What Did You Buy Today?

[DavidR8]

Picked up a Starrett 436 mic.
Immaculate condition.

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[hman]

Definitely immaculate - like it's never even been used!

 

[JRaut]

Picked up a Starrett 436 mic.

The barrel is marked Great Britain, never seen that before. I've only ever seen Athol.

Nice find!

 

[Nogoingback]

Notice the paperwork says Scotland. I seem to remember that Starrett had a Scottish factory.
Nice score David.

 

[DavidR8]

Definitely immaculate - like it's never even been used!

The barrel is marked Great Britain, never seen that before. I've only ever seen Athol.

Nice find!

Notice the paperwork says Scotland. I seem to remember that Starrett had a Scottish factory.
Nice score David.

Wow, I didn't even notice that it was from England when I bought it... just knew it was super-clean!

Edit: my partner thought it was hilarious that we have a thread about what we bought today...

 

[BGHansen]

Couple of eBay purchases, Tormach/Shars and Menards.


Bought some 1/4" 120 deg. carbide spotting drills for my Tormach. Did a dumb thing and ran a spotting drill -0.5 instead of +0.5 into an aluminum fixture. Things happen pretty quickly at 90 ipm.


Spontaneous tool buy off eBay: Dewalt sheet metal shear rated at 14 gauge (confirmed it cuts 16 gauge with no issues). $40 delivered


Bought a couple of 1/2" and 1/4" capacity chucks from Shars and the appropriate TTS tool holders from Tormach. Think I'm up to 9 or 10 tool holders with drill chucks as I dislike having to continually change drill bits and the offset table for various jobs. Changed drill bits from a 0.25" in a tool to a 3/16", but then ran the 1/4" job and wondered why the holes were so small. . .



Yeah baby! No more rubbing my hands together if working in the shop in the winter! My shop is 40' x 32' x 10', heater is 125,000 BTU rated at 3000 square feed (albeit, most likely expecting an 8' ceiling). So I'm at about 2X capacity. It's an overhead unit which will probably be loud as heck, but beats listening to my teeth chattering! Still waiting on the exhaust vent, and need to have an additional propane tank set.



Thanks for looking,

Bruce

 

[BROCKWOOD]

Latest purchase.

 

[Papa Charlie]

I bought a compressor today off Craigslist.

Came out of a business, so unknown hours, but looks well looked after, showed service stickers going back to 2012.

5HP Baldor 3 Phase Motor, 80 Gallon Tank, 2 Stage Pump.

Heavy beggar to load onto the trailer with my engine hoist, but was able to borrow a neighbours excavator to lift it off the trailer and then use another neighbours forklift to move it into my shop, all up about 685lbs.

No pictures of the loading/unloading unfortunately, too focused on the task at hand.


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Nice find, I am looking for a 3.5-5.0HP, two stage pump, 30-60 gallon tank compressor. Haven't seen much in a good price anywhere around me. Almost thinking of just buying a new one at Lowes. I can get the Kobalt 3.5HP, two stage with 60 gallon tank for around $589. Would like to find something cheaper but also thinking about the potential for problems with used.
Have my eyes open. In no hurry.

 

[matthewsx]

Bought three A1 semi finished chuck adapters from Canada. Not exactly what my lathe uses but the taper is the same and the holes line up so I figure I can modify them to work. Hefty piece of iron for $100/ea.



John

 

[DavidR8]

Bought three A1 semi finished chuck adapters from Canada. Not exactly what my lathe uses but the taper is the same and the holes line up so I figure I can modify them to work. Hefty piece of iron for $100/ea.

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John

Who was the retailler John?


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