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Dean
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by Dean » Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:30 pm
well after almost 4 months without a place of tinkering this week i built my new workshop, and it is a work of art even if i do say so myself, not that dead cow in a perspex box modern stuff either

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start moving my tools in tomorrow and hanging them on the walls like the sad git i am and then, maybe, when swmbo isnt looking i can sneek out there and start playing gearboxes again
D
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by Dieselman » Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:34 pm
Dean wrote: maybe, when swmbo isnt looking i can sneek out there and start playing gearboxes again
D
Buy her a wallpaper hanging set to be playing with to distract her...
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Dean
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by Dean » Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:39 pm
wont work, she has a labourer for that sort of thing dont you know

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jonathan_dyane
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by jonathan_dyane » Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:08 pm
Ooh, good stuff
Any photos of the new facility?
Jonathan.
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Dean
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by Dean » Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:20 pm
i will take some tomorrow, its been raining all week while ive been building it so i didnt get any of the build in progress.
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by Peter.N. » Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:02 am
Well done, I keep forgetting that you have moved. I have a double garage but apart from the fact that its full of rubbish, I do pretty well all my work on the ramp outside, its so much easier to work at the correct hieght - except when its raining
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Dean
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by Dean » Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:25 pm
Ive still got to work outside Peter but it just means ive got something to work out of, started moving all my stuff up today, still got a few bits to do but should be all done and tidy by the end of the weekend.
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by Peter.N. » Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:59 pm
It looks 99% tidier than mine

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by Dieselman » Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:16 pm
Peter.N. wrote:It looks 99% tidier than mine

Only 99%...
I've finally managed to recover some space in the garage this week but only because I took body parts off the Xm, so It had to somewhere dry..
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by Dean » Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:03 pm
i started off with good intentions in the last garage too, by the time we left there was just a walkway betwwen the piles of stuff to the bench, unless there had been a cave in the night before and then there was no hope of getting to the back
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