What Did You Buy Today?

[Janderso]

Couple of recent hand tool pick ups, different sources, same application. For the life of me I can't find my sets of 1/2" deep drive sockets. I could have sworn I had circa 1980's vintage Craftsman in 6/12 point in both SAE and metric. They'll eventually turn up; in the mean time I bought a used Gearratchet Vortex and Harbor Freight set of external drive sockets.

In case you haven't seen these, the sockets are driven via a special ratchet that drops over the outside of the socket instead of an internal square hole. The extensions have a through-hole in them also. I'll use them as deep-well sockets until my real deeps reappear. Unfortunately, the two sets have different drive set-ups. The Gearratchet uses an 8-point system, HF uses a (convenient) 3/4" hex.

Bruce


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Bruce,
I’ve been watching your tooling purchases over the past few years. I would think by now, bricks and mortar would be needed to hold your cache.
It’s no wonder you can’t find those sockets
All in fun my friend!

 

[Navy Chief]

i don't know if i "did well" or not really.. picked up this Mic and level for 100 bucks

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I think you did well... Nice find.

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[IamNotImportant]

I think you did well... Nice find.

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Thanks.. hard to do when you don't always know values.. and plus, finding good things around these parts is slim to none..

 

[wachuko]

i don't know if i "did well" or not really.. picked up this Mic and level for 100 bucks

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100.00 for both? Yup, you did great!

 

[IamNotImportant]

100.00 for both? Yup, you did great!

yes.. for both.. the mic cleaned up well and didn't take but a min to get it zero'd.. cleaned up the level too.. will take to the local shop and check in on the plate

 

[extropic]

They aren't a perfect sub for my 1/2" deeps as they only go to 3/4". But at $22 they are hard to beat.

Bruce


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Yes. I looked that HF set up after I read your post. I needed a 15/16" so no good for me.

I have the same (equivalent sizes) set under the Armstrong name. It's got to be 20 or 30 years old and virtually unused. It's in WA and I'm in CA so it was not in the running to solve my current need.

Still glad to know HF has that set.

 

[Janderso]

i don't know if i "did well" or not really.. picked up this Mic and level for 100 bucks

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You did very well

 

[IamNotImportant]

You did very well

Thank you sir, i appreciate that.. wasn't sure.. just made an offer that i would hope that would be good for both of us..

 

[erikmannie]

I bought another one of these 14” X 14” aluminum square carts that I use for lathe chucks.

My shop is getting crowded, but I can always find a 14” X 14” spot.

 

[IamNotImportant]

i am supposed to go look at some more stuff today.. we'll see what i come up with..