Xmas pressies from Santa 2015

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Anyone get anything interesting or unusual?

I got an SSD from santa and my older core 2 computer now goes like the clappers compared to my older hard drives

Took 15 minutes to install XP32 and 10minutes for XP64(My first ever dual boot drive attempt)

Well worth considering if you cant be ar***d upgrading your computer hardware

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

We are much more traditional in our family, Xmas pressies are received on Christmas Day only.

The SSD sounds good though.

Edited By V8Eng on 12/12/2015 07:47:20

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Perhaps he was hoping for an Easter Egg.

[RJWParticipant @rjw]

I can fully endorse the SSD, fitted a Samsung 850EVO to my Vaio a few weeks back, and it absolutely flies, 5 sec's from boot to login screen, and programmes which used to take an age to load (Paintshop Pro etc) load almost instantaneously, cooling fan is having a much easier time of it too, which means SWMBO gives me an easier time because the fan isn't howling all the time.

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

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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

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, my siblings and myself have all decided not to get each other Christmass pressies that we really don't want a couple of years ago, so this year I used the spare money on one of **LINK**. probably dosen't have an SSD in it, but seems to be a pretty smart camara and can take a much closer macro photos than my old Samsung one, which I have to quickly pull the lens out when I turn it on, as it won't drive itself out anymore.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 12/12/2015 10:44:51

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by Bazyle on 12/12/2015 09:36:58:

Perhaps he was hoping for an Easter Egg.

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

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

One year my ever loving gave me a boxed set of Metric Taps and Dies. She didn't seem to rate the 3/8 drive Socket set I gave her. Why? Far more useful than silk knickers!

Hoping for some MT soft arbors this year!

Howard

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

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.

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

Posted by John Stevenson on 15/12/2015 22:47:31:

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

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Show some respect.!!!

That is no way to talk about the woman you love now is it.?

Nick

[Mike LightfootParticipant @mikelightfoot72419]

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!!

[RJWParticipant @rjw]

Cracking deal on a good quality Sandisk SSD for anyone wanting one in their Xmas stocking, have to be quick though, only 2 left in stock last time I looked, too bad I bought mine a few weeks ago

Usual disclaimer: No connection to Aria other than a satisfied customer.

**LINK**

John.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

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.

[Thor 🇳🇴Participant @thor]

What 'Santa' brought me:

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

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

[Gray62Participant @gray62]

Still waiting for my main pressie (Tig weldeing set) which has been delayed until early Jan, but got a book and DVD on the history of British steam locos.

[IanTParticipant @iant]

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)

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Got a couple of small prezzies… DTI holder, DTI, ( dual scale – .01 / .0005" ) expanding mandrel 5.5 – 7 mm. (will see how accurate it holds small dia flywheels etc. )

George.

Edited By mechman48 on 26/12/2015 12:00:36

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

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

[AjohnwParticipant @ajohnw51620]

I had a used Meade 8" LX90, paid for with a 3 way split, me, my wife and my son – I insisted on paying for some of it. Much much cheaper than buying a new one. Then an odd mouse mat that has different granularity on each side, a quadcopter with a live video camera that feeds back to a phone or ipad etc, 2 good fictional books to read and as usual toooooo much chocolate but thankfully all is the dark sort.

John

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[NJHParticipant @njh]

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

Norman

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

No toys, I buy enough of them myself the rest of the year.

This year I had my favourite rocket scientist, the Delectable Deb's ™ come to travel down and stay with me for 3 days over the run up to Christmas.

Nothing better than a glass of vintage cider and a discussion on climb milling.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

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

Neil

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Got an instant brewery kit…..

Consumption has been vastly reduced in more recent times so not the best thing to get but it claims to produce 20 pints of 5% cider within 48 hours

Have drawn off the first few pints for cooling and will sample with dinner tonight, it looks like rough scrumpy without the lumpy bits

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