I had every intention of updating this blog more often that I have in the past, but already had a big gap.

The Brother engineer rang a week ago to say he was 'waiting on spare parts', but I have heard nothing since. I've held off on scanning the boxes of small format Model Engineer magazines, but I may make a start even if I have to put them through the scanner twice so I can finally clear that corner of the bedroom. I've ordered a better stand for the printer which will the the space anyway. eBay had an extra 20% off which ran out tomorrow so I was a little pushed to complete the purchase which was already discounted by 50%. It's not an ideal stand, but it will allow me to store the A3 paper and card flat below it as well as all the A4 stuff ... and hopefully the laminator will also fit in the space.

Have taken the time to work through all of the boxes of electronic stuff that I'd kept and everything is tidy in zip bags, labelled and organised. Plastic biscuit boxes are just the right size for the 88x130mm bags which hold most stuff. I had thought I would need to buy another box of 'crackers' for Christmas, but on a return to the garage two more of the deeper boxes turned up and while the 1/4W resistors could do with a deeper box, the slightly shallower one will do for now. I have separated out ALL of the parts relating to Divisionmaster and in addition to a finished standard and super units I have part built kits for more of each along with boxes and PCB's to complete at least another dozen units. Machining the box for the super is the only real problem as I don't have power at the garage to fire up the CNC kit as yet although there are a couple of inverters which could get me part of the way operational ...

I am hopefully now in a possition to be able to carry out repairs on Divisionmaster units and the CNC kit I've supplied in the past and hope to have the new stock up for sale in the near future. Could do with a little income to offset the costs of getting things running again.