I'd tell you if I could find it
I repair canal boats & old diesels for a living, I've had a lathe of one sort or another for over 30 years but decided some years ago to acquire a wider selection of machines & tools - partly to reduce dependence on outside machine shops, partly just to widen my horizons a bit. If I have a boat on the dry-dock then any work needed is 'now', no good waiting for a shop which has to look after its regular, larger, customers first. Also because the workshop isn't my main place of work, I enjoy it more than what I call the 'day job'. I've now collected a decent selection of equipment, OK some of it's fairly old & 'well used' but it does what I need, trouble is the workshop is at saturation point & I really could do with pushing the walls out a bit! My shop might be in full time use for a couple of weeks, & then maybe abandoned for a month, it just depends what work comes in. My aim is, as my bones start to creak more with the years, to move the emphasis of my work from the dry-dock to the workshop but I can't totally ordain what sort of work comes in! In theory I've got a couple of 'hobby projects' in the pipeline, but in practice I haven't been near them for ages.
Tim