What Did You Buy Today?

[MontanaLon]

Picked all this up today. Plus a big 2x8Norton stone still in box. Was a sign on side of road for an estate sale so I stopped and he had a good bit of tools. Mitotoyu was $20 and is the only thing not USA made. Gave $35 for all of it.

Scraper is an Anderson HK42.

Did I do ok??

 

[yarrrrr]

Picked up a benchmaster from Susan and cleaned it up. Thanks Susan!

 

[pontiac428]

My Dad got a duplicate ANSI #1 tap collet holder, so he sent it to me. I had a 3/4 end mill holder on hand, and got the first pieces of my clutch tap holder collection started! Now I gotta try and grind the shanks of the tap drill bits square and to spec so I can fit them into rigid collars. Then I could drill and tap without moving the spindle out of the work feature's axis. How cool would that be?

 

[wlburton]

Picked up a benchmaster from Susan and cleaned it up. Thanks Susan!View attachment 299237View attachment 299238View attachment 299239View attachment 299240

Cleaning up old tools and making them functional again is a lot of fun and very satisfying!

 

[Bi11Hudson]

Hasn't arrived yet, so I don't know if I wasted my money or not. But I have a number of PM articles archived and refer to them regularly. So I figure this to be a sound investment. Amazon,10 CDs for 40 bux, the list is down a ways with "popular mechanics archive" as the search, if anyone else is interested.

 

[vocatexas]

*If I could figure out how to post photos here, I'd put some up. Are there instructions somewhere I haven't found?

Drove about 185 miles and picked up a Kearney and Trecker TF-420 horizontal mill with vertical head and DRO. 13,000 lbs. of American iron. I also got several arbors, a rack with about 20 tool holders, about 100 cutters in various sizes, a K&T dividing head with plates, and a Troyke 15 inch rotary table. If my wife doesn't shoot me, I'll enjoy getting this thing into service. Now I've just got to get my shop finished.

 

[GreatOldOne]

*If I could figure out how to post photos here, I'd put some up. Are there instructions somewhere I haven't found?

Click the files button


Select the pics from your computer in the file browse dialogue that pops up. They will appear below the text entry box like so:


Position your cursor in the text box - then either hit the insert all or the individual insert buttons next to the pic you want.

 

[alloy]

I picked this up at an online auction last Thursday.

Got it home, put some HF casters on it, and put an old little giant pump on it and now have coolant. I'm going to replace the blade brush, and may have to replace the half but. But overall I'm happy with it.

 

[GoceKU]

After a morning of machining i needed a 41mm wrench for a wheel bearing job i need to do and after braking the one i had, i went to the tool/flea market, i bought two wrenches, and a pack of inserts for the lathe 12$ for everything and headed back to finish the bearing job, i bought used made in germany wrenches because they are better quality than the new china ones.

 

[Superburban]

Went to an estate sale today. Scarfed a machinery's handbook, along with a few other math & machinist related books, An old coleman stove, a hardly used weller soldering iron, a set of reamers, with a homemade case. which includes MT1,2,and 3 reamers (yes, for reaming a MT taper), a handful of other hand tools, and the Wife added to the pile. All for $20.