DICKEYBIRD
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Forgive me if ya'll have seen this story elsewhere.
I've been cruising Craigslist locally for a while but 'til now NEVER found any machine tools to speak of.
A local machine shop posted some great buys on several machines and I picked up this Darex TR-70 tap/countersink/reamer grinder for $80.00 in great shape! ;D I found a .pdf manual on the web and will be cleaning & lubing it after the holidays for a session of fixing my box of damaged taps. I'm hoping I may be able to modify it at some point for sharpening other tools as well. I'm told it was over $1000 when new.
The other cool thing is that I got a quick tour of the shop and drooled over a bunch of great machines. His bulk metal and drops storage racks were the best organized I've ever seen and I now have a friendly contact in the "real" machine shop world to buy stock from.
I've been cruising Craigslist locally for a while but 'til now NEVER found any machine tools to speak of.
A local machine shop posted some great buys on several machines and I picked up this Darex TR-70 tap/countersink/reamer grinder for $80.00 in great shape! ;D I found a .pdf manual on the web and will be cleaning & lubing it after the holidays for a session of fixing my box of damaged taps. I'm hoping I may be able to modify it at some point for sharpening other tools as well. I'm told it was over $1000 when new.
The other cool thing is that I got a quick tour of the shop and drooled over a bunch of great machines. His bulk metal and drops storage racks were the best organized I've ever seen and I now have a friendly contact in the "real" machine shop world to buy stock from.
