Perhaps he was hoping for an Easter Egg.

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I am a big fan of SSD's.

I use them in both work and home PC's with the operating system and apps on one. I still use platter disks for storage though as I have a lot of data. The problem initially with SSD's was a poor write speed against there quick read speed. They have sorted that now so I also have other separate ones I use as a scratch disks.

SSD PCIe cards are now falling in price and to be considered. These make standard SSD's seem like snails.

Christmas.!!!!! – It's still a tad early ain't it.? However. I have treated myself to an early prezzie in the form of a new chuck. …………. So nobody else gets a gift off me this year.

Nick

I expect they will be in the shops very soon as well.

Best Christmas present I ever bought Gert MKI was a cement mixer, god that machine really earned it's keep before it got scrapped.

Bought Deb's one earlier in the year but for some reason she didn't go a bundle on it ????

Built like a brick outhouse, 48 years old and you could air drop it on Bosnia and it still do a 4:1 mix.

I always like to negotiate my pressy in time for the midlands model. Eng exhibition that way I always get something useful, decided this year on a setting thingy for the milling machine ( you know the one 2 DTI on a spindle ) having mauled the mill out of dads place 12 miles on the back of a wagon mauled into my place a very quick check showed it to be a full half though out! Got it all wrapped up now so I can act all pleased on Christmas Day!!

This thread has been a little neglected.

Santa decided the money that could have got me a Bridgeport and a CVA in reasonable nick had to go on a less used car to get me to work to get the money to pay for another car in five years when it's worn out. Sad thing is in 10 years a car will be worth scrap but a BP and CVA would still be worth what I might have paid. Fancy electric windows and radio with FM band not as fun as a few tons of machine tool.

Got a new book, not model engineering, "Fighters & Bombers" air to Air Photography by "Gavin Conroy", it starts with a section on Mosquito KA-114, both here in NZ, in the USA, and Canada. There are 24 other aircraft in great photos, and flight notes/remarks by the pilots.

Ian S C

Father Christmas obviously reads my letters because my "stocking fillers" included an assortment of pivot wire and a small tub of diamantine.

Going to see what kind of polish I can put on my smaller cutting tools and try to make some very small drills, however (since my sons decided I'd also like Halo 5) I may be otherwise occupied for a few days…

Regards,

IanT (aka Master Chief)

Senior Management gave me my pressies early, a bench belt sander and a boring head set, but daughters came up on the day with a 6" digital height gauge, slitting saw blades, 20-40-80 blocks and a universal type DTI holder – wonder how they all knew what I wanted, perhaps that list I wrote out, it worked a treat!

Chris

A nice macro lens for my camera – an even more time consuming hobby than ME !

Norman

A low-shutter count Canon 450D, now safely 'astro-modded' it's ideal for when this bloomin' cloud parts…

Neil