What Did You Buy Today?

[Ulma Doctor]

I'm in the large swing club now!

I bought it today, i pick up later in the week!

Victor 2040 with DRO

 

[Winegrower]

Congrats, Ulma Dr. I tried really hard to find a Victor 1640, but no luck. Please post some about this as you get going?

 

[mattthemuppet2]

I'm in the large swing club now!

I bought it today, i pick up later in the week!

Victor 2040 with DRO

wow, congrats! How many lathes is that now? If you ever need to make space.....

 

[Ulma Doctor]

Congrats, Ulma Dr. I tried really hard to find a Victor 1640, but no luck. Please post some about this as you get going?

hi @Winegrower,
this lathe came up a couple times when i was searching, then it would disappear-
it came up again with a lower price, so i took half a day off work to go and view it .
i'll be sure to post pics and projects.

wow, congrats! How many lathes is that now? If you ever need to make space.....

Hi Matt,
thank you very much!
that makes (EDIT: ) 10 lathes and 2 Unimats (if you wanna call them lathes)
i had to get rid of something (my shopsmith ) as a prerequisite for acquiring another piece of equipment.

my rule now (as hard as it was to swallow),
is to sell or donate a piece of equipment, BEFORE i purchase another machine for which i can't live without any longer

 

[darkzero]

that makes 9 lathes and 2 Unimats (if you wanna call them lathes)

Mike is gonna become a machinery dealer soon. I know where I'm going the next time I need to buy a machine!

 

[Joeman77]

Found this old RF-115 model saw.
A bit rough but for $100 I thought why not.
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Good Find!
I had one very similar for years, cut a lot of material with it, until I got the itch for something bigger & better. But thinking back a few years (of course after I got rid of the old one) I'm not sure bigger is always better, sometimes just more expensive to feed!

 

[Ianagos]

my rule now (as hard as it was to swallow),
is to sell or donate a piece of equipment, BEFORE i purchase another machine for which i can't live without any longer

I just made my self a similar rule. But selling is so difficult and I keep seeing good deals...

Picked up something else for the shop...
As you can see not much space as it is.

I want to buy a 5 axis trunnion for my mill next.

 

[darkzero]

Got me a couple of more new indexable tools. Well I already have these same exact ones, just got tired of swapping inserts for different materials. I have doubles for my other most used tools, these were the last ones that I wanted for doubles.



My doubles



Ebay score on some rolls of tape. Yeah I know, just tape but this 3M speciality tape costs $50 a roll in this size. Always wanted a roll this size but no way I was going to pay that much for one. Found an odd listing for $11 shipped a roll. Listing title matched, but the description was for ziplock baggies, & the description details said 1" wide instead of 2". Same seller had another odd listing but 5 rolls for $33 shipped. Took a chance & bought the 5 rolls for $33, sure enough they were the right ones. Woohoo!

 

[mikey]

Hey, where are the HSS tools?

 

[darkzero]

They're in another drawer in indexes, they only make holes though. The other few went with the mini lathe to my lil brother. I think the only tools I have now that mount on my tool post with HSS are my knurling tools, the rest not pictured are all carbide too.