SackOHammers
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I dig the Cman box. You need to be on the look out for some of the circle H sockets for it. The font looks like like it matches that style of the logo.
Things are barely picking up for the season. Found the counter shaft at an ongoing pro garage sale for $5. Found the tilt vice there, too. has a little surface rust. (This is the same sale that likes to leave open S-K machinist tool boxes out in the rain for a week). It screams Chicom, but I needed a tilt vice.
The next sale was an unadvertised "dumping the house" one. True-Temper 8 Lb. head for $2 and a couple of empty multi purpose Klein screwdriver handles minus the bits for $.50 ea. The Powerflex head set me back a whopping $3. He kept it off his lathe that he sadly had to sell earlier this year. He used it to make custom motorcycle parts. Something he regrets he sold. I regret that he sold it, too.
The windings in my drill press burned last Friday and the spare I had did the same. I asked him if he had any electric motors kicking around. That's the kind of sale it was. He winced. He did on Friday when he took a few if them in as scrap because he thought no one would want them. More regrets.
Meanwhile my lathe motor gets shared with the drill press. It gives me an excuse to get out and hit the sales early for a replacement motor, logic my wife doesn't understand.
Things are barely picking up for the season. Found the counter shaft at an ongoing pro garage sale for $5. Found the tilt vice there, too. has a little surface rust. (This is the same sale that likes to leave open S-K machinist tool boxes out in the rain for a week). It screams Chicom, but I needed a tilt vice.
The next sale was an unadvertised "dumping the house" one. True-Temper 8 Lb. head for $2 and a couple of empty multi purpose Klein screwdriver handles minus the bits for $.50 ea. The Powerflex head set me back a whopping $3. He kept it off his lathe that he sadly had to sell earlier this year. He used it to make custom motorcycle parts. Something he regrets he sold. I regret that he sold it, too.
The windings in my drill press burned last Friday and the spare I had did the same. I asked him if he had any electric motors kicking around. That's the kind of sale it was. He winced. He did on Friday when he took a few if them in as scrap because he thought no one would want them. More regrets.
Meanwhile my lathe motor gets shared with the drill press. It gives me an excuse to get out and hit the sales early for a replacement motor, logic my wife doesn't understand.
I am working on a set of BE sockets as well as the circle H. I was using some of them last night while working on my truck
Mine asks me if I "found anything good today" when I come home and several times a year, actually comes with. Years ago she came almost every time.
same deal with a clock movement... 
