Thread: todays tools gloat

The brothers are reconciled then?

Hi Phil,
I was going to leave mine with Bruce until something convenient came up. Like the scraping class...
Anyway, Ray will be up here again next week, and Stuart went to see Ray today. So the straight edge is now with Ray. The grinding offer is a damn good one but I don't want to put the relay runners out.

Ew

Ok been up at Puka near Seamor with the Go Kart and 5 mates,

Touched base with Phil to sort out Richards edge, buy that was on Thursday. Stu dropped by Thursday night and
picked up Ewan's. I am sure we will get there.
Cheers Bruce

Originally Posted by argeng

Ok been up at Puka near Seamor with the Go Kart and 5 mates,

Touched base with Phil to sort out Richards edge, buy that was on Thursday. Stu dropped by Thursday night and
picked up Ewan's. I am sure we will get there.
Cheers Bruce

I'm heading north on Tuesday next week, but not as far as Rocky... so I'll run Ewans Straight Edge to Canberra... but then again that offer of Phil's to do a slideway grinding job is pretty attractive, I could handball back to Stuart who is heading South on Sunday and it could be back at Phil's place.

So, it's your call Ewan, North or South? I'll be driving up to Canberra anyway.

Ray
PS.. Now to figure out how I can get a free lunch on RC's account ..

went to look at a pallas tool grinder today which was ok for a hobby type situation but the guy took me to have a look at another "thing" he thought was some sort of tool grinder guess what......... well to cut a long story short i cam home with a clarkson t/c grinder with lots of spare bits n pieces a tool post grinder and a 6 inch rotary table with a chuck also some sort of servo motor driven 3 inch chuck
if any ones interested there is a mountain of stuff still there the guy is selling for his brother who is now in hospital incapacitated permanently he will need some sort of notice for inspection as he lives quite some distance away
some of the stuff still there
sheraton lathe pallas tool and cutter grinder IMGP4924.jpgIMGP4923.jpgIMGP4922.jpgIMGP4921.jpg
' a big old lathe maybe 2 metre bed
old pillar drills
a centrec i think milling machine with lots of extra tooling
and who knows what else is buried amongst years of accumulation
i can pass on phone number if any ones interested some of it is advertised on gumtree in adelaide district

apologies the pics are of what i purchased went in the wrong place

Oh boy. I really want some grinder tooling but no disposable $.
I'm not even going to ask for his number.
Great haul BTW. You know there's a Clarkson manual floating around?
I saved it so I can repost or email if you can't find it.

Originally Posted by Bryan

Oh boy. I really want some grinder tooling but no disposable $.
I'm not even going to ask for his number.
Great haul BTW. You know there's a Clarkson manual floating around?
I saved it so I can repost or email if you can't find it.

What he said
Kryn

thanks for the heads up on the manual ive already found it and downloaded it now for lots of reading
looks like ive got lots to learn
john

Originally Posted by tanii51

if any ones interested there is a mountain of stuff still there the guy is selling for his brother who is now in hospital incapacitated permanently he will need some sort of notice for inspection as he lives quite some distance away

I just hope that it was the brother in hospital who set the prices on his stuff, not the brother you dealt with. Otherwise, it could get ugly.

One of the reasons I have never liked this thread is, to me, 'tool gloat' brings to my mind the picture of someone gloating over a super-good deal - achieved at someone else's expense. That simply doesn't sit right with me.

I've got a lot of stuff at what I considered a good price over the years, but I've *never* bought anything that I'd gloat over based on its price. In every case, the seller was as happy with his side as I was with mine. My fondest memory is getting my Chipmaster lathe, when I told the 85 y/o seller that he had greatly underpriced it and I'd understand if he withdrew it from sale or raised the price significantly. He sold it to me anyway and threw in a huge bunch of extra tooling when I rounded up the payment - said his son in law had told him all his machinery was only worth scrap value and offered to take it away for $500.

No doubt his son in law would have gloated over the deal - if he'd been successful. I did hope, at the time, that he suffered greatly for his greed.

PDW

pdw its all good a phone call to brother was made first
they set the price

PDW I understand and agree with you and had I started the thread now I wouldn't have named it as such. I remember when I started it, I was in year 10 and took a day "off" school to go to an engineering place selling up.And some more recent acquisitions

Good to see you got some blocks Andre. Those ones we were looking at on ebay when you were here went for far too much in the end IMO.

I too think "Latest tooling acquisition" or somesuch is a better thread name, lets face it we all get a bargain from time to time but and i hope anyone reading doesn't think that we are sitting here enjoying ripping people off.

Ew

Originally Posted by Ueee

I too think "Latest tooling acquisition" or somesuch is a better thread name, lets face it we all get a bargain from time to time but and i hope anyone reading doesn't think that we are sitting here enjoying ripping people off.

I'd go with that - can a moderator rename a thread or should we just close this one and start another

Michael

So people get upset when the word is spread about an upcoming auction and people get upset if someone stays mum on an auction and gets a cheap second hand item...

That is a paradox...

If anything this thread keeps me on my toes as to knowing there are bargains out there, but you have to search them out...