What Did You Buy Today?

[CJ5Dave]

Bought a Walker-Turner 900 drill press yesterday. Motor was locked up but Kroil and my cordless drill spun it back to life. It has had a Baldor motor swap and an odd spring loaded variable pulley that tensions the belt. Probably 1950's vintage.

 

[Meglomachinist]

Ooooo that is sexy. Love the old machines...great buy.

 

[ChazzC]

Can't find the thread, but a little while ago there was a discussion on 6" pipe wrenches on one of the Forums and I realized the smallest I had was 8", so I corrected the problem:



The unknown manufacturer (but USA) 8" offset & 6" came from one eBayer, and I couldn't pass up the 6" Stillson. They all cleaned up nicely (although I couldn't;dn't get all of the black oil out od the Stillson's wooden handle).

About the same time I "needed" 8mm transfer screws, so got a 6/8/10/12mm set from Zoro using a 20% coupon, and found this other gem to get above the $50 free shipping threshold:


Love BAHCO spanners almost as much as Keith Appleton does; they are very well made and have firm, silky smooth actions. This one is called an "Adj./Pipe Wrench," so I guess it qualifies.

 

[wachuko]

I am a sucker for stuff like this. I do not have any particular use for them... but I just had to get a few in brass and stainless steel.

Micro Pika Screw x 4 (presale)

The Micro Pika Screw delivers the same disappearing slot feature as larger Pika Screws at a lower price without quality compromises. Thread size is 5/16"-18 which is very standard and easy to find threaded inserts for, which is what I did for the build in this video: Total length of the screw =...

www.in-kleind.com

I still want his twin turbo vise... but that will have to wait until the shop is done. Again, no use for it, but I find it to be a great work of mechanical art.

20" Twin Turbo Vise

This is the Twin Turbo Vise with 20" spacing between the center line of the screws.

www.in-kleind.com

 

[wnchstrtnfldvlle]

I went ahead and bought the toe jack and the machine dollies to reposition the lathe. I was a little apprehensive since the dollies were only 39 dollars each, but they had good reviews. Jacked the machine up and put them on the inside edges of the base. They worked perfectly. Easily pushed the machine with one hand, and if I needed to switch directions the black pad rotated on ball bearings.

 

[francist]

“I am a sucker for stuff like this. I do not have any particular use for them...”

Those screws are seriously cool! Let us know how you use them (if you do, and they don’t just sit in your cufflink drawer).

 

[dkemppai]

I am a sucker for stuff like this.

So, I could make you a set if 24K gold inlay, heat colored, custom drive screws if you have a hankering for anything real fancy like... LOL

 

[Gnpenning]

Well I guess it's my turn to add a little something.

As we know when hardware stores change vendors certain items must go. Most of the time these items are sold in bulk. A certain percentage are slow moving and others not so slow.

My neighbor called me Saturday telling me this was going on at one of our hardware stores and knew I would be interested. I hustled over and made this and some of crate purchases. Finally today I was able to pick up this load. There is another pallet but it was 2.5xs more money and I just couldn't swallow it. Not to mention figure out how to store it all. On the plus side if you see anything you might be interested in LMK.

 

[GT-6 Racer]

Bye bye wiggler.

 

[Larry$]

my turn to add a little something

Your own private hardware store, I like it!