What Did You Buy Today?

[erikmannie]

I bought 2 of these new Made in USA 1” HSS shank, carbide tipped stubby boring bars.

I got 5% off plus a little help on the shipping when I bought 2, the total for which was $88.47 including tax and shipping.

 

[matthewsx]

Hold down kit.



And a small vise for my bench at work.


John

 

[Dhal22]

Picked up a used HF horizontal/vertical band saw - $20 -- could not pass this one up, even though my garage is over stuffed

Needs a little work on the guide rollers and some love

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Needs work on the color as well.

 

[7milesup]

Picked up a used HF horizontal/vertical band saw - $20 -- could not pass this one up, even though my garage is over stuffed

Needs a little work on the guide rollers and some love

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[hman]

Ya done good on the price!
I agree about the color ... never did like that crummy red paint. You'll probably want to add a belt cover as well.

 

[WhyW8]

Needs work on the color as well.

Yeah, I agree the color is terrible.. -- going to see what I have in the paint cabinet

Ya done good on the price!
I agree about the color ... never did like that crummy red paint. You'll probably want to add a belt cover as well.

Yeah, not much of a fan on exposed open pulleys - will have to fab something up for that

 

[Christianstark]

Needs work on the color as well.

It’ll buff out…

 

[WhyW8]

Well, I did not have any suitable paint in the paint cabinet so I had to let loose of some green and buy a quart of Rust-Oleum to dress up the old Band Saw -- That much better, she earns a spot in the garage.

 

[Dhal22]

Jeeze, that was quick. And much better color.

 

[Bi11Hudson]

Not sure what the actual use is, some are machine screw (obsolete) size Nr 20. That works out to 0.320, a 5/16 maybe. Thread pitch are Nr 20-18, Nr 20-16, 1/2-16. There are some others, including a couple of tapered. I am not familiar with those, just waiting 'til they get here to figure out if they are worth keeping or for making lathe tools. They were cheap so worth prowling.

WELL, I try to learn something new every day. Most times it's trivial stuff, sometimes something that I knew way back when before the strokes. Medical recovery??? In any case it seems that machine screws go up to at least Nr. 20. I thought all this time they only went to Nr 15. I checked the diameter of the numbered taps, they fit the machine screw series. (0.060+(y X 0.013) Nearly fractional, but not quite. They are keepers, if no more than conversation pieces. In the past, I have used off the wall threads and left hand threads on non-critical fasteners just to mess with someone's mind. But my own stuff now-a-days, naaggghhhh.

There are several pipe taps, 1/8 IPT? and smaller, a couple not tapered. I seem to have stumbled onto large scale steam model builder's tools. Maybe British sizes for the ones not marked??? Some have the square head one associates with taps. Some have a flat tang like a Morse taper tool. The shanks are not tapered, just the tang. I've never seen that before, they must be very old.

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