What Did You Buy Today?

atunguyd said:
Do you guys honestly not have Pawn brokers anymore?

I regularly make the trip out to the more industrial part of town where there are three Pawn brokers that always have machining tools for sale. My biggest score was a cut knurling tool for R500 (about $30) contacted the agents and learned that if I wanted that same tool new it would be R16 000 (about $960).

I have gone from cheap Chinese metrology instruments to Mititoyo, Starrett, Helios, Moore and wright etc at a fraction of the price thanks to these Pawn brokers

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Not real Pawn Shops, the ones around here have wholesale jewelry, surplus DeWalt & other tools NIB and a few lawn tractors. When I was growing up in Baltimore, there Pawn Shops were transitioning, but still had stuff that people brought in to get cash.
 
ChazzC said:
Remaining shipments from HD got delayed by the weather, but one (from Dallas-ish) is out for delivery:

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Funny, I never heard of fdeg before, but this is the second email I've received from Home Depot referring to them, so they must be a new service.
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The last one showed up (from a HD warehouse in Indiana), packaged the way they all should have been:

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Not a purchase , rather a gift from Santa . Once I can get to all the wood saws , this is my goal . :grin: I have the wood for 1000 of these .
 

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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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That's with a corporate discount, he mentioned 300.00 something being regular price
 
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