"Boy oh boy oh boy." That was me while my dear partner was checking the time with her arms crossed. It was a strange experience with the roles reversed. I usually find myself with crossed arms looking for a chair in some clothing store with a hip name where they misspell a word like Topz or Temt. I can never find one so like a good little boy I follow her around and agree that she looks great in that colour and oh that cut of jeans just does wonders for your... umm, posterior.
I can see myself spending hours at Carba-Tec - less the partner-with-crossed-arms. I'm sure I saw some factory stores around Auburn that can keep her well occupied. I'm just scared of the pounding our credit cards will receive if we split up.
They have a massive range of tools and if you are just starting out like myself... I'll take one of each please sir. I'm sure I won't need that lathe just yet but if I can take it home I'll find a use for it. I bet it would look pretty if I attach a colourful little fan on one end and let it spin. It might just keep me cool as well in the summer.
My main reason for the visit was to eye out their 18" Scroll Saw. I ogled it and then the 21" Excalibur (you have to say that with a booming majestic voice) grabbed my attention and screamed out begging me to take it home. I let them battle for my favour but in the end left them both to live and fight another day.
Fast forward 15 minutes and here we are at Hare & Forbes. She still had her arms crossed but she stopped looking at her watch. She was checking the time on her phone instead while no doubt posting nasty things about me on Facebook. I can't prove that though as she de-friended me before we left Carba-Tec. I'm just lucky I had the car keys in my pocket...
Machinery House is just that. A house, in this case a large warehouse, full of machines. Lots of fun stuff to crush and rip your fingers off if you don't know how to operate it and let me tell you I can successfully maim myself on 87% of their equipment given the opportunity.
I specifically went to see their Woodfast 12" Disc Sander of which they had none in stock and their H&F SBD-25A (D144) Drill Press which turns out is huge in real life. I suspected it was large but seeing it in person was impressive. At 60kg I would need both arms to lift it. Well, one arm if I had my Weetbix in the morning.
Those three items are in my shopping trolley at the moment. A decent quality scroll saw, a no nonsense disc sander and a practical solid drill press. I'm having second thoughts on the drill press and I might end up going with something a little smaller. I was also checking out some band saws but that's for a future purchase - maybe when my partner stops hyperventilating.
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