Post up your latest new or used tool purchases

Scored this Jet 4202A belt sander for a smoking deal. Now I have to figure out if I should swap in a single phase 220v motor or get a phase converter.

I've got the top cover, just had to take it off for it to fit in the bed of my truck and get the tailgate to close.

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I am a slut for free tanks. Not paying the lease a tank mafia. Two tanks of helium, two tanks of argon and a small set of oxygen and acetylene. The anvil was throw in because I am just that nice of a guy.
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Also a pile of tig rod. Monel, inconel, nickel,etc.
 
cj3a said:
I am a slut for free tanks. Not paying the lease a tank mafia. Two tanks of helium, two tanks of argon and a small set of oxygen and acetylene. The anvil was throw in because I am just that nice of a guy.
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You want some 330cf CO2 tanks with a pneumatically actuated valve on the top?
 
cj3a said:
I am a slut for free tanks. Not paying the lease a tank mafia. Two tanks of helium, two tanks of argon and a small set of oxygen and acetylene. The anvil was throw in because I am just that nice of a guy.
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Wish I could find some free oxygen tanks around here... Everything else I have plenty of. Got a bunch of the 20# co2 tanks for $20 a piece. Use mostly propane with the oxygen for the torch anymore, so acetylene tanks are rarely swapped out.
 
billybob_81067 said:
Wish I could find some free oxygen tanks around here... Everything else I have plenty of. Got a bunch of the 20# co2 tanks for $20 a piece. Use mostly propane with the oxygen for the torch anymore, so acetylene tanks are rarely swapped out.
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scrap yard doesn't sell them for cheap since they gotta be cut up to be sold as steel?
I've got a ton of 125s and 80s but don't bother trading them in since they're outta hydro and I've already got like 4 250s with current hydro that I gotta keep swapped out
 
cj3a said:
I am a slut for free tanks. Not paying the lease a tank mafia. Two tanks of helium, two tanks of argon and a small set of oxygen and acetylene. The anvil was throw in because I am just that nice of a guy.
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Only issue around here is finding someone to refill cylinders if not their own branding on them. I know Airgas won’t touch them and may not even if they have their dog tag but you don’t have an account setup. Can’t answer for other places in different areas tough.
 
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scrap yard doesn't sell them for cheap since they gotta be cut up to be sold as steel?
I've got a ton of 125s and 80s but don't bother trading them in since they're outta hydro and I've already got like 4 250s with current hydro that I gotta keep swapped out
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I'll have to ask at the scrapyard next time I take a load in. They're kinda stingy around here though for some reason. They do let me buy bundles of 1" angle though...
 
Landslide said:
Only issue around here is finding someone to refill cylinders if not their own branding on them. I know Airgas won’t touch them and may not even if they have their dog tag but you don’t have an account setup. Can’t answer for other places in different areas tough.
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Ran into that with airgas as well. Industrial source said fawk yea we'll take your money!! :laughing:
 
Steve300xcw said:
Ran into that with airgas as well. Industrial source said fawk yea we'll take your money!! :laughing:
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From the training I got, the two main things Airgas is concerned about is people refilling stolen cylinders and or using them for nefarious purposes.
 
Landslide said:
I know Airgas won’t touch them and may not even if they have their dog tag but you don’t have an account setup. Can’t answer for other places in different areas tough.
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After you setup an account, they don't give 2 ****s.

I've also been told that you can exchange ones at certain tractor supplies if they have a certain paint color.
 
Landslide said:
From the training I got, the two main things Airgas is concerned about is people refilling stolen cylinders and or using them for nefarious purposes.
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"Airgas™ is only concerned about accusing their customers of being thieves and terrorists as often as possible"
fixed that for you
and yes, 'terrorist' is still a null word, nothing in it but emotional slant

Bum around until one treats you like an actual customer. There'll be one, took me a decade to find mine.
 
A friend's estranged father passed away recently and he has been going through the things he inherited and has been gifting me things he doesn't foresee himself ever using. Its been a mix of Mac and Snap-on, as well as some other various things. Line disconnect sets, some gear wrenches, and various other odds and ends.

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Also, when I moved into this Barndo going on 6 years ago, that fall a college roommate of mine gave me a house warming gift... because he obtained a larger one and like all of the machines I acquire, it was broken and needs some work.
Well, I finally had a need for it so I threw the VFD I bought for it a few years ago on it and put it to work. Has some banged up drive teeth so it only runs clean in reverse.
Its a 4 foot Pexto Slip Roll with a 3ph motor. I needed to make some anti-coning rings for a friend for some beadlocks so figured why not get this machine running. I ended up using a spare winch remote for the Fwd Reverse signal to the VFD. One day... (he lies to himself) I hope to pull the busted gear out of it and replace it so that it will feed smooth in both directions.

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AlxJ64 said:
A friend's estranged father passed away recently and he has been going through the things he inherited and has been gifting me things he doesn't foresee himself ever using. Its been a mix of Mac and Snap-on, as well as some other various things. Line disconnect sets, some gear wrenches, and various other odds and ends.

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Also, when I moved into this Barndo going on 6 years ago, that fall a college roommate of mine gave me a house warming gift... because he obtained a larger one and like all of the machines I acquire, it was broken and needs some work.
Well, I finally had a need for it so I threw the VFD I bought for it a few years ago on it and put it to work. Has some banged up drive teeth so it only runs clean in reverse.
Its a 4 foot Pexto Slip Roll with a 3ph motor. I needed to make some anti-coning rings for a friend for some beadlocks so figured why not get this machine running. I ended up using a spare winch remote for the Fwd Reverse signal to the VFD. One day... (he lies to himself) I hope to pull the busted gear out of it and replace it so that it will feed smooth in both directions.

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I read the post about feeding it pennys and I think a little blood vessel popped in my brain. Thanks for saving it.
 
The same friend who gifted the Pexto slip roll to me reached out recently saying he had run into the seller who I rescued all of those large tap handles and that 1-1/2" drive ratchet from recently and the guy said that there were still some random things left in the containers that nobody else seemed to be interested in and he wondered if my friend was interested in just buying the rest of it for an agreed upon sum. My friend figured it was worth seeing if there was anything left of some nice vintage body hammers and tooling as well as some line boring and cylinder boring machines that we didn't see is a $ priority in our first two trips through this industrial tooling candy shop with all of the prime goodies we did get. So, as a last chance before the leaking rusting containers get cut and hauled for scrap he gets to look and buy again. So, we ended up and he split it with me in the cost of it: 2 vintage line boring kits, 2 Kwik-way boring bar portable machines with matching tool kits, including gauges, cutters, and alignment tools, and two air powered line boring motors / drive systems. Really cool vintage stuff. Oh, and even a cool shop wall case for one full kit, and then a mobile case for a portable kit; he kept that and I didn't grab a pic.

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Oh, and the Machine shop next door to my friend's shop gifted us some of these. I brought home 2 of them and have "art" plans for them. Oh, and the busted 72" diameter cast gear is also mine, but have to grab it on another visit as we stuck the forklift in the sand there and he finally found out what was wrong with the transmission when it ejected an entire idler shaft out of the front of the gear box... like launched it out.

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neat compressor pistons
dig how they put one of the plate valves right in there lol

old boring bars (bothers me that the whole machine is called that) are cool too
 
I just recently watched a video on YouTube of those India guys repairing an old cast steel gear like that but a lot smaller diameter.
 
billybob_81067 said:
I have one of those turn counters that I got with a bunch of other stuff. Haven't had a use for it yet, but I have it!
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setting governors on gensets
figuring pulley ratios on air compressors
checking belt ratios to see if the lathe dataplate RPMs are accurate

etc
 
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