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Was buying some tools from a guy yesterday and this caught my eye. Appears to be some sort of pneumatic hammer. This is HEAVY and the air coupler is huge. Needless to say, he didn't have a compressor large enough to test it.

So a retired buddy pulls these out tonight to show to me. Says he's had them for 30 years and never knew what they were or what they were used for. Took them to his 'retired machinist club' last night and no one had a clue as to what they were. So now I bring them to the GJ community. There...

Went to estate sale yesterday to hopefully score a nice lathe. It was long gone at $400 ... also didn't get a nice shotgun because sale was in ILL-annoyed and I only have IN ID ... :( But my buddy did find this nice set of adjustable reamers for $10. I think he did OK ...

Stopped by one of my favored sellers at the flea market yesterday and found this nice Palmgren vise. The upper part is a common design, but I've never seen one that tilted to the side and swiveled.

.. right here. My buddy got the threads in there a bit buggered and he'd like to know what the thread is in there so he can fix them. Anyone know? BTW, he just got a set of these from MSC. I was skeptical at first, but they really do cut nicely.

.. thingy? Have been working on a vintage Craftsman drill press and this showed up today in my emails. Can't figure out what it would be used on .. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Craftsman-Vintage-Spindle-Pulley-Cover-Guard-Has-Speed-adjuster-Old-Rare-/271844392865?

My buddy has a Rohm chuck that he's having difficulty with. He strongly suspects that the shank in it has the incorrect taper to fit the chuck correctly. The chuck has the following on it: 1/8 - 5/8 ROHM SPIRO 3-16 B 16 Anyone have an idea? TIA

Greets to all .. Picked this up last weekend and finally has a chance to fire it up today after getting high voltage out to the garage. The bad news is that (1) it has a very tiny leak where the feed tube meets the tank and (2) the pressure switch isn't working at all when 150PSI is reached...