You know what they say... a fool and his money, etc.
Well, the last few months have been busy on ePay & down at the local 2nd hand tool shop... As a result, I have some new toys...
One of the nice things about having 3-phase is you can land on some BIG stuff for £nuppence. These would have cost £thousands new, each came to me for less than £300:
MIG welder:
TIG welder:
I can now weld steel, stainless steel and aluminium
This was an impulse purchase, and TBH I'd probably have been better off without it...:
Being a turret lathe, it's not as useful as the Edgwick for the sort of stuff I do. And it has a number of electrical problems which need sorting out. It does, however, run very smoothly and everything feels "just right". I've done some cutting work on it, especially really thin stuff where the Edgwick won't go fast enough.
It does come complete with the collet system & the production threading tool (no thread guides though).
For that freezing cold winter we were expecting:
It uses a LOT of gas, but it can get the place toasty warm even when it's minus sodding freezing outside.
Today's acquisition:
Now that's what I call a vacuum cleaner! Actually, it's really design for liquids, the tank will hold up to 90 litres/20 gallons (24 US gal); the inlet just has a metal plate across it to prevent liquid being sucked straight onto the filter; I will replace this with a cyclone thingy in the short term; longer term I'd like to use it as the sucker on a proper cyclone. It cleared 9kg of aluminium swarf off the mill in one sitting... and was less than 1/2 full.
And finally:
At last I have a height gauge! And the trolley is a useful thing to put it all on, so now I can measure stuff all over the workshop
Just got the rest of the workshop to clean up now...... Oh, is that the time already?
