What Did You Buy Today?

[NCjeeper]

Like they say: You can make small parts on a big lathe, but you can't make big parts on a small lathe.

 

[wachuko]

Well... so much for waiting until next year...

I should be searching for a VFD for my new-to-me milling machine... instead, I bought a 2-Ton gantry crane...

 

[Aukai]

Yeah, yeah, I'm not seeing it

 

[woodchucker]

Well, I haven't bought it yet, but I'll have to replace this Carbide bit that I just broke .
I was drilling out my boring head. It was hard to put anything in the 2 vertical spots. They would air lock.. I figured they needed a hole to release the air. My boring tool is made in Taiwan, and is very hard. I tried a HSS, wouldn't touch it. I didn't try my cobalt, I could tell I needed carbide.
as it was coming through it snapped. it only came through 1/32 when it broke....
I took out another carbide bit and did the other hole, then came back to this one and enlarged it...
This was a USA made carbide drill bit.. screw machine size..


edit: Oh boy, it was a #7 damn... perfect for a 1/4 - 20

 

[Janderso]

Paragon kiln.
A guy at work overheard me talking about the Hotshot 360. They run $1,000.

He said he has a Paragon kiln that gets over 2’000 degrees that’s never been plugged in.
?. I bought it for $100. I just checked, it's $912 for this unit.
It has a digital pyrometer in its new package inside the kiln.
I‘ll play with it to see how it works.
Hopefully I can use it as a heat treating oven??

 

[Gaffer]

If you get into it and want ramp and soak, consider converting the controls with a PID setup. It’s the cat’s meow!

 

[BladesIIB]

Paragon kiln.
A guy at work overheard me talking about the Hotshot 360. They run $1,000
He said he has a Paragon kiln that gets over 2’000 degrees that’s never been plugged in.
?. I bought it for $100.
It has a digital pyrometer in its new package inside the kiln.
I‘ll play with it to see how it works.
Hopefully I can use it as a heat treating oven??

I have a Paragon knife kiln for heat treating. They are nice kilns. As mentioned you may want to consider a digital programmable controller to help with heat treating. For what you paid, nice buy. Congrats.

 

[Janderso]

I have a Paragon knife kiln for heat treating. They are nice kilns. As mentioned you may want to consider a digital programmable controller to help with heat treating. For what you paid, nice buy. Congrats.

Awesome.
Could you please direct me to the correct controller?
I have no idea where to begin. I know they can be controlled much better with a quality programmable device.
Thank you for your guidance!
I love your channel by the way. Yes I subscribed.
Jeff

From their web site>>>
You can use these kilns for annealing beads and glass, painting china, applying decals, dental work, fusing dichroic glasses, enamelling, fire polishing, glass art, glass casting, fusing, sagging, and slumping, glass clays, heat treating, knife making, laboratory testing, lampwork, lost-wax casting, low-fire ceramics, making jewellery, melting gold and silver, firing bronze and copper metal clays, moulding gun and model parts, pâte de verre, sintering gold and silver clays, staining glass, hardening and tempering blades, cutters, dies, and tools, wax burn out, and many other materials and processes.

 

[BladesIIB]

Awesome.
Could you please direct me to the correct controller?
I have no idea where to begin. I know they can be controlled much better with a quality programmable device.
Thank you for your guidance!
I love your channel by the way. Yes I subscribed.
Jeff

Thanks for the sub. I have the Sentry 2.0 controller on mine. They may have an updated version? Maybe search and see if you can find a Sentry controller used somewhere? I have a video for n my channel for programming and using it for knife treating. Also posted on this forum if you search Paragon it should come up. If not let me know and I can PM it to you.

 

[Janderso]

Wow, $396 for that one.
Sure looks nice though.