What Did You Buy Today?

[gr8legs]

Today's garage sale purchase, a Sanborn air impact driver - not made in China, but made in japan a long time ago. Seems to work just fine.

 

[addertooth]

When you have a mini lathe (7 X 16), it is too easy to get a bit ambitious when you find steel/aluminum/brass stock. I snagged some bars that were only 12 inches long and thought I had some serious winners. Then I realized that I needed to drill the center for a part I am making. (small lathe math, Yep, it is 16 inches from the face of the chuck to the fully retracted quill of the tailstock. But once you move the quill forward to accept a MT2 drill, you have lost about .75 inch of that space, and then there is the length of the drill itself (even a very stubby MT2 drill is going to be about 5 inches out from the end of the tailstock quill. So to summarize (the well known fact) A 16 inch lathe might give you about 8 to 10 inches of maximum stock length to work with if you are drilling from the quill. Sure, If you are Just doing work on the outer diameter, and can remove the tailstock, then you can realize the full glory of the advertised 16 inches . This is especially true if you have a steady rest with bearings.

At this point you need to decide whether hacksawing through a 2" steel bar sounds like fun, or set up the steady rest and prepare to part the steel into a shorter length, or.... Just buy a used Horizontal/vertical band saw. One of these popped up on the "Facebook market" pages at a not-unreasonable price and I did the half our drive into the countryside to check it out. It looked quite ignored, but in generally good shape. It came home with me. Due to a shortage of people around, I unloaded it myself. An extension cord was ran, and the offending 2" bar which was too long was cut in half. My only effort was running a paintbrush with oil over the cutting area every little bit. It seemed to cut fairly clean, and not-too-far off straight.

It sure beat doing it with a hacksaw. It will be used to cut angle iron and square tube stock too (I do a bit of welding as well). So, it's purchase wasn't entirely for the mini-lathe. It just happened to first thing which needed cut.

 

[BGHansen]

Some eBay wins over the past several weeks.

Picked up a couple of Huot over/under reamer index boxes for $25 shipped. I have an import set that came in a wooden block, just looks nicer in the Huot index box. I'll go through my drawer of reamers and see how complete the second box gets filled.




Won an auction for a number of solid carbide drill bits. Looks like 75% of them are unused, largest is 1/2". I'm thinking my Drill Doctor 750 should handle sharpening them as it has a diamond wheel.



Lastly, won a 0-3" set of Enco digital micrometers. Just me, but I prefer the tumbler style over battery powered. These were a whopping $40 including shipping.





Thanks for looking,

Bruce

 

[DavidR8]

Picked up a wood and metal bandsaw today. It’s not a beauty Rockwell like @Janderso has but I’ve looking for one for ages.
It’s a bit dusty and the table has some surface rust but it will clean up well.
I’m pretty happy.
3/4 hp 120/220
1725 rpm.

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[francist]

Looks very similar to an old TWS I had. The weak link can be the guides, specifically the upper one, but an older style Rockwell should be a direct replacement should you be able to find one. It made a whole new machine out of my TWS with the better blade guide.

-frank

edit: I think the old Rockwell is the same as the current Delta

 

[DavidR8]

Thanks Frank.
I was just out futzing around with it and noticed the upper guide is as you say, the weak point. I’ll investigate the Rockwell option, maybe I can find the parts online.


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[Aukai]

Got the Rhom changeable point live center in a nice box off of Ebay recently, never needed one before, but have used it 3 times since getting it.

 

[hman]

Picked up a wood and metal bandsaw today.

OK! And here's your first project. Purchase a couple of 30mm Magswitches, mount them to a board, and you have an instant easy-to-move (and easy to store) fence. The Magswitches do a really fantastic job of anchoring the fence to the table! If you're concerned with having it square to the table, you can add an aluminum guide plate to one end (45h photo). I generally don't use this, just eyeball the fence somewhere near to parallel with the blade.

 

[gr8legs]

Someone on a thread here talked about how to remove / install roll pins (spring pins) and mentioned a punch designed for the task.

Those darn pins are a major aggravation so I acquired a set of punches - looks like they should work fine for the job.

 

[DavidR8]

OK! And here's your first project. Purchase a couple of 30mm Magswitches, mount them to a board, and you have an instant easy-to-move (and easy to store) fence. The Magswitches do a really fantastic job of anchoring the fence to the table! If you're concerned with having it square to the table, you can add an aluminum guide plate to one end (45h photo). I generally don't use this, just eyeball the fence somewhere near to parallel with the blade.
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Thanks, I’ve never heard of Magswitches. Thanks for the tip!


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