What Did You Buy Today?

Erik, after all that about being in debt to 70k? Do you have a real need for a bull nose that big. Do you realize you can take a regular center and make a bull nose attachment.. after all you are not doing .001 precision with a pipe.
 
@erikmannie:
"I will have to sell pipe welding coupons in order to recoup my investment here."


You plan on selling pipe welding coupons?

Like these ones? Seems to me that $45 price tag hardly even covers the cost of steel.

It's going to take about 100 years to make back that $1000, let alone the other $70k...


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There is an 'antique store' near me that my wife browses through occasionally... I've never been there until this morning, she talked me into going.

It turned out to be an interesting place... and I actually bought something... a grocer's scale...

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It is in very nice condition... I'm wondering how old it is, is there any way to tell?

-Bear
My parents owned a small grocery store on the Oregon Coast when I was young, we had a butcher shop and I used that exact scale model to weight out meats for our customers before the State required us to enclose and refrigerate the meat cutting area. That ended the fresh meat and everything went to prepackaged meats.
I can remember we use to have two or three sides of beef in the walk in aging from some of the local dairy farmers. Dad would let them hang for at least 6 weeks before butchering. Farmers use to complain that he wasn't getting it done fast enough until they got their first delivery. After that they asked if they could hang it longer. Meat was so tender and tasted almost sweet. I don't care what cut it was.
Good days.
 
I looked them (the scale) up and as far as I could see it was a Hobart 650. There seem to be quite a few around but other than guessing by the fonts used for the sign I couldn’t get a confirmation of age. @Ulma Doctor may have a better idea as I’m sure he’s run into tons of them in his work.
 
Received a small rotary table, a Vertex HV-6. Got it from Eisen Machinery. It's about the right size for my small mill. Seems very well made, and surprisingly heavy for it's size.
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Need to make some tee-nuts. Also need to make or buy some kind of a fixture plate.
 
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