Really nice packaging. Would like to make a lexan box to sit over it when it is on the granite plate in order to protect it from dust and debris when not in use. Need to make a plywood cover for the Granite too that rests on the angle iron and does not touch the top. It is really not in a "good" spot adjacent to the back end of the lathe spindle but that has been the "spot" that it fit into for the lst 20 years :-). The height gage is new out of the box.
Back in year 2000 or so I worked in a machine shop in Toledo, OH, we were allowed to buy tools and such payroll deduction, somebody had a screaming deal on this 18"x24"x3" granite plate. The Angle iron stand was actually found material, I had made it more than a decade prior for an old drill press that I ended of scrapping. When that 125lb or so granite came in I took it out and flopped it in the back of the 1986 Camaro I was driving then :-).
These boxes contain gage pins in .001" increments, at the machine shop they lived in my Kennedy roll around that rarely moved. They were another screaming deal. Pins come in a selection of grades with more precise ones being a lot more expensive, these are dirt cheap ones at the lowest level of "precise" those still have uses in everyday machine shop work even in a high precision shop. We would put them in holes to align parts, or put them in a hole so that clamping the part in a vise did not crush that finished hole. The pins are heavy and the boxes get stacked on top of each other for the last 20 years and were then in the way for the next thing going on where they were. I COULD have went crazy with some angle iron and the MIG welder and made "nicer" but the 100lb granite would have to come out and go back in, this took an hour and a half and gave the pins a place to live where they are not in the way. I did order a new set of .061"-.250" ins, they are pretty cheap and that is the size range that really got beat up a lot and or some lost. The cheap pins range all the way to 1", my sets stop at .750". The cheaP pins are kind of crazy in the fact that the font used to engrave the size on them varies from pin to pin within a set, as if in China there is a ".247" gage pin factory" that makes just that size, right next door to the ".235" gage pin factory" that makes only that size :-).
I have a cheap set of gage blocks too, again they have uses where you might not use really good gage blocks, putting into a slot so that clamping the part in the vise does not cursh the slot as an example. Typical SIN bar use does not demand ultra precision blocks either really.
