What Did You Buy Today?

Janderso said:
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!
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Found them! Just needed to look deeper in my drawer of SAE sockets.

Bruce


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Just purchased (In Holland) a 2000 watt converter so I can run my electrical tools in my shop in Rotterdam. For the price of a good router I can run my two routers, hand drills, Dumore grinder, other small electric tools, rather than buying new. Now I have to schlep them there over the course of several flights. (50 lbs per suitcase. )
 
WobblyHand said:
McMaster follow up. They emailed me today. They apologized for the lack of packing materials in the box, thanked me for the feedback and passed the information along to the warehouse team for review. They said to let them know if any of the items are damaged, and they will take care of it.

There are people in business that care. Makes me feel better about it. Will still do business with them.

The only thing I'm concerned about are the two long drill bits, the 1/4" and a letter P. The saw arbor was protected by it's plastic box. What can I do to check the bits? Roll them on a flat looking for light? Indicate them?
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spin them up in a chuck... you'll know if they are bent. Also take a magnifier to the tip and see if it is clean.
 
I recently joined a local makerspace that has a pretty nice lathe and mill (a VERY well used Monarch 10EE and an Enco Bridgeport clone). One thing I noticed is that they only have those cheap Noga knockoff indicator holders that have a TERRIBLE fine-adjust. I've been looking to upgrade to an indicator holder that has the fine adjust on the base, so I gave them my current Noga arm and bought a Noga MG10533 off of Amazon.

I learned some things in the process:
  1. Noga doesn't use enough packing material
  2. Amazon (by default) refuses to process returns on things that have strong magnets. The robot they keep trapped in their app will tell you that you're SOL when your brand new fancy-pants $$$ Noga indicator holder arrives with a big crack in the base. No returns, no exchanges, no quarter, no surrender
  3. Humans are better than robots when you can convince the robot to let you speak to one and will just give your money back without requiring you to send anything back
  4. MSC has very fast delivery where I live
  5. I have zero impulse control
  6. Having two robot arms to wave at people and hold things is amusing
  7. People think you're weird for owning two identical robot-arm looking things
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The moral of the story is this: never, ever, ever buy anything off of Amazon that is expensive, fragile, and has a big freaking magnet in it. You might just end up with two.

EDIT: The weird musical notes with faces are Otamatones. I didn't buy those today, I just wanted to make this photo more interesting.

EDIT: I'll note that the indicator holder with the cracked base does still work. I should be able to use it as long as I keep chips away from it. I just wanted to exchange it for an undamaged one given how expensive these things are.
 
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@Badabinski

I had no idea of the no return policy for strong magnets, so thanks for the heads-up.
I suppose somebody could return one in the ON position and gum up the works.

I'd like to see detailed photos showing the crack and it's location.
 
extropic said:
@Badabinski

I had no idea of the no return policy for strong magnets, so thanks for the heads-up.
I suppose somebody could return one in the ON position and gum up the works.

I'd like to see detailed photos showing the crack and it's location.
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I totally forgot I grabbed a photo of the crack. Here it is. You have to zoom in to see it, but the crack looks like it wants to open up wider.
Everything still works, but that opening will absolutely be a way for schmutz to get in. I'm going to seal it somehow, but I don't want to get anything in the mechanism which rules out a big glob of RTV or something like that.
 

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Badabinski said:
I totally forgot I grabbed a photo of the crack. Here it is. You have to zoom in to see it, but the crack looks like it wants to open up wider.
Everything still works, but that opening will absolutely be a way for schmutz to get in. I'm going to seal it somehow, but I don't want to get anything in the mechanism which rules out a big glob of RTV or something like that.
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I can't tell from the photo. Is the rotating magnet visible through the crack?

If so, put a label over it or a happy face sticker. :)
 
extropic said:
I can't tell from the photo. Is the rotating magnet visible through the crack?

If so, put a label over it or a happy face sticker. :)
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No one can tell from the photo. It is only 300 x 400 pixels. There are no details left. Can barely even tell if there is a problem at all. In real life there may be a big deep crack, but we can't see it. HM has de-detailed the photo with it's (IMHO) aggressive compression algorithm.

I guess we all need to take super zoomed photos now, of important details, else the forum just compresses and blurs them away.
 
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