AUCTION BOX of PRECISION TOOLS
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- Here' a nice box of machinist tools I scored on recently.
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Hey, we tool lovers always appreciate when one of our own scores a box of goodies! May we all have such good fortune from time to time :)
Thank you Mr Pete for another great video. I miss watching your auction videos. Always interesting
Great video. I learn a lot from you going thru tool boxes and lots like this. ...I just started as a tool and die maker. Watching your videos on what tools to buy and what not to buy has been a huge help.
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i like old tools and appreciate when you share them. I also like to clean up old tired iron and tools to make them usable again. In some ways it's sort of our responsibility to do that. they were used with love and pride somewhere along the line, or at least i like to think so, and it is a waste to throw that, and the good metallurgy they are made of away. Lots of that stuff, even though gimped out and scarred is still better than what you can find on the market today. I know not everyone thinks like that, but i do and it's important to me to pass it on. i also keep good scrap and things like leaf springs, stuff with some good metal in them and make something out of it instead of letting it go to waste. junk tools though go in the scrap heap. a couple of years ago i discovered a way to deal with the scads of screwdrivers i had. made some with good steel into picks and such, and the junk one you can pull the handles off them (it's really easy, i never knew that) and use the handles for files and whatnot. Sort of a redemption for a junk screwdriver with steel that should of been used for nails.
Great comment and all very true
I always enjoy your videos. I would enjoy that box of goodie’s under my Christmas tree. I’m sick of socks!
How about a nice manicure set?
Mr. Pete I have learned alot over the years from you precious plunder. Tools and items I would have never have known what they are or what they were used for. Thank you for all you do. You are a national treasure! P.s. Packard made some of the world's most beautiful pieces of machinery.
That magnet you received for free is fodder for a video showing how to make a new nut to replace the one Bubba modified. The gear cutting attachment for an Atlas lathe is right up my alley. Great idea and I am looking forward to watching and learning all about it. Thanks.
Yes, thank you for the fodder suggestion. Luckyly I didn’t throw it out yet.
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Pete,
I have the same federal indicator but a 1 inch travel. Mine came from the Joliet plant i have been using it for many years.
I bought mine from a x employee. It was part of a tool kit for a apprenticeship along with dial indicator and other tools
Regards
Troy
Happy Thanksgiving Mr. Pete. All of us Iron Addicts love seeing your plunder boxes, please keep showing them to us.
Making a replacement locking nut for the buggered up one at the 9:00 mark would make for good video content.
G'day from Australia, another great video, wonderful selection of items.
Here in this region, a box like that could easily sell for $600.00 Australian.
Quality old tools often sell for more than new equivalent ones.
I would love to have that box of wonderful tools, even the tools you would throw away are good to keep cause I would find some use for things but you never know when you might need something like that, keep up the good work you're doing a great job
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Nice purchase. I like the Federal Indicators. They are built like a tank inside.
I was over your way last weekend visiting the Brown Brothers at their shop north of you. They spoke very highly of you, and of course I left with a great purchase. What a great bunch of folks and a great historical location.
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5:00: I have a number of indicators with that back, Federal and Starrett. It mounts to, among other things, comparator stands (like the Federal 35) with the proper head. Another is in a Federal special diameter gauge (9.025" +/- 0.050"). It allows for rough adjusting the indicator position in a gauging setup while maintaining the axis. 7:30: I'll go through the collection, but it looks familiar. The Miti-Mite trademark (in this product class. It was also trademarked in several other classes. The P&H miti-mite is a truck mount- 10 ton crane) The Miti-mite trademerk went through a number of hands over the years, Enco (earliest I can find, at the original, pre-MSC, Fullerton ave address), Lufkin (later 1950's), and B&S (to current under Tesa) among them, IIRC, and was relabled by a fair number of others, including Ralmike. I have a number of them from several eras, including an ENCO lamp, and a Lufkin lamp and magnifier. Handy as all-get=out
Thank you for the little history lesson. I think I remember the enco
Mr. Pete, you are by far the funniest TH-camr I watch. The ending…I actually laughed out loud. Maybe it’s our Scandinavian blood but I think we have similar humor. Aren’t you a bit Scandinavian?
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"Miti-Mite" tools were also marketed by other manufacturers, such as Brown&Sharpe, suggesting that these were manufactured by an independent company and supplied to these tool manufacturers who added their own company name ("rebadged"). All of them bore the horseshoe magnet and "Miti-Mite" trademark.
Thank you very much for telling me that. I had a feeling that more than one company use that trademark because I have seen a lot of them over the years but not many lately.
Mighty Mags were still made in the US last time i checked. They definitely stay put when a lot of the switchable block indicator magnets won't.
I would have to say after watching 800 some videos of yours, I would say you are crazy, crazy about PLUNDER ! You are like "Pirate Pete" always on the look out for plunder especially Starrett plunder, the best kind. Awesome video, love to see the auction finds, Tubalcain. Definitely want that under the tree instead of Old Spice!
You really have me figured it out don’t you? Lol.
I think it is because you put alot of your soul into your content Sir, and have for years, very impressive. Thank you for that.
Mr. Pete, I found a round stock center finder at a scrap yard in nice condition. It was my first, but certainly not my first machine tool. I have a number that I've found, including 1-2-3 blocks, a step block and a bunch of no name parallels. A friend of mine is a machinist, so I gifted the latter tools to him since he would have more use than I would.
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I will say thank you as well Mr. Pete. I am just getting to know your great videos and I share your enthusiasm for tools in general, and older tools in particular.
Thank you!!!
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Heck, yeah, I like videos like this. I chose to watch this to see what you thought was a good value and to hear your thoughts about the individual items. Some of the TH-cam guys have ads for burglar alarms, dried algae, and meals in a kit. That puts me off too. You and I are close to the same age but you know more about this subject than I have years left to learn. There's a lot more quality vintage machinist's stuff in the Southern Great Lakes area than in the western Great Plains but I'd guess that box of stuff went for $150 if it was sold as a single lot.
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You don't even have to wrap it. what A Gift it would be.
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I love Lufkin tools. I was fortunate to get a set of micrometers 6-12 in excellent shape in their wood box for almost nothing ($50.00). Now on the lookout for a set 0-6 in the same shape. That's a wish lol. But Lufkin tools have went out of sight on price in the past year or so.
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@@mrpete222 I found those with the help with tom at hilltop machine works.
To find a box like that as a gift?
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Fun vid!
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I had a gauge exactly the same as the Caterpillar gauge, it was part of a Cat fuel injection calibration tool set
Interesting
Rooting through box from coworker whose machinist dad recently passed, understand your addiction.. thanks!
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@Mr.Pete my dad worked for TRW for 23 years. You would not believe what he would pull out of the scrap bin. They would throw away some fixture and not take the indicators off them. That is probably how that Caterpillar indicator was acquired.
Mr Pete, I really appreciate your videos and seeing all the plunder. I would like to ask that you post a video on what you use to clean up the rules and parts. You mention cleaning them up but I wonder how you go about it.
Thanks,
Norm in Arizona
Good idea for a video, but I don’t believe it would get many viewers. I have many many videos on rust removal. I’m sure you have seen them.
I have watched many of your videos and even purchased one of your video courses for the milling machine I don’t have but maybe someday 😊. I was not so much thinking about rust removal Lyle but the staining you sometimes see on old rules and calipers. Thanks for the reply.
$40 is what I would have bid. On your comment about getting used tools for Christmas. I would love it if my wife were to have this box for me as a gift. New or used a tool is a tool and would be a nice addition to my collection
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The Cat indicator is a dealer service tool as others have noted. Cat now sells Mitutoyo electronic indicators and Starrett mechanical indicators, among others
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I would have given $140 for that. I have no problem paying a little more for something I want and is tougher to come across. I’d bet the surface gauge is a craftsman that didn’t get branded. The plastic tips makes me lean that way. Enjoyed this video.
You may well be correct. Did they ever a list that item in their tool catalog?
Yes they did. I will email you some photos from eBay
Both Federal indicator are sluggish and you already know what to do so I’ll leave it at that. The micrometer is used and off but it’s still a Starrett so again, you know what to do. The Mighty Mag is nice to find and always some use around the shop. The Starrett indicator holders are not my cup of tea ever since finding Noga so, there’s that. The plastic protectors on the surface gauge can be bought for a few dollars per hundred so that won’t help with age identification. If you made me, I’d say it was 80 years old (1940’s) based on the look/color of the steel, the type of screw and the shape and style and the knurled knobs. “ you couldn’t give me that” ha ha, I agree! The Lufkin Miti mite is kind of interesting. I like it because of its compact size but could guess when it was in use. The Union Tool square set looks to be made pretty well and I would certainly take some time to clean it up and then check it’s accuracy. It’s thin size could come in handy. The second adjustable square doesn’t look like a quality piece at all to me. I wouldn’t waste my Evapo rust on it. Knowing what exactly was in the box (as opposed to just seeing a picture), I’d bid $100 easy.
Yes, I appreciate you not taking a cut to sell me a homemade dining room rug and yes I’ve noticed the aggravating situation these days. Thank you for keeping the video on point and taking the time to show and explain what you’re up to.
Caterpillar recently (a few years back)went through a significant down turn and had to close several facilities through out the US. Its entirely possible that that indicator was sold in a site closure auction, or as surplus.
They closeed too big plants within 60 miles of my house in the last few years
A used tool box with tools I never seen before would be a great gift especially if the giver got them at a very cheap cost. The fun would be researching the tools.
I love anything made in The USA. Especially Starrett
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I have the same Union Tool rule and protractor head......bravo....Cheers, Paul down in florida
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Nice box of tools Mr.Pete.
I would say a sale price of 55.00 dollars.
The Federal/Cat gauge and the National combination square being the hidden gems of the box.
Thanks for sharing.
Take care, Ed.
I only read a few comments until I found a higher bid for the box than I would give. I was thinking $45, and that would be a stretch for me. I have too many duplicates of that box contents for it to be very important to me. BUT, I would still happily bring it home, because I treasure these tools very much the way that you do.
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Thats a $40 box here. I have several Federals like that with the GE logo. I heard that they were given to shop foreman who put in large orders, but given the number I have, I question that. I even have a 4” branded one. I can email you pics if you like. Its a nice piece of history and they are very solid and under-appreciated indicators. These tool videos are my favorite - I always learn something new about some tool. Thanks Mr P., Good tidings.
Yes, send me some good pictures, I might show them in a video
$100 for the box. I never find stuff like this because almost all the industry in my area left long ago. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. The gear cutter video will be a good one !
I have three mighty mags, they are still made and sold. The price is around 50.00$ brand new. I acquired my from 2nd hand and trading, excellent product. I have been machining for 42 years, the older starret tools are well worth it. The new stuff is made in China and sucks. Cool video
Caterpillar had an auction a few years ago at one of their buildings in East Peoria. They sold many vidmar cabinets with tools still in them.
Wish I had been there
I think I would stopped at 75 bucks for me. Cool stuff for sure!! Happy Holidays to ya!
Love the "Studio B" Lyle....
SO love to see all the Plunder You get ..
Not seeing the other Comments yet. I'd probably bid $50. on the Flat.. (Flat is an Auction Term LOL)..
I'm glad I can skip through all the "Shilling" in Videos that are out there.. I think the "L" key is going to be the most worn out key on the Keyboard .
Much Thanks Lyle. I hope You had a Great Turkey Day.
Mike M.
Morning Mr Pete, l do enjoy your tool find videos. I am retired and have a limited budget but endless time to tinker and clean up machinest tools. I would make use of all those tools and be proud to have them. Ted from Nova Scotia
Always happy to see new tools.
Lyle, $100 For the Whole Box - Love the Old American Made Tools - Yes I Hate Ties - Also...
I Hate the Ads - Also - Why Because I Did Not Come Here to Watch the Ads - I Came Here to Learn From The Creator of the Video... NOT WATCH ADS
Always a pleasure. Years ago we did a holiday magic show for the Catepillar company in Peoria. I got to go into the R&D department as we had to retrofit an illusion. The shop area was unbelievable. You could eat off the floor anyplace. They had various manufaturing equipment, i.e. John Deere, that they were tearing apart and working on making copycat units as apparently John Deere had copies some of Cat's stuff. But what a great shop area.
Happy belated Thanksgiving my friend.
I would have enjoyed that
Exciting! Thanks
Don't worry !!! You are like a GOD to many of your viewers , me anyway !!!
Enjoyed your comments on the tools .. the surface gauge is maybe an apprentice project , they were always a favorite .. greetings from South from an old Starrett toolmaking apprentice..have you noticed that we Brits spell gage ( gauge ) differently ? Starrett had a factory in Scotland when I served my apprenticeship way back starting in 1961.. Keep well Mr Pete
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I buy lufkin micrometers on ebay all the time. I love those tools!
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I have a height gauge like the one in this video I bought from a retired tool and die maker it came in a Starrett box and the seller stated he bought it new It has no markings stating it is a Starrett it is great quality if it actually isn't a Starrett its ok he sold it to me cheap it works for what I wanted it for and I'm not making parts for NASA anyway !
Another great assortment of tools you got there have a great holiday season
i have a lufkin mighty mite. and i have some old 1940s and 50s lufkin catalogs as well as my oddball collection of lufkin stuff. But i swear i have that exact same unbranded Surface gauge pointer. I thought it was home made but from my memory, its that exact same thing. i' would only pay about $40 and only for that Caterpillar Federal mic. If i didnt have 5 of each of them, i would pay more. KEEP IT UP. This stuff is what i love to watch. I will send you a video of my pile someday. I would love to see the smallest surface gauge you have. i 'have one thats ridiculously small
I will get out my Luskin catalog and see if the picture matches the surface gauge. My smallest gauge is a sheer tumico. I’m sure it has appeared in my videos.
Enjoyed your tool finds video,
Like you my heirs will fight over my tool collection. Yes I Too enjoy finding/ buying stuff especially good precision tools/equipment. Keep up the good content Mr. Pete.
I always enjoy your 'plunder' videos.
Happy Thanksgiving Mr Pete! Being an old tool guy (yes I am old and I love to collect old tools) I always enjoy rummaging through old tools to see what's at the bottom of the box myself! I think you have an interesting box of tools that are perfect for day-to-day projects ... and even though they might not be a "top" brand they certainly appear to be quality. Your Union Tool finds interested me because their factory in Orange MA was literally miles from Starrett's factory in Athol, MA so I'm wondering if some of the Starrett folks spun off thinking they could do whatever, better for the right price! Please keep content like this coming!!
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Up here in rural, prairie Canada machinist tools are hard to come by. The auction house would break up the lot and it would sell for $2-300 Canadian or $150-225USD. Location matters.
Thank you Mr Pete. I very much enjoyed seeing these things and I am happy for you.
Awesome!
Another great video.
Had I been there at start of bidding... I would have put a Max Bid in of £40
Thanks Lyle.... Love th we old tools!
Exciting !!
Nice Lot of tool. Thanks Mr. Pete and it would be a wonderful Christmas gift.
I like seeing another mans shopping treasures . also looking forward to the gear cutter series!
Quite a haul.
I would probably go to like 40 bucks for that. I would put most in the user drawers in the tool box. I like old tools. Definitely make a good Christmas present.
It's a great box of goodies. It looks to be worth $80
I have seen dial indicators sold as part of brake disc measuring kits, I could see branded ones included in kits that.
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$29.95. No up’s, no downs, no extras!
Thanks for sharing so much of your knowledge and expertise with us!😎
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Things like the Federal Caterpillar indicator may have been puchased legitimately at a company store. I've bought lots of stuff here in Porland from the Tektronix RAMS, or Recycling And Material Salvage store. Back in the day it was called the Country Store. They even sold off an old Bridgeport from time to time. Boeing also had a big store in Kent Washington, long gone, sadly.
I would have loved that. I never saw a store like that.
I have a Union tool square and I use it often my Father Has one of those Starrett no 657 for what it is it works fairly well ! Thank you for another great video !
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I’d have paid $50 just for that Federal indicator by itself. Hope y’all have a great Holiday season
1) $50 box
2) The Union Tool Company. In 1957, Millers Falls acquired the Union Tool Company, a small firm of about 100 employees located at 48 East River Street in Orange, Massachusetts. Union Tool, in business since 1908, was a manufacturer of gauges, rules, squares and machinists' tools.
3) Ingersoll Rand acquired Millers Falls Company in 1962. Twenty years later, Ingersoll Rand sold the Millers Fall Company division to the Millers Falls Tool Company, a new firm headquartered in Alpha, New Jersey.
In 2002, Hangzhou's Great Star Industrial Company, Ltd., located in Hangzhou, China, purchased the Millers Falls Tool Company trademark.
Thank you for that bit of tool history. Millers Falls also acquired Goodelle Pratt.
I like the “picking” videos, Mr. Pete. Old machinist tools are catnip!
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Even though I already have most of what's in the box, I couldn't resist giving around $80 for what you have there. I love me some boxes of old tools. I especially like the Federal indicator with Caterpillar on it. I have several tools made by Union Tool Co., and one of which is that combination square which I think is of very nice quality. I also have one by Starrett which is very similar. I have seen a couple of wooden machinist chests with the Union name on them and always wondered if they were made by the same company that made the tools. The chests appeared to be quite old to me and of very good quality. I like looking through your plunder scores Mr. Pete!
That Federal indicator came from a special tool put together by Cat and available for dealer service departments to use. There were and are many different Cat engineered special tools for working on Cat equipment
Thank you, I did not know that
I came here to say exactly this. I worked as a mechanic for Case New Holland, John Deere, Agco-Allis, and Gleaner dealers for many years. All of them have dealer only tools that are only available from the factory and sold to dealers only. Occasionally they may not a tool, but they would send a detailed drawing for dealers to make the tools themselves. I was the person at every dealership I worked at to make the tools if we needed them. I would bet that dial indicator came out of a dealer only tool kit. New Holland would ship and charge the dealers for these special tools if they sold a piece of equipment that would require one of these tools even though the dealer didn't order them. These kits were expensive and the owners were never happy when one would show up when they didn't order it. We would have tool rooms with shelves full of these tools that were very seldom and often never used.
Great video. What I'd pay for that box........... $30 if my wife was watching, $50 if she was distracted. Take care.
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I like to see this kind of videos.Thank you.
Nice haul! Never get tired of tools! $40.00 seems like a good price to pay.
Great find. I'd say $50-$60. Most of my tools are used, Ebay finds. There was very little manufacturing in the San Antonio, TX area up to the '80's, so not likely to find gems like these.
$65 It depends on day. I go most Tuesdays to a junk flee market. Last week found an adjustable wrench that uses a sliding triangle to lock the adjustment.
Would love to have a box like that under the tree!
Nothing i would bid on . Good video.
that mag base is the same model I used to destroy the family tv in the early 80s !
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Hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving and are staying warm up there
Always fun going through a box of tools. I'm cheap, I would only go 50 bucks on the box.
Mark at $29.95 has got you beat. (:-)))
I think I have that same Lufkin catalog. I bought it at the Kane County Flea Market a couple of years ago.
I had been to that flea market several times. But that was a long, long time ago.
Great box! I would pay $75. Its amazing I have alot of these items in my toolbox. Great find!
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Yes that would be a great gift. Thanks for sharing. I would pay $25.00.
Whatever you paid it would be more here in California. If you found that box say at a garage sale here you would have to shell out some fairly good coin for it.
Solid $35, maybe $40. Nice find, Lyle!
Would you do a video on the milling attachment that is on your bench. I have one for my 6" Sears lathe Thanks Bill
I never find boxes like this.
I usually find a broken toaster and a rusted 3/4 flat wrench.
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The Union Tool brand (Orange, Mass) was picked up by Miller's Falls and produced, at least into late 60's or 70's. There were many "Union" branded tools, and they were not all the same company. The Union Mfg Co has been re-started, and is making some very good quality hand planes and such, all in the
U.S. of A.!
Thank you for the little history lesson
Yep tools are awesome, for sure! However, you show your true wisdom in saying what really matters is God, family and country! With that knowledge you can enjoy the tools in proper perspective. God continue to bless you Mr. Pete!!!!
I would stop at 45 bucks. , I like it when you get tools.
Nice score on the tools. I'd have paid $55 at auction but I think the value is much higher. Thanks for the video.