What Did You Buy Today?

schmidty13 said:
Anything the customer wants! :wink: Right now that is various pins and bushings for a manufacturer of ag machinery, but I'll add to that as my skill set and customer base expand.
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Sweet. I wish the best of luck to you. I grew up on a large dairy farm in NW WI. I have very close ties yet to farming. My brother's farm is 4300 acres. which is huge down here. Up there by you it is just a garden!
 
I guess it was cheap because it didn't come in a wooden box. I'm feeling like I'm starting to get influenced on packaging:cautious:
I guarantee I will donate blood to the tail stock sooner or later, its sharp...
 
It's not really a good project if no blood is spilled...
R
 
Aukai said:
I guess it was cheap because it didn't come in a wooden box. I'm feeling like I'm starting to get influenced on packaging:cautious:
I guarantee I will donate blood to the tail stock sooner or later, its sharp...
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Nothing cheap about a Royal live center. Very nice.
 
Last weekend, I picked up a HF sandblast cabinet from CL. It came withe 1HP dust collector, glass protectors, and lots of new and and slightly used glass beads. Today I picked up some pipe fittings and and built a media siphon with metering valve that attached to the dump door on the underside. As always for me, I didn't but the part for the air inlet. It would have been quicker, and costlier, to run back to the store, but I didn't. I drilled out a bolt lengthwise, and then drilled several small holes at different levels near the top. I drilled and tapped the feed pipe for the bolt and Loctite'd in place. I'm waiting on coupling so I can mount my hi-flow air fitting on the front, with a fitting to barb fitting behind it to feed the gun.

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Aukai said:
I guess it was cheap because it didn't come in a wooden box. I'm feeling like I'm starting to get influenced on packaging:cautious:
I guarantee I will donate blood to the tail stock sooner or later, its sharp...
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I draw blood every time I use the tail stock.
What a shame that you center was delivered in a cardboard box, it deserves better.
 
Is there a good reason the tailstock centers need to have a sharp point? The very tip does not actually contact the work in use. Why not knock the tip down a millimeter?
Robert
 
I didn't buy it yet, but I have been researching boring heads. I was wondering how a Shars 2" compared to the Criterion and I found this video. Any one else contemplating boring heads?

Robert
 
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