What Did You Buy Today?

OK, this is bad one.
About an hour ago I went digging for one of my Linux laptops to try out something.
They reside on a shelf underneath the 'puter repair bench for safe keeping. It's only about two laptops high, not much of an opening.
Well resting on the shelf next to one of the lappys was a Mitutoyo box. Huh?
It's a 12"er. I have no recollection of where/when I picked this up in the last several months.
Mind appears to be failing. Not a good sign. Stashed it in a good place to keep it from getting banged up.
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Starrett odd leg marking calipers
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mitutoyo digital clock, micron / 10ths resolution
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liquid blue, as the paste stuff Ive got at the moment doesn’t do a very good job.
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:shhh:I went on a bit of a spree this eve... Worked my *** off the last few months and needed something to carry me through the dark winter nights.

125mm versatile milling vise (after much research and agonising), 25mm R8 APMT insert end mill and a couple of work stops from Arc + inserts from ebay. Impulse buys after choosing the vise, but I think they'll see a lot of use.

14 piece hardened parallel set from Zoro.

MGMN parting tool with inserts. I thought the lathe deserved a treat or the poor thing might feel left out.

Put in an offer on a manual surface grinder, which my bank account was relieved to find was declined.

Bought a bunch of steel stock to turn into chips too.

On the plus side, I'm a DRO away from having a complete basic setup (at least as far as the larger stuff goes) for the mill. I pity the poor delivery drivers.
 
OK, I've officially removed "micrometer 0-6 set" off my eBay searches. . . Picked up another Fowler 0-6" set with interchangeable anvils. Have two of them now and a 6-12" set. Good on mic's I'll probably never use. Just couldn't turn it down for $60 including shipping. Oh, by the way, the interchangeable anvils on the 0-6" sets are identical to the 6-12" set. Both 0-6" sets came with 4/5/6" anvils that have never been used which tells me both were used as 4, 5 and 6" mic's. Makes sense, they would be very cumbersome to use as 1" mic's.

Bruce


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Latest set, though $100 delivered was a decent price on the first set I picked up. This one was $60 including shipping.
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Just my personal preference, I like the tumbler-style digital mic's over the LCD displays. Yaa, can't set zero at any arbitrary point, but the batteries never run out.
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Today i visited the tool/ flea market. Its winter so no big items are offered. But i managed to find couple of things. First was this big car boot cover 6$ i may use in in the little niva. Then i found this threding die with holder for 2$. Then this garage fan 10$ a set of pretty big solid rubber wheels 7$ i've been needing a set for my welder for a while. Not bad for a sunday, the plan is to visit it again during the week if i have more time.
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