What Did You Buy Today?

I did some 'acquiring' this week...

E-bay purchase... ½" carbide boring bar...

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Then yesterday I drove over to @tjb 's house and picked up an Arter carbide grinder...

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It needs a little tlc...

Then last night at work, co-worker brought me a couple of items. First is a 6"x6" sine plate...

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And a rusty sine vise...

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I've disassembled the vise and have it soaking in evaporust. We'll see how well it cleans up.

-Bear
 
matthewsx said:
Here’s something I actually bought today, needed a small tap handle and decided to order one from McMaster. Time will tell if it’s three times as good as the Chinese one they sell but for $18 bucks why not support the little guy….

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I have the "guided" version of this and it has been awesome for many years, love the tool. The spring that separates the jaws went at one point had to take apart a clicky pen and steal the spring from that. You won't be disappointed with this wrench.
 
682bear said:
I did some 'acquiring' this week...

E-bay purchase... ½" carbide boring bar...

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Then yesterday I drove over to @tjb 's house and picked up an Arter carbide grinder...

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It needs a little tlc...

Then last night at work, co-worker brought me a couple of items. First is a 6"x6" sine plate...

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And a rusty sine vise...

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I've disassembled the vise and have it soaking in evaporust. We'll see how well it cleans up.

-Bear
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I hope those come out nice. I think you may have to deck off the top of the sine plate, you can't really touch the measuring area. So I am hoping evapo rust and a little hand work does it for you. That would be a nice score... Along with the other items that you got.
 
Nice. Glad to see you got that tool grinder. Thought you might, being in the neighborhood and all. Bet it will look like a million bucks when you're done with it.
 
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Craftsman 6 x 48" belt sander.

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The pulley on the motor is bent (Just the pulley, I do not believe the shaft is bent) so the motor bucks up and down like a bronco when the motor is turned on. Seller didn't have any belts so I don't know how well it tracks. I will have to craft some kind of table for it. The original tables are on a rod that slip into a hole in the body of the sander. I don't know if I will try to replicate this arrangement or mount a new table to the sander body or the stand.. I have a Walker Turner 4 x 52.5" horizontal belt sander so I would like to run this one in a vertical orientation in which a table will be a must.

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My father brought this Delta sander home from work about 40 years ago. I took it apart, stripped it, painted it, replaced the bearings and reassembled it by myself (I was about 12yo at the time). I have always wanted a vertical belt sander for wood working to go with it. The Delta is fine for both metal and wood but mixing both on the same sander is pretty messy. I believe the Craftsman will be put on the woodworking side of the shop and dedicated to woodworking in a vertical orientation and the Delta will stay on the metal working side of the shop... But things like this have a habit of changing after everything sorts itself out.

P.S. Well the table problem is solved:
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$81 with delivery from ebay. Sander for $40, table for $81... I guess that is the way it goes some times. If I get it running smoothly I am still very happy with the price!
 
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