I don't usually get to gloat over a purchase as I am normally buying for resale. This last week I went to an auction with the intent of buying some resale items and also tooling for our new Takisawa CNC lathe. The resale items weren't too exciting but I did manage to buy a drawer full of cylindrical type collet holders and Erickson style DA collets for about $100. Easily $700.-$800. worth of stuff all in new or near new condition. We now have drill/countersink/reamer holders in spades for the new lathe. They also offered a small cabinet full of near junk. There were no bids on it so they passed it. I noticed a Bosch box in the back and opened it to find a nearly new 16Ga. hand shear. I called my $10.00 bid to the auctioneer and he accepted it. I actually got some other stuff in the cabinet well worth my $10.investment. This morning a friend, who buys antique woodworking tools, stopped at the new house building site just a few minutes after I got there. He suggested I hustle over to a local swapmeet and look into a vendor who had a lot of serious machine shop tooling. Boy, did he! I bought a Schaublin lathe with multitudes of tooling, at least
50 pounds of modern carbide tooling, 90% was new, a bunch of nice precision measuring tools and some other stuff and spent about $1200. That may sound like a lot but I anticipate the carbide tooling I kept will be worth more then my whole investment. I am still trying to figure out how to use some of the accessories on the Schaublin. Leigh@MarMachine