What Did You Buy Today?

[Zyox Jägergeist]

Please try and convince me these were not made in the same factory. Down to the same bolts.

Dunno, maybe you can email them. I did and they told me they are ground in house in California. They also bed matched my 4 vises I got from them.

Up to you if you want to chat and ask them.

 

[BGHansen]

This is from Glacern's web site. Says they have global manufacturing partners in the US, Europe and Japan. Processes such as CNC machining, grinding, heat treating, assembly and final inspection are performed locally in SOCAL.

I have two of their GPV-615 premium CNC 6" vises and have been very happy with them.

Bruce

 

[Ianagos]

Heck I should just gone to their factory while I was living in SoCal. I definitely believe they make some items in house just not those vises. I don’t care to give them a call right now but maybe another day.

 

[middle.road]

What I would like to know is how come, in the last five auctions I've watched or participated in, the Kurt's go for over $300?
Who or where is the market for that many used vises? Even the 'rusty' ones were fetching over $250.
I just did a quick tally and there were over (60+) in the past few months.

 

[BGHansen]

Few eBay pick ups.

First is some 1 1/4" OD 1018 cut-offs. I have a project that'll maybe use 2 or 3 of them, but always good to have stock on hand. Paid around $40 including shipping.



Strictly my preference, but I like Casio's FX260 scientific calculators. I must have 8-10 of them around the shop. They're solar powered, do trig and fractions. These were around $6 each including shipping.




Picked up a number of carbide corner rounding end mills for CNC work. They vary from a radius of 0.003" (why bother?) to 0.125". Pretty simple with the CNC to run a rounding tool on the same path and let G41 and G42 work their magic. These were not quite $3 each delivered.



Bruce

 

[Logan 400]

I bought my first auto darkening welding helmet. After reading all the replies to a thread here I was visiting my son and he had me try his new helmet. I forget the brand but it was more money than I wanted to spend especially for my first one. I did my research and ended up with an Eastman L6700. It has 4 sensors and clear view and will accept my magnifying lense and was very inexpensive. I tried it on a couple welds an I am very pleased.
Jay

 

[Logan 400]

Sorry it's Eastwood not Eastman. Auto spell got me.
Jay

 

[Lo-Fi]

What I would like to know is how come, in the last five auctions I've watched or participated in, the Kurt's go for over $300?
Who or where is the market for that many used vises? Even the 'rusty' ones were fetching over $250.
I just did a quick tally and there were over (60+) in the past few months.

Its completely mad. Knackered ones ebay for hundreds when you can pay half or less for a decent import. I have no idea why either, it makes no sense. I made the mistake of buying used. One had been dropped, had its back broken and badly repaired. The gib doesn't even fit. Another looked nice but turned out to be some home build apprentice project and a bit of a waste of space. The former is being turned into a very solid base for tool grinder, the latter used as a heavy drilling vise.

I bought a decent import, finished it nicely and haven't looked back. If you treat the imports as part machined set of castings that require finishing, you get a really nice tool for the price.

 

[Zyox Jägergeist]

Its completely mad. Knackered ones ebay for hundreds when you can pay half or less for a decent import. I have no idea why either, it makes no sense. I made the mistake of buying used. One had been dropped, had its back broken and badly repaired. The gib doesn't even fit. Another looked nice but turned out to be some home build apprentice project and a bit of a waste of space. The former is being turned into a very solid base for tool grinder, the latter used as a heavy drilling vise.

I bought a decent import, finished it nicely and haven't looked back. If you treat the imports as part machined set of castings that require finishing, you get a really nice tool for the price.

from the uk I see, this man knows the pain of buying from the usa. it would cost me 800$ then import charges to bring a abused kurt up into Canada. the glacerns I got for a little over 970$ shipped. Kurts would have been well over 1000.

I got the glacerns on sale aswell, 430usd. you guys in the usa have it pretty good.

 

[7milesup]

Strictly my preference, but I like Casio's FX260 scientific calculators. I must have 8-10 of them around the shop. They're solar powered, do trig and fractions. These were around $6 each including shipping.
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Bruce

Not sure if you have a smart phone Bruce but there are numerous apps that you can download to emulate scientific calculators. I use CalcTastic on mine to emulate a TI-84. Works very well. I do get having a stand alone calculator though.