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I wouldn't buy sandwiches from a naked sandwich man.

Especially a sausage sandwich....
 
Very/Extra large eggs. Marvellous if you're lucky. There's no upper limit to their size:

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weighed a couple, at about 100g each.
This is the contents of two of them - two yolks each:

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Even better, when Tesco's deliver them, you're quite likely to find one broken in a box of 6, so you get 5 free whopping great eggs.

Unfortunately you can't easily get "organic" ones. After I'd looked up the true meaning of "free range" etc, I much prefer "organic".
 
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mattylad said:
Well, as it's Christmas and the wife has had various new things over the past years while I just can't be bothered with them I finally decided I need a new hobby so have got one of these baby's:

I am currently scouring the 3D model sites for something decent to make instead of just more ornaments.
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@mattylad How are you finding it? A teacher I know says the school can't afford one, which sounds daft these days. I know they'd need one which is enclosed and doesn't need constant tweaking, which many do.
That thing would be fine.
Have you tried making the standard test-piece, the little boat in the ad? If it does that well, it's ok. I've used a couple and they are not hassle free.

You're right, though, you find there's not much useful that you can make unless you're into making models, things to stick on birthday cards etc.

If you have the space and fancy spending another grand or so, look at laser cutters. You can use sheets of acrylic, plywood, vinyl, leather etc to make useful stuff, and burn/engrave lettering and pictures etc. I know someone who uses one of the £1700 ish (approx 80W) ones, who makes a few hundred quid a week selling through a cheapo website, etsy etc. The lower wattage ones are smaller (desktop, £500 ish)and take a lot longer but you can do the same things. You can cut eg straight from a pdf image. The 80W one is fast. A bit of fuss, you need a better (£50) fan, etc with them. Best in a shed really, a bit smoky.
 
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Justin Passing said:
@mattylad How are you finding it? A teacher I know says the school can't afford one, which sounds daft these days. I know they'd need one which is enclosed and doesn't need constant tweaking, which many do.
That thing would be fine.
Have you tried making the standard test-piece, the little boat in the ad? If it does that well, it's ok. I've used a couple and they are not hassle free.

You're right, though, you find there's not much useful that you can make unless you're into making models, things to stick on birthday cards etc.

If you have the space and fancy spending another grand or so, look at laser cutters. You can use sheets of acrylic, plywood, vinyl, leather etc to make useful stuff, and burn/engrave lettering and pictures etc. I know someone who uses one of the £1700 ish (approx 80W) ones, who makes a few hundred quid a week selling through a cheapo website, etsy etc. The lower wattage ones are smaller (desktop, £500 ish)and take a lot longer but you can do the same things. You can cut eg straight from a pdf image. The 80W one is fast. A bit of fuss, you need a better (£50) fan, etc with them. Best in a shed really, a bit smoky.
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I printed the benchy boat 20 minutes after opening the box, its a very easy to use printer with auto levelling etc.
The main thing to do is wash the bed, other than that it makes some damn good prints.
Walking around Ikea with the wife today I was telling her I could easily print that flower pot etc. so when we got
home she has ordered some filament she likes for me to make her flower pots etc.

The ,main thing it currently prints is ornaments for her, I'm more practical and am finding I need to learn to use 3D CAD software etc.
The amount of free models is amazing.

Yes my facebook is full of laser cutter ads right now and one of those may eventually be on the wish list but not yet, I'll concentrate on this first.
 
A fat ball feeder, a normal feeder, a packet of fat balls, a bag of seed and ten of those fat/seed combo's in coconut half-shells for the birdies.
 
Another plug for the "Very Large" eggs.
They quite often get cracked in delivery. The boxes are too tight.

Today three boxes of six arrived.
First box, one cracked .
Guy says "That box is free then, you can keep the other five".
Second box, two cracked
Guy says "That box is free then, you can keep the other four".
So I have 3 cracked eggs.
I say
"But I can transfer....."
He, "no, no, both boxes free".
Third box, none broken.
I say nothing but adopt a quizzical demeanour.
"Righto then", he says, "two boxes refunded."

The logic defeats me, but it's 6 eggs paid for, out of 15.
And if you get them delivered early enough, you can use the just-cracked ones for breakfast.
 
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