What Did You Buy Today?

[Surprman]

I'd offer a wild-a$$ guess that these were used as high current feedthroughs for a vacuum system, or possibly some kind of chemical bath. That's based on what looks like o-ring grooves in the shank and face. How big are these things?

Could be a high current application. The shafts are about 1/2 inch in diameter.

 

[Cooter Brown]

Got the SB heavy 10 home yesterday . Not sure just yet if it gets kept or parted out . The bed is worn , I would have to re-power it along with purchasing smaller tooling . I know why they named it heavy 10 now , it's heavy and also awkward !

VERY NICE MACHINE! The heavy 10's that have beds 4' or longer are rare.

 

[rwm]

I went to a surplus store last week and didn’t find anything great, but came across two assemblies with some Teflon peices on them. They were only $3 each so I figured I would buy them to have some Teflon stock in case I ever needed it. I took the assemblies apart, thinking the shafts were aluminum but they seemed too heavy and looked tarnished. I put some Chlorox on them and they readily tarnished. Reading a bit more on testing for silver I came across a test using ice. Silver has a very high thermal conductivity (the highest of all metals I think). When I put ice on the shaft (that was at room temperature) it was like it was a hot poker and sunk right into the ice.

Pretty sure I got some high silver content alloy. Cool.

I wish I knew what the application was for these assemblies.

Rick

We don't have surplus stores like that!!! Where is it?
Robert

 

[Janderso]

Boy no kidding.

 

[mmcmdl]

I went to a surplus store last week and didn’t find anything great, but came across two assemblies with some Teflon peices on them. They were only $3 each so I figured I would buy them to have some Teflon stock in case I ever needed it.

You need Teflon ?

 

[BGHansen]

Few eBay and CDCOtools purchases . . .

Some CCMT inserts (still waiting on some CCGT's)


Picked up some 1/2" x 1/2" brass bar stock for around $30


More BXA tool holders from CDCO


A Lufkin 0-1" groove micrometer


Fowler digit 0-6" depth micrometer


Starrett metric thread pitch gauges


Mitutoyo V-blocks


Two dozen file handles



Bruce

 

[Janderso]

Bruce, I want you as my neighbor.

 

[BGHansen]

Bruce, I want you as my neighbor.

Hi Jeff,

Love to have you as a neighbor! It'd be great to bore someone other than my wife with "shop talk"!

Bruce

 

[BGHansen]

Few more things showed up today. I was assembling the HF 20-ton press and noticed I didn't have doubles of my metric combo wrenches up to 25 mm. Picked up a set of new Craftsman wrenches up to 22 mm.




OK, this is what they look like in the drawer . . .


POTD coming this summer to organize the metric and misc. wrenches like my English drawer


Picked up 3 speed wrenches too. 1/2" Craftsman, 3/8" SK, 1/4" Snap-on


Added to my snugs drawer . . .


Broke the blade on my HF 7x12 band saw and was down to 1 spare 10/14 bi-metal blade. Amazon to the rescue!


Bruce

 

[francist]

Well this has got to be the deal of the year for me! I drove out to my favourite tool place this morning (Lee Valley) to pick up a few back-ordered items for work. Nothing fancy, just some shelf brackets and that sort of thing. On my way to the express counter I swung past the clearance tables to sniff around. Ooh, this is interesting -- a Mitutoyo box, and then another. Let's see what's inside....



The first one contained a brand new, still in sealed plastic, 25-50mm friction thimble micrometer and the second box an equally brand new, still sealed in plastic, 3-4" / 75-100mm Combimike. Standards, spanners, and instructions included.

I could not believe my fortune. I don't usually use metric stuff even though I know the system well enough and we were taught both in school. But all my working life has been sufficiently insular to be able to stay with the inch system, and for sure that's what I use at home just because I relate to it better. But I mean, for $15 and $19 dollars respectively I couldn't resist!



-frank