What Did You Buy Today?

[DAM 79]

How much more does a chuck weigh than the jib crane? Do you need a gantry with a chainfall to install the hoist to install the chuck?

The Job crane really isn’t that heavy however most of my 3-jaw. Chucks weigh almost 100lbs I’m thinking and the 12” 6-jaw weighs more then them and I also have a 18” 4-jaw chuck I think it weighs around 300lbs. Because I can roll it but can’t pick it up

 

[Mill Lee farm]

Replacement Mitutoyo pin vises showed along with my used Mitutoyo indicator from Ideal Precision…..

This picture kind of sums it up doesn’t it?
Amazon bagged, crushed, new Mitutoyo
vs. used, inspected, awesomely packed Mitutoyo….




>edit<
Except… packing peanuts!!!! Arrgh!
“It H8’s the peanut-zez!!!”


Luckily! Amazon gave me a bag!!!





WOW!!!! There’s MUCH cooler packing material rubber banded to the bottom of the white box!!!



Pretty good so far!

 

[WobblyHand]

Replacement Mitutoyo pin vises showed along with my used Mitutoyo indicator from Ideal Precision…..

This picture kind of sums it up doesn’t it?
Amazon bagged, crushed, new Mitutoyo
vs. used, inspected, awesomely packed Mitutoyo….

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How's the box inside the orange one? If I recall it's a blow mold box inside. Might not be as bad as it looks.
But, yeah, there's a difference between packing, isn't there. People who care, vs. those who don't really care if your stuff arrives crushed.

I've bought from Ideal Precision and am happy with what I got, AND the way it was packaged.

 

[pontiac428]

You're teasing us! What's inside? What does that batch of pin vises look like compared to the child labor version they sent you in the beginning?

 

[wachuko]

Replacement Mitutoyo pin vises showed along with my used Mitutoyo indicator from Ideal Precision…..

This picture kind of sums it up doesn’t it?
Amazon bagged, crushed, new Mitutoyo
vs. used, inspected, awesomely packed Mitutoyo….

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Interesting… I would have expected the one from Amazon delivered in a box 10 times its size…

 

[Mill Lee farm]

Better
No strange black staining



95% less rust

Better machining, but still not perfect.
The smallest is a lot better but still not dead center. 4 teeth clamp unevenly as well. Much better than the last, but still disappointing

The 2nd from smallest is obviously cut off center again…. *sigh*

Maybe 3rd times the charm???

 

[Mill Lee farm]

Oh my…….


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The smallest is just as bad…..


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I checked all 4 with thread gauge pins… they all have visible runout…. No good *cry*

Again… box looks legit? Just a bad product?
SMH

 

[Mill Lee farm]

However!!!
This guy looks very nice! Some dents and scratches but nothing that bothers me!
$78.44 after tax and free shipping. I feel thats fair

 

[pontiac428]

What the hell, Mitu? Is Starrett the only company who can make a decent pin vise?

And why is Mitutoyo manufacturing precision tools in India? What drove them there, when there are sectors of high-tech Asian manufacturing available to them in their home time zone. I've never once seen a piece of fine metal come out of India. Most of the stuff I've seen looks like it was made by a crew who was taking a break from their primary job of creating cave paintings.

 

[K30]

Not tools yet, but I cleaned up the scrap pile at the local alloy place. Also, they keep some monster stuff in there, like 16" 4140 bar, yikes.
Left to right: 5" 1144 chunks, 1/2" 360 brass, 2" 1144, couple of sizes of 303, a chonk of c110 copper they didn't know they had, a a 9" hunk of 6061