Lester's New Blog

Created by: Lester Caine, 27 October 2024
Last modified: 28 February 2025

Another new toy to play with and I'm finally starting to plan jobs.

By Lester Caine
19 June 2025

The latest new toy is a Laser Cutter and I'll start to document the uses I can put it to shortly.

I've finally received the plans of the Swan Launch from Hobby's as it was missing from the order a couple of weeks ago. The package arrived with the sides ripped open and the 'nailer' for helping insert the small nails used in model boat building was missing. It is somewhat surprising that that was all. The plan had been repl…

Busy week on projects

By Lester Caine
16 March 2025
Jigsaws-OnWall
Finally got around to replacing the Xmas jigsaws with something more appropriate in spring. So I had to complete two new 1000 piece jigsaws. The Christmas ones took several days to complete, but having got stuck in, the new railway based ones were finished in two and a half days. Would have been even quicker if I hadn't had an accident trying to turn the first one ov…

How I hate computers

By Lester Caine
19 January 2025
Lost work yet again without any obvious reason!

Projects to start on

By Lester Caine
17 January 2025
Where to spend time this year

Printer all sorted

By Lester Caine
21 November 2024

Engineer rolled up with a pile of boxes and having confirmed that the problem was with the upper scanner proceeded to swap the top section of the printer with a new one. Half an hour later all is sorted and we are getting clean scans again. Now to get stuck into the last couple of hundred Model Engineer magazines now that I only need to run them through once.

Have been looking online to see what other volumes of the magazine are available pre-1950 and there have been a few batches t…