What Did You Buy Today?

[erikmannie]

1 box which contains 10 Kennametal SEHW43-KC510M inserts. Painfully expensive at $283.33, or $28.33 landed cost for each insert.



These are for a Glacern face mill. They will be used to face a large amount of 5/8” plate that was used for stick welding practice, so the plate is covered with rusty 60-70 kpsi tensile strength stringer beads.

After being machined, this plate steel will be 8” X 5” plate welding coupons.

 

[Gaffer]

I just got a 75/25 cylinder filled for 223.00

Youch! My 125-cu ft 75/25 tank ran dry last weekend. My cost to fill it today was $47. As for other prices to compare, I replenished my OA tanks too. 125 O2 was $18 and 2A (55cu ft) acetylene was $46. My tank was outdated, and they charged me $35 for hydrostatic testing. I thought it interesting because they have to send their tanks out for testing, yet they swapped mine out for the $35. I'm happy!

 

[Winegrower]

I got a Bison 6” three jaw for the Takisawa. I have an 8” three jaw, but this will close down a bit more, but most important it’s an A style mount, so bolts directly to the Takisawa spindle. The 8” uses a backing plate that is fine but just a bit more work to swap in/out.

Seemed like a bargain, eBay new for $600. We will see in a week or so.

I posted this awhile ago, and the chuck arrived. Exceptionally well packaged, from Canada. Clearly new, but had been in the box since 2008.
Mounted it up, chucked up a 3/4" gauge pin to check runout. The 0.0001 DTI just literally never moved, and I had to test to see if it was working. So the runout was not measurable...never had that happen before. The lathe spindle itself is about a tenth and a half, so there must have been some error cancellation. The spec on the chuck is quite extensive, lots of different measurements are spec'ed, but runout on a 80mm pin measured out 40mm is shown as 0.0012. I can't complain about any of this stuff. There is a table of how much weight the chuck can handle, and wow, I'm never going to get anywhere near this. For example, chuck one end and use a tailstock center and the spec is 330 pounds.

This was a good purchase.

 

[rwm]

Here is the Argon bottle thread for reference!

WTF is Up With Argon?

With the needle down to about 300 psi, I decided to shop for argon for TIG welding. I called the two local suppliers in Redding, CA, one in Chico and one in Sacramento. Prices are for 80 cu ft. exchange Airgas (Redding) $105.13 Shasta Welding (Redding) $82.44 MJB Welding (Chico) $56.69 Barnes...

www.hobby-machinist.com

 

[Magnett]

Before work, I popped down to the local Matheson Gas & bought this full, customer owned 145 ft.³ acetylene cylinder. It was $575.74 out the door (ouch!). A coworker of mine was kind enough to let me use his pickup truck to bring it from the welding store to my house.

When it comes time to fill this again, the charge will be $91.48 + tax + haz mat fee.

This cylinder is for the torch cutting cart.

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OUCH!

 

[Gaffer]

I have car trailer panel straightening to do as well as body work my Cuda project, so I bought this starter set from Summit Racing.

 

[pontiac428]

I got tired of watching these, so I picked them up. Left and rights of each size and shape. They ended up being a couple bucks each, but that's cheaper than inserts. They're properly sharpened in the wax, and I can grind them as needed in the SHeckel with CBN. I use inserts with stainless and when I need it for hard stuff, but I'm not really a fan. So now I can bridge the gap from HSS to expensive inserts with grindable, shapable carbide tools. I'm looking forward to my next encounter with Mr. 304 and his buddy 316.

 

[erikmannie]

I got tired of watching these, so I picked them up. Left and rights of each size and shape. They ended up being a couple bucks each, but that's cheaper than inserts. They're properly sharpened in the wax, and I can grind them as needed in the SHeckel with CBN. I use inserts with stainless and when I need it for hard stuff, but I'm not really a fan. So now I can bridge the gap from HSS to expensive inserts with grindable, shapable carbide tools. I'm looking forward to my next encounter with Mr. 304 and his buddy 316.

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I love those brazed carbide tools. Economical and sharp!

 

[erikmannie]

This lot of gas welding items is the last of the tool purchases for me. I *really* have bought everything that I would need or want for a long time.

These resurface a dirty cutting tip:




Rosebud for a medium combination torch:




Filler rod:




Self-explanatory:






No more posting in this thread for me unless I want to live in the poorhouse.

 

[Eyerelief]

Santa brought me a bottle of Anchorlube. The stuff that looks like the green fixaflat goop. I tried it out today and I liked it. I’m making a set of die wrenches. On the holder shown I drilled and tapped some 5/16 NF and some 10-32 threads .500 deep in 316 stainless. When drilling, I did not observe or smell any smoke like common cutting fluid is known to produce. The 10-32 tapping didn’t require breaking the chip infrequently. Both drills and taps cut smoothly and produced decent finishes. I can’t speak for what will happen regarding discoloring surfaces. 316 fights those issues well and I wiped down everything else as to not take any chances (conventional cutting fluid trained me well)