What Did You Buy Today?

Throw another side box on the other side of the main box, and that is what I used for years. Good boxes for the money. I finally out grew it of course. :big grin:
 
I had an HP financial calculator for 30 years. Hated it when it died. Very few calculators are available with reverse Polish notation these days, too bad, much better system.
Not cheap, but still avilable ...


 
Even better than buying, my longest time friend gave me this immense Jacobs 20N chuck, holds up to 1”. It’s on an MT3 taper for the lathe tailstock.

For comparison, the little guy is a (can’t tell, either 1B or 7B) that my dad used in Hawaii during WW2.65B5B8CA-F91B-46BF-9433-E2B73E2771F3.jpeg
 
I saw a Craigslist ad for a bunch of “Kwik-Switch” tool holders only a couple miles away so I had to go look. No idea what these were, but the seller explained, he used them on his Bridgeport but is downsizing and sold the mill. So, for a nominal price I took the box of them. They are actually pretty cool, you really can change tools by hand, a quarter turn of a ring, click the holder comes out, feel with the new holder for a tang alignment (easy and wide tolerance) push up lightly, pop, it’s in place.

But why is this any better than R8? Well, it comes with an R8 adapter on the socket that goes in the spindle, so I can swap back and forth as needed, no long term decisions here. For shorter people, you don’t need to reach up to the drawbar for tool changes, and let’s say you have a bolt circle where you have to position the table for each hole, spot drill, change to maybe a pilot drill, then change to finish drill, then maybe countersink, and perhaps chamfer. I either position the table once with DRO and run through all the tools, or for each tool, visit each hole position. And what makes this better is the Z height of each tool does not change, unlike R8 swaps.

A downside is it takes up more Z height by a couple inches, could hurt, but a Bridgeport has a pretty good working envelope.

The list prices of these parts are staggering new, and only frightening on eBay. I ended up with maybe $4K list for $100.

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My step daughter called and said she bought a tool box with a bunch of drawers full of tools she had no idea what they were and wanted me to come over and tell her what she had.
I did not take a picture of the boxes but one was an 8 drawer machinist box. The other two were 5 drawer storage boxes about 10 x 10.
She bought all three boxes with contents for $40.00
I offered her 100.00 for the contents after telling her there may be a few hundred dollars worth of tools there.
She shook my hand and said deal.
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Delivery guy brought this for the shop.
I just bought the same set of boxes in blue also! They had the bottom in stock, had to pre-pay for the other two which should be in by the end of August. Look for a twin of yours in 3 weeks.

Bruce
 
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