2018 Archive

[Cadillac]

A nice starrett no.98 level. Another cl find. Guy had bought to level his pool table. Must be pretty serious? Either way for 40 bucks I couldn’t pass it up. I already have a 8” but now I won’t have to move them to level anything. He threw in this mystery mic. Pin at end moves with anvil. Didn’t have a clue and he had no use for it. I figured I’d make a carriage stop or something out of it.

 

[Cadillac]

I figured out what the mystery mic is. It’s a canning lid mic. Now I can sleep

 

[Cadillac]

Hit the local flea market today with the boy. Nothing to exciting acouple of carbide lathe tools “carboloy”. Then some nice tapered files buck a pc. For some reason I have a fetish from files.

 

[Brento]

Yea i would like to pick up a few files as well. I wanna get some to rotate around like people say

 

[Aukai]

Well I bought an Ellis 1100 band saw with free shipping, it says "free shipping United States", everyone says Hawaii is part the United States. Let's see how this goes. LOL

 

[JimDawson]

Did a little Harbor Freight shopping today. I had a couple of 25% off coupons and 20% off coupons.

So I used the 25% off for one set of cobalt drills, and sent my son in with the other 25% off to get the other set. So $78.74 each. A couple more sets to add to my collection.

Then I used a 20% off coupon for a shim punch set, 39.99-8.00 =$31.99. This set is not the highest quality, and they use acrylic rather than polycarbonate for the guide plate, and there is too much clearance in the plastic. On the other hand, it didn't cost $345 as the Precision Brand does. I have lots of polycarbonate on the shelf so I'll just make a proper cover plate. All I really need it for right now is to punch eight 5/16 holes in some 0.003 shim stock so if it gets me through that I'll be happy.

The rollers are for a project I'm working on right now, it was cheaper to buy a couple of roller stands from HF and use the rollers than to buy rollers from McMaster and pay shipping.

And last is the little saw blades, I use those for slitting saws on the mill. A lot less money than buying slitting saws from a tool vendor.

 

[Z2V]

I got busy with life and let my coupons go to waste. Good haul there @JimDawson

 

[Aukai]

Well at 2 PM Hawaii time I was informed that my paypal account was refunded, and that even if I sent it to the west coast that Ellis is 6-10 weeks back ordered. Can't say I was surprised, oh well.....

 

[MAKEITOUTOFWOOD]

Well at 2 PM Hawaii time I was informed that my paypal account was refunded, and that even if I sent it to the west coast that Ellis is 6-10 weeks back ordered. Can't say I was surprised, oh well.....

DAMN!

 

[The_Apprentice]

Technically I picked this up last week at Harbor Freight, but who's counting...