Creating the workshop I always promised myself

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Re: Creating the workshop I always promised myself

Post #21 by Jeremy Rowland » Fri May 23, 2025 8:48 pm

Nice man cave you have there. :thumbup:

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Re: Creating the workshop I always promised myself

Post #22 by Slooby » Sun May 25, 2025 12:53 am

hair bear wrote:I feel for you loosing the p38!


Thanks Rob, it was time, I hadn't touched it the best part of 2 years. It's gone to a good home, one of the chaps from Landy Zone, who gave me guidance during the first rebuild, before the injector pump had a sulk.

Did you find a home for yours?
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Re: Creating the workshop I always promised myself

Post #23 by Slooby » Sun May 25, 2025 1:00 am

Jeremy Rowland wrote:Nice man cave you have there. :thumbup:

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Thanks Jeremy, it's been my playroom at my folks since about 1991...it's about 1/3 the size now having lost out to the now defunct business expanding. There's essentially a woodwork shop next door...although a Rover V8, Land Rover 300Tdi and rather a lot of rotorvators are cluttering that up at the moment.

I tried pressing the blasting cabinet into service today, but the gun was making a meal out of sucking up the media and I need to investigate that. My home brew cyclonic trap between cabinet and hoover works well though, which is something
CMN Stuff: MF65, Thwaites Nimline, JCB 3CX
Projects: S11a 88" V8 Hybrid, 2 x S111 109"s, Mk11 Mini, Harrison L5A :doh:
Ish projects: T25 Camper, ST675R
Just added: Alpine S5 & Bridgeport Mk2 :wtf:
Sorely Missed: Impreza, E39 M5


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Re: Creating the workshop I always promised myself

Post #24 by hair bear » Sun May 25, 2025 10:42 am

Slooby wrote:
hair bear wrote:I feel for you loosing the p38!


Thanks Rob, it was time, I hadn't touched it the best part of 2 years. It's gone to a good home, one of the chaps from Landy Zone, who gave me guidance during the first rebuild, before the injector pump had a sulk.

Did you find a home for yours?

Unfortunately no, probably now an iffy re-enforcing rod in a rickety building in schenzen.
Funding manager of The Copper Beach Rehabilitation Home for orphaned and wayward tractors.

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Re: Creating the workshop I always promised myself

Post #25 by Slooby » Tue May 27, 2025 6:08 pm

Ohh no, nothe great scrap heap in the sky!?!
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Re: Creating the workshop I always promised myself

Post #26 by hair bear » Wed Jun 04, 2025 10:13 pm

Unfortunately - yes.
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