What Did You Buy Today?

BGHansen said:
Didn't have to buy them. I was dumpster-diving at a shop that said "Go ahead, there might be some cut-offs you can use in back". I saw the Mitutoyo cases and figured they were empty. But much to my surprise. . . I brought them to the shop owner, "I don't think you meant for these to be in the trash", but he said "take 'em". I'm still an English-units guy, but nice to have some Mitutoyo metric mics with the old tumbler-style digital readout that I prefer. The 0-75 mm set has a 25mm and two 75 mm standards; figure it probably should have a 25, 50, 75 so missing a 50 mm standard, but I'm happy!

Bruce
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couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, Congrats Bruce!!!
BTW, you suck !!!! :grin:
 
Brought a Norseman/Huot drill holder home from work yesterday . We are all cleaning up and tossing crap out . I'm not sure this would help me out or not in organizing drills . I may need 25 of them , possibly more ! :big grin:
 
Recently I bought a Bison 5” plain back (not a Set-Tru) 5C collet chuck on eBay from a machine shop in WI that had it sitting around for several years without ever mounting it.

This chuck is finally going into service because today I bought a D1-6 adapter plate, plenty of 5C collets, and collet storage trays.

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Crawford 5C Round Collets, Inch, Collet Sets

The Crawford 5C round collets (inch sizes) are your best choice.
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Crawford 5C Round Collets, Metric, Collet Sets

Choose from our great selection of rugged metric collets from 1.0mm to 27.0mm.
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5C x 64ths All Sizes Collet Rack

Rapid CNC - Machinist Tooling Organizers - Storage Solutions. Collet racks with labeled sizes saves time.
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5C Metric by 1/2 mm Collet Rack

Rapid CNC - Machinist Tooling Organizers - Storage Solutions. Collet racks with labeled sizes saves time.
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I told my wife I saved a lot of money on this 5C setup by not buying a Set-Tru!
 
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Purchased an ER40 collet block set and a set of shars best 1/8-1” collets sure hope these work better than the 5C collet blocks. Can’t get the rings tight enough to keep the part from spinning during machining. Can’t count the parts scraped because part spinning during milling.
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I had an unfortunate incident recently. I completely forgot basic knife safety while opening some packaging and cut my thumb up really, really badly. This was bad, but I made it worse by panicking, running out of my shop where my first aid kit was, and accidently locked myself out. Thankfully, the cut wasn't bad enough to be dangerous, but what if?

I'm a very forgetful person, so I decided I needed to do something about it:
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I bought a giant first aid kit that I can mount to the wall of my shop. It's super hard to miss, has everything I'd need to deal with the injuries I'm competent enough to deal with, and I can order refills when stuff expires.

Was this overkill? Yes. Was this overpriced? Also probably yes. Was it easier than making my own first aid kit? Absolutely. I'd rather spend the money for convenience and get the thing that could save my life right away.

(I'm also going to make it much harder to lock myself out of my shop.)
 
I'm in trouble. Big, humongous trouble, with a capital 'T', more so than with the Surface Plates. :grin:
At an online auction today from a local estate sale company. Not organized real well if you know what I mean...
Out of their normal run-of-the-mill estate sale stuff.
Now then - how to inform the Better-Half that we're going to be busy on Saturday?...

OK, how the devil am I going to move this puppy?
And then what the heck do I get rid of in the shop to make room for it?
Might have to Flip it...
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Old Starrett, just cause...
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It's an Equipto, and the drawers are full of miscellany...
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And the 'Starrett' table-full...
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