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Totally didnt have to google that. I was gonna paint it the same colour though , although and i quote, the home report states " The garage is in a poor state of repair and requires overhaul."

 

Scalextric XJ220:



Always wanted one of these ever since seeing the old set come out, but never had the money when I was younger. Managed to grab this for a sensible price (~£20) and I have plenty planned for it. Going to be completely repainting the shell with added detailing, going to try and rebuild the interior to look better, and then there is the tuning of the mechanical bits and pieces.

 

Im pretty positive i have this exact model in a box at my dads place, along with around 20 others, ferrari f40s etc

 

Apple AirPods Max


forgot my damn headphones again (and the spares I bought for when I forgot my headphones) so from the Argos next door.

Don’t get me wrong I’ve chased perfect sound before with Focals, but I’m rooted deep into Apples eco system atm.

 

Awesome, This is one that I have wanted for years as I have always had more than a bit of a thing for the XJ220, that was very much my poster car. This and the F40 were together in one base set.

 

Hisense DH3S802BB3_BK Heat Pump Tumble Dryers in Black
As the old tumble dryer decided to take up smoking and tryed to kill my family, lucky the wife caught it before it got out of hand.

 

Tricky feckers these tumble dryers.

Which Focals did you try? I think it's pretty common to pair AirPods for the convenience outdoors with some more "serious" cans for at-home listening. I do that.

 

I think I've still got that set at my parents. Came with the controllers that made engine noises and a curved bank IIRC

 

Ours was a TCR household, not sure what ever happened to that kit

 

I received a 15% off voucher on Amazon, so:



Which means my Mova Solar system is complete:

 

It's got a lil pizza slice!

 

If you need someone for that, the person who did mine was amazing, she basically got the impossible to happen as I hadn't been in the country for 3 years, low salary at the time and a number of other things. She still got an amazing rate and an offer to borrow more than I actually needed if required.

Let me know if you want her contact details and I will DM them to you.

 

Time to reload my coffee table:-


(half price from Costco )

A cheapo filament dryer to tide me over until Elegoo launch their filament switcher in Q3. (see my recent 3d printer purchase)

Together with a couple extra rolls of PLA+ filament.

 

My two 3007WFP-HCs that sit next to me in the lounge are getting very long in the teeth, coming up to 20 years old for the first I had! One can't even get up to 80 nits anymore. Also no modern GPUs feature DVI-D connectors, so I have to use active converters, which always seem to bugger up at some point, either suddenly showing static or just not working at all until a restart or left off for a while.

So, since Amazon is having its Spring sale, I went balls to the wall and ordered two of:



Dell S2721QSA

Also picked up two 5m 16K Displayport cables to connect them.

I hope to get two decades out of these too. The venerable 3007s will go into storage in the loft as I'm too nostalgic to get rid of them, and they may yet have a use in the years to come.

 

Recently upgraded from a busted 3600XT to a R5 9600X, 64gb DDR5 6000, kept my old gen 4 storage and my 2080 Super. Currently looking pretty in green with my first AIO ever. Next time I'm going custom loop, although I might jankify things and see if I can keep the block because it is excessively pretty. Got a 34" ultrawide arriving later today too, so much and many excite

 

Picked up a GMKTec Nucbox K6 (Ryzen 7840HS, 780M iGPU, 32GB RAM, 1 TB SSD) for my barcade build, originally was going to be a Lenovo E73 USFF I picked up for £60 but that arrived with a corroded CMOS battery. I decided I may as well treat myself after the headache I had returning that!