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What Did You Buy Today?
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Yeah... Like I said... at the time (2015) Amazon had the lowest price on it... I am not blind to Amazon prices... Always shop around to see if I can find it for less (with shipping included)...
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I'm beginning to wonder if Amazon uses something like the yield management software that the airlines use which looks
at a bunch of variables constantly and then adjusts prices accordingly. That's why airline ticket prices are constantly changing, and
it appears that Amazon is doing the same thing.
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They also seem to jack up the price if you have been looking at an item for too long. To plot Amazon prices vs time, you can use camelcamelcamel. camelcamelcamel is an Amazon price tracker. That can help you determine if the price is at a long term high or low, or a local max or min. Used to be more fully featured, but is still a useful website.
Have often found that Amazon is NOT the lowest cost, including shipping. Sometimes they are. Have to be a savvy shopper, or you will be burned. Kind of like most things these days - got to look out for yourself, because no one else will do it for you.
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Got this today...
SPI 98-111-8 5-axis milling stop... some material to make stuff... some already made stuff (like that circular thingy you see there)... end mills, center drills, reamers, etc.
She gave me this... I have no idea what it is or what it is for... made out of wood and brass...
EDIT: It is a Stanley No. 77 Rosewood & Brass Mortise Gauge... Will google to find out how this is used... I guess it will come handy for when doing the few wood projects I have... Found a video on it...
Assorted material... steel, stainless, aluminum.. some stainless pipes as well.
Lots of pins, keyway material, more stainless tubing, some steel stock, etc.
All made in the USA tools… well, there is one from Brazil, two from India, and four bits from Japan… the rest is USA…
I did not check the wood drill bits...
She had a few more taps... must have missed those when I got the lathe...
Will take me some time to sort everything.
SPI 98-111-8 5-axis milling stop... some material to make stuff... some already made stuff (like that circular thingy you see there)... end mills, center drills, reamers, etc.
She gave me this... I have no idea what it is or what it is for... made out of wood and brass...
EDIT: It is a Stanley No. 77 Rosewood & Brass Mortise Gauge... Will google to find out how this is used... I guess it will come handy for when doing the few wood projects I have... Found a video on it...
Assorted material... steel, stainless, aluminum.. some stainless pipes as well.
Lots of pins, keyway material, more stainless tubing, some steel stock, etc.
All made in the USA tools… well, there is one from Brazil, two from India, and four bits from Japan… the rest is USA…
I did not check the wood drill bits...
She had a few more taps... must have missed those when I got the lathe...
Will take me some time to sort everything.
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Great haul!
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Man, That's quite a haul! Good job!
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Thanks. It was the same lady that sold me the 9x20 lathe… Her husband had passed away a year ago, today…
She had a lot of 6’ long stock but I only took all the small pieces of material…
And I should have made a list…. Now I realize that I forgot to bring the two grinders I was going to buy as well…
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you are going to have a lot of dull cutters in there. you have a few uses still for them.
some will have their tips sharp, but sides are roached,
others will have their sides sharp but their tips are roached.
others will be shot.
obviously the ones that have tips can be used to drill flat bottom holes.
sharp sides to side cut..
the tools that are shot are useful as tool steel to create cutters for your lathe, or grinding to create tooling for your boring head.
so don't throw stuff out, keep a bin for HSS that can be used to create new tools.
ya got a S load of stuff there... nice.