What just arrived from Aliexpress?

Forums › Off topic › What just arrived from Aliexpress?

1 | ... | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | ... | 32

11294 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2980436 10-Oct-2022 23:27

afe66: Started playing with metal only 4 years ago, cheap midlife crisis.

It's depressing watching Youtube channels with guys like Sam Totman doing this and just making it seem to effortless, what he does in ten minutes would take most people days or even weeks (NB contains NSFW language).

sir1963

3260 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#2980453 11-Oct-2022 07:26

afe66:
sir1963:

I am about to order various Brass, steel, nylon rods etc for stock for my home machine shop.

I am learning how to use a lathe, and when I have space in the shed I will be getting a Mill.

Trademe has several options if after smaller amounts of known metals.

Traders Wakefield-metals, metalbymail (?) ironmaiden4

Also can be useful to setup Trademe searches for lathe to get misc extras. I've spent more on extras than my lathe cost... Myford super 7.

Started playing with metal only 4 years ago, cheap midlife crisis.

Blondihacks, learning turning metal, mark Presling useful channels for the true newbies on youtube

Blondihacks has been my go to for learning stuff.

Yeah mine is a midlife crisis too LOL, I just have to fix the 400 old computers in my garage, sell them off, and make room for a mill to make stationary engines for my retirement.

sir1963

3260 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#2980455 11-Oct-2022 07:34

afe66: PS.
Consider visiting engineering workshops and explain how you are teaching yourself how to lathe and do they have off cuts from bin you can have to practise with...

Already doing that at work, I have made myself a couple of bits for work as a learning tool.

I have seen the price of metal on Trademe, I too can but it from China and avoid the middleman markup.

But I will be going to Komax as they have bronze bearing material so I can tidy up some bits on the lathe. I have already fixed up all the rough as guts machining on the 3 jaw chuck, none of the edges were deburred...so it would bind in places.

I have CarbideNZ here in town , their prices for carbide inserts is good.

And yeah, I have been spending on all the extra tooling too.

I also have a friend who is in the local model engine club, he is a fount of useful info.

sir1963

3260 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#2988357 26-Oct-2022 17:54

So this arrived today from Aliexpress

Some brass bar stock

2 sets of oil impregnated brass bearings

Some PTFE

Some Nylon

Some thread gauges

Waiting on the stainless bar and the larger while nylon.

Also got some 1m lengths of steel bar from http://www.steelcuts.co.nz/

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2989260 28-Oct-2022 15:06

This USB-C rechargeable travel shaver, about $25 on Aliexpress which is less than the cost of the replacement cutters for my Panasonic. It feels surprisingly solid, has a proper numeric charge level display (not just a single LED), and the main thing is it's USB-rechargeable so is perfect for overnight stays and short trips where you don't want to haul a proprietary charger around with you.

Oh, and it took five days to get here from Fenggang, China.

loceff13

1065 posts

Uber Geek

#2989267 28-Oct-2022 15:35

neb: This USB-C rechargeable travel shaver, about $25 on Aliexpress which is less than the cost of the replacement cutters for my Panasonic. It feels surprisingly solid, has a proper numeric charge level display (not just a single LED), and the main thing is it's USB-rechargeable so is perfect for overnight stays and short trips where you don't want to haul a proprietary charger around with you. Oh, and it took five days to get here from Fenggang, China.

can you link the page/seller?

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2989269 28-Oct-2022 15:39

loceff13:
can you link the page/seller?

They're all over Aliexpress, it's one of those strange Xiaomi + vendor collaborations. I got mine from the official store which charges a bit more, but you can find them from dozens of vendors.

Edited to add: Also available from Banggood but it costs a lot more there, the main thing with that one is that there's lots more product photos and reviews.

Equinox IT

Cloud spending continues to surge globally, but most organisations haven’t made the changes necessary to maximise the value and cost-efficiency benefits of their cloud investments. Download the whitepaper From Overspend to Advantage now.

sir1963

3260 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#2989285 28-Oct-2022 16:42

The thread pitch gauges are garbage, they lasted about 1 minute before being thrown into the metal recycling bin.

Given the price of them...meh...you gets whats you pays for...

But having spent some hours trolling on the web here in NZ I have found some really useful sources of metal/plastic so I will probably buy locally when I want things faster than China post, and the prices are not outrageous (given I am likely to be a better quality product)

Just waiting for the white nylon to turn up and then its off to make a non-marking hammer.

I have the mild steel for the head/handle

I have a nice wee lump of copper for one end with the nylon for the other end

I will get a knurling tool next payday, and probably a good quality 10mm Tap/Die, particularly if I think about making the head out of stainless...

Waiting for a set of reamers to turn up that I bought on trademe.

Then I get to decide is I want to initially just sleeve the cross slide with one of the bronze bearings to do a quick fix

and then use that "better" tool to create a whole new shaft that actually fits and is properly concentric.

Need to make a tap/Die holder for the lathe at some stage

Need to make a ER32 Collet holder for the lathe too (one I can feed longer work pieces into) , but will probably get a MT3 holder initially.

Fun times, and a LOT of learning to go with it.

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2989287 28-Oct-2022 16:44

sir1963:
The thread pitch gauges are garbage, they lasted about 1 minute before being thrown into the metal recycling bin.

What was wrong with them? Inaccurate?

sir1963

3260 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#2989307 28-Oct-2022 16:58

neb:
sir1963:

The thread pitch gauges are garbage, they lasted about 1 minute before being thrown into the metal recycling bin.

What was wrong with them? Inaccurate?

Yep, that and the depth of the thread was almost nil on a couple of them

The metal was junk, and thin.

The gauges are small and awkward to hold and use

I could not measure a 4mm metric thread with them...BLAH

So I will buy a good set here in NZ.

I got a cheap set of needle files from China some months back, they went to the bin even faster, most of them had no burrs on them, its real hard to file anything without them.

So again will buy a set here in NZ and will also get a set of diamond faced ones.

I generally have better tools at home than at work (I actually service scientific instruments) so I do not mind also "working" at home doing my own stuff because is more pleasure than chore.

I am still setting my workshop up at home, slowly finding stuff that we packed 3 years ago when we shifted here.

I have a LOT and I do mean a LOT of stuff (about 300-400 1970s/1980s computers) that the shifter just put in the garage along with a lot of other stuff so it a process of make one part useful so I do still to make the other parts useful so I can find everything to do the things I want. In the mean time we are working on the house too as well as gardens etc. Oh, and probably over 2000 books.

The BEST thing in this house is a wife who tolerates me and my junk :-)

But I have promised to fix some of the computers so I can clear out a place in the shed to fit a mill into...and I am allowed too...bloody awesome wife I say.

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2989309 28-Oct-2022 17:02

sir1963:
I got a cheap set of needle files from China some months back, they went to the bin even faster, most of them had no burrs on them,

It's a Zen file: It is, and it is not.

sir1963

3260 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#2989313 28-Oct-2022 17:09

neb:
sir1963:

I got a cheap set of needle files from China some months back, they went to the bin even faster, most of them had no burrs on them,

It's a Zen file: It is, and it is not.

Now this is funny, I have bought some Dykem layout fluid from

1Outlet.co.nz (yeah I know not a NZ company, just a domain name front end to a Chinese front end)

The price was reasonable, so I thought, so why not.

The funny part was this

"Thank you for your business.
We appreciate it.

This is an Official Acknowledgement and Acceptance on your offer.
A Job Number has been allocated for your reference."

What ????? , I bought it, just like I would off Aliexpress, it was NOT an offer for them to accept.

Weird...

SirHumphreyAppleby

2844 posts

Uber Geek

#2989319 28-Oct-2022 17:21

sir1963:

What ????? , I bought it, just like I would off Aliexpress, it was NOT an offer for them to accept.

The acceptance part of a contract is their accepting your offer, so technically that is the case.

sir1963

3260 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#2989323 28-Oct-2022 17:23

SirHumphreyAppleby:

sir1963:

What ????? , I bought it, just like I would off Aliexpress, it was NOT an offer for them to accept.

The acceptance part of a contract is their accepting your offer, so technically that is the case.

Would have me ordering and paying for it was me accepting THEIR offer...

By taking payment they automatically accepted my order.

elpenguino

3423 posts

Uber Geek

#2990009 31-Oct-2022 12:55

I ordered new bed springs for my 3D printer which very much ties in with nebs post a while ago about having to spend time making the tool work instead of using the tool.

Anyhoo, the springs were 'coming' , 'almost there' , 'hang on' for months until the sale expired. I filed a dispute and I got my 5 dollars back.

Of course what turns up two days later but some springs in a bag.

In a fit of honesty I sent a message to the 'shop' and they said 'thank you kind sir for telling us' . To allow me to pay, they created a link which lead to a one off product - no photo, just a logo with a cost of $5 and free shipping.

I thought it was a neat and tidy way to wrap it up.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

1 | ... | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | ... | 32