What Did You Buy Today?

[Papa Charlie]

@DAM 79
The more you tell me about her, the more I want one. I currently have a Grizzly. It works but it is not a Monarch by any means. I envy you living on the Eastern part of our country, Any of these lathes are priced ridiculously here on the West side. I need several pieces of equipment that will round out my shop upon retirement. I cannot believe how much equipment has gone up in price. It looks like I will need to take trips to the East coast to get the equipment I want at a reasonable price. Trouble is the boss (wife) wants a 5th wheel. That eliminates any hauling in the truck bed and most states don't allow two trailers.

Bottom line, I am jealous of your purchase and hope I will be able to find something similarly, priced when I retire in June of 2022.

Still, I am very glad that you were able to score what you did. Congrats.

 

[DAM 79]

lovely lathe! Must have taken a bit more work to bring home than a micrometer though....

Yes it did it was a adventure to say the least
It was 3 hours away and after it was loaded in the trailer and I was getting ready to head home I backed out of where I was parked across the street in a parking lot across from the guys house and I noticed the trailer was not staying straight so I got out and looked and it appears that my passenger side front wheel on the trailer was tilled way out so after further inspection my axle was cracked there at the spindle NOT GOOD so I took the wheel off and could really see so the guy was nice enough to help me out because his shop was right there and I cut the spindle off we turned down a piece of round stock to fit inside the axle I welded that up and then welded the spindle on to that and it was enough for me to make it home
I don’t know how long it was cracked because I put my bobcat on the trailer all the time and never noticed any problems but now I’m getting a new axle to put under it and I’m going to re deck the trailer this summer too

 

[DAM 79]

@DAM 79
The more you tell me about her, the more I want one. I currently have a Grizzly. It works but it is not a Monarch by any means. I envy you living on the Eastern part of our country, Any of these lathes are priced ridiculously here on the West side. I need several pieces of equipment that will round out my shop upon retirement. I cannot believe how much equipment has gone up in price. It looks like I will need to take trips to the East coast to get the equipment I want at a reasonable price. Trouble is the boss (wife) wants a 5th wheel. That eliminates any hauling in the truck bed and most states don't allow two trailers.

Bottom line, I am jealous of your purchase and hope I will be able to find something similarly, priced when I retire in June of 2022.

Still, I am very glad that you were able to score what you did. Congrats.

Thanks so from what I have seen so far in my journey to trying to build a small shop is that there is always deals that come around from time to time you just have to be patient and be ready for when they do because your not the only one looking I have missed a few unicorns the past year and I mean super rear like they were frozen in time lathes one was a Monarch series 60 13x54 that still have all the flaking on the compound and cross slide that was loaded with tooling and a DRO I missed it by 2 hours and it was 30 mins from my house and it was about what I paid for this lathe moral of the story just always keep a eye out because you never know I have found all my stuff on CL

 

[GreatOldOne]

Used starrett 161-E clamps:


Some goodies from down under - Acute sharpening kit and diamond / tangental tool holders


Yes, my lathe is filthy. Yes, I'm going to go clean it up.

 

[682bear]

USPS brought a box this afternoon...



13 cutters, ranging in size from 7/32" to 1" wide and 2-1/2" to 4" diameter.

-Bear

 

[darkzero]

Decided to ditch the straight arbor on my Albrecht & go with a R8 arbor like most of my other drill chucks have. I know straight shanks are more convenient, especially when they're shortened but I still prefer R8 arbors for my heavier chucks.

Llambrich (Spain) arbor dropped to $41 on Amazon, according to the 3 camels that's the lowest it's ever dropped to, last one in stock from Amazon. My local Travers had it for $90 but yet on Amazon Travers has it listed for $58 + 8 shipping. Had some rewards points too so for $35 I'm happy with that!





The old arbor. Removal wedges won't work on this arbor. I hate using them damned wedges anyway & I'll take the time to use this method to remove arbors whenever I can.

 

[Larry$]

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!

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I got a red one a few months ago when they were on sale. They seem well made. I moved the narrow bottom drawer up to near the top and two thin drawers down. The bottom thin drawer can't lock now but that's OK. If I had the space I'd get another.

 

[Aukai]

J33 arbor, I forget what that fits? The 3JT is out of stock.

 

[darkzero]

J33 arbor, I forget what that fits? The 3JT is out of stock.

J33 is the same as 33JT or JT33, lots of small benchtop drill presses have that spindle taper size. Not the same as 3JT though.

I've had good luck with HHIP Pro Series arbors. I have them on my other drill chucks. Made in China but very low/practically no runout, nickel plated, & very inexpensive on Amazon. Although these days the price has gone up a bit. I actually first bought a HHIP R8 6JT for the Albrecht but I didn't like it (manufacturing quality/cosmetic). Functionally it was fine though. Not sure if it was just that one I got or if they are all like that now, they only had one left so I couldn't exchange it to find out. All my other HHIP Pro arbors are nice but I got them years ago.

 

[darkzero]

Laquer-Stiks by Markal. These are used for filling in stamped/etched letters or whatever. Lasts longer than using a crayon, I used to use paint markers which sometimes don't work well or at all & can be messy.

The red & white I bought a while back, I just bought the black. They don't come in these tubes though, I made em up to store em, I keep these cut-to-length tubes on hand for things like this.




Here's an example. This is the ratcheting wrench I use for my drawbar. Annoyingly it doesn't have directional marks on it, got tired of having to flip the wrench all the time. So I filled in one side with a paint marker to help me identify which side up to tighten or loosen. The paint marker worked but fades over time & never stood out nicely to begin with. Much more noticeable with these paint sticks.

Paint marker applied years ago



Laquer-Stik