What Did You Buy Today?

[Aukai]

I have 15 generic holders, and 3 name brand, so far

 

[slodat]

I'm interested in knowing which, if any, name brand holders are must have or worth the cost? Like I said, I have a -71 and it is great.

 

[Aukai]

53, 4D, and the 71, so only 3, unless I find a box I forgot about.

 

[erikmannie]

I bought only a foot of 8” Schedule 40 pipe, and it was over $50!

This is for pipe welding practice. Make coupons on the lathe, weld it, and then do the same again with the same material by parting and boring.

This is not ideal because after doing this a few times the pipe will be made out of E6010 on the inside and E7018 on the outside.

 

[extropic]

I bought only a foot of 8” Schedule 40 pipe, and it was over $50!

This is for pipe welding practice. Make coupons on the lathe, weld it, and then do the same again with the same material by parting and boring.

This is not ideal because after doing this a few times the pipe will be made out of E6010 on the inside and E7018 on the outside.

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I was shocked that 8" sched 40 pipe costs $50 a foot so I looked on McMaster-Carr for an easy reference.
OMG! McMaster wants $458.21 for one foot.
It seems I'm out of touch with such things. I must be getting ancient.

 

[FOMOGO]

That's just nuts. Does anyone else get the feeling we are being bent over by corporate America taking advantage of the pandemic. Mike

 

[extropic]

That's just nuts. Does anyone else get the feeling we are being bent over by corporate America taking advantage of the pandemic. Mike

It would be interesting to see a chart of the Contractor price of 8" Black Pipe over time.

 

[erikmannie]

It would be interesting to see a chart of the Contractor price of 8" Black Pipe over time.

I was buying 8”, and Sch 40 or Sch 80 would work for my purposes. In the yard of the LSS, I found a remnant of 8” Sch 80, and the remnant price of that was $57 per foot. I paid $40 for a foot of non-remnant 8” Sch 40 and $10 for the cut.

 

[erikmannie]

I was shocked that 8" sched 40 pipe costs $50 a foot so I looked on McMaster-Carr for an easy reference.
OMG! McMaster wants $458.21 for one foot.
It seems I'm out of touch with such things. I must be getting ancient.

As you probably know, my LSS sells by the pound for sheet, pipe, bar and the like. Length, girth & wall thickness add up fast.

 

[erikmannie]

+1 I've been tooling up a new to me lathe. I have a couple Aloris holders and the rest are imports from All Industrial. I can not see any way the Aloris holders are better. They do offer a lot of holders that others don't, like the 71 above. I bought one. It's a very nice holder. Not sure I see over $200 in it and I'm far from cheap.

I use Aloris tool holders on my 16” lathe & Chinese tool holders on my 10” lathe. I have yet to notice any shortcomings in either type, including the set screws. This may be one of the cases where econo-import is A-okay.