Earlier Suzukis.Originally Posted by F5 Dave
Much earlier.
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Earlier Suzukis.
Much earlier.
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My best tool of the year is my Wurth body clip pliers, but I'm also really happy with my new verniers. My old Mitutoyo verniers got relegated to the home toolbox when I got some Mitutoyo digital ones - my eyes couldn't read the old ones anymore, and I liked being able to flip between metric and imperial. They finally died, and I replaced them with some Limit triple read out ones - they do fractions! Getting down to decimals is good for precision work, but in larger stuff we still work in fractions. Like, is that 22mm, or 7/8'' ?
http://www.limit.se/FineToolsAPI/Fin...imit_09%27/%3E
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I saw those in a flyer at work recently, looked quite good actually because I'm a metric baby and not very fast with the non common fractions on the spot. I have 2x 200mm sets of the $400ish ip67 mitutoyo digitals. First pair got a hard life doing general machining apprenticeship but trusty as ever and still coolant proof. Got the second as a nice set when I started toolmaking. Can't rate them highly enough, love the auto on/off.
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Yeah, the auto on always gives me a fright, but I'll soon think it's normal. I grew up with Imperial, so mentally flipping between is sort of easy for me, but normal verniers are in 1/10ths, and digital are decimal. A lot of stock is still in fractions, and so are fittings, and working on a variety of stuff you don't know what you're playing with...if it converts to an easy fraction you know what you've got.
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I use the back of a steel rule for fractions. Have about 3 digital callipers about the place but only 2 work at one time. There only seems to be about 2 heads common to most brands and the price varies considerably.
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Scored some Verniers at the op shop last week.
Bleckmann Solingen Germany. They seem to be of a higher than average quality.
I hope the $4 I paid isn't more than they are worth.
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Sieg bench grinder bought off trade me yesterday. Arrived today. At 35 bucks + Shipping can't really go wrong? Seems to work ok, will mount it up at home tonight.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/browse/list.../listing?rfm=1
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150W? fuck I can hand file more powerfully than that shit...
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black cat
Not motor related at all, but here are some of my favourite tools as I was getting prepared for a couple of jobs over the weekend.
Tool of the day was a newly acquired pair of ball tweezerz. Magnificent when you are dealing with threading a bead onto a 1.2mm diameter barbell.
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150mm wheel, and 1/4hp motor @ 2950rpm
Ahh but yes I can see that the auction says 150W at the top...
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Most grinders have tiny motors. I have two grinders besides each other, a course, a fine stone on one & a buffer & a wire wheel on the other. Wire wheel & a fine that you replace occasionally would be best compromise. If I had the spare benchspace & pingas I’d run one of those ones with the linishing belt.
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Glad you clarified it was for barbell balls
Yeh, I'll go with Tim the Toolman on this one though.
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black cat
Yeah definitely too small for the purpose you have in mind.Glad you clarified it was for barbell balls
I'll proffer that a pair of ice tongs might be tool of the day for that.
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Got that right, Bought an el cheepo bench grinder once. The wind blowing through the garage door was enough to drag the grinding stones to a stop.
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