What Did You Buy Today?

I found this on Craigslist today and bought it for $300. It's Taiwanese and appears very lightly used.
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My only concern is that my mill has a power drawbar, which will not engage unless the spindle is all the way up. But the right angle head requires the spindle to be down pretty far. Note the "drawbar nut lengthener" on the right. My plan (subject to whatever expertise anybody here has to offer) is to split the collar that clamps onto the mill spindle. Then I can unscrew it from the gear box, attach the R8 drive shaft with the spindle up, then lower the spindle, attach the collar around it, and bolt the collar back onto the gear box. Any opinions or advice?
 
Could you even extend or change the drawbar with the power drawbar installed? To the uneducated, your solution seems like the only choice.
 
So here’s another EBay purchase that I made .I’ve been wanting a long travel dial indicator like this for awhile ,the travel is really smooth and in great shape just sucks it didn’t come with a case still at $65 bucks I didn’t think i did to bad
 

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Firstram said:
Could you even extend or change the drawbar with the power drawbar installed? To the uneducated, your solution seems like the only choice.
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Yup. Swapping out the drawbar was among the first things I'd considered. Not only would I have to dismount the power drawbar head to do this, but also replace the original hex head drawbar. This particular model of power drawbar came with and uses a splined drawbar nut. On top of that (way on top!), my mill (PM 835S) is one of those Bridgeport semi-clones with a tall base under the knee. The drawbar nut is around 7 feet above the floor, which is why I got the power drawbar in the first place. I don't like working with heavy hardware that far above my head. Shucks ... I even had to build a 10" high platform to stand on in order to operate the mill comfortably.

I'll wait a bit, just to let the ideas percolate, before splitting the spindle sleeve. Luckily, I don't have an immediate need for the right angle head. Bought it because it looked like a timely bargain and it would extend the capabilities of my mill.
 
The cheap ball turners on eBay were irresistible it seems. It arrived today, pretty simple with lots of stuff left to the student. Seeing what is there, I should have just made one. So I am documenting what this thing is so you will know…and maybe suggest some good approaches to either salvaging this or starting over.

First, there is no bearing, just held together with a screw and oiled surfaces. It actually is smooth with very little slop. It’s not compatible with anything I know about, so there is a design project to mount this. And where? The thing seems too tall to sit on the top of the compound in place of the tool post, and too small to sit on the cross slide with the compound removed. And it has about a 0.75“ radius capability, which is pretty tiny, likely. The tool height is not adjustable, so that has to be designed in. And then, getting the center of rotation exactly under the part to be turned gets the cross slide and compound quite close to the chuck…not good.

So here are some pictures of what’s there. Thoughts are welcome.

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hman said:
Yup. Swapping out the drawbar was among the first things I'd considered. Not only would I have to dismount the power drawbar head to do this, but also replace the original hex head drawbar. This particular model of power drawbar came with and uses a splined drawbar nut. On top of that (way on top!), my mill (PM 835S) is one of those Bridgeport semi-clones with a tall base under the knee. The drawbar nut is around 7 feet above the floor, which is why I got the power drawbar in the first place. I don't like working with heavy hardware that far above my head. Shucks ... I even had to build a 10" high platform to stand on in order to operate the mill comfortably.

I'll wait a bit, just to let the ideas percolate, before splitting the spindle sleeve. Luckily, I don't have an immediate need for the right angle head. Bought it because it looked like a timely bargain and it would extend the capabilities of my mill.
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Try contacting PM, They have a power drawbar for your mill and from the looks of it there must be a splined extending drawbar as one of its parts.
 
erikmannie said:
Well, I will still need 5C collet blocks, skinny & adjustable parallels, square & hex 5C collets, and a horizontal BANDSAW!

Today I refinanced $17.5K of 19.7% APR debt down to 15.1% APR.

We have done that with 3 different loans so far. One $19.3K loan went from 35% APR all the way down to 7.5% APR.

I sure could have bought a lot of tools with what I have spent on interest. However, had I saved up & paid cash for tools it is probable that my wife would have diverted some of the funds to girlie stuff.
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Where in the world do you find 20%, 35% interest loans?
 
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