Lester's New Blog

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

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…

Lost work yet again without any obvious reason!

Where to spend time this year

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…

Lester's New Blog

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

Busy week on projects

How I hate computers

Projects to start on

Printer all sorted

Flying Scotsman 0 Gauge Model

Hachette Partswork Dalek

Doll's House Diary

Lester's New Blog

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