Free!

[pineyfolks]

Good score Tom. It's amazing what a company throws away. I once got a L&W chuck dividing head with the plates. The engineer said he'd never seen it used on the lathe. I told him it was a milling attachment. He said if you can use it, it's yours.

[krv3000]

yep brill i like things for free to

[TomG]

(08-18-2014, 02:53 PM)pineyfolks Wrote: Good score Tom. It's amazing what a company throws away.

You can say that again. Here are a few things I've acquired that have been tossed by the company I worked for:

1) As much Lyon industrial shelving as I could use.
2) Enough commercial grade recessed fluorescent lighting to do my shop (haven't got around to installing it yet).
3) A 10" reflector telescope.
4) As much aircraft grade electrical wire I could haul off.
5) Just under an ounce of gold wire (dumpster diving).
6) Literally tons of scrap aluminum.

It pays to pay attention and to be in the right place at the right time.

Tom

[stevec]

(08-18-2014, 02:53 PM)pineyfolks Wrote: Good score Tom. It's amazing what a company throws away. I once got a L&W chuck dividing head with the plates. The engineer said he'd never seen it used on the lathe. I told him it was a milling attachment. He said if you can use it, it's yours.

Love it, a good machinist can snow an engineer any day.

[Dr Stan]

(08-18-2014, 02:53 PM)pineyfolks Wrote: Good score Tom. It's amazing what a company throws away. I once got a L&W chuck dividing head with the plates. The engineer said he'd never seen it used on the lathe. I told him it was a milling attachment. He said if you can use it, it's yours.

An example of one of those who make the rest of us look very bad. BTW, I was a machinist before I was an engineer. One of the funniest (to me and my shipmates) was when a Lieutenant engineer picked up a hand full of brown & blue stainless steel chips off the top of the ways. Somehow he didn't equate oil sizzling with HOT! don't touch it lunk head.

BTW, nice score. Going to vent it outside?

[TomG]

Nah, I'm more concerned about containing the paint and solvents in case a welding operation goes awry. Higher on the venting list is the sulphuric acid fumes from my anodizing bench.

Tom