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I go buy the local metal supply here in Oroville CA. A couple weeks ago I spotted a 3 foot piece of I Beam. It weighs at least 100 lbs. because I paid over $60 for it. Scrap goes for $.60 a pound. An anvil would be better but...what the heck.
 
Your steel I beam will make a good anvil.probably better than most worn,rounded off over priced anvils you'll run across.
 
I've lived with a standard 29 piece fractional drill set for years and have wanted a good set of lettered and numbered drill bits for a while now.

I found this Norseman set at KMS Tools and got a few bucks off but still pretty spendy, but man do they cut well.

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Same set as this, https://www.amazon.com/Viking-Norseman-93840-SP-115-Premium/dp/B001EHI17C

I was drilling into the mill table to mount the DRO read head (5mm) and it was like a hot knife through butter.

David.
 
Kiwi Canuck said:
I've lived with a standard 29 piece fractional drill set for years and have wanted a good set of lettered and numbered drill bits for a while now.

I found this Norseman set at KMS Tools and got a few bucks off but still pretty spendy, but man do they cut well.

C4gqFwUi_o.jpg

Same set as this, https://www.amazon.com/Viking-Norseman-93840-SP-115-Premium/dp/B001EHI17C

I was drilling into the mill table to mount the DRO read head (5mm) and it was like a hot knife through butter.

David.
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Very nice, and a pretty good deal. I paid north of that for a very lightly used set of fractional, number, and letter screw length cobalt Cleveland drills. They are very nice to use!
 
6x12 Surface grinder in great condition. Used by Tool and die maker. Great price for me as he just didn't need it any longer.
 
I just won this on eBay:

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Kurt D688. I pick it up this afternoon. :eek::D

Can anyone help me out ordering a rebuild kit and some Kurt stickers? The Kurt website only ships to the US & Canada, and there’s no official distributor here in the UK.
 
I've been looking for a Starrett No. 104 speed indicator for over a year. All of them I found were either in fairly poor condition and missing attachments or were priced stupid high. Earlier this week over at Garage Journal one of the guys mentioned he had one that he'd had for years and never used. I got it in the mail yesterday and she's a real beauty. It came in it's original box, two tips in excellent condition, and even still has the instructions. It looks to have hardly been used. Plus, he priced it so low I felt guilty about it and added a few dollars onto the payment.

*Sorry, no pics. My phone doesn't do pics and I haven't found an alternative to Photoripoff...
 
Great Old One - do you know what parts you need (from the Kurt D688 repair parts list on their web site)? If so, can you contact them for any larger parts (to find weight) then you could have them shipped here and I could forward them to you. We just need to know total shipping weight so you know how much shipping should cost. (Also - do you have to pay import / GST - or equivalent when you receive the package or ahead of time when it is shipped?). Let me know - would be happy to help out
 
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