What Did You Buy Today?

[middle.road]

Congratulations, like you won the lottery there.

Just checked out the auction for the closing prices, those prices are unbelievable. I can't believe that shaper went for $250. Makes me want to move to the Midwest.

Don't go packing quite yet.
The next one might not be so swell.
This was a bit of a rare one.
I've been saving listings for a couple of years now, some of them you have to grab the hammer price in real time, most don't post final closing prices.
They've been all over the place price wise.
This one the vertical mills seemed to be a bargain.
I was so tempted on the shaper, but space, budget, rigging held me back.

 

[Papa Charlie]

Don't go packing quite yet.
The next one might not be so swell.
This was a bit of a rare one.
I've been saving listings for a couple of years now, some of them you have to grab the hammer price in real time, most don't post final closing prices.
They've been all over the place price wise.
This one the vertical mills seemed to be a bargain.
I was so tempted on the shaper, but space, budget, rigging held me back.

I watch several auction houses across the country, while they rarely fall within the range of this particular one, I do see a huge difference in the auction outcomes in the Midwest and East Coast compared to here on the West Coat. I have looked into the rigging and shipping cost for heavy machinery across the country. Takes the advantage out of the going price very quickly and then you have the fact you cannot inspect in person.

More over an interesting observation.

 

[Aaron_W]

It's not bad for light stuff. I've it mounted on a 4x4 that I can hold in a bench vise. You'll need a couple of C clamps or Kant Twists to secure the hold-down bar. Another thing I did was to carefully align the hold-down bar with the folding bar all the way up, then drilled both ends for alignment pins. The Kant Twists just need to hold the bar down; don't have to resist backward force. I drilled a second set of holes with the hold-down bar about 1/32" further back. I can move the dowels to those holes when folding thicker stock.
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Ok, so it is kind of what I expected, functional but needs some work. Since I really only need like a 6" brake for what I'd use this one for, I guess I'm back to my plan of scaling down the Gingery DIY brake. This of course assumes I don't wander into a HF when my guard is down and pick one up.

 

[middle.road]

I watch several auction houses across the country, while they rarely fall within the range of this particular one, I do see a huge difference in the auction outcomes in the Midwest and East Coast compared to here on the West Coat. I have looked into the rigging and shipping cost for heavy machinery across the country. Takes the advantage out of the going price very quickly and then you have the fact you cannot inspect in person.

More over an interesting observation.

Rigging costs on site have been all over the place.
I wouldn't even want to hazard a guess what it would cost to haul something cross country.
The sale down in Alabama this summer where I went stoopid on surface plates, the outside rigging company that was there wanted $250 just to load up. Not including taking the plates off their stands.
Luckily there was a auction company crew there with a fork truck that loaded me up. We tipped them needless to say.

At an auction over in NC, the auction company loaded up your items for nothing. Pull up and they brought it out.

Yesterday they loaded up they had a fork truck available and loaded up the Fossball table for Dale for nothing.
I guess it also depends on the size and weight.

 

[hman]

@Aaron_W - One thing I did not mention, but is probably obvious from the design of the HF tool - it's NOT a finger brake. So making a box or a tray requires something else. I've occasionally used a vise brake (with sectional fingers) for things like that:

6" Vise Brake - Grizzly Industrial

<h1>Grizzly H3245 6" Vise Brake</h1> <h2>The slickest and cheapest way to properly bend sheet metal.</h2> <p>The H3245 6" Vise Brake allows you to bend shapes in metal and then quickly be stashed away when not in use.</p> <p>The dies mount into your vise and are held magnetically. Slide your...

www.grizzly.com

Between the HF brake for wider stock and the vise brake for narrow work, I can usually get by.

 

[Aaron_W]

@Aaron_W - One thing I did not mention, but is probably obvious from the design of the HF tool - it's NOT a finger brake. So making a box or a tray requires something else. I've occasionally used a vise brake (with sectional fingers) for things like that:

6" Vise Brake - Grizzly Industrial

<h1>Grizzly H3245 6" Vise Brake</h1> <h2>The slickest and cheapest way to properly bend sheet metal.</h2> <p>The H3245 6" Vise Brake allows you to bend shapes in metal and then quickly be stashed away when not in use.</p> <p>The dies mount into your vise and are held magnetically. Slide your...

www.grizzly.com

Between the HF brake for wider stock and the vise brake for narrow work, I can usually get by.

I have not seen those before, that is probably better for the projects I was thinking about for the HF brake, and it takes up less space.

 

[erikmannie]

I bought a 24” length of 1” 1018 hex bar for $42.01 delivered.

 

[Larry$]

Suburban tool apparently still makes exactly this accessory. Costs a mere $4077

Way out of my league!
Auctions, the item has to go cheap to cover the risks, auctioneer's fees, taxes, rigging, shipping and too often damage. The last in person auction I went to, they wouldn't permit you to move anything that just required a hand truck or pallet jack. There was a minimum $100 fee to move it to the door.

 

[GoceKU]

Today i stop by the tool/flea market, i haven't been there in a whale first thing i bought me was couple of welding magnets, 5$ for both. Then i found and bought me a set of old wheels in bad shape but still have life in them also 5$ for them. Last thing i bought was couple of ball valves, i'm planning central air supply for both garages, so i'm getting parts for that.

 

[rwm]

I can't believe the market is open on Thanksgiving Day!
Robert