hornbyben Please don’t tell us you would like one of this at your place! 😜😂

      LMSC might have to be a smaller one. I’ve always fancied a small computer controlled 5 axis mill, but haven’t come up with a project that justifies it (yet 😅)

        hornbyben you need at least one double garage or more to house the laser cutter in, I was looking forward to playing with it so a bit disappointed one of the stepper motors was delivered faulty.

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          Just arrived at the Hotel (12:45 am) in Rimini, will set up at 7.30 am.

          It’s owned by a friend of the Cortese family, so cheap rates.

          Rooms are basic but clean, don’t need any more.

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          DavecUK Rimini in winter brings to mind Fellini’s delightful, semi-autobiographical film about the town, Amarcord. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth your while to track it down.

              mathof2 I wish I could but I suspect there will be no time. Already late setting up because of the big queue and the need to go back and check in half a mile away.

              The organisation and admin is not terribly good at these exhibitions.

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                  DavecUK There’s no rush. You can get a DVD or stream it when you’re back home.

                    This is our stand right now!

                    This is roughly the state of everyone else…but we didn’t use workmen. Now we have all the stuff to put in the stand, many hours work.

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                    I have fond memories of chatting with a German engineer on his way to a trade show.
                    It was back in 1988 and we were on a Eurail train.
                    I remember that he spoke about how the German stands would have been designed for months, prefabricated and delivered in flat packs with every screw accounted for.
                    They would turn up a week before with exactly the right number of workers to erect them and have a nice, clean, functional display that showed off all their manufacturing skills.
                    Then, he said, the Italians would turn up at the last moment, throw something up, decorate it with colours and bling.
                    Then they would fill it with beautiful and stylish products, women and men and take the show by storm.

                      DavecUK I was going to ask if you were going to Rimini before you posted. I worked for many years in the Exhibition industry about 24 years in total, 14 of those at the Olympia exhibition centre in Hammersmith. Spent around another 10 years working on the stands carrying out the electrics.All around the country. Good fun when I was younger.only went abroad twice, once to Amsterdam and the second time to Geneva. Brings back some good memories.

                          DavecUK When I was at Olympia I was on the maintenance. A good percentage of our work was linked to the exhibitions, we were responsible for connecting the stand supplies to the hall’s distribution boards. Some of these located in the roof. Then they put ducts in the floor to a central walk way in the basement where we had further bus bars installed. This saved most of the roof work.