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Offline websterz

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Am I the only one?
« on: April 01, 2012, 10:26:41 PM »
Do any of you ever just go out and sit in your shop? You know, crack open a beverage of your choice,  :coffee: turn on the shop radio,  :ddb:  and just sit and enjoy the space? Sometimes I just feel like being surrounded by my toys even if I am not making chips. Am I the only one?  :loco:
"In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.  Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal."
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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 02:40:30 AM »
yep me to

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 03:25:01 AM »
Wish I had the available time to do that........  :(

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2012, 03:42:20 AM »
No you are not the only one. If anyone calls and asks what i am doing, iam pondering where all this" dark energy" (that scientists recon is all over the place) :smart: is, so i can inhale a bit. :med:    David, you have to make the time,no one is going to give you any!!! :thumbup:

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2012, 08:54:52 AM »
Yup. Not often as I have no time....
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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2012, 09:04:46 AM »
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me too
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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2012, 11:30:49 AM »
In the shop and the wife says "Whatcha doing?" I say's "Nothing" she say's "You did that yesterday!" I say's "I hadn't finished" :) :) :) :) :)

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2012, 01:00:30 PM »
I sometimes spend more time sitting and gazing at the equipment than using it. I call it a management meeting. If the motorcycles are parked inside as well its like being in heaven for a little while. Riding the motorcycles is the only thing that gives me more relaxation and takes my mind off all the worries and cares. Just need a good LazyBoy recliner in the shop.....

Should we be talking about this with our outside voice?

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2012, 01:01:24 PM »
Speaking for myself, the sitting and doing nothing seems to be associated with resolving to tidy up a little.

Next time I decide to try and create order out of chaos, first job will be to remove the chair from the shop.

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2012, 01:34:29 PM »
Glad I'm not alone. I was a-feared I was becoming a bit of a nutter.  :Doh:
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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2012, 02:15:09 PM »
Glad I'm not alone. I was a-feared I was becoming a bit of a nutter.  :Doh:

What do you mean becoming ........... you are a "nutter" we're all nutz on here  :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I even talk to myself, especially when I'm making something  :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2012, 02:26:56 PM »
What do you mean becoming ........... you are a "nutter" we're all nutz on here  :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I even talk to myself, especially when I'm making something  :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

True!  :beer:

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2012, 03:24:04 PM »
I even like the smell of my shop
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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2012, 05:04:01 PM »
This is all terribly familiar...

I often spend time just loitering in the shop. Usually it's because I'm trying to remember where I put something. Sometimes it's deciding where to put something, and sometimes it's resolving to tidy up a bit. Often, after resolving to tidy up, I am overcome with ennui and have to sit down for a while.

The smell, ah, the smell. I guess I'm lucky as I can, relatively easily, fill my workshop with the smell of WD40, burnt cutting oil, or a choice of petrol or diesel exhaust fumes (depends which compressor I want to run). Any of those are acceptable, although the diesel is pushing it a bit I must admit.

I also frequently talk to myself when machining. The repertoire is a bit small & usually consists of "where the bloody hell has that gone" and "osh*tosh*tosh*t" and "bollix", but just occasionally you might hear "yes!".
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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2012, 07:43:03 PM »
+1

"Usually it's because I'm trying to remember where I put something."

This is frighteningly familiar..... :scratch:

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2012, 10:48:01 PM »
Us agreeing with you hardly means you're not crazy.   :doh:

I too spend time just sitting in my shop.  It's my space, no one else's.  I made, bought or built everything in it and I do love it so.


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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #16 on: April 03, 2012, 07:06:29 AM »
Some of my best ideas come from loitering in the shop. I will go down there with no plan in my head and just wonder around looking at stuff measuring and thinking of ways to do something.

Dave

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #17 on: April 03, 2012, 03:37:45 PM »
Remember Catch 22...

If you think you're crazy you can't be; if you don't think you're crazy you must be... :doh:

I love just sitting and contemplating from time to time. Just picking up some obscure piece of tooling that I rescued from a junk box somewhere and, having no idea what it is for, wondering what I could make it do. :smart:

I have to admit though, it is usually during AndyF's well chosen 'tidy up' session. I start with good intentions...wonder where I can put it all, finally figure it is best left where it is...and, "oh look, I forgot that I had that..." :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #18 on: April 03, 2012, 07:07:02 PM »
Some forty years ago, some friends and I would regularly go "down" to the shed where a 1949 Norton was in the slow process of restoration,there was such a nice atmosphere about that "shed" like so many workshops, there was always something to talk about, now I have a large workshop in which I'm fighting a war on invasive "stuff". Tools, hand (some I've had for forty years) and machine transmit a kind of soothing pleasure! My pillar drill is known as Mrs Denbigh, a splendid "camel back" as the Americans call them 450kgs of pure pleasure to use, despite occasional belt slip. They all have their endearing quirks! All the more pleasure!

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #19 on: April 03, 2012, 10:46:11 PM »
Hi Websterz
You have hit the "Nail on-in the Head" perfectly. Every one need to take this advice on this variation of the them "Take time out and smell the roses". It makes for a more ballanced approach to lifestyle.
Your workshop should be the the place of pleasure relaxation and fun where you are in charge of what gets done and how you do it.
Imagination never can run wild if you have your nose stuck on the grindstone.

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2012, 01:57:57 AM »
A chair would be nice, all I can do is lean against the bench, even that is pleasurable :whip:

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2012, 05:10:24 AM »
I have an assortment of different workshop stools, varying heights, these can also be used for working, thus economising my back!

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2012, 01:07:46 PM »
The smell, ah, the smell. I guess I'm lucky as I can, relatively easily, fill my workshop with the smell of WD40, burnt cutting oil, or a choice of petrol or diesel exhaust fumes (depends which compressor I want to run). Any of those are acceptable, although the diesel is pushing it a bit I must admit.

I keep a piece of cedar next to my stationary belt sander and occasionally I will switch it on and sand the end of the cedar stick. It smells real nice in there for awhile.

I have also been known to take naps in my reclining executive chair that sits in front of the lathe. 
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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #23 on: December 18, 2012, 10:28:18 AM »
AdeV,

...Usually it's because I'm trying to remember where I put something. .

I am spending a lot of time in my shop trying to remember where I put the Vernier calipers. One minute I had them in my hand,  now gone !

Most annoying.

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #24 on: December 18, 2012, 12:31:15 PM »
AdeV,

...Usually it's because I'm trying to remember where I put something. .

I am spending a lot of time in my shop trying to remember where I put the Vernier calipers. One minute I had them in my hand,  now gone !

Most annoying.

Dave.

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Ask Andy, if he's seen it.  :scratch:

It might just be with his collet........  :thumbup:

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #25 on: December 18, 2012, 01:31:38 PM »
Dave and David,

There's no vernier caliper in the kitchen cupboard where the collet was, I'm sorry to say.

For once, I've managed to herd together all four of my digiverns, and replaced batteries where needed. Three still work in the sense that the display comes on, though they all give slightly different measurements on a test piece. I suppose that might be due to their being selected from among the cheap fruit and veg at Aldi and Lidl. 

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #26 on: December 18, 2012, 01:56:09 PM »
Dave and David,

There's no vernier caliper in the kitchen cupboard where the collet was, I'm sorry to say.


Have you checked behind the cornflakes? It's amazing what you can lose behind a packet of cornflakes.


For once, I've managed to herd together all four of my digiverns, and replaced batteries where needed. Three still work in the sense that the display comes on, though they all give slightly different measurements on a test piece. I suppose that might be due to their being selected from among the cheap fruit and veg at Aldi and Lidl. 
 

In future, may I recommend your test pieces be selected from something slightly firmer than Lidl's fruit & veg rack. Perhaps a 2-day old Tesco loaf of bread, they're pretty hard.
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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #27 on: December 18, 2012, 03:41:07 PM »
I've fit a new battery in my digi-Vernier,  but I don't really like it. I prefer the (missing) mechanical one.
However,  I have decided that the 'stealth' method of finding the missing instrument is probably the best.

To use this method one simply assumes it is lost forever,  and hope that,  because you aren't thinking about it,  the vernier will think you have forgotten it,  and it will re-appear in the obvious place you left it.

Works for me.

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p.s.  Checked behind the cornflakes;  not there.

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #28 on: December 18, 2012, 05:36:58 PM »
I use the "stealth" method a lot, the only problem is that it sometimes takes years for the missing object to realise that your not looking for it!

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #29 on: December 18, 2012, 06:46:13 PM »

In future, may I recommend your test pieces be selected from something slightly firmer than Lidl's fruit & veg rack. Perhaps a 2-day old Tesco loaf of bread, they're pretty hard.

 :lol: :lol:
Actually, I tested them against a salami, the diameter of which has been standardised by Eurocrats at 25.00mm so their wives don't make invidious comparisons.

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #30 on: December 19, 2012, 07:07:14 AM »
old Chinese saying.

'what would the faithfull wife know about different (salami) sizes ?'

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #31 on: December 19, 2012, 09:08:03 AM »
old Chinese saying.

'what would the faithfull wife know about different (salami) sizes ?'

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #32 on: January 19, 2013, 01:28:46 PM »
I just sit and if asked, I am planning my next move.
A cheapo charity shop swivelly office chair is well worth having for about £10 or less.
I like stinky, poncey joss-sticks. £1 a bundle.
Self-congratulation, the only sort. 

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #33 on: March 29, 2013, 03:54:51 PM »
Found the little blighter.  In a set of drawers used for old electronic bits and pieces. This was in a different part of the house,  well away from any engineering stuff.

Happy Days.

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #34 on: March 29, 2013, 04:11:02 PM »
Well David....... As Andy hadn't got it.  :scratch:

I just knew...... You were looking in all the wrong places!   :)

Enjoy your happy day......  :thumbup:

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #35 on: March 30, 2013, 10:46:48 AM »
Crikey blimey, I might be normal after all.
Nobody has mentioned the essential case of breakfast beer, you know the 2.8% stuff from Tescos or where ever. :beer:
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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #36 on: March 30, 2013, 11:03:57 AM »
Another plus 1....
I have several projects on the go and sometimes just become depressed to the point where I cant do anything.......... :palm:

Sometimes I end up going in just to clean up, with a nice chilled beverage...

Sadly tho' this week has been worsened by the demise of my best friend's wife, she died of cancer.....Its been difficult but now the funeral has taken place and I've spent time away with family things should get better...

I'm wishing I was in the toy room right now as I type..wanting to crack on...

My wife is always telling me...'if you're not in the mood ....dont do it...you'll only make a mess of it' How right she is..
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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #37 on: March 30, 2013, 07:22:25 PM »
Last week the battery in my best Mitutoyo caliper died, so I ordered a new one. When it came I couldn't find the caliper. Looked for a week in every drawer in the shop, house, etc., 4 times, cabinet, even in my vanity drawer. Finally, gave up. Boy was I pissed. So I put on my apron anyway to go to work and guess what, it was in the top pocket.
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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #38 on: March 31, 2013, 03:54:08 AM »
You were off whole week and were wearing the apron all the time? :lol:

I found my traditional SOMET caliper from glove compartment of her car, while I was trying to locate a spare light bulb. Wonder why I put there and why?

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #39 on: April 03, 2013, 05:58:17 PM »
Re. Things "happening", in the shop.....

Where's the firebrick, which I use as a base when soldering?  :scratch:
The two verticals are there, plus all my soldering equipment. The base brick has disappeared! It's about 10" x 8" by 1"thick.  :scratch:


This afternoon, I needed to mill a 5/8" slot across the end of a 30mm bar. The r/t held it too high for rigidity.
Been intending to buy a Keats angle plate. But. You know.....   :doh:

Found this Moore & Wright V block, under the bench.......




Not the faintest idea where it's come from! Don't recognise the widget held in the V. I'm sure, I've never seen it before.  :scratch:

But, held in the vice, it did the job perfectly........




There's strange things happens in workshops, when yer not watching!  :scratch:

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #40 on: April 03, 2013, 06:11:42 PM »
David

No wonder I couldn't find that "Moore & Wright V block", you have it. Just to be sure that it is mine and not an imposter, look on the bottom and you should see my initials stamped there.  :lol: :lol: :lol:

I had a good look around here but I couldn't find the firebrick, sorry.  :lol: :lol: :lol:

Cheers  :beer:

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Re: Am I the only one?
« Reply #41 on: April 04, 2013, 03:49:53 PM »
Very sorry Don!  :(

I'm afraid this little wanderer is not your lost block. :scratch:

Unless, you've changed your name and not told us!   :)




Still no sign of the firebrick.......  :bang:

But, I've ordered a Keats angle plate, delivery tomorrow!  :D

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