It followed me home

[ThomasPowers]

Far better to offer to make them an ornamental iron post than to resort to theft!

[Dan OHare]

Originally Posted by vorpal

I forgot about this. Some one I know found a 7" Indian Chief post vise in beautiful shape welded to a metal post sunk in the ground on the side of the road. An industrial steel company had mounted their mailbox on it! Later that night it followed him home and in the morning I suppose they found a nice pressure treated four by four on the ground next to their mailbox....

Nothing gets under my skin more than a thief...

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by vorpal

I forgot about this. Some one I know found a 7" Indian Chief post vise in beautiful shape welded to a metal post sunk in the ground on the side of the road. An industrial steel company had mounted their mailbox on it! Later that night it followed him home and in the morning I suppose they found a nice pressure treated four by four on the ground next to their mailbox....

Frankly "Someone" wouldn't be welcome around my place. I'll have nothing to do with a thief.

Frosty

[vorpal]

Someone I know was younger then and made decisions differently. He has learned much since then.... nothing to brag about in retrospect, however. Apologies are sincerely offered to anyone offended or angered by this careless posting.

[Frosty]

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

[brucegodlesky]

Man, I love this thread!!!!
Good haul Frosty!!

[keykeeper]

Frosty, I had little luck finding dies for that model punch. I picked one up last year, had one die in it, looked everywhere but none of the other dies available seemed like they would fit. Someone told me at the conference I sold it at that dies were still available, but didn't know where or who to call. But, someone else had to have it, so they got it for a song.

The one set in it, 5/16 inch if I remember right, still worked like new though.

But, keep a watch on eBay, the tools and dies for them show up every now and again. Then you could have two tools set up at any given time.

hey, just found this, better hurry!! Goes off in 6 hours! Don't know if those are the right dies or not, as it's a Whitney/Jensen.
Whitney Jensen Model 7 1/2 Medium Duty Portable Punch - eBay (item 140262250292 end time Sep-06-08 17:25:00 PDT)

[m_brothers]

Not sure what to do with this stuff, my grandpa is gonna drop it off at my house like almost every day. I said I could use it, but I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I CAN USE IT FOR. It's mild steel btw.

[hammerkid]

I scored 10 new Big fire bricks to today .
Chris

[Frosty]

Well, I missed out on that one! What I have is a Whitney, Imperial 7 1/2 but it looks pretty much the same with rust.

I just sent off E-mails to Roper Whitney, Roper Whitney - Quality Sheet Metal Fabrication Equipment

W.A. Whitney, Whitney - The Leader in Plate Technology (laser cutting machines, plasma cutting machines and hydraulic punching)

and Cleveland Punch, Cleveland Punch & Die

The punch is skuffed up to the point I can't tell if it's a W.A. or a Roper Whitney but I figure they'll know one of their own. Cleveland punch has a long list of companies they make dies for.

On the other hand I can buy one from Horrible Fright for $20 + SandH and hang the antique on the wall.

It works but the 1/4" die in it is dinged and I don't want to damage it further unless I'm replacing them for a good set.

Frosty