This moisture-meter: I own the exact same one. Mine is made by DOSER, an south German Company. These are for measuring Wood moisture Content. the Advantage is that you just touch the Wood for measuring and not have to poke holes in. Originally they came with Mercury button cells witch are forbidden now (at least here in Germany). But i could let mine be rebuild for AA type Batteries for an reasonable Price.
I like your videos and you are a man full of knowledge. I worked for a man that ran a machine shop on a navy tender ship. Best working experience of my life. After he retired from the navy, he operated a machine shop and welding shop in my home town. From 67 until 2015. I love all your videos and I have a Logan lathe that needs tooling and much work to be useful in my motorcycle repair shop. I like your non spilling oil can. I found a bunch of tiki torch cans that have a screw on top for refilling. Gift idea for my brother in law's small machine shop at his home. He has a LaBlond lathe and a jet vertical mill. He is retiring this month at 70. After 40 + years in the shops here. Keep it going ,you are a great source of information.
Maybe it was said already, but I use old spark plugs when I'm painting a head to keep overspray off the threads. Sometimes I'll even break the porcelain part off.
Hi mrpete, Sometimes I do just the same... And.... I'd boot my ass for doing it, just ran out of place so many years ago, so I'm tripping in all of it now. One day from my seat in Heaven I'll look at some other nut coming to an auction and bringing all my junk to his home, I'll probably laugh a little. But, I have to admit I still have fun collecting all the junk. Have a good one, Pierre
It's nice to see all the green grass lining the roads, very picturesque. I was recently in North Dakota, similar. They even mow and bale the roadside grass. Here in California it's brown and drier than a popcorn fart.....
I love going to estate sales. Many of my best tools have been acquired at such sales. As you noted many of the items are new never used. Others can be restored to like new with little effort. Thanks very much for the videos.
About keeping old spark plugs... it saved me a 15km walk once! I thought I should change the spark plug on my Zundapp CS50, so I replaced the old one with a brand new NGK spark plug. I put the old one in my toolbag. And what you know, while on a trip the new spark plug failed on me after only a couple days. I put the old one back in and went on my way again.
I noticed an old file in one of the boxes. I've read that these can be converted into a scraper. I've not seen you cover scraping in you videos - perhaps you could show how to grind an old file to make a scraper and demonstrate it's use?
Another great video. Wish we could find stuff like this in the UK. You would be paying your monthly pension for boxes such as those. Keep em coming Lyle.
Another auction and lots of "plunder" to look through. I was wondering if you were going to comment on that sad old screwdriver that was in the saber saw case. As you said about the broken bits and burnt up spark plugs, "why do people keep those things?"
I wished I still lived in Chicago. I would love to go to estate sales of auctions with you. I don't come across cool items like you do. Anyway keep it up. I enjoy watching your videos.
One of the pliers in the blue fridge bin appeared to be a set of parallel pliers like you have featured in a small work holding video. Perhaps you would sell it to me? I have trouble finding those in my part of the country.
Hi, Pete . I think you have an auction Addiction LOL . lots of nice stuff . What does the misses say when she knows pops is going to another auction LOL ?? You have a wonderful day Sir . Best wishes Terry
These videos of yours were coincidentally very helpful to me, and also oddly somewhat like an experience I had just this morning. I watched your multi-part Estate Sale vids not long ago, then just last night I was driving through an alley, and to my utter astonishment I saw someone had thrown away several boxes (and metal tool boxes) full of tool stuff!! To my heart's delight, and my back's dismay, I quickly and quietly gathered up every last bit, and rushed it home not knowing what it all was, and only catching a little glimpse of things. I then had to painstakingly wait until this morning to do an “unboxing” of my free treasures. There was some typical old hand saws, various hammers, a few manual worm gear drills, a few planes, tons of various pliers and screw drivers (Curiously not a single socket), several C Clamps, a Wilton Baby Bullet vice w/ Power Arm, a few machinist vices, a tool box full of files and wood turning knives, boxes of taps and dies, a tray of lathe type wrenches, T handle nut drivers, a TS-30 torque screw driver, and much much more, stuff that I don't even know what it is yet, but also a whole tool box of perhaps a few hundred bits, bores, reamers, chucks, and several Modern Magic collets which I recognized from watching your unboxing vids - Thanks for sharing the knowledge :)
looks like a lot of people I know, they empty all the parts into a cement mixer and drop them into a box, unlike tradesman who like to keep spares clean and tidy, trouble is if they treat the spares this way then the lathe got the same treatment.
The road trips are fascinating as I'm getting to see another part of the world at the same time. Those corn crops look pretty good this year. Hey how many lathes will be enough for you? Cheers, Si in Australia.
@11:24 I'm a new dealership mechanic and I keep old spark plugs because they have iridium electrodes which can go up to over $1000 an ounce but then again I replace spark plugs fairly often so its easy for me to build up a decent quantity quickly. I have no other idea why anyone would keep old spark plugs though.
you keep broken center drills because they are made of good high speed steel that can be ground into other special tools as needed same for old files and allen wrenches
I wonder how many auctions some of that junk has been at. I've seen stuff for sale with more than three lot numbers....it just goes around and around from one shed to another. I have some taps and wrenches bought at auction that will be sold at auction when I pass on.
Great vid mr pete, does anyone know of sales like this in the uk, ? Mr pete I know uv said u dont have the room but please can u do a tour of all ur shops / garage, ? Thanks again
YOu asked about saving spark plugs. My grandpa used to sand them clean and then gap them. So, I do too. I'll buy one and insert it, then clean and gap the old one so that when I need to replace it, it's ready. ;)
As usual, I'm way too late, but as someone else has posted, those parallel jaw pliers were a good find if they aren't locked up. Also the the straight and curved round nose pliers. Ah well.
I'd like to pay you to come down for a week just to go through your stuff. I'd get my money's worth because everything that I pick up I'm gonna put back in the wrong place. I drove my Dad nuts doing that when I was a kid.
u want those morse chuck shanks, i'll take em off your hands, but u don't want 2 dozen people asking for stuff.. anyway how did find a metal shop auction.. anyways..?? fact i'll pay for a junk stuff box u plan on throwing away $5 and shipping..?? even if i can use it as scrap..
So, you're participating in a junk migration? The lathe looks nice....I hope we get to see the first steps taken when bringing home a new machine! Thanks for sharing! -- Mike
This moisture-meter: I own the exact same one. Mine is made by DOSER, an south German Company. These are for measuring Wood moisture Content. the Advantage is that you just touch the Wood for measuring and not have to poke holes in. Originally they came with Mercury button cells witch are forbidden now (at least here in Germany). But i could let mine be rebuild for AA type Batteries for an reasonable Price.
A broken center drill can be ground into a cutter bit for use in a home made boring bar for use on the lathe.
I like your videos and you are a man full of knowledge. I worked for a man that ran a machine shop on a navy tender ship. Best working experience of my life. After he retired from the navy, he operated a machine shop and welding shop in my home town. From 67 until 2015.
I love all your videos and I have a Logan lathe that needs tooling and much work to be useful in my motorcycle repair shop.
I like your non spilling oil can. I found a bunch of tiki torch cans that have a screw on top for refilling. Gift idea for my brother in law's small machine shop at his home. He has a LaBlond lathe and a jet vertical mill. He is retiring this month at 70. After 40 + years in the shops here. Keep it going ,you are a great source of information.
Those old navy guys sure know a lot. Thank you for watching I remember seeing those torch cans. That's a good idea
@@mrpete222 thank you for responding so quickly. I am 65 and not to far behind you in age ,but I'll never catch you in experience.
I really enjoy looking at your auction videos. The second hand place here just closed thus I am in tool withdrawl.
Maybe it was said already, but I use old spark plugs when I'm painting a head to keep overspray off the threads. Sometimes I'll even break the porcelain part off.
Hi mrpete,
Sometimes I do just the same... And.... I'd boot my ass for doing it, just ran out of place so many years ago, so I'm tripping in all of it now.
One day from my seat in Heaven I'll look at some other nut coming to an auction and bringing all my junk to his home, I'll probably laugh a little.
But, I have to admit I still have fun collecting all the junk.
Have a good one,
Pierre
It's nice to see all the green grass lining the roads, very picturesque. I was recently in North Dakota, similar. They even mow and bale the roadside grass. Here in California it's brown and drier than a popcorn fart.....
Just love the ham radio tower at the old house.
Part 4: Tubalcain Buys 5 Gallons of Evaporust & a Gallon of WD40
And 5 wire brushes
mrpete222
Part 4 (sub-title)... "Tubalcain learns to love electrolysis!"
(By the way, I saw the electrolysis video...lol)
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I love going to estate sales. Many of my best tools have been acquired at such sales. As you noted many of the items are new never used. Others can be restored to like new with little effort. Thanks very much for the videos.
About keeping old spark plugs... it saved me a 15km walk once! I thought I should change the spark plug on my Zundapp CS50, so I replaced the old one with a brand new NGK spark plug. I put the old one in my toolbag. And what you know, while on a trip the new spark plug failed on me after only a couple days. I put the old one back in and went on my way again.
The broken center drills can be repurposed for boring bar inserts... At least, that's what I used to keep them for.
Frank
That's what I was thinking. My dad was a machinist and we were pretty poor, he'd bring home any hunk of HSS from the trash at work to regrind.
I noticed an old file in one of the boxes. I've read that these can be converted into a scraper. I've not seen you cover scraping in you videos - perhaps you could show how to grind an old file to make a scraper and demonstrate it's use?
Another great video. Wish we could find stuff like this in the UK. You would be paying your monthly pension for boxes such as those. Keep em coming Lyle.
+Gary C THANKS for watching
I want the amateur radio tower please as well as the milling machine
the curved metal basin is called an emesis bowl and is commonly found in a hospital for folks suffering from nausea. Cool stuff you have there.
Another auction and lots of "plunder" to look through. I was wondering if you were going to comment on that sad old screwdriver that was in the saber saw case. As you said about the broken bits and burnt up spark plugs, "why do people keep those things?"
Ok, I'll admit it, I have a tee handle for each size tap. There sure aren't estate sales like that anywhere near hear! Thanks Mr. Peterson.
I wished I still lived in Chicago. I would love to go to estate sales of auctions with you. I don't come across cool items like you do. Anyway keep it up. I enjoy watching your videos.
One of the pliers in the blue fridge bin appeared to be a set of parallel pliers like you have featured in a small work holding video. Perhaps you would sell it to me? I have trouble finding those in my part of the country.
Hi, Pete . I think you have an auction Addiction LOL . lots of nice stuff . What does the misses say when she knows pops is going to another auction LOL ?? You have a wonderful day Sir .
Best wishes
Terry
The rifle sight is from a Mossberg S-102 A (also used on other similar models) Would sell on eBay for somewhere around 30.00 to 50.00 , Nice Find!
These videos of yours were coincidentally very helpful to me, and also oddly somewhat like an experience I had just this morning. I watched your multi-part Estate Sale vids not long ago, then just last night I was driving through an alley, and to my utter astonishment I saw someone had thrown away several boxes (and metal tool boxes) full of tool stuff!! To my heart's delight, and my back's dismay, I quickly and quietly gathered up every last bit, and rushed it home not knowing what it all was, and only catching a little glimpse of things. I then had to painstakingly wait until this morning to do an “unboxing” of my free treasures. There was some typical old hand saws, various hammers, a few manual worm gear drills, a few planes, tons of various pliers and screw drivers (Curiously not a single socket), several C Clamps, a Wilton Baby Bullet vice w/ Power Arm, a few machinist vices, a tool box full of files and wood turning knives, boxes of taps and dies, a tray of lathe type wrenches, T handle nut drivers, a TS-30 torque screw driver, and much much more, stuff that I don't even know what it is yet, but also a whole tool box of perhaps a few hundred bits, bores, reamers, chucks, and several Modern Magic collets which I recognized from watching your unboxing vids - Thanks for sharing the knowledge :)
WOW--that's quite a find. You should do a video on that. Thanks
Thank you. To me it is a heck of a find, and one of which I am grateful. - Actually I am slowly but surely taking photos for a vid. :)
If interested: I posted a short photo montage vid of my humble tool find.
John Strange Cannot find your pics.
Whoa, a lucky find just for the Baby Bullet!
I always like to watch the going through of the auction boxes.
+shartne THANKS for watching
The broken center drills work well as reamers, or as pins.
looks like a lot of people I know, they empty all the parts into a cement mixer and drop them into a box, unlike tradesman who like to keep spares clean and tidy, trouble is if they treat the spares this way then the lathe got the same treatment.
If those wing dividers are C.S. Osborne, cleaned up could fetch 20 30 bucks the auction site.
May sound stupid, but could you do a video on how you clean up them tools. Great video.
+one4stevo THANKS for watching
Very nice. Looking forward to the parts 2 and 3!!
The road trips are fascinating as I'm getting to see another part of the world at the same time. Those corn crops look pretty good this year. Hey how many lathes will be enough for you? Cheers, Si in Australia.
@11:24 I'm a new dealership mechanic and I keep old spark plugs because they have iridium electrodes which can go up to over $1000 an ounce but then again I replace spark plugs fairly often so its easy for me to build up a decent quantity quickly. I have no other idea why anyone would keep old spark plugs though.
+Chillhouse THANKS for watching
you keep broken center drills because they are made of good high speed steel that can be ground into other special tools as needed same for old files and allen wrenches
The part 2 video is set to private. Have fun with your Logan lathe.
+Mech Uno THANKS for watching
I wonder how many auctions some of that junk has been at. I've seen stuff for sale with more than three lot numbers....it just goes around and around from one shed to another. I have some taps and wrenches bought at auction that will be sold at auction when I pass on.
Wow you should start a museum I would pay for visiting such a place like your garage :).
There is some real good tool steel there that could be forged into useful tools.
+bc65925 THANKS for watching
What's the best method to find auctions and estate sales like these? Rarely we hear or read of them in our area.
Great vid mr pete, does anyone know of sales like this in the uk, ? Mr pete I know uv said u dont have the room but please can u do a tour of all ur shops / garage, ? Thanks again
+sloan0909 THANKS for watching
lot of scrap iron ,some good stuff ,good vid, mr pete.
YOu asked about saving spark plugs. My grandpa used to sand them clean and then gap them. So, I do too. I'll buy one and insert it, then clean and gap the old one so that when I need to replace it, it's ready. ;)
That back gear guard looks like it is the same as the one on my 1929 11" south bend!!
blue fridge drawer has what appear to be farrier 'pincers' for trimming horse hooves?
not sure...
+cbase1200 THANKS for watching
How do you manage to haul and move this extremely heavy equipment around?
You have an interesting treasure trove Mr Pete. I clicked on the link in the video, and it said private. I hope you can fix it. Thanks for shareing
+Doany Hein THANKS for watching
Abom never seems to have enough Greenfield tap wrenches/ T handles. Maybe you can do a trade with him.
can mill a new end nub on those broken center drills and sharpen
I just love to listen to auctioneers chant. Good luck with the auction.
Beautifully shot video from an iPhone!
13.15 The screwdriver is an early Ford and is collectible.
its like a surprising tool box tour
I like estate sales and auction's!
Those "trays" are called emesis basins:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_dish
Tom - Vista, CA
As usual, I'm way too late, but as someone else has posted, those parallel jaw pliers were a good find if they aren't locked up. Also the the straight and curved round nose pliers.
Ah well.
I have one of your rev counters too here in Ozzi
I can't wait for retirement!
Emesis Basin (Spit Tray, Barf Bucket)
That was an awesome video. Thanks.
Those trays are emesis basins. Otherwise known as kidney pans.
bean shaped tray is an emesis basin
why is this so fascinating?
center drill make them in to end mill tool for Mimi milling machine.
I use old centre drills in boring bars and slotter bars o my Bridgeport. They are HSS and have cost no extra
+James Addington THANKS for watching
Awesome video.
+MrHevyshevy THANKS for watching
Send me all those woodruff keyseat cutters
Mrpete you sure are a LUCKY SOB no offense intended
TUBALCAIN? Most don't get it.
+George Jones THANKS for watching
I'd like to pay you to come down for a week just to go through your stuff. I'd get my money's worth because everything that I pick up I'm gonna put back in the wrong place. I drove my Dad nuts doing that when I was a kid.
lol
MR pete Just how much did you spent at the auction ?just interested to know.
yes auctions can sure get you in cheers from keith in Oz
ain't they call kidney trays?
one mans junk is another mans treasure
used spark plugs = fuel line plug
Lifetime supply of toolpost wrenches :)
+Steve McQuillin yes-THANKS for watching
u want those morse chuck shanks, i'll take em off your hands, but u don't want 2 dozen people asking for stuff.. anyway how did find a metal shop auction.. anyways..?? fact i'll pay for a junk stuff box u plan on throwing away $5 and shipping..?? even if i can use it as scrap..
Am I the only one who sees the horrible motion artifacts? If so, I'll shut up about it.
Emisis basins. ;)
I would wager, the old gentleman who died, bought all that stuff from an estate sale many moons ago, and never got round to sorting it out! ;)
EXACTLY
So, you're participating in a junk migration?
The lathe looks nice....I hope we get to see the first steps taken when bringing home a new machine!
Thanks for sharing!
-- Mike
why keep junk ?well most of us are BOWER BIRDS aren't YOU?