Cool free stuff for tool geeks.

blaineg posted a pic said Wed, Feb 12th 2020 at 9:32pm ET

I just found out that Starrett will send you all sorts of free stuff just for asking, including their wall chart of conversions and drill sizes. I ordered a handful of their drill & tap conversion pocket cards and a notebook.

https://www.starrett.com/catalogs

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blaineg said Fri, Feb 14th 2020 at 7:06am ET:

Years ago I inherited one of the pocket cards in a toolbox I took over at work. It was invaluable when I was doing a lot of fabrication work. The silly little card actually became something of a prized possession, and it’s been jealously guarded.

I haven’t needed it very often in recent years, but I was doing a project at home a couple of days ago, and was wishing I had it here. So I went looking for one on the Intertubes. I was about ready to buy some off of Ebay when I stumbled across a forum discussion somewhere that had the info on getting them for free from the source. So I figured I’d spread the news, and undercut the Ebay scalpers as well.

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blaineg said Wed, Feb 12th 2020 at 9:39pm ET:

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bullrocky said Thu, Feb 13th 2020 at 12:11am ET:

thanks for posting, i just ordered some too!

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blaineg said Fri, Feb 14th 2020 at 7:08am ET:

Though I don’t really have a need for it, if I had the wall space I’d have ordered the wall chart too. Maybe I’m weird, but I just think it’s cool. Another reason to build that garage, I guess.

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- @blaineg And just now I realized I should have ordered one for my friend’s garage!
  
  blaineg said Fri, Feb 14th 2020 at 7:08am ET
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tightwad said Fri, Feb 14th 2020 at 2:58pm ET:

I ordered the wall chart, the pocket cards and even the tool poster…also the “made in America” poster thing because my shop IS in America.

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fibrs86 said Fri, Feb 14th 2020 at 10:58am ET:

I’m considering getting one for my office. I work at a software company.

or I could create my own “Fractions and Single Precision Floating Points Decimal Equivalents” chart and get it printed full size.

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- @fibrs86 If you’ve been to their website, you’ve seen that there are also PDFs of all the charts & cards. Go DIY!
  
  blaineg said Fri, Feb 14th 2020 at 5:22pm ET
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rtjhnstn said Fri, Feb 14th 2020 at 6:36pm ET:

Thank you. This will replace the chart I made for use at my hydraulic paper cutter.

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- @rtjhnstn curious what a hydraulic paper cutter is needed for (beyond the obvious “cutting paper”)
  
  tightwad said Sat, Feb 15th 2020 at 10:09pm ET
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- @tightwad there are a few more words… cutting lots of paper very straight all at once
  
  djslack said Sun, Feb 16th 2020 at 3:05am ET
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- @tightwad Cutting a lot of paper consistently.
  
  rtjhnstn said Tue, Feb 18th 2020 at 8:43am ET
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Peveto said Sun, Feb 16th 2020 at 2:24am ET:

Thank you for keeping me from having to go grab the Pocket Ref off the shelf. Will stick this to a magnet to live on the garage fridge. Perfect!

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