Free to good home. Twist drills

[JRouche]

You have never spun a taper shank drill?
Say it ain't so (-:
With enough machine you can twist the tang off of a 3" twist drill.

Dang! I have seen those, they are stout.. Yeah, you Bented that one , bummer. JR

[Jim Stewart]

The box arrived today. 67 tools in there, if I counted correctly. It took 8 days to get from one side of the GREENSBORO NC NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER to the other side and out the door. Then it took 9 days to get across the country.

I have a theory:

Some of the postal service offices are so overloaded that they don't have room to store the packages. So what do they do? They throw bags of packages into any truck that is not full yet. It does not matter where it's going. Once that truck gets where it's going, then it's that center's problem to figure out where to send it next. The key is that once it's thrown into the back of a truck they can check it off as "handled" and don't get dinged for slow service.

Dan

I always get cat calendars for my wife for xmas. This year I ordered four from calendars.com - one was delivered, the other three were due on Dec. 4. And the tracking says that that UPS handed them off to the post office in my city. On Dec. 4. Still no calendars.

Hard to tell if UPS is lying to me (they have a well-documented history of that) or if USPS is doing exactly that - not letting tons of mail/packages stack up, just get them moving.

A long time ago, when I was in the National Guard in the electronics shop, a big inspection was coming (a General would be poking around). We were instructed to load all the not-yet-fixed or not-fixable stuff into our maintenance van (which I built and operated). My partner Bruce and I were instructed to head out at 10AM and not come back until 5PM. Didn't matter where we went, just don't have an accident. We went and hid out (with the big truck) behind a shopping center and lounged around as demanded.

The junk that we couldn't fix was never seen by the General. We got accolades from the boss (a CW3 at the time).

That, to quote from a well-known movie, "was the beginning of a beautiful friendship".

-js

[danlb]

As promised, I'll sort the drills out and figure out what I need. Then I'll make the rest available for the cost of shipping. And yes, they will go out USPS priority mail.


Dan

[Bented]

Dang! I have seen those, they are stout.. Yeah, you Bented that one , bummer. JR

As I mentioned it was not my doing, I suspect that it was performed by the 48" Bullard VTL that they had before my time there.
I sometimes wish that they still had that machine, it would make short work of some of the jobs I now do on a horizontal lathe.

A part like this would be cake in a VTL as opposed to removing the gap, bolting a faceplate to a faceplate, drilling and tapping the faceplate for clamps and mounting the part.

A good deal of set up is involved.

[mattthemuppet]

Dan, I'm still game for the leftovers

[danlb]

Gotcha Matt. Does the USPS priority mail extend all the way to the sovereign state of Texas????



Dan

[rebelrodder]

I would also be interested in some of the left overs if there are any by the time you get down to my name. I have zero drills like this so I'm not picky about sizes! 😁😁😁

Dan, what's the best way to help you cover the shipping?

Jerrod

[danlb]

Jerrod, The easiest way to ship them is often USPS flat rate priority box. Only in recent months have they started to get wonky. I used paypal to reimburse Oxford for his time and trouble. That seemed to have worked for him.

Dan

[rebelrodder]

Alright, I guess I need to join the 21st century and figure out this Paypal thing! LOL

Jerrod

[mattthemuppet]

Dan, pretty sure USPS delivers to the Republic of Texas. We give the station wagons an escort into town once they cross the border

Happy to split with Jerrod if you're game. Mostly after MT2 drills, but I have a MT1>2 adapter.

[JRouche]

A long time ago, when I was in the National Guard

-js

Thank You Sir, My Cover and Salute, JR