2017 - The Original "What Did You Buy Today?" Mega Thread

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I found a local auction site on Craigslist a couple days ago. The current auction was about to close, so I didn't have time to go there and actually look at the items. But I bid on a set of Brown & Sharpe telescoping gauges and an inside micrometer set . I won that evening. eBay style bidding, and my price was $95 for both. Adding buyer's premium and sales tax, it came to a total of ~$113. Picked the items up yesterday.

Checked the inside mike against my 2" outside mike, and it's right on at 1 ½ and 2". The mike head itself only moves ½", so there's a ½" spacer you can add or leave off to get the full range (1 ½" to 8 ½", .001" resolution) with just 7 rods. The telescoping gauges all look great, though some of them seem a bit gritty and one is a bit sticky (gummed up lube?) Anybody know how to disassemble these for cleaning?

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A couple of months ago (I think a couple of months - Old Timers Disease ) I ordered a gear cutter set and 2mm, 3mm, 4mm keyway broaches. The gear cutters are module 1 20° pa made in China and a 22mm arbor for them. $59 for the cutter set and $14 for the arbor. The cutters are correctly marked and decent quality and the arbor is very well made and finished. I purchased them on Ebay. The keyway broaches are a Dumont set of 2 and 3mm in a wood box and a 4 mm China broach with Dumont collared bushings in a box made from plywood scraps I had. I purchased The broaches from MSC on a 40% off sale. I guess I'm a tool nut now.

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I found a local auction site on Craigslist a couple days ago. The current auction was about to close, so I didn't have time to go there and actually look at the items. But I bid on a set of Brown & Sharpe telescoping gauges and an inside micrometer set . I won that evening. eBay style bidding, and my price was $95 for both. Adding buyer's premium and sales tax, it came to a total of ~$113. Picked the items up yesterday.

Checked the inside mike against my 2" outside mike, and it's right on at 1 ½ and 2". The mike head itself only moves ½", so there's a ½" spacer you can add or leave off to get the full range (1 ½" to 8 ½", .001" resolution) with just 7 rods. The telescoping gauges all look great, though some of them seem a bit gritty and one is a bit sticky (gummed up lube?) Anybody know how to disassemble these for cleaning?

Image is from the auction site, https://alotsalesandauctions.hibid.com
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The telescoping gauges I have you unscrew the bottom of the handle and the guts come out the bottom then the anvils slide out. my telescoping gauges are Lyndex brand made in Japan.

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Haven't been buying to much lately but I did score a looks new in the box lufkin 0-1 micrometer reads in tenths , in there green color in the box, also ordered a 2 morse to er32 collet holder for my atlas mill. Ill need to make a draw bar if it's metric no biggie. Under fifty for both. Still haven't got here but there paid for.
Forgot ordered some large diameter shrink tubing in three colors , don't tell the wife oh my
 
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A couple of months ago (I think a couple of months - Old Timers Disease ) I ordered a gear cutter set and 2mm, 3mm, 4mm keyway broaches. The gear cutters are module 1 20° pa made in China and a 22mm arbor for them. $59 for the cutter set and $14 for the arbor. The cutters are correctly marked and decent quality and the arbor is very well made and finished. I purchased them on Ebay. The keyway broaches are a Dumont set of 2 and 3mm in a wood box and a 4 mm China broach with Dumont collared bushings in a box made from plywood scraps I had. I purchased The broaches from MSC on a 40% off sale. I guess I'm a tool nut now.

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Any chance that ebay seller has anymore gear cutter sets available for sale?

BTW-Watched three gear cutters go for almost $120 last night on evilBay. Crazy!
 
I actually got these a couple of months ago....

Going against my Will (pun intended), I was going to buy a set of reamers & import, 2 criteria that I said I never would do. So at the time, the best price I could find on a 29pc fractional import set was like $130 or something like that. I knew I was going to regret it & kept telling myself to just buy quality ones as I need them. But I was sick of buying then having to wait for it when I needed one. I don't own a lot of reamers as I don't use them a lot.

Then magically a 29pc set of reamers popped up on ebay for $70 buy it now + $6 shipping & it was already in a Huot case rather than the cheap wooden cases all the other import set came in. Ok, cool, I was totally expecting them to be import but when I got them, I was shocked to see that they were a practically brand new set of Alvord Polk USA! Only one looks like it was ever used. This set costs $500-$600 new! :)

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