I don't usually get to gloat over a purchase as I am normally buying
for resale. This last week I went to an auction with the intent of
buying some resale items and also tooling for our new Takisawa CNC
lathe. The resale items weren't too exciting but I did manage to buy a
drawer full of cylindrical type collet holders and Erickson style DA
collets for about $100. Easily $700.-$800. worth of stuff all in new
or near new condition. We now have drill/countersink/reamer holders in
spades for the new lathe. They also offered a small cabinet full of
near junk. There were no bids on it so they passed it. I noticed a
Bosch box in the back and opened it to find a nearly new 16Ga. hand
shear. I called my $10.00 bid to the auctioneer and he accepted it. I
actually got some other stuff in the cabinet well worth my
$10.investment. This morning a friend, who buys antique woodworking
tools, stopped at the new house building site just a few minutes after
I got there. He suggested I hustle over to a local swapmeet and look
into a vendor who had a lot of serious machine shop tooling. Boy, did
he! I bought a Schaublin lathe with multitudes of tooling, at least
50 pounds of modern carbide tooling, 90% was new, a bunch of nice
precision measuring tools and some other stuff and spent about $1200.
That may sound like a lot but I anticipate the carbide tooling I kept
will be worth more then my whole investment. I am still trying to
figure out how to use some of the accessories on the Schaublin.
Leigh@MarMachine

"Leigh Knudson" wrote in message
m...
I don't usually get to gloat over a purchase as I am normally buying
for resale. This last week I went to an auction with the intent of
buying some resale items and also tooling for our new Takisawa CNC
lathe. The resale items weren't too exciting but I did manage to buy a
drawer full of cylindrical type collet holders and Erickson style DA
collets for about $100. Easily $700.-$800. worth of stuff all in new
or near new condition. We now have drill/countersink/reamer holders in
spades for the new lathe. They also offered a small cabinet full of
near junk. There were no bids on it so they passed it. I noticed a
Bosch box in the back and opened it to find a nearly new 16Ga. hand
shear. I called my $10.00 bid to the auctioneer and he accepted it. I
actually got some other stuff in the cabinet well worth my
$10.investment. This morning a friend, who buys antique woodworking
tools, stopped at the new house building site just a few minutes after
I got there. He suggested I hustle over to a local swapmeet and look
into a vendor who had a lot of serious machine shop tooling. Boy, did
he! I bought a Schaublin lathe with multitudes of tooling, at least
50 pounds of modern carbide tooling, 90% was new, a bunch of nice
precision measuring tools and some other stuff and spent about $1200.
That may sound like a lot but I anticipate the carbide tooling I kept
will be worth more then my whole investment. I am still trying to
figure out how to use some of the accessories on the Schaublin.
Leigh@MarMachine

What is it, I'm the only guy that's not getting a good deal today? All I
managed to do is work in the sun all day.

Congrats on the great buys!

Harold

"Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote in message
...
What is it, I'm the only guy that's not getting a good deal today?
All I managed to do is work in the sun all day.

Well, I went to the airshow today...
http://www.swairfest.org/
Thunderbirds :-D

Geez Leigh, it's bad enough you give one gloat but three? Someone's going
to stalk your house with a rusty butcher knife.

Tim

--
"I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!"
- Homer Simpson
Website @ http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms

On 26 Jun 2004 21:11:00 -0700, (Leigh Knudson)
wrote:

I don't usually get to gloat over a purchase as I am normally buying
for resale. This last week I went to an auction with the intent of
buying some resale items and also tooling for our new Takisawa CNC
lathe. The resale items weren't too exciting but I did manage to buy a
drawer full of cylindrical type collet holders and Erickson style DA
collets for about $100. Easily $700.-$800. worth of stuff all in new
or near new condition. We now have drill/countersink/reamer holders in
spades for the new lathe. They also offered a small cabinet full of
near junk. There were no bids on it so they passed it. I noticed a
Bosch box in the back and opened it to find a nearly new 16Ga. hand
shear. I called my $10.00 bid to the auctioneer and he accepted it. I
actually got some other stuff in the cabinet well worth my
$10.investment. This morning a friend, who buys antique woodworking
tools, stopped at the new house building site just a few minutes after
I got there. He suggested I hustle over to a local swapmeet and look
into a vendor who had a lot of serious machine shop tooling. Boy, did
he! I bought a Schaublin lathe with multitudes of tooling, at least
50 pounds of modern carbide tooling, 90% was new, a bunch of nice
precision measuring tools and some other stuff and spent about $1200.
That may sound like a lot but I anticipate the carbide tooling I kept
will be worth more then my whole investment. I am still trying to
figure out how to use some of the accessories on the Schaublin.
Leigh@MarMachine

I have some Schaublin manuals and accessories guides. Ill swing them
by next week.

Model 102?

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's
cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays
there.
- George Orwell

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:55:10 -0500, "Tim Williams"
calmly ranted:

"Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote in message
...
What is it, I'm the only guy that's not getting a good deal today?
All I managed to do is work in the sun all day.

Well, I went to the airshow today...
http://www.swairfest.org/
Thunderbirds :-D

Grants Pass Muni Airport isn't large enough for the Tbirds,
but I went to a local airshow yesterday, too. Air Eventure.

It was my first hot air balloon ride (free, 50' tethered)
and was a lot of fun. A couple guys had built their own
helicopters and ultralights from kits, and some guy had
built (wunna them red Fokkers) a Red Baron replica triplane,
complete with fake machine guns.

I paid for a ride in a Robinson R-44 Raven helicopter (very
responsive though a funny-looking bird) and the ride was just
too, too short.

'Twas a good day.


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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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'Twas a good day.

Cool.

Tim

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On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:55:10 -0500, Tim Williams wrote:

"Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote in message
...
What is it, I'm the only guy that's not getting a good deal today?
All I managed to do is work in the sun all day.

Well, I went to the airshow today...
http://www.swairfest.org/
Thunderbirds :-D

Geez Leigh, it's bad enough you give one gloat but three? Someone's going
to stalk your house with a rusty butcher knife.

And it will probably be a knife that they got at a yard sale down the
street... Wonder if there'll be a Gloat about the knife?

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The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed RedHat.

Geez Leigh, it's bad enough you give one gloat but three? Someone's going
to stalk your house with a rusty butcher knife.

And it will probably be a knife that they got at a yard sale down the
street... Wonder if there'll be a Gloat about the knife?

Thee weren't any butcher kives at the garage sale three doors down but
my worker, Effrian, got a nice gas barbeque for $10. It even had a
full tank of gas. That was about 10 minutes before I found out about
the swapmeet. I called the swapmeet seller today as I am missing some
of the parts of the Schaublin. He says there are 25 more boxes of the
same stuff so I can go through them on Saturday. I got over a hundred
brand new mill cutters, about half of which were carbide, a bunch of
quality calipers and depth mikes, lots of carbide insert style boring
bars and just too much else. I only went through maybe 4-5 boxes so I
can't imagine what are in the other 25. Leigh@MarMachine

"Leigh Knudson" wrote in message
om...

Geez Leigh, it's bad enough you give one gloat but three? Someone's
going
to stalk your house with a rusty butcher knife.

And it will probably be a knife that they got at a yard sale down the
street... Wonder if there'll be a Gloat about the knife?

Thee weren't any butcher kives at the garage sale three doors down but
my worker, Effrian, got a nice gas barbeque for $10. It even had a
full tank of gas. That was about 10 minutes before I found out about
the swapmeet. I called the swapmeet seller today as I am missing some
of the parts of the Schaublin. He says there are 25 more boxes of the
same stuff so I can go through them on Saturday. I got over a hundred
brand new mill cutters, about half of which were carbide, a bunch of
quality calipers and depth mikes, lots of carbide insert style boring
bars and just too much else. I only went through maybe 4-5 boxes so I
can't imagine what are in the other 25. Leigh@MarMachine

Sigh! Lucky stiff! :-)

Harold

"Leigh Knudson" wrote in message
om...
He says there are 25 more boxes of the
same stuff so I can go through them on Saturday.

Make that 3 rusty-knife-wielding maniacs...

You lucky son of a gun!

Tim

--
"I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!"
- Homer Simpson
Website @ http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms