The Tool Thread

I'll take it

 

Yeah, I normally see about 15 or so of those every week on the auction site I use, but typically they end up going for close to $100 which is crazy since they're only a $130 saw new, and they're being auctioned "as is". The one I got looks like someone bought it just for one job and then took it back. The saw itself had some sawdust on it, but the stand had never been assembled or even taken out of it's packaging. I used it to rip some boards while building a shooting table over the weekend and it functioned perfectly, so I'm happy with the price I paid.

 

I think lots of people buy stuff to use it and then take it back?? I think thats a millineal thing?

 

It could be, I've seen several people my age and younger (I'm 33) do that. It seems like anyone older who bought something, used it, and then returned it, was younger when it happened. So maybe it's as much of an age thing as anything else.

 

Who needs a table saw once? I use mine about every day...

 

Thats the thing they dont. They used it for a project, and think everything is owed to them or should be free in society and big corporation are evil and won't hurt them. So they buy use and return for full refund. 3 yeats later another project they do it again. Millineals dont like stuff.

That said I am same age as Bass jam. Were just on the cusp of millineals and the first year that is considered one. I am not like a Millineal!!

 

I'm a millennial too.

 

My 1985 and 1989 Internationals both have disc brakes on the rear.

 

My 12 Colorado is drum too

 

Yea plenty of big trucks are drum. But so few of us mess with that stuff.

I mean I still fix and have drums. Drums ate on my saturn, ranger and k10. Oh my tractor and atv too

 

Hydraulic.

 

Drum brakes are the devil.

 

Been chasing the ones on my atv.

I had fixes them when I bought it. Rebuilt master cyl and freed stuck wheel cyl. A year later other wheel cyl leaked down. Soaked shoes. Went cheap and tries not replacing shoes. Rebuilt that wheel fly. Then would not bleed. Bad master again. Bought a china replacement to they since it was about same price and had an extra kit with it ( gives me an idea of how long they may last!!!). Installed that bled them out and adjusted shoes and still weak. Just like I feared... who would of thought oil soaked shoes would lack friction needed to stop well ;-)?

 

Wish I had an upright like that. I bought a 20 gal Campbell Hausfield like new at an auction for $65 for the mud room and have been trying to figure out a way to get it hung from the ceiling so it doesn't take up so much floor space. Space is at a premium here and I'm not adding on as a move is in the works in the near future.

 

I think I will get a small upright from HF when I buy a new one

 

30 here, we are the Oregon Trail Generation. There are several new demographical studies out stating there is a small population that sits between Gen X and the Millenials. We are the generation that grew up at the same time home computer technology was developing.

Gen X had for the most part passed through their formative years before technology made the great leap in the late 80s, early 90s. Most graduated college before Facebook came in 2005.

Millenials never experienced the world without that technology.

A lot of our values tend to mirror those of Generation X but we tend to be closer to the Millenials in our adaptation of technology.

 

Just picked these up for $14.

 

Anyone want to go in on two Monarch 10ee lathe's?
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/tls/5264953254.html