What Did You Buy Today?

[JRaut]

In the coming weeks I'm getting a couple new machines delivered.

I don't want to ruin the surprise, but:
- one of them kinda rhymes with "Nose Belgian"
- the other kinda rhymes with "Freight Sign Belgian"

And Roger Smith has an excellent YouTube series on how to use them.

 

[ahazi]

I recently brought home an American Pacemaker 14x30 lathe. Moving the new lathe shined a bright light on my need for better rigging equipment. For starters my Northern Tool bar was not getting it done when we were setting the machine in place. A dealer I used years ago had a very effective machinery rigging bar and I’ve looked for one for a long time. Several threads on PM really helped me find that sort of purpose built bar. Last week, at the recommendation of info I found there, I ordered two riggers nose bars from Eastern Rigging Supply- a flare toe 66” and a straight toe 72”. They arrived today. They both make easy work of nudging the lathe around and lifting it to place a bar or shim under it. These were bit cheap, especially when you include the freight cost. They are well worth it to me.

I have three machines that weigh over 2 tons, two of which are closer to 3 tons. This is the weight class of machines I’m enjoying having in the shop. It's crazy how easy it is to lift one end of the machine with the blue bars. Night and day difference. The blue bars are from Eastern Rigging Supply, the black bar is from Northern Tool.

We knew my light/medium duty come along would ultimately fail when we were using it to move the lathe on the pipe. I found this high quality 3ton American made puller. It is much better suited for moving machinery around.



I feel a lot better equipped to reposition the lathe and other equipment I hope to add to the shop in the future.

I used the Northern Tool Strongway Steel Pry Bar Lever — 5.5-Ton Capacity and I found it very useful to move and elevate machinery. The two riggers nose bars from Eastern Rigging Supply are in my opinion a different class of tools. They have much higher leverage (shorter tongue) and are very sharp which means you can lift more weight with less clearance but you cannot roll it like a doley. Definitely very useful for a rigging tool box.

Very informative post, thank you!

Ariel

 

[slodat]

I used the Northern Tool Strongway Steel Pry Bar Lever — 5.5-Ton Capacity and I found it very useful to move and elevate machinery. The two riggers nose bars from Eastern Rigging Supply are in my opinion a different class of tools. They have much higher leverage (shorter tongue) and are very sharp which means you can lift more weight with less clearance but you cannot roll it like a doley. Definitely very useful for a rigging tool box.

Very informative post, thank you!

Ariel

Exactly, very different tools. The bar from Northern doesn’t have the needed leverage to lift the heavier machinery and the wheels can be as much a hindrance as help depending on what you’re doing. They compliment one another well.

 

[7milesup]

In the coming weeks I'm getting a couple new machines delivered.

I don't want to ruin the surprise, but:
- one of them kinda rhymes with "Nose Belgian"
- the other kinda rhymes with "Freight Sign Belgian"

And Roger Smith has an excellent YouTube series on how to use them.

I dunno.
Rose engine turning? Or something like that.
After looking into Roger Smith (way more than one on YouTube BTW), it looks like you may go into watch making. I didn't even know that was a thing anymore. *sigh* One more thing on my list before I die.

 

[7milesup]

Picked these two fellas up to compliment my granite surface plate. Actually, the picture was taken on da wife's granite surface plate, hence the paper protection under them.
$140 for the digital one and $102 for the analog one. I'm happy.

 

[rwm]

Where did you get those???
R

 

[DavidR8]

Picked these two fellas up to compliment my granite surface plate. Actually, the picture was taken on da wife's granite surface plate, hence the paper protection under them.
$140 for the digital one and $102 for the analog one. I'm happy.

Those are beauts!

 

[7milesup]

Where did you get those???
R

Auction in Minneapolis.
I got lucky because there were similar ones on a live online auction a month or so ago, ironically from the same auction house, and I believe those went for over $300 each.

 

[slodat]

Phase converter installed.

Next up is getting the three phase panel in.

 

[WobblyHand]

Received some 1" square steel bar stock to make my screwless vise hold downs and some 1.5" 1045 round stock. Going to make an arbor out of the 1045. To help with that, I also received some TPCB-2200-CM1 inserts (0.002 radius) for my 3/8" QCBI carbide boring bar. The inserts have arrived before the carbide bar. Hope to get the boring bar within a couple of days. Also received a 3/4" 60 degree dovetail cutter and a 3/8" reamer. An eclectic collection of stuff, but it fills in the gaps in my tool collection.