How Long before......

[tmuir]

You can just make a project without having to stop to buy another size of bar, or tap, drill bit etc?

Almost every project I start involves atleast 2 weeks waiting for some vital part to arrive.
I was about to start another small project to make another tool that I should be able to finish in 2 nights but have just discovered I'm missing one size of bar stock.
So instead of making anything tonight I've spent the time making a list of material I want / need and may need in the future and placed the order.

I was hoping to have this project finished by the weekend but now I will be lucky to finish by next weekend.

Oh, to just have everything I need to finish a project in my workshop for once............

 

[black85vette]

Drives some people nuts but I may have several projects going at the same time. When all else fails I make another piece of tooling. Never seems to be a shortage of things to do in the shop while waiting for bits to arrive.

 

[bearcar1]

I'm truly convinced that if one owned all of the tooling and metal stock in the world, there would always be that *something* that was missing to do a single step of a project. Very deep pockets is almost a requirement as well as 25 hours in a day ;D

BC1
Jim

 

[vlmarshall]

I have access to the scrap bins ( and even the stock racks, if I ask nicely ;D ) at work, and I still need to order material and hardware to finish anything.

 

[tel]

Dunno, I've been at it 32 years and I ain't got there yet.

 

[CrewCab]

Never happen ....... : ..... you'll always be missing a screw or summat ;D

CC

 

[tmuir]

Never happen ....... : ..... you'll always be missing a screw or summat ;D

CC

I suspect your are right.
I wouldn't mind so much if I could buy it locally but almost everything I need has to come from atleast 4500km away, sometimes the other side of the world....

 

[bearcar1]

I wouldn't mind so much if I could buy it locally but almost everything I need has to come from atleast 4500km away, sometimes the other side of the world....

Well now, you could always move ........ There's a great Tudor just up the block from me that's available

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BC1
Jim

 

[tmuir]

Just had a call from the supplier who left a message.
I was after some 1/2 inch brass hex rod so I ordered that and 7 or 8 other items to pad up the order.
Guess what?
They are out of stock of 1/2 brass hex. :big:
Luckily I called them back just before they posted my order which they were going to send without the 1/2 brass hex. They do have 12mm brass hex rod in stock and this will do for what I want so they are sending that instead.

 

[Tin Falcon]

I was pretty much to that point with the little rocy engine .
The hold up there is finishing the cnc on the mill and leaning cnc now I have no working crank handles on the mill at the moment.
Tin