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Sketch-up is pretty good... I use Illustrator, just due to familiarity and ease of making coloured/labeled rectangles that are a specific size which are easy to rotate etc.

Switched to all-LEDs about 12 months ago and couldn't be happier - super bright, even light throughout the whole workshop and a lower power bill to boot. Very much worth the money.

Picked up this today: The metal plate has nothing discernible on it, there's no marks in the casting and the only logos on it say Alfa... but it looks a bit like a Delta DP-220, as far as I can tell from the pics online of those drill presses. Can't find anything about vintage Alfa drill...

I didn't see that this had been posted already so thought I'd put it here - 2019-2020 catalogue is up in English now: http://www.koken-tool.co.jp/catalog/en/HTML5/pc.html#/page/1

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Picked up a Made In England 1/4" Wolf Heavy Duty drill NW2cE today at an estate sale - needing a bit of TLC but it's quite an interesting drill... hadn't come across one before. PM'd you Fred - would love to compare a Made In Oz Wolf with a Made in the UK! No pics of mine yet, working on...

Have had my i3mk3s for about four months and have put about 300 hours a month of printing through it and have had zero issues. The only print failures I have had have been my fault for not cleaning the bed properly. Has required zero maintenance in that time. Very pleased.

Welcome! Sounds like you have some interesting projects ahead. Restoring vintage stuff can sure get addictive...

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I have always looked at it this way... Take a look at your flow rate (I use litres/minute here) and look at how much the bottle contains and then you'll have how many minutes of welding you'll get out of it. Approximately. I don’t time my welding, though, so I have never actually tested how...

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That's quite a find! I come across Britool fairly regularly here but only ever as a couple of spanners here and there in a mixed set, certainly nothing quite so nice as a complete set in a box!

Picked up a vintage grinder stand today - apparently it's cast steel and pre-WWI... I haven't had a close look to see if there's any kind of maker's mark yet or done a spark test. It came out of an old fabrication shop where it had apparently been for the last 49 years and it was vintage when it...

That’s very cool... how did you come across such a number of little time capsules?

Took some pics of the Tsunoda FC-120 and put some thoughts down here: https://motofaction.org/tool-reviews/tsunoda-king-ttc-fc-120-mini-flush-cutting-pliers-side-made-in-japan/

Nice set! I’m not familiar with that brand - how do they compare with the other Japanese offerings?

I have done that on motorcycles before, worked well and meant I didn't need to bother balancing the wheel/tyre with weights. Never bothered with the car, but then I don't do my own tyre changes on the car but do the motorcycle.

Yeah, it's interesting the approach online companies took to that - Amazon seems to have played that one differently to some others who just added on the 10% GST surcharge to anything brought in and left things largely as they were I don't blame them for doing whatever is best for themselves...

Yeah, some of the stores there are OK and will ship direct but some - like i-Tools - won't ship to Oz and have the following on their shop page: This product cannot be shipped directly to Au Australia from the store. Please use a package forwarding service >> The packaging forwarding services...

Special restriction. Once they introduced Amazon AU not long ago they restricted shipping from Amazon US/JP/etc. - sadly the selection of goods from Amazon AU is pretty pathetic and includes few garage-related things of interest that can be found on the other sites.