What Did You Buy Today?

[Papa Charlie]

My purchase today... sorry, it's not machining related except... now I have something to haul new/old machines home on...

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It is 14x6, with a 5500lb cargo weight capacity. I just brought it home from the local Tractor Supply. Getting it home was an adventure...

Just a word of advice... ALWAYS check to see what size hitch ball a new trailer takes BEFORE towing it home. Never assume anything.

No damage, just an increased heart rate and a severely bruised ego. Now ya'll can laugh at or with me... your choice.

-Bear

Nice trailer. I think we have all had hitch moments. Mostly for me it has been the ball is way to small and when I pulled up to test the attachment the trailer went flying or it was too big a ball and I had to go find a store to buy another size and often a wrench at the same time. My F350 Dually has a 2-5/16" ball on it and it covers most everything I have come up against, except for pintle.

Now to the trailer, very nice. I am looking for one also. Don't want to buy a new trailer, but when I go to move all my tools and equipment to our new retirement home next year, I won't pay a mover to do it. 14-18 foot bed with a similar capacity, which puts it in the 7K to 10K range for GVWR. Looking for ramps that can also handle a tractor. Missed one that would have been perfect, had tilt bed with hydraulic assist. Gone in less than 15 minutes of posting on CL. Needed a new bed, wiring and lights but price was only $1600.

 

[Badabinski]

Finally got this HUGE digital indicator I bought off of KBC a couple of months ago:

Has a bit over 4" of travel. I'm going to use it with my Edge Technology carriage travel indicator holder to have a ghetto quasi-DRO. Pretty stoked!

 

[brino]

Old Fowler 250 mm / 10 inch height gauge with a missing scribe holder ( I am looking for the right one, suggest me one ) :

I got measurements with my micrometer and caliper :
8 mm on sides
10.18 mm thick
30.40 mm long

I went and found a couple spares I had too:




and unfortunately, the inside measurements on both are 0.254" x ~1" (6.45 x 25 mm)
Dang. So they won't help you either.....

Sorry!
-brino

 

[682bear]

Todays buys were directly related to yesterdays buy...



2-⁵/¹⁶ ball and mount. Both are rated at 7500 lbs trailer weight. The GVWR on the trailer is 7000 lbs, so I should be good to go...

-Bear

 

[682bear]

I made a modification to the new trailer... I have the Decked drawer system in the back of my truck... the tailgate has to be fully lowered to open the drawers. The tailgate won't go down all the way with the trailer hitched up, the tailgate hits the top of the trailer jack.



So I removed the jack...



... and replaced it with a swing-up style jack mounted to the front of the trailer frame...





Now I can get into the drawers without unhitching the trailer.

-Bear

 

[sdelivery]

I got a rock.......
Okay I bought it for a customer.......
So I guess I didn't get anything

 

[mmcmdl]

A drill press . After giving mine away with the heavy base , I bought one from my neighbor with a lighter base . Hope to teach my daughter the safe way to use this in the near future . She wants to make crafts which is great . I want her to do it safely .

 

[mmcmdl]

Yeah , I know . It didn't happen without pics . It is a off shore brand , but it's also for my daughter .

 

[projectnut]

I have a couple of identical drill presses I bought new back in about 1980. At the time they were $125.00 each. Both are still in service and are running fine. One had to have a new chuck because it kept spinning off every time the machine was used. Other than that they're still both original. One has the name badge Rockford and the other is Farm & Fleet

 

[brino]

Yeah , I know . It didn't happen without pics .

That's a great size for bench mounting and small projects.
It's tough to find a used drill press without the table looking like Swiss cheese!
-brino