What Did You Buy Today?

[Dhal22]

Went mill restoration shopping...

1. Another gallon of mineral spirits
2. Two cans of brake cleaner
3. Two cans of spray primer
4. Two cans of spray paint, yeah going to rattle can it again ACK!
5. Can of of Lucas OIl chain/sprocket lube
6. Two bottles of cold bluing fluid
7. Tub for soaking stuff in Evaporust
8. Yet another oil drain pan for cleaning parts
9. 0000 steel wool
10. 2000, 3000, 5000 grit sandpaper
11. 3 bundles of Costco cotton shop towels
12. 3 pack of work gloves

5000 grit is getting up there………

 

[FOMOGO]

Hardly able to call it gritty. Possibly used for polishing a baby's butt. Mike

5000 grit is getting up there………

 

[BGHansen]

I had the Sears chemistry set!! Blue bottles. Wow, what a great walk through memory lane...

Something like this?

 

[ChazzC]

I was drilled to use cardboard only. My father kept an eye on my activities and kept me from loosing fingers and toes. We did some wacky things, but I was supervised to avoid issues. I had no fires, nor close calls. After a couple horizontal flights, all rockets flew true.

I made baby rockets out of paper straws with folded tape fins, and used Potassium Perchlorate & powdered sugar for fuel; fuse was twisted toilet tissue with the Perchlorate/sugar blend (like old-time black powder fuse). Flew 100' or so, and if they exploded no shards.

 

[wachuko]

Something like this?

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Same brand! So it was SkillCraft... not sure why I said Sears... Mine had three racks of the blue bottles... do not recall mine having the scale...

 

[WobblyHand]

I made baby rockets out of paper straws with folded tape fins, and used Potassium Perchlorate & powdered sugar for fuel; fuse was twisted toilet tissue with the Perchlorate/sugar blend (like old-time black powder fuse). Flew 100' or so, and if they exploded no shards.

Mine eventually were bottle rocket sized. I got quite good at making rockets that went quite high. Some of them used powdered magnesium in the blend, which made quite the bright tail on them, pointing to the launch site. Had to knock it off for a while, having lived in a no-fireworks state. . Part of the fun was that it was forbidden...

 

[BGHansen]

Same brand! So it was SkillCraft... not sure why I said Sears... Mine had three racks of the blue bottles... do not recall mine having the scale...

Back then, Sears had enough "power" to get their name on products. Your box probably looked like this:



Most of the time the contents were not specific to Sears though the "Sears" name was printed on the boxes. There are lots of examples of this from the Gilbert Company. In 1966/67 Sears sold a "James Bond Racing Set" that was made by Gilbert. The box had a peel-and-stick decal that read "Exciting SEARS Exclusive." Gilbert cut SEARS out of the decal when the identical set was sold through another retailer.

 

[DeadGuyAle]

Black Friday purchase.

Basic model with 95 to 135 degree angle adjustment and 13 collets.
Poorly written manual as expected and a two of the collets are improperly labeled. Practiced with a couple old bits to get the hang of it.
Works surprisingly well with quick and simple setup of the drill bit for sharpening. Takes only a couple minutes start to finish.

 

[pavyan]

I think it's a very good acquisition - I've been wondering about this device for a long time myself.
But only theoretically, because I'm good at sharpening by hand, it would be throwing money away.
By the way, I looked around the Forum here to see if the name of American designer and entrepreneur from the nineteenth century appeared here - namely Ichabod Washbourn.
I didn't find it - and I was surprised
He is an amazing guy who over 150 years ago developed an ingenious method of sharpening twist drill bits and a sharpener that perfectly implemented his idea.
In my opinion, to this day no one has developed a better method, none gives better results in the matter of sharpening twist drill bits - and this is a complicated matter. Flawless sharpening of a drill bit is very difficult - every workshop owner knows that.
The sharpener you bought comes very close to the Washbourne method, although it does not fully implement it - but the drill bits sharpened with its help work very well.

I'm posting a .pdf file with a description Washbourne method here, unfortunately in Polish - I don't have an English version (additionally, pictures).
It would be very difficult for me to translate this - it's specific vocabulary, geometry, etc.
But even the drawings say and explain a lot.
PS: I found an English forum where they discuss it - and there are some images with English descriptions:

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[IHinIN]

Through the wall exhaust fan to go between the mill and lathe. Got a little smoky out there last week from the cutting oil.