I did it!!!

​Just posted a moment ago on 2 discarded fridges of which 1 is at the bin centre on the ground floor of my block. With Terence's encouragement, I packed my tools and went down to dig out the compressor from the fridge tonight... lol. He was on the way here to paste me the solder mask paste and the nano scope and helped me to unscrew the 4 bolts holding the compressor down to the base plate.

It was a fun day for me. Found a bargain on the Amax air compressor and finally did what I dare not do; salvaging a part from a thrown-away... I'll remember this day...

I've been buying quite a bit of stuff online from stores listed in the Chinese app "Tao Bao".  So far the stuff I've purchased were smaller items like the ER16 and ER32 wrenches, ER32 cap etc.  Lately, I've been wanting to relocate the WayTrain bandsaw to a trolley with 3 shelves.  This will help to provide additional storage space for the shop, as well as giving me the flexibility to move the bandsaw out of the way of certain part of the workbench.  The bandsaw is currently clamped onto the Black & Decker workstation, which is standing next to the area on the workbench where I do laying out on the surface plate with the height gauge.

This was what I wanted to purchase initially:

The size of this trolley is ideal.  It cost more than what you can dig out from TaoBao as it is of thicker sheet steel, better and bigger wheel set, and you don't have the bolts & nuts protruding from the bottom of each shelf.  The price is about double of similar type with thinner material.

​While I was browsing, I saw this:

I went "WOW"!!! Finally a chance to have some professional looking stuff in my shop!  After chatting about this with Terence over Whatsapp, I decided to go for it, given the lower price as compared to the open shelves trolley, though this uses thinner sheet metal and has narrower width.  Wanted the black as it looks the nicest (to me), among others but it cost RMB20 more as compared to the rest.  Unfortunately, it was out of stock, so I went with the Green/Black as the green is pretty close to my Proxxon PD400.  After confirming the order, I remembered my bandsaw, which will be sitting on the top of the trolley cabinet, is mostly light blue... 

At about the same time, I picked up a couple of steel pegboards with accessories to keep the shop neat and tidy (excuses to satisfy the urge of buying...).

With these, I also bought a couple of angled plate stand so that I can mount one piece on to the worktable which I'll be converting to my working desk.  At present, the Proxxon PD400 is sitting on it.  If the pegboards proved to be good, I'll be buying smaller pieces to mount onto the sides of the trolley.  I should be receiving the pegboards some time next week.  Once I have them mounted and filled with tools and stuff, I'll update the blog with pics.

I'm now patiently waiting for all the stuff to come in to complete the packing of the shop for the Lunar New Year.  I hope to spend more time in the shop going forward to learn how to make useful things for the shop.  Seems like I've forgotten about "buying less, building more" ...

Have a blessed night.

Some time in late October, I commissioned a designer on Fiverr to help design a logo for my site. On Nov 1st, she completed 3 designs for my selection. I like them all!!! But I can't be using them all on my site, so I sent them to some of my friends asking them for their opinion.

theseare the designs:

Though later on, somehow, maybe due to miscommunication, she sent me the file for this:

The difference is at the top; 2 small gears instead of 2 slotted screw heads. Anyway, I proceeded with it and made myself this!

my very own shop T-shirt!!! I had this printed in Malacca during our family trip. Couldn't help it. Now I've to figure out how and where to add the logo to the site. Quite bad at this kind of thing. Not a creative person...

Drop me a note if you have any suggestion please.

​Have a blessed weekend!