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

[darkzero]

Scored me a set of extra long 0° offset box wrenches in mint condition. I love these wrenches! When I worked in automotive I used to always borrow these from my co-workor/mentor & I've always wanted my own set but couldn't justify the price for them new.

 

[682bear]

Needs a lot of cleaning, but seems to be very tight....

Its been used primarily as a drill press the last few years.

-Bear

 

[richl]

90 degree and 45 degree double bevel cutters, bought the 7 of them on ebay as a group. 1" arbor

 

[Aukai]

Got Amazon Prime shipping for a 60 lb belt sander. They no longer list it for Prime shipping. I has been shipped, I thought they may cancel it.

 

[uncle harry]

An Ellis 1600 band saw came up on Milwaukee Craigs list. I called & was told that I could see it today between 9:00 and 3:00. The price was $ 650.
I got there @ 8:45 only to find out that he sold it last night. So I browsed over the other items available & selected several items; 1 set of 3/32 parallels, 1 set adjustable parallels (Japan), 1 3"boring head 3/4 straight shank with 3/4 boring bar set mfg. unknown, 1 Mitutoyo 12" dial caliper with cracked ctystal. 1 Huot 1/16 to 1/2 drill cabinet poulated with drills about 40%, 1 box of U.S made wrenches including Husky etc., 1 assortment of Silver & Deming Drills 1 1/2" on down-about a dozen, and a small U.S. made small tap & die set whose dies are approx. 3/4 dia. All of these for $ 170. The trip was worth my time after all.

 

[T Bredehoft]

I attended the Hobby Modeler's meet at Zanesville Ohio. Lots of really neat models, steam, Internal comustion, Sterling, Hit and Miss, V8, what have you. Musta been a couple hundred models, most in absolutely beautiful condition, shiny paint, brass, steel, highly polished wood bases, etc. I'm not a modeler, so I just gawked. I did browse the vendors, though. coulda bought a million dividers, 6" scales, many drill chucks, mikes. I did find one Albrecht 0 to 3/8" chuck, it followed me home, $30.00. Also a bunch of (4) HSS 3/8 lathe tools, 3 pieces of 1 1/4 6160 alum (these seven for $1. ea. and a nine piece selection of 12" 12/L14 round stock, one each 3/16 to 1". $14.00, that's less than shipping on any one of them.
Yeah, heres's a picture. None of the stock is for an imminent project, but we always need stuff to make things from. Oh Yeah, I fought off an Atlas shaper, bench size. Couldn't rationalize it.

 

[bss1]

I have been looking for a used Millermatic 210 or 212 with spool gun for about 5 years. I’ve had a Hobart 180 for about ten years but have had the hankering to upgrade for a while. Not many come on the local used market and the ones that came up, I was either too late or they were not in good shape. They seem to go quick around here for some reason. I had only seen a few and none with a two cylinder rack. Well today was finally my day. I found the listing early, and the asking price turned out to be reasonable. I made contact with the seller and completed the sale early in the day. It was a home/hobby use unit with spool gun and was in great shape. It came equipped with the two cylinder rack with two 120 cf tanks fully charged! It also had been upgraded with a Bernard MiG gun and also came with the original Miller M25 gun as well (unused). Also included were some misc tips and a 30 lb roll of .35 steel wire and a 30 lb roll of .35 stainless wire. I usually run .30 so I’m not sure if .35 is a better fit for this machine.


Now all I have to do is learn to weld like Firestopper!

 

[BGHansen]

I'm going to be adding a riser block to my Bridgeport, so am starting to accumulate the stuff needed to make a power draw bar. Used a 20% off coupon from HF to pick up a 1/2" 110V impact wrench. Most guys use a 3/8" butterfly air powered, but I don't want to have to listen to my compressor cycling as it sets about 3 feet from the mill (for now). I'll detail the build of the power draw bar in a thread once I get started.

Also picked up a universal chuck key. I have a number of chucks for the BP and was getting tired of fumbling for the correct key and swapping them between my three mills.

Lastly, received a toe-clamp (terminology?) kit from Shars. Don't have an application for it yet, but sold some stuff on eBay and had money burning a hole in my pocket.

 

[bss1]

New old stock JACOBS 18N super chuck made Hartford Connecticut!

 

[richl]

I got a few things from our wonderful postal service today!

Ebay purchase 8 90 degree and 45 degree mill cutters. Group purchase.


Nmtb30 3/4" she'll mill, and nmtb30 to mt3 toolholders, ebay group purchase.

Amazon purchases


Last night's shop dinner, zitti pizza slices , I did have to clean it up this morning, so it was kinda today lol