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I always enjoy looking at peoples awesome equipment that they got a great deal on, and it's even more awesome being the lucky person that finally gets the score! The company my dad works for moved offices recently and sold their old office to be demolished. They had a pretty big modeling/prototyping shop at the old facility, but don't have room for it at the new place, so they needed to get rid of all the equipment. They told all the employees that they could come in and take whatever they would like, as long as they didn't take it with the sole intent to sell.
So yesterday I headed down to check it out with my dad. I wasn't really expecting much, he told me beforehand that they had a couple of old Bridgeports and the like, but I went into it knowing that there was no possibility anything like that would fit into my tiny basement shop. I was hoping to maybe find a little benchtop drill press and a couple of nice adjustable lamps, I never expected to make out this well
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The first thing I picked out was a couple of old vices. I never use a vice for knife work, but I now feel obligated to try one of these.
The first one I picked out was this Wilton, the name sounded familiar and the unique shape of the thing made it impossible for me to pass up
The second one I came across was a Reed 204R and although I've never heard any mention of Reed vices, it looked like a useful shape so I picked it up.
I'll probably only mount one vice in my small shop, so I would appreciate any suggestions on which to use, since I'm pretty clueless.
The next thing I came across were these two huge slabs of micarta laying around some injection molding equipment. I have no idea how I'm going to work with anything this big but I just couldn't pass them up. My plan right now is to just cut it into thin scales like "endgrain' micarta. The tan sheet is 24x18x1.5 and the black one is 23x24x2.25.
I was very happy with everything at this point, but walking out of the shop this caught my eye. It was labeled with a tag marked DISPOSE, so I assumed it was broken but decided to pick it up anyways (the electricity to the outlets were shutoff so I couldn't test it there). Much to my surprise when I plugged it in today it worked! I also picked up quite a lot ceramic media to experiment with. I'm guessing it will take a bit of work to get the results I'm looking for, but I'm still stoked.
The best part is that I didn't have to pay anything, it was all free! It would just have been thrown away if I didn't take it, but it does make me sad seeing all the stuff that I couldn't take just going to waste and being sold as scrap
If you've made it this far, thanks for looking. I was just too exited about this to not share it with you guys, I hope you enjoyed checking it all out. Let me know what you think,
Drew
So yesterday I headed down to check it out with my dad. I wasn't really expecting much, he told me beforehand that they had a couple of old Bridgeports and the like, but I went into it knowing that there was no possibility anything like that would fit into my tiny basement shop. I was hoping to maybe find a little benchtop drill press and a couple of nice adjustable lamps, I never expected to make out this well
:thumbup:The first thing I picked out was a couple of old vices. I never use a vice for knife work, but I now feel obligated to try one of these.
The first one I picked out was this Wilton, the name sounded familiar and the unique shape of the thing made it impossible for me to pass up
The second one I came across was a Reed 204R and although I've never heard any mention of Reed vices, it looked like a useful shape so I picked it up.
I'll probably only mount one vice in my small shop, so I would appreciate any suggestions on which to use, since I'm pretty clueless.
The next thing I came across were these two huge slabs of micarta laying around some injection molding equipment. I have no idea how I'm going to work with anything this big but I just couldn't pass them up. My plan right now is to just cut it into thin scales like "endgrain' micarta. The tan sheet is 24x18x1.5 and the black one is 23x24x2.25.
I was very happy with everything at this point, but walking out of the shop this caught my eye. It was labeled with a tag marked DISPOSE, so I assumed it was broken but decided to pick it up anyways (the electricity to the outlets were shutoff so I couldn't test it there). Much to my surprise when I plugged it in today it worked! I also picked up quite a lot ceramic media to experiment with. I'm guessing it will take a bit of work to get the results I'm looking for, but I'm still stoked.
The best part is that I didn't have to pay anything, it was all free! It would just have been thrown away if I didn't take it, but it does make me sad seeing all the stuff that I couldn't take just going to waste and being sold as scrap
If you've made it this far, thanks for looking. I was just too exited about this to not share it with you guys, I hope you enjoyed checking it all out. Let me know what you think,
Drew
Nice score!
How big is that tumbler? Can't imagine you'd find one of those new for less than a few bills, and it will certainly come in handy for a bunch of thing. The vises look like they're almost new. 
