I had a pretty good day yesterday at garage sales.
I got a bunch of "C" clamps, a 12 ton hydraulic jack and a Whitney, Imperial #7 1/2 punch. $1 each! And when I took Deb back to check out a bird cage I thought she might want the guy told me he'd found another "C" clamp and gave it to me. Wouldn't take another buck for it, said it was part of the deal.
Once they get it emptied they may have a Connex for sale for not much and will give us a call. It pays to be nice, they like us.
The peanut grinder was from a towing company garage sale. They're selling off all the stuff abandoned in vehicles. The nice little 1,000gm square block of a hammer head was $0.50.
I already have a few of these little cubes of hardened steel hammers and really like them. You have to be really careful of the fairly sharp edges but they do a very nice job of flattening and dressing up forged surfaces. I do put a close radius on them but not a lot. I've discovered that for my purposes I'd rather have to take extra care for the good effects.
Anyway, that's my score from yesterday.
Does anyone know if I can still get dies for the punch? Capacity 1/4"-3/4" dia. Thickness ?
Frosty