What did you buy this week?

[2manyrocks]

I bought one of those pumps a few months ago. I think they will sell more of them now.

 

[5030]

Lets see... Some parts from Sawzilla to upgrade the fuel and impulse hoses as well as a new carb to jug rubber boot connection and new band clamps to install it for my ancient, bought new Stihl 028.

10 prepaid Silver wash coupons for the Zippy car wash north of me.

Finally, a 100 box of 240 grain Hornady XTP handgun pills (.452 diameter) from Powder Valley as they are offering free shipping today only and PV usually has the best prices on pills.

 

[scootr]

500 rounds of 9mm 119g Blazer target ammo from Sportsmans Warehouse as they were the cheapest ($.24 rnd) at the 10 box minimum.

 

[ning]

I bought a HF 2" gas power water (aka trash) pump. I'm putting a fire fighting trailer together using a few IBC totes, pump, and 2" hose reel.

Trash pumps tend to be good for volume, not so much pressure. So if you want to wet stuff down that's nearby quickly - great. If you want to spray stuff that's a bit further away, the water may not reach. Check the pressure/volume curve.

 

[scootr]

Trash pumps tend to be good for volume, not so much pressure. So if you want to wet stuff down that's nearby quickly - great. If you want to spray stuff that's a bit further away, the water may not reach. Check the pressure/volume curve.

Centrifugal pumps make pretty good pressure. I don't need to spray far. We will see...
Lots of people including firefighters report using trash pumps on so called grass fire rigs.

 

[grsthegreat]

I have a small pump to drain jacuzzi and fill pasture water trought in winter. It empties a 55 gallon pail pretty quick. If hooked to a nozzle is sprays far, but backpressures the pump. Pump makes awful noise. Im not sure these pumps are meant to work thru nozzle slowing flow???

I amy be wrong

 

[ptsg]

Bought about $70 worth of steel drops from the local steel supplier just to have on hand for any projects I may come up with.

The square/rectangular pieces are 1730 steel, I believe it's equivalent to the 1045 in the US. And the round pieces is 2711 steel, which is a prehardened tool steel. Very tough stuff to machine.

 

[scootr]

Bought about $70 worth of steel drops from the local steel supplier just to have on hand for any projects I may come up with.

The square/rectangular pieces are 1730 steel, I believe it's equivalent to the 1045 in the US. And the round pieces is 2711 steel, which is a prehardened tool steel. Very tough stuff to machine.


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Good steel aint cheap

 

[scootr]

Bought a Sig P365 X macro comp.

 

[ptsg]

Good steel aint cheap

That's probably $200 worth of steel if it wasn't for it to be drops.

Back in 2019, I bought a bunch of round drops for my loader project. A lot more steel than this time and all of that was only around $50.