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My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is
messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. -- www.wescottdesign.com |
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Tim Wescott wrote:
My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. Sorta like my 7/32-40 that I think is for screw in aperature sights. Too cold to go out to the shop to find the tap. Wes -- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller |
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"Tim Wescott" wrote in message ... My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. -- www.wescottdesign.com Sort of like my tap and die box. Spilled it a while back and thought I had all the pieces. Has extras I have aquired over the years. So, need a 3/8 pipe die. Luckily the neighbor has one for me. |
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"Bill McKee" wrote:
Sort of like my tap and die box. Spilled it a while back and thought I had all the pieces. Has extras I have aquired over the years. So, need a 3/8 pipe die. Luckily the neighbor has one for me. I was about to turn a new stud to hold my AXA tool post. I grabbed my Mitutoyo digital mic's. Dead batteries. Grabbed the 1-2" one that I bought later, dead too. What sucks is I bought a cased set of Starrett non digital mic's at a company auction that were in calibration. All the time I was drywalling and finishing the shop they set on the right side of the vise on my Bridgeport. Today, when I actually needed the 0-1", I couldn't find the case. Wes -- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller |
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On Dec 29, 5:35*pm, Wes wrote:
I was about to turn a new stud to hold my AXA tool post. *I grabbed my Mitutoyo digital mic's. *Dead batteries. *Grabbed the 1-2" one that I bought later, dead too. What sucks is I bought a cased set of Starrett non digital mic's at a company auction that were in calibration. *All the time I was drywalling and finishing the shop they set on the right side of the vise on my Bridgeport. *Today, when I actually needed the 0-1", I couldn't find the case. Wes -- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." *Dick Anthony Heller According to Murphy's Law your set of Starret Mics will miraculously appear about 3 minutes after you have bought replacements.. |
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wagewhore wrote:
According to Murphy's Law your set of Starret Mics will miraculously appear about 3 minutes after you have bought replacements.. I hope that means the SR44 batteries. |
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Wes wrote:
wrote: According to Murphy's Law your set of Starret Mics will miraculously appear about 3 minutes after you have bought replacements.. I hope that means the SR44 batteries. I spent an hour looking for my tubing flaring kit. In the mean time I found about five other items I had misplaced or forgot I had. I found a nice Milwaukee hammer drill that I bought at an auction a while ago that I forgot I had. I did eventually find the flaring tool kit but that was after I figured out a different way to install a fuel filter on my oil burner. John |
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"Wes" wrote in message
... wagewhore wrote: According to Murphy's Law your set of Starret Mics will miraculously appear about 3 minutes after you have bought replacements.. I hope that means the SR44 batteries. SR or LR? LR 44 batteries are very common. Currently Energizers are 99¢ from one of my vendors. Can sometimes find the no names for about 69¢. |
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"wagewhore" wrote in message ... On Dec 29, 5:35 pm, Wes wrote: I was about to turn a new stud to hold my AXA tool post. I grabbed my Mitutoyo digital mic's. Dead batteries. Grabbed the 1-2" one that I bought later, dead too. What sucks is I bought a cased set of Starrett non digital mic's at a company auction that were in calibration. All the time I was drywalling and finishing the shop they set on the right side of the vise on my Bridgeport. Today, when I actually needed the 0-1", I couldn't find the case. Wes -- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller According to Murphy's Law your set of Starret Mics will miraculously appear about 3 minutes after you have bought replacements.. Now here is the way it goes at Flash's Factory of the Forlorn: 1. Need tool 2. Spend thirty minutes searching for tool. 3. Give up search. 4. Go to Harbor Freight or to the Borg or to Harvey's Handy Hardware and buy another 5. Use Brand new replacement tool 6. Put it somewhere where it will be certain that it will not get lost. 7. Discover three other units of the same tool - that were bought because we cold not find the ones we KNEW we had already - LYING RIGHT THERE WHERE WE PUT THE NEW ONE. Some tools are found in my place in quantities of four and five. (If found at all - someday, I MUST get this place organized) I've just never misplaced the mini-mill, yet, but wouldn't another one be cool? Flash |
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"Flash" wrote in message ... "wagewhore" wrote in message ... On Dec 29, 5:35 pm, Wes wrote: I was about to turn a new stud to hold my AXA tool post. I grabbed my Mitutoyo digital mic's. Dead batteries. Grabbed the 1-2" one that I bought later, dead too. What sucks is I bought a cased set of Starrett non digital mic's at a company auction that were in calibration. All the time I was drywalling and finishing the shop they set on the right side of the vise on my Bridgeport. Today, when I actually needed the 0-1", I couldn't find the case. Wes -- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller According to Murphy's Law your set of Starret Mics will miraculously appear about 3 minutes after you have bought replacements.. Now here is the way it goes at Flash's Factory of the Forlorn: 1. Need tool 2. Spend thirty minutes searching for tool. 3. Give up search. 4. Go to Harbor Freight or to the Borg or to Harvey's Handy Hardware and buy another 5. Use Brand new replacement tool 6. Put it somewhere where it will be certain that it will not get lost. 7. Discover three other units of the same tool - that were bought because we cold not find the ones we KNEW we had already - LYING RIGHT THERE WHERE WE PUT THE NEW ONE. Some tools are found in my place in quantities of four and five. (If found at all - someday, I MUST get this place organized) I've just never misplaced the mini-mill, yet, but wouldn't another one be cool? Flash yeah really, i know, i've been putting off and putting off buying a claw hammer. i set my *very favorite* and *long* time claw hammer down somewhere and CAN'T find it. been without a claw hammer for MONTHS because i knew as soon as i bought a new hammer, i mean, a week after i bought a new hammer, after the new one all scratched up and can't return it, my very favorite old claw hammer is going to show up right in front of my face. my old hammer was a stanley with a fiberglass handle. the handle is pretty bunged up but i love it. i always envied the estwing hammers, and they no longer make the old fashioned plain old stanley hammer (now it's all jazzed up, i can't STAND jazzed up stuff, it's like the industrial designers are designing stuff for kids, just give me the plain old version) so i got a estwing hammer. actually i'd prefer the old fashioned stanley with the fiberglass handle over the estwing, sometimes i pull nails by applying sideways pressure to the handle and that thin steel web of a handle kinda worries me for sideways pressure, and the issue of vibration/shock through the steel handle. i still haven't used it yet though because i was trying to trick the gods into revealing where i put my old hammer, i was hoping to not get the estwing all scratched up so i could return it but the gods are onto me. b.w. |
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Flash wrote:
Now here is the way it goes at Flash's Factory of the Forlorn: 1. Need tool 2. Spend thirty minutes searching for tool. 3. Give up search. 4. Go to Harbor Freight or to the Borg or to Harvey's Handy Hardware and buy another 5. Use Brand new replacement tool 6. Put it somewhere where it will be certain that it will not get lost. 7. Discover three other units of the same tool - that were bought because we cold not find the ones we KNEW we had already - LYING RIGHT THERE WHERE WE PUT THE NEW ONE. I couldn't find my chalk line yesterday, looked everywhere it should have been, and in a couple of places it shouldn't have. Last time I had it was a month ago, when I put up some hardiboard around the tub. I hope it's not behind the hardiboard.... Jon |
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On 2009-12-30, Tim Wescott wrote:
My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. It is in the bucket. i |
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"Tim Wescott" wrote in message
... My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. Just pop over to the house. I've got mine in my set out in the shop. I just checked it the other day and all the taps were in place with no empty holes (rarity). |
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"Bob La Londe" wrote in message ... "Tim Wescott" wrote in message ... My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. Just pop over to the house. I've got mine in my set out in the shop. I just checked it the other day and all the taps were in place with no empty holes (rarity). Problem is, I have aquired extra taps and duplicate taps and dies, so there are all filled holes, and a few extras in the case. Just not all the correct die in a hole. |
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Like the 1/2x64 tap I have. Thank goodness I have the die!
Martin Tim Wescott wrote: My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. |
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"Tim Wescott" wrote in message ... My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. -- www.wescottdesign.com I have found in those cases one of two things will happen: You will find it. (But maybe not for ten years) You will not. HTH Steve |
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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:37:46 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote: "Tim Wescott" wrote in message ... My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. -- www.wescottdesign.com I have found in those cases one of two things will happen: You will find it. (But maybe not for ten years) You will not. HTH Steve And if you do find it, it will be in the last place you look. Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:12:40 -0500, the infamous Gerald Miller
scrawled the following: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:37:46 -0800, "Steve B" wrote: "Tim Wescott" wrote in message ... My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. -- www.wescottdesign.com I have found in those cases one of two things will happen: You will find it. (But maybe not for ten years) You will not. HTH Steve And if you do find it, it will be in the last place you look. Um, Ger, if you find it in the first (or tenth) place you look, AND you keep on looking, you have something decidedly wrong with you. -- It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. -- Garrison Keillor |
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:12:40 -0500, the infamous Gerald Miller scrawled the following: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:37:46 -0800, "Steve B" wrote: "Tim Wescott" wrote in message ... My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. -- www.wescottdesign.com I have found in those cases one of two things will happen: You will find it. (But maybe not for ten years) You will not. HTH Steve And if you do find it, it will be in the last place you look. Um, Ger, if you find it in the first (or tenth) place you look, AND you keep on looking, you have something decidedly wrong with you. I've found some great stuff like that. Steve |
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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:37:46 -0800, Steve B wrote:
"Tim Wescott" wrote in message ... My 1/4-32 tap. I know it's around here somewhere, but dang this shop is messy. And it's not like I can get one at Home Despot, either. -- www.wescottdesign.com I have found in those cases one of two things will happen: You will find it. (But maybe not for ten years) You will not. HTH Steve I'll find it right after I order its replacement, most like. I'm going to take a peek under my drill press. -- www.wescottdesign.com |
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On Dec 30, 1:27*am, Tim Wescott wrote:
... I'm going to take a peek under my drill press. I gave up trying to store things neatly and dump all similar items in one drawer, thus greatly reducing the number of drawers needed and filling them more efficiently. The taps are stored with nuts on them, to protect the threads, and if the size isn't legible I can try the nut on a known male thread, which I probably have handy when I need to tap that size. jsw |
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