What Did You Buy Today?

It has nothing to do with machining, but my wife and I are climbing on an airplane to visit a Canadian hockey game. Of course, it will make things weird when she is wearing an oilers shirt underneath the blues sweater, but that's what happens when you have family that can't make the flight.

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Hockey (and my wife's love of the sport) is part of the usual reasons why my machining slows down during the winter.
 
When car guys go quiet, people around them know they are too no good. So "i accidentally bought me another car" and being me it has some issues so it will be an project till i get it sorted out. i'm not a person to drive a car with the dashboard lit up like a christmas tree. Now the car is a Peugeot 607 2.7 HDI Twin turbo diesel with all the bells and whistles the highest level of equipment. It has a problem with the cooling system, (may be a head gasket) if anyone is interested in seeing me pull my hair out diagnosis it i'll start a thread about it.
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I was going through an old tool box the other day and found the first thing I made in a lathe. I was a freshman in high school taking a course called "General Metals". One quarter each of Electricity, Welding, Sheet Metal, and Machine Shop. I got a B+ on the project, see the square shoulder, I forgot to change tools. We had to draw file the flats, I got the + because i polished it to a 400 finish. It's the old story, one shot and you're hooked.
 

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eugene13 said:
I was going through an old tool box the other day and found the first thing I made in a lathe. I was a freshman in high school taking a course called "General Metals". One quarter each of Electricity, Welding, Sheet Metal, and Machine Shop. I got a B+ on the project, see the square shoulder, I forgot to change tools. We had to draw file the flats, I got the + because i polished it to a 400 finish. It's the old story, one shot and you're hooked.
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Very nice job and very nice you found it. I would hang it up in your shop to remind you of what ignited your interest in metalworking and also to remind you of your youth.

I have an old Starrett vernier caliper of my fathers that is probably from when he was a young man. I have it hanging up above my lathe. It brings back good memories for me.
 
Today i went to the tool/flea market to buy me a tow hook for the 607 i just bought, i found and bought it, then i bought two sets of wipers because it has different size wiper on each side. Then i found this what looks to me like a casting mold for a step pulley, made of aluminium then i found something i recognise, replacement jaws for my lathes chuck. And finally but not least i bought this dolly and put it to use immediately moving couple of engines around the big garage. Funny thing happened, i bought the dolly forgetting that i drove the little niva and there was no space in the trunk so i had to disassemble it and put it in the passenger seat place.

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First, I had to look up "Niva car". Then I had to look up Macedonia. Learned two things today.

Cool find on the little dolly cart.
 
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