The Sunday bazar

[SillyOldDuffer]

On SillyOldDuffer Said:

Impressive, not seen anything in the UK that good in this century.   Have to hire a van and take a holiday in Rumania!  I expect customs would want loads of paperwork though.

Actually I plan a trip the other way around 🙂 I would like to see some museums in London and on the return flight I’ll fill a luggage to the 30kg limit with all kind of steel stock (A2, O2, Pb steel) and other goodies. You have a lot of nice stuff available and it cost too much to order them individually.

[Sonic EscapeParticipant @sonicescape38234]

Today I found an interesting micrometer. You can plug a dial indicator on the left end. The left anvil is spring loaded. So it can be used in many ways. I noticed that many times I don’t care about absolute values, instead I want to know only if two diameters are precisely equal. With this thing I can compare parts over a wider range than a usual 25mm span micrometer.

I bought also one more 2μm dial indicator. I can’t help myself when I see one. The tip of this micrometer is transparent, like glass.

[Sonic Escape]

On Sonic Escape Said:

Today I found an interesting micrometer.  […]

The tip of this micrometer is transparent, like glass.

 

Sounds you found a Gem [if I may say so]

MichaelG.

[Sonic EscapeParticipant @sonicescape38234]

Today I visited the flea market in Catania, Sicily. I found two new candidates for a citric acid bath.

But except this nothing interesting. Only Parkside style tools. At 8:30 people started to leave, is very hot here!

 

 

 

 

 

[Sonic EscapeParticipant @sonicescape38234]

I found an MT5 boring head for my mill on internet. This thing is huge. It was made in ’85 in a factory close to my city. I think I’m going to use it as a fly cutter. It needs 16mm diameter tools.

It is interesting that the seller lives 200m away from me. We went into a large basement with shelves on all walls full of all possible tools and measuring devices. It felt like a trip into Alibaba cave. And everything is for sale. A very exciting finding!

 

[Sonic EscapeParticipant @sonicescape38234]

I found a few interesting things today. Those two carbide pieces on top I guess are for gigantic brazed tools. But are so large that you could put them directly in the tool post.

 

[Sonic EscapeParticipant @sonicescape38234]

I went this morning to Mercat dels Encants. Or charms market. It should be the biggest bazaar in Barcelona. But I’m a bit disappointed with the content. It’s full of art objects, clothes and all sorts of non-technical stuff for tourists. I expected that in such a big city I would find more interesting things. I mean, in the flea market in my city in Romania you can find more tools and materials than in Barcelona. Imagine! Still, I found a guy who had a lot of new files.

I bought a few. They are all Bellota, a local brand I guess. The large triangular one is very coarse. I like it. It must be very productive at removing metal.

I also found two HSS cutting tool blanks. I wonder what is “spezial” about them. According to specs they have 16% cobalt. Much more than cobalt drilling bits.

There was also a tiny shop full of interesting stuff. But it is so small that only one person can enter. And quickly it forms a queue behind you. I like to be undisturbed while going through other people’s things.

And that was all. A little disappointing.

[Pete.Participant @pete-2]

That’s a really nice clock you got, there’s a huge Jacobs chuck on the table also.

Those dies would have been a good buy if they were a reasonable price.

My best friends girlfriend is Romanian, we spent some time staying with her sister last year, if I’d known markets like this existed I would have looked for some, there’s some really interesting stuff,  think I see some 3 point bore micrometers, love to spend a couple hours walking around there.

[larry phelan 1Participant @larryphelan1]

If such markets existed around here, they would  heavy with fleas, nothing else !

My scrap box puts them to shame.

[Sonic EscapeParticipant @sonicescape38234]

Today I went to the San Antoni book flea market (Barcelona). About 99% of the books are non-technical. But I saw four very interesting old volumes. Two of them have almost no text at all, just a lot of diagrams with various old machines. And the other two contain countless diagrams of simple mechanisms. But unfortunately they were very expensive, 120 euros this one.

Also in the area I came across some Pakistani second hand shops, or something like that. They don’t even show up on Google Maps. They have all kinds of tools at very low prices.

These things are from the toolbox for 0.5 euros each

I also found an interesting MT3 milling cutter. I think it’s for making T slots. The cutting part is covered with some kind of rubber. But I can’t imagine how it could cut steel with my milling machine without chatter. It’s too long.

And why are the teeth not aligned?

And a bag of M10 screws never hurts.

 

 

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