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WTF? said:
Scaffold is almost worth dealing with marketplace for what you can save if you’re patient and also the first one to show up with cash in hand.
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You're talking about the baker scaffold? They're all the same cheap shit two or three models made in the same couple factories. Find the cheapest one a big box store is selling and wait for it to go on sale. You'll wind up within spitting distance of the "good" used prices. Or at least that's the case when I was shopping for four of them a couple years ago.
 
WTF? said:
Scaffold is almost worth dealing with marketplace for what you can save if you’re patient and also the first one to show up with cash in hand.

If you can find a coupon that applies to the 44, do that. Then when it shows up dented, ask the manager for a deal and they’ll work with you. At least That’s how my ‘good deals, became ‘great deals’…
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arse_sidewards said:
You're talking about the baker scaffold? They're all the same cheap shit two or three models made in the same couple factories. Find the cheapest one a big box store is selling and wait for it to go on sale. You'll wind up within spitting distance of the "good" used prices. Or at least that's the case when I was shopping for four of them a couple years ago.
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They seem to come up for $150 on marketplace 2-4 hours away anytime they come up locally they are gone in hours. I already have two of them but we’re going to need a third to change out a fixture in a few weeks. The 50 dollar difference isn’t worth the gas or time for me.
 
I got a couple of those Vevor drill bit drawer cabinets. Very impressed for $37 ea shipped. Ball bearing slides for the drawers too.
 
Definitely don’t post a link to what you’re talking about.
 
PAToyota said:
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Link: Amazon.com
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The numbered sizes are probably less useful than fractional sizes, but you could easily make up your own labels for whatever you needed.
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Pocahontas said:
Definitely don’t post a link to what you’re talking about.
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Definitely read higher in the thread...
 
chumly2071 said:
I got a couple of those Vevor drill bit drawer cabinets. Very impressed for $37 ea shipped. Ball bearing slides for the drawers too.
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Same, I picked up a 3 pack (Fractional, numbered and letters) for $120 a few years back. Great cabinets for the price but, the built in dividers are welded steel instead of plastic like the Huot boxes. My plan was to use the numbers box for endmills and the letters for taps and drills. Turned out I was able to almost fill them up with the listed sizes!

Eventually I’ll buy more and 3d print custom dividers for end mills and router bits.
 
PAToyota said:
I'm not sure why some thread checker sets get so expensive. Here are 26 and 44 gauge sets for about $20 and $40 in either silver/black or red/blue.

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Doesn't come with the fancy case, but this is a :smokin:deal on the 26 piece one on a cable (up to 1/2") for $10

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I want to get one of the board mounted ones to hang on my bolt bin stack.


I just looked up the one I bought last year and I paid over $20 for it. :mad3:
 
Need to find a good tap and die set. Had to borrow a metric tap at work to rethread a hole. It was a gear wrench set. Asked him how much and he responded with “I think around four h..” I stopped him right there and said nevermind and laughed. Granted he’s a mechanic and needs specialty tools more than I might occasionally but I hate borrowing stuff.
 
Brad said:
Need to find a good tap and die set. Had to borrow a metric tap at work to rethread a hole. It was a gear wrench set. Asked him how much and he responded with “I think around four h..” I stopped him right there and said nevermind and laughed. Granted he’s a mechanic and needs specialty tools more than I might occasionally but I hate borrowing stuff.
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I've found buying good one of the sizes I need is best. Sets are like a drill set, you use the same 3-4 sizes constantly and most never get touched.

Haas tooling has some decent taps and regularly has decent sales
 
Brad said:
Need to find a good tap and die set. Had to borrow a metric tap at work to rethread a hole. It was a gear wrench set. Asked him how much and he responded with “I think around four h..” I stopped him right there and said nevermind and laughed. Granted he’s a mechanic and needs specialty tools more than I might occasionally but I hate borrowing stuff.
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114 piece gearwrench set is 239-250 depending on where you buy it. I have a 76pc Irwin set at work that is about the same price now, only taps in that set that I've broken happened when I knew I was pushing my luck.

All my taps at home are 3 tap sets I've bought from McMaster I buy as needed, I only cobble shit together with a handful of sizes.
 
bgaidan said:
Doesn't come with the fancy case, but this is a :smokin:deal on the 26 piece one on a cable (up to 1/2") for $10
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Apparently, I'm behind the times. Doing some more searching turns up a lot of options for a lot less than I was seeing a few years ago when I bought mine. At the time I bought mine places were charging $60 to over $100 for them.
 
PAToyota said:
Apparently, I'm behind the times. Doing some more searching turns up a lot of options for a lot less than I was seeing a few years ago when I bought mine. At the time I bought mine places were charging $60 to over $100 for them.
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Me too. I know they cable ones weren't $10 when I bought mine.

The cheaper ones still only go to 1/2". I like the bigger ones in your link that go up to 1".


This style is still $$ though. And only go to 1/2" unless you spend a ton more for the one that goes to 3/4"
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PAToyota said:
Yep. Probably a matter of it being a fairly niche product until the overseas manufacturers "discovered" it and started cranking them out.
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Or niche market and they were running at 1000% markup. China starts making them and everyone else drops down to a reasonable price. Fireball has the cable ones for $30-ish now. Pretty sure they used to sell them for closer to $50.
 
bgaidan said:
Doesn't come with the fancy case, but this is a :smokin:deal on the 26 piece one on a cable (up to 1/2") for $10

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I want to get one of the board mounted ones to hang on my bolt bin stack.


I just looked up the one I bought last year and I paid over $20 for it. :mad3:
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Harbor Freight is doing the ten days of deals again, starting tomorrow (Monday, 09/23):
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First one is the Surface Conditioning Tool for $75:
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PAToyota said:
Harbor Freight is doing the ten days of deals again, starting tomorrow (Monday, 09/23):
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First one is the Surface Conditioning Tool for $75:
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Just got back from getting one, pretty sure I got the last one in the store. Well worth the $75, hell the consumables that come with it are more than half the cost.

Also picked up a couple of their silver HD tarps for $3 for "dollar days".
 
bgaidan said:
Doesn't come with the fancy case, but this is a :smokin:deal on the 26 piece one on a cable (up to 1/2") for $10

Amazon.com

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I want to get one of the board mounted ones to hang on my bolt bin stack.


I just looked up the one I bought last year and I paid over $20 for it. :mad3:
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I have this, it’s handy. Got it way long ago after seeing Ace use it by their bolt section, got it before Amazon and cheap China was a thing. It’s not portable though, so the version on a string would be handy also.

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Brad said:
Need to find a good tap and die set. Had to borrow a metric tap at work to rethread a hole. It was a gear wrench set. Asked him how much and he responded with “I think around four h..” I stopped him right there and said nevermind and laughed. Granted he’s a mechanic and needs specialty tools more than I might occasionally but I hate borrowing stuff.
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Same. I have a metric, cheaper than HF version that has served me for a while…but sometimes is missing the size I need. I won’t use every size in the set, but on Sunday night when all the store are closed, it’s missing the one I need.
 
Hooligan said:
I have this, it’s handy. Got it way long ago after seeing Ace use it by their bolt section, got it before Amazon and cheap China was a thing. It’s not portable though, so the version on a string would be handy also.

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I do like the board mounted ones too. I think I'm going to get one to mount on the side of my hardware bins. A lot easier to use one-handed and you don't have to worry about remembering where you put the portable one. :laughing:

You can get these import ones fairly cheap now and they go up to 3/4"

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