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One of the tool vendors from a local tool market, gave me a call, he bought a couple of job lots and he know i was looking for couple of metric left thread dies so i looked thru all the boxes and chose those three and the countershank, he had lot of taps and dies of the same size and quality was much better. Also the prices were higher, but in the long run should last last longer.
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Pulled the trigger on a Evenheat 10 Cubed heat treat oven with several upgrades. Build and shipping time is about 3 to 4 weeks so I get to wait a while. Bought it from KilnFrog, they matched the best price I could find on net and are arranging for Evenheat to build me a slide in shelf. The shop will now be full unless I find a larger shaper than my 8", then I would truly be ought of space. I had thought about building my own HT oven but in the end decided to go the easy route.
 
Sold some more Erector sets and parts on eBay. Money was burning a hole in my pocket so splurged on a few things. Love it when the postman drives up our driveway with boxes!

First box had 4 sets of Allen wrenches. Seems like I'm always
looking for them in the shop. Now they'll be everywhere.
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Next is a new draw bar for my Bridgeport. Pained me to
buy one instead of making one, but for $24 delivered . . .
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Went to broach a 4 mm wide keyway in a gear blank. My DuMont No. 70 Metric set was missing
the 4 mm broach. Figured for as often as I'll use it, went cheap and got a Chinese one to
complete the set.
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Don't you just love opening boxes and seeing the names "NOGA" and "Interapid"?
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Picked up 310 and 312 Interapid DTIs. I have a number of Fowler,
Starrett Last Word, Mitutoyo and SPI (maybe a no-name Chinese one also).
I have to say that these Interapids are REALLY smooth and dead on repeatable.
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NOGA magnetic base and indicator holder
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Off to eBay to sell some more stuff. It's less than 10 F in Michigan today, no shop time until next week. Always more tools to impulse buy for the shop!

Bruce
 
Couldn't pass up an amazing deal on this gage lotBrown-Sharpe-Bestest-599-7039-Universal-Indicator-In.jpgIMG_0527.JPGIMG_0536.JPGIMG_0543.JPGIMG_0548.JPGIMG_0549.JPGIMG_0550.JPGIMG_0551.JPGIMG_0552.JPGIMG_0553.JPGIMG_0554.JPGIMG_0555.JPGIMG_0558.JPGIMG_0559.JPGIMG_0560.JPG, some are just about new and one is brand new still sealed.
I wanted a few back ups and a couple, styles/models, that I always wanted to try. .0005" and .0001" and a mint B&S back plunger .001" with extra contact points.
 
That's a lot of goodies ... both for Emilio and Bruce!!!!
 
Went to a monthly auction, never know what they will have. Picked up an inside and outside mic and magnetic indicator base and indicator, all Fowler brand. Not Starrett or B&S, but for $25 for all three.
I am going to swap out an old clunky base for the fowler. I have an LED light I want to put the magnet base on. LED light looks like it is all crimped together, came from Lowes.
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Sold some more Erector sets and parts on eBay. Money was burning a hole in my pocket so splurged on a few things. Love it when the postman drives up our driveway with boxes!...............

I thought I was bad about waiting for the mail lady to show up with boxes:fat:
 
In anticipation of gradually decreasing lifting capacity I bought myself this lift trolley -
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It allows me to move, and raise to 1.2m a 100Kg load
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Finally I should be able to lift my bench top injection moulding machine onto the top of the bench ;-)
 
Few more on-line pick ups. First is the ever popular mister destined for the Bridgeport CNC mill. There are at least two styles of these units out there, one with, one without a check valve on the liquid suction line (might be other differences too). This style can be had from a US importer off eBay for around $20.

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Picked up some more pivot table clamps for my Bridgeport from Shars
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Impulse buy on eBay for a Starrett 196A5Z rear-plunger indicator. Frankly, don't have an intended use yet and don't know where/how it's used. Have a picture from Google showing one of its uses. Just couldn't pass up the Buy It Now for $30 shipped . . . Need to drop in the proper snug to make it complete, time to dig through the spare parts drawer.

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Google image of the 196 in use
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Bruce
 
Few more on-line pick ups. First is the ever popular mister destined for the Bridgeport CNC mill. There are at least two styles of these units out there, one with, one without a check valve on the liquid suction line (might be other differences too). This style can be had from a US importer off eBay for around $20.

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Picked up some more pivot table clamps for my Bridgeport from Shars
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Impulse buy on eBay for a Starrett 196A5Z rear-plunger indicator. Frankly, don't have an intended use yet and don't know where/how it's used. Have a picture from Google showing one of its uses. Just couldn't pass up the Buy It Now for $30 shipped . . . Need to drop in the proper snug to make it complete, time to dig through the spare parts drawer.

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Google image of the 196 in use
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Bruce
Hey Bruce I saw your pivot clamps and thought I was looking at some rocker arm assemblies Sorry Then I came to thinking me being a diesel mechanic I Recon they could be made from some old rocker assemblies out of some Diesel engines ,Just a thought for anyone on a tight budget .
 
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