what shop item should one buy with a windfall of $100?

[I make chips]

I'd take half of the hundy for this. I use it all the time as location of holes has always been spotty for me.
The other half hundy can be used for beer while using the punch.
https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop...h?item=05N5901

[Arcane]

$100 really doesn't get you much these days, but a optical center punch might help me drill holes a little closer to where they should be.😎 my Macular degeneration has screwed up my vision a lot. Any one got a suggestion for for a good one?

A long time ago I bought one when Busy Bee Tools opened up a store here in the city. Anyways, like a maroon I didn't check it out for accuracy when I bought it; I just assumed it would be accurate or at least much better than what my eyeballing a prick punch on a pair of cross lines would be. It isn't. One line on the optical pilot it perfect, the other line is off by quite a bit. This can be verified by sighting them in on cross lines and then rotating the optical pilot 180^o for each line. By the time I went to use them and noticed the problem, the store had closed from lack of business. So I'm stuck with it.

Soba brand btw.

[reggie_obe]

I agree. A good used, old one. That link goes to some crap.

Advert JR

The link goes to a Unistrut dealer who has a good writeup on Unistrut trolleys, channel, hangers, etc.
Maybe you shouldn't post when you wake up from having been on a bender.

[A.K. Boomer]

A beer cooler would be nice.

I like the way this guy thinks lol

I would have to say - with a 100 buck limit --- and especially if your only main piece of equipment is a mill - but not not exclusively,,, get a little R-8 5" three jaw chuck and go to town on stuff as if your mills a small lathe... cannot tell you how much I use it because half the other time it's also dismounted from it's R-8 drive and just the chuck mounted on the rotary table as pretty much a permanent fixture to the mills table... so damn handy...

[Bented]

If I had a choice, which I do not, a .656" $50.00 carbide drill would have saved me 10 hours of machine time last week.

[JRouche]

The link goes to a Unistrut dealer who has a good writeup on Unistrut trolleys, channel, hangers, etc.
Maybe you shouldn't post when you wake up from having been on a bender.

You are missing my Point. I said

"I agree. A good used, old one. That link goes to some crap.

Advert JR"

I was referring to the advertisement of the tool, that's why I said its Crap. The Link!! Its an advertisement! Its crap!!

Better or would you like to sleep on it? JR

[reggie_obe]

You are missing my Point. I said

"I agree. A good used, old one. That link goes to some crap.

Advert JR"

I was referring to the advertisement of the tool, that's why I said its Crap. The Link!! Its an advertisement! Its crap!!

Better or would you like to sleep on it? JR

Better that you would (go back to sleep).