What Did You Buy Today?

Ohhhh... that feeling when you buy something and forget to check with your other preferred vendor and he has it 1/2 off what you paid... got to love that feeling...

The vendor on eBay where I bought the small vise, Discount Machine Shop... they had the 1/8" parallel set 1/2 of what I paid with MSC Industrial Direct...

Anyway... got a few of these clamps with the round knobs...

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I bought 5 PCB's (minimum order) for my ELS that I recently designed.

What an odd experience that was. The KiCAD program has a plugin that takes your design and bundles up the data files and sends them to PCBWay for a quote. After convincing myself that everything was good, (don't know how I would really know for sure,) I pushed the button and the data was transferred a world away. In less than 10 minutes the files were checked and had a quote. There was a bit of an odd struggle trying to figure out their forms, but after it was all said and done it cost me $34.13 including shipping. Should arrive in early October. Sure hope the boards come out OK. Haven't ever made my own boards before.
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Bought 4 Smart and Brown Collets for sizes I don’t already have

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Turns out they’re for a different sized Smart and Brown lathe…. (bottom one is from my existing set that fits the lathe)

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Are these any use to me for anything else? Or should I just sell them on?


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Finally, a tool I bought. These just came in. Still waiting on the R8 arbor! Hope it will be here within a week. AliExpress, so there's always the element of surprise. @MrWhoopee thinks these are good. Hope my copy proves that out. The anticipation...
 

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WobblyHand said:
Finally, a tool I bought. These just came in. Still waiting on the R8 arbor! Hope it will be here within a week. AliExpress, so there's always the element of surprise. @MrWhoopee thinks these are good. Hope my copy proves that out. The anticipation...
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I have one like that from Banggood. It produces a remarkable finish.
 
WobblyHand said:
Finally, a tool I bought. These just came in. Still waiting on the R8 arbor! Hope it will be here within a week. AliExpress, so there's always the element of surprise. @MrWhoopee thinks these are good. Hope my copy proves that out. The anticipation...
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Can you post a link to the sales page?
 
WobblyHand said:
Finally, a tool I bought. These just came in. Still waiting on the R8 arbor! Hope it will be here within a week. AliExpress, so there's always the element of surprise. @MrWhoopee thinks these are good. Hope my copy proves that out. The anticipation...
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I just received another pack of those "Lamina" inserts, though I'm not sure why I ordered them. I've been using that cutter mostly for roughing pre-hardened 4140 and lathe tool shanks. At 160 rpm, .060 DOC, the original corners on the original inserts still show no visible signs of wear. At this rate the first 4 inserts could last a very long time. I'm not getting a beautiful finish, but under those conditions I don't expect it.
 
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