Heya,
I was out on location for a week, now back but it's been busy. Took delivery of a lovely craigslist purchase: a 15" x 40" Shenwai toolroom lathe. Awesome machine.
Also purchased a small Enco benchtop mill. Not anything special, and not an incredible deal, I paid roughly what it was worth. But then they asked if I wanted the tooling for an extra 250 bucks. I said yes without much information.
Boy Howdy did I score on that front. For 250.00, I scored about 300 endmills, 2 flute, 3 flute, 4 flute, radiused, roundover, carbide, from 40 thou to 2" diameter. Plus about 100 lathe cutting tools, 100 centerdrills of every size. 300 taps (from 0-80 up to 1/2" npt) most of them spirapoints. Half a dozen deburring tools, scribers, dividers.
Did I mention the 8 drill indexes? Numbers, letters, and fractionals, times at least 2. Jobber drills. AND reamers. 2 reamer indices, plus about 100 loose reamers. Several Jacobs chucks.
All in perfect condition. A lifetime of collecting by a damn fine machinist (judging by the scrap box of small things he'd milled AND by the general condition of ever piece). An unbelievable score.
I'm not bragging, but not many people understand that for what I paid, I got the tooling for about 1/4 retail and got a mill for free. It's like xmas in my shop/mancave.
I did throw some 1.5" stock into the lathe and ran a test of a fingertip. This is a test. The others will be cleaner, but I'm pretty happy with this so far.
I was out on location for a week, now back but it's been busy. Took delivery of a lovely craigslist purchase: a 15" x 40" Shenwai toolroom lathe. Awesome machine.
Also purchased a small Enco benchtop mill. Not anything special, and not an incredible deal, I paid roughly what it was worth. But then they asked if I wanted the tooling for an extra 250 bucks. I said yes without much information.
Boy Howdy did I score on that front. For 250.00, I scored about 300 endmills, 2 flute, 3 flute, 4 flute, radiused, roundover, carbide, from 40 thou to 2" diameter. Plus about 100 lathe cutting tools, 100 centerdrills of every size. 300 taps (from 0-80 up to 1/2" npt) most of them spirapoints. Half a dozen deburring tools, scribers, dividers.
Did I mention the 8 drill indexes? Numbers, letters, and fractionals, times at least 2. Jobber drills. AND reamers. 2 reamer indices, plus about 100 loose reamers. Several Jacobs chucks.
All in perfect condition. A lifetime of collecting by a damn fine machinist (judging by the scrap box of small things he'd milled AND by the general condition of ever piece). An unbelievable score.
I'm not bragging, but not many people understand that for what I paid, I got the tooling for about 1/4 retail and got a mill for free. It's like xmas in my shop/mancave.
I did throw some 1.5" stock into the lathe and ran a test of a fingertip. This is a test. The others will be cleaner, but I'm pretty happy with this so far.
