What Did You Buy Today?

[Aaron_W]

My fetish for small lathes has led to another one falling into my clutches. I've told my wife the growing collection of little lathes is for science.

I've been looking for a decent example of the Atlas 618 or Craftsman 6" lathe at a reasonable price (I consider $200-800 reasonable depending on condition / tooling).

Very much a want rather than a need it has taken some patience as I usually find them in poor shape or with a wildly optimistic price tag (saw one earlier this year fairly close by but asking $2200 ). Usually when I do see them at a good price they are gone before I can get there.
Yesterday I found this Craftsman 101.21400 3 hours away but being offered at what I considered a fair price plus it came with a box of goodies. Based on the serial number I'm guessing it was made about 1970. It does have a few issues that will need to be addressed, but overall is in pretty nice shape for being about 50 years old.

The seller said he bought it about 25 years ago, but hasn't used it much in recent years and thought it was time to find it a new home.




It came with all the basic tooling plus the elusive milling attachment.




BTW these Harbor Freight platform carts are great for moving stuff around the shop. This is the smaller $30 cart and it can handle 300lbs, the handle folds down flat so they take up very little space when not in use.

 

[Aukai]

Mike I think the Fuel impact is great, I also have the dual mode flood lamp AC, or battery. The plug in mode does not charg the battery when connected though.

https://www.amazon.com/Milwaukee-2360-20-Trueview-Flood-Light/dp/B017Y7SUIA/ref=asc_df_B017Y7SUIA/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198058458227&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6804333618067744339&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032767&hvtargid=pla-541337027912&psc=1

 

[hman]

@Joe065 - The coconut oil is not the "active ingredient." As far as I can tell, it's just the carrier for the abrasive - possibly extremely fine aluminum oxide or something similar.

@Papa Charlie - Thanks for the Amazon link. I ordered two sizes of the Miracle cloth. Also remembered an "old friend" from my basic training days - Blitz cloth. Lo and behold ... it's still around!

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[Badabinski]

I bought a Harbor Freight 44" tool chest online a couple of weeks ago. It arrived a couple of days ago, but today was the first time the weather was nice enough for me to move it out to my shop.

I'm pretty pleased with it! Harbor Freight doesn't lube the drawer slides enough, but 20 minutes with a grease gun full of SuperLube fixed that. I'm excited to finally work on decluttering my shop!

 

[erikmannie]

At my job, Saturdays are voluntary. My wife says that if I go in & work on a Saturday I can spend the net earnings on fun stuff.

I went in to work today & I spent the after tax earnings on six 10 lb. cans of 3/32” Lincoln Electric Fleetweld 5P+. This is E6010, ya know.

I don’t like the 50 lb cans because I like my stick electrodes to be as fresh as possible. Both the 10 lb. and 50 lb. cans have a vacuum seal pop top. The 10 lb. cans (see pic below) have a red lid for the can after you open it. The 50 lb. cans, however, do not have such a lid (that I have ever seen).



I am planning on working a few more Saturdays to get some 1/8” 6010, as well as 1/8” and 5/32” 7018.

Moving forward, I am only going to use the Fleetweld 5P+ and Excalibur 7018MR.

 

[Papa Charlie]

@Badabinski

I have run out of places to put my tools and have been looking at the smaller version of these General tool boxes. I would be very interested in your or anyone's opinion of them once they are loaded and have been used for a while. I was thinking of their 26"x22 " Series 2 model. The idea is to eventually have a several of them so they are task/machine orientated. Otherwise I would go for the larger one like you got.

 

[jwmelvin]

I have one of those and love it. It’s definitely nicer than my other boxes, which are nothing-special Craftsman.

I recently replaced the casters with a set of four swivels and it is so much better for me now. In the future I will not add something to my shop with fixed wheels.

 

[BGHansen]

I have a couple of the 26" x 22" roller cabinets with the top box. They are great, frankly take them over a Craftsman or Kennedy hands down. I also have 3 of the 30" 5-drawer mechanic's carts. Their carts/cabinets are one of the best products they sell.

Bruce

 

[john.oliver35]

I have a couple of the 26" x 22" roller cabinets with the top box. They are great, frankly take them over a Craftsman or Kennedy hands down. I also have 3 of the 30" 5-drawer mechanic's carts. Their carts/cabinets are one of the best products they sell.

Bruce

+++what Bruce says

 

[Aaron_W]

I have a couple of the 26" x 22" roller cabinets with the top box. They are great, frankly take them over a Craftsman or Kennedy hands down. I also have 3 of the 30" 5-drawer mechanic's carts. Their carts/cabinets are one of the best products they sell.

Bruce

Agree, I have a 26, 44 and a 5 drawer cart that I am quite happy with. The chests hold most of my machine tooling as well as providing a base for my Sherline lathe and mill.