What Did You Buy Today?

Shiseiji said:
Like some others, I had read in Guy Lautard's The Machinist's Bedside Reader about chalking files. After reading several opinion pieces I realized that "chalk" has a lot of colloquialisms including calling soapstone used for oxy/acetylene cutting. So I started research on Wikipedia and learned there are several minerals and mixtures sold as "chalk." With that information I went shopping.

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Can't find where I purchased mine, but bought it as "Railroad Chalk" per Guy's recommendation ages ago:
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May have been from Brownells (which it looks like where you got yours). Amazon has it from a number of sellers for a lot less than $1 per piece, but I'll never use up 6 pcs, much less 144! I usually only use it on larger files when taking off a lot of material, not when I'm just deburring an edge.
 
coolidge said:
I bought a G0709 lathe and leveling feet, ouch!
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That's a sexy bike. Gold wing right?
They must have a low center of gravity. I see old farts riding them around with no effort at stops.
I rode a BMW R1200RT. Great road bike but not much for touring.
 
ChazzC said:
Can't find where I purchased mine, but bought it as "Railroad Chalk" per Guy's recommendation ages ago:
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May have been from Brownells (which it looks like where you got yours). Amazon has it from a number of sellers for a lot less than $1 per piece, but I'll never use up 6 pcs, much less 144! I usually only use it on larger files when taking off a lot of material, not when I'm just deburring an edge.
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"Winner, winner chicken dinner." (there was a smiley face here).

Same here, I would never use up a gross, most would be given away. Brownells was the only source, and I ordered based on their reputation, not from asking them for the chemical makeup, that gives any indication their chalk is made up of a material that will provide the expected quality. Have never tried it, so I don't have any experience for comparison.
 
Janderso said:
Pics or it didn't happen.
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Grizzly freight dept called this morning...UPS notified them it was damaged in transit and they are returning it to Grizzly. Mind you I'm only 4 hours away from Grizzly's warehouse. After several stress filled minutes on the phone with Grizzly the lady up and says...oh it's only the lathe leveling feet that got damaged. :D PHEW!!
 
coolidge said:
Grizzly freight dept called this morning...UPS notified them it was damaged in transit and they are returning it to Grizzly. Mind you I'm only 4 hours away from Grizzly's warehouse. After several stress filled minutes on the phone with Grizzly the lady up and says...oh it's only the lathe leveling feet that got damaged. :D PHEW!!
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I think you should ask Grizzly to provide detailed photos of the damage so you can decide if it's "only the lathe leveling feet:" depending on what UPS did, there could be other damage that the warehouse crew don't know about and it will be a pain if you need to ship it back. I think James (Clough42) went through two surface grinder shipping accidents before he got a usable one.
 
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