Today I acquired...........

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

It's nice when you plug stuff in and it just works.

Final piece of the puzzle

No work next week so il be building stands and wiring it all up in it's permanent home

 

[Dieselman 63]

Some Britool flare nut spanners. These are tricky to find and I was pleased to get them.

 

[Feet 'n Inches]

My portable bandsaw has arrived earlier than expected. It was scheduled for delivery between 2 and 4 this afternoon but rolled up at just after 10 am. Shortly after delivery I had an email saying delivery was delayed?



I think you can guess what I'll be up to later on.

 

[jimbo84]

My portable bandsaw has arrived earlier than expected. It was scheduled for delivery between 2 and 4 this afternoon but rolled up at just after 10 am. Shortly after delivery I had an email saying delivery was delayed?

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I think you can guess what I'll be up to later on.

maybe there's another one on it's way

 

[northwest]

My portable bandsaw has arrived earlier than expected. It was scheduled for delivery between 2 and 4 this afternoon but rolled up at just after 10 am. Shortly after delivery I had an email saying delivery was delayed?

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I think you can guess what I'll be up to later on.

I have never regretted buying mine.

 

[angellonewolf]

My portable bandsaw has arrived earlier than expected. It was scheduled for delivery between 2 and 4 this afternoon but rolled up at just after 10 am. Shortly after delivery I had an email saying delivery was delayed?

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I think you can guess what I'll be up to later on.

looks like a kids toy must be the pick has no scale im sure its bigger than the pic makes it look

 

[fizzy]

An unexpected surprise when the FedEx man delivered thisView attachment 235769

Unexpected in that I only ordered it from the States last Friday.


And even more unexpected was he didn’t come demanding tax and import duties . Call that a score seeing the servos for the next project were over £500 !

Royal Mail just stung me £20 for the £40 parting off tool I ordered from Bangood.
£12 VAT and £8 handling charge.
After B R E X ~I T it looks like me might have to pay VAT on every single thing - they are talking of dropping the exemption to zero. That will be fun for us couriers - and people who buy cheap things from abroad

 

[Ruffian]

My portable bandsaw has arrived earlier than expected. It was scheduled for delivery between 2 and 4 this afternoon but rolled up at just after 10 am. Shortly after delivery I had an email saying delivery was delayed?

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I think you can guess what I'll be up to later on.

That looks handy.

What size cut will it do and what price?
Seen the cheap aldi ones

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

looks like me might have to pay VAT on every single thing - they are talking of dropping the exemption to zero.

Best buy all the tools you can now...I reckon regardless of what happens tools are going to get more expensive.

I got a shock last week when my cheap dewalt drill broke after years of wire brush abusive...couldn't get anything under £120....so I checked what the original cost me....£64 in 2017!

 

[roblane65]

Thats great I've loads of old tools to flog

 

[johnny7]

Like this?

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Ooooh!

Lovely bit of walnut there!!


John

 

[fizzy]

Like this?

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Lovely!

 

[northwest]

Royal Mail just stung me £20 for the £40 parting off tool I ordered from Bangood.
£12 VAT and £8 handling charge.
After B R E X ~I T it looks like me might have to pay VAT on every single thing - they are talking of dropping the exemption to zero. That will be fun for us couriers - and people who buy cheap things from abroad

I ordered a couple things from overseas last week and received a demand for £12.40 this week. Wondered what it was and just paid it. Pretty cheesed off to find it was for a small cable I had ordered and it was $25 Hong Kong so about £2.50 If I had known it was that I would have just ordered another and let it be sent back. Wondering what next week will bring as amongst the stuff is a pretty big order of tooling from the US.

 

[Brad93]

An unexpected surprise when the FedEx man delivered thisView attachment 235769

Unexpected in that I only ordered it from the States last Friday.


And even more unexpected was he didn’t come demanding tax and import duties . Call that a score seeing the servos for the next project were over £500 !

FedEx send a letter about 4 or 5 day’s later

 

[jimbo84]

After B R E X ~I T it looks like me might have to pay VAT on every single thing - they are talking of dropping the exemption to zero. That will be fun for us couriers - and people who buy cheap things from abroad

Hopefully it will help out sellers on our home turf to at least try and compete

 

[Melvyn Best]

The only way this country will compete is if they become more productive. Get rid of all the fat cats in upper management doing sweeet fanny Adams and make the workforce more productive .

Not only the fat cats ,look at all the companies that were ruined by strikes, the unions have a lot to answer for as well, British Leyland a prime example. The British motor cycle industry was at one time a world leader ,then the Japanese started building more reliable bikes ,that didn’t leak oil everywhere, in a lot of cases out performed British bikes and were cheaper . What did the British companies do? Buried their heads in the sand , a total lack of development and investment

 

[Seadog]

What did the British companies do? Buried their heads in the sand , a total lack of development and investment

But that's the fault of management. Keep on taking the dividends, come what may. It's still going on.

 

[Brad93]

....You can go off people, you know?

coming to think of it,last time it was UPS that demanded payment on the spot, not Fedex.

I only know cos that is what happened with the toolpost

 

[fizzy]

Hopefully it will help out sellers on our home turf to at least try and compete

Not when people keep rubbishing jaguar landrover and keep buying German cars

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Not when people keep rubbishing jaguar landrover and keep buying German cars

Aren't they still owned by Tata?...all a bit irrelevant for me as I can't justify £40k-£80k on a defender (or whatever they cost these days!)...and I don't buy German either for that matter.

I remember when Jap cars started flooding into the UK...as a kid we really hated them because they started in the mornings! Before they came along you could easily make 50p for a bump start....even get a lift to school in the winter!