What Did You Buy Today?

[wachuko]

The back of my DX4 looks like
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There's a slot in the back. The shim stock will slide in until it hits the front jaw. There's also a nice milled recess in the fixed jaw, which is very handy when picking up the vise from the mill table. That way you don't have the slide the vise across the table. Hope you appreciate the pictures, I had to hold a small flashlight between my teeth to light it up enough to photograph!
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Curiously, the back side of the vise is not shown in any of the Kurt literature, or on their website, for either the DX6 or DX4.

Not in mine… looks like one solid piece with the base

 

[WobblyHand]

Not in mine… looks like one solid piece with the base

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No slot (soup) for you! You will need to put in the guard from the top, or the front. But at least you found the stop!

 

[cathead]

No soup for me either I guess....




I would have had a hard time making that cute little clamp. Thanks everyone for all the help and useful posts.

 

[erikmannie]

I got another load of stuff from my widowed friend. This is from her husband who died in 1992.

The acetylene tank is half full, as is the oxygen tank.

Some of my favorites in this batch are drills, a lot of steel & aluminum stock, Craftsman wrenches & sockets, letter & number stamps, center drills, another cool vise, & a fire brick.

I was particularly excited about the material on the *really* old hammer & sledgehammer. I like machining really old material.

 

[wachuko]

Regarding the cover, it doesn't really make sense that Kurt would include it in the box if there was no way to install it…

Instructions calls for cutting to size… but that is the thing, one is always working with different sized parts. My guess is that it worked for the previous version and they just kept it in there…

…LOL, in 41 minutes you "Got the paint" and painted ??? You must live next door to the hardware store.

I was getting some mulch for the yard… but yes, ACE and Lowes are 10 minutes away…

Paint was wet when I took the photo… letting it dry right on the vise

On other news, beat the carp out of the 3/32” Starrett punch… broke 1” of the tip and bent the 1/16” punch. I ordered a new one of each to keep the set complete…

 

[IamNotImportant]

I got another load of stuff from my widowed friend. This is from her husband who died in 1992.

The acetylene tank is half full, as is the oxygen tank.

Some of my favorites in this batch are drills, a lot of steel & aluminum stock, Craftsman wrenches & sockets, letter & number stamps, center drills, another cool vise & fire brick.

I was particularly excited about the material on the *really* old hammer & sledgehammer. I like machining really old material.

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nice old tackle box

 

[woodchucker]

I got another load of stuff from my widowed friend. This is from her husband who died in 1992.

The acetylene tank is half full, as is the oxygen tank.

Some of my favorites in this batch are drills, a lot of steel & aluminum stock, Craftsman wrenches & sockets, letter & number stamps, center drills, another cool vise & fire brick.

I was particularly excited about the material on the *really* old hammer & sledgehammer. I like machining really old material.

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nice score...
Can I see a better picture of the Little hand plane in the upper left corner on the last pic. I'm curious if it says Stanley on it anywhere?
It might be a valuable hand plane. Hard to tell.

 

[erikmannie]

@woodchucker

Here is a picture of the smallest hand plane:





And the medium size hand plane:

 

[erikmannie]

nice old tackle box

The lady (Ana) said that this was the first toolbox that she bought herself when she was about 22 years old. She was an art student. She got a bachelor of fine arts in Metal Art.

 

[woodchucker]

OMG.. That looks like a Stanley #1 , but it's missing the lever cap... it has some other type of cap (homemade maybe)...
If that were intact it would be worth a fortune, as it is, someone may need it for parts.. Treat that like the Hope Diamond... you need to find out what it is..