What Did You Buy Today?

[matthewsx]

Walking by the neighbors (summer folks, hardly ever in town) house I noticed a drill press in the garage and commented that it made the garage "proper". He said "that thing needs to go" - SO....

 

[GoceKU]

Today early in the morning i visited the tool/flea market, first thing i bought was this set of Ford wheel covers 7$ good deal they usually go sell for 3-40$ used. Then i bought me some wrenches good quality 0.40$ smaller ones and 1$ for the bigger ones, i also bought that long spark plug wrench they are russian made especially for lada's also 1$. Then come the find of the day this carl zeiss 150-200mm micrometer 10$ also a great deal.

 

[Flyinfool]

I snagged a deal on a new laptop so that I can start using Fusion 360.
16Gb Ram
4Gb Video RAM dedicated
256Gb SSD and a 1Tb HDD
2.8 to 4.0 Ghz speed.

This should get the job done for a while.

 

[Ken from ontario]

I've been working with sheet metal (Mainly copper 24 Ga.) a lot lately so got myself a punch set and a nibbler, both are made in Taiwan and the quality is definably better that I expected;

 

[MontanaLon]

Picked this up at flea market.

Also picked up about 20 pounds of small steel drops.

 

[woodtickgreg]

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Picked this up at flea market.

Also picked up about 20 pounds of small steel drops.

Ok, I'll bite, what is that?

 

[vocatexas]

Looks like a west Texas plumb bob. 20 pounds so the 30 mile per hour 'breeze' doesn't blow it around. LOL

 

[francist]

Yay! My regular driver is 6 years old, this one is blisteringly fast by comparison. And packaged so perfectly as only Apple can...

 

[MontanaLon]

Ok, I'll bite, what is that?

Guy said it was a recoiless rifle shell. I don't have caliper with me so don't have exact dimensions but it looks wrong for an artillery shell. No driving band. I'm leaning toward 80mm mortar but really no idea.

I just bought it so I have bigger bullets than my neighbors.

 

[hman]

I've been working with sheet metal (Mainly copper 24 Ga.) a lot lately so got myself a punch set and a nibbler, both are made in Taiwan and the quality is definably better that I expected;
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I have the same punch ... love it!

I added a small modification that lets me use it as a "bench mounted" punch ... milled two parallel flats on the lower sides of the "chin." These allow it to be grabbed and held in a vise. This has proved to be so handy that I've yet to use the punch hand-held.