets more competitive with collection/drop-off options at newsagents, this kind of news may increase, in the courier evolution process.

Ketan at ARC

[Old ElanParticipant @oldelan]

Posted by Ian Welford on 25/12/2014 17:27:51:

Also 7mm brake allen key, I didn't believe it but in my "modest" ( _ SWMBO views it differently ) collection of allen keys I had no 7mm one! Why Volvo chose 7mm ????

Yes, the same as Ford Mondeos and Jaguar X Types amongst others.

Bosch braking system…

Their fault!

Sadly no engineering stuff!

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Ady, I saw your bender in the Chronos warehouse the other day. Only one so you're lucky I didn't buy it.

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

I got two excellent Biography's and Monty Python films on video, no point suggesting engineering kit a wife and daughter wouldnt have a clue or where to get it I get a load of change to take to the likes of Ally Pally, if I can get there.

Martin P

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