I’m glad to see you are still having fun going to auctions. I can see how excited you are. I know the feeling. I have learned to be satisfied with a lot less these days. 😊
People are here to see/hear you for a reason - set your own pace just as always, speaking your own mind, and we'll continue learning and being thankful for your time and knowledge. Cheers
There's a certain irony to this video being posted alongside a Petebay video 🙂 I say keep them both going if it makes you happy. There's no harm in pursuing your hobby. Add to that you provide us with entertainment and education. And it can be argued that you provide a valuable service as middleman in the acquisition-distribution cycle. New car?
Here i am, an old guy watching an even older guy going throu some auction finds. And the strange thing is, i liked to watch this video. Thanks Mr. Pete
Hello mrpete222, I am glad to see you haven't stopped attending tools and machinery actions, it really is enjoyable to see you having fun and sharing with us out there, thanks, much appreciated, cheers from me, keep them coming.😷👍👍👍👍👍
As someone who grew up near Chicago (northwest Indiana), I loved your "588-2300...Empire" reference!! Remember Jack Brickhouse, Lou Boudreau, and Danly Garage Doors? And as so many others have said, you do your thing and don't worry about what people think. And, thank you, thank you, thank you!! Happy trails from Longmont, Colorado.
Wow, my two takeaways from this. I am glad we don't have things like this in my area! I am so happy to not have any more space for stuff and that I am content with what I have. I get more pleasure watching others buy, drag home, and sort this stuff!! So thanks for sharing!! Oh, those short rods with the threaded end and little knurl. If the other side is convex they could be fingers for a dial bore gauge.
I love your videos where you don't go to any more tool autions and don't spend $400. And I look forward to watching many more videos where you don't go to any more tool autions although it's quite distressing to hear that Mrs Pete went crazy and spent $12 at the same auction that you didn't go to. You could at least tell us what tools she bought...she did buy tools...right? (Also, have you considered making a display of Starret micrometers/measuring tools in a glass display frame? They would look great above any fire place - you could have a notice underneath saying 'in case of emergency break glass 😄)
Thanks Much Lyle. Found it interesting that You post this video after the Petbay one The Green thing in lot 28 is a Tire Tread Depth gauge.. Thanks Much. Mike M.
The cylindrical parts you were wondering about, mixed in with the scribes and punches are from a kit that attaches to calipers so you can measure inside diameters that are larger than the caliper capacity. If they have points, they are good for measuring brake drums. They can be flipped around on the caliper to measure brake rotors too.
Lyle - Sure looked like a good auction I would have seen you at. Seems the auctioneer did a fine job with the presentation as well - some of them just jumble things. Although it seems to be those auctioneers I would never hire is where I get the best deals - LOL. Depends on if you are a buyer or seller. Keep moving and keep enjoying those - I see another PeteBay is up so you have room for more. Like you I appreciate verniers - the height gauge I use on my surface plate is a very old B&S vernier model, nothing at all wrong with it. We haven't had a good tool auction around here in a while. Enjoy.
The dressing stone that you said might be for diamond wheels is a carborundum stone for dressing regular vitrified grinding wheels and mounted shank wheels. Don't throw it away.You can some what true grinding wheels with it. It will work well to true up your pedestal grinding wheels if you don't have a rotary crush dressing tool.
Those knurled threaded rods look like handle that screw into the thimble of a an inside micrometer. Also, were the reamers and taps bought by the original owner as seconds and marked with the incorrect sizes or had the manufacturers name removed so as not to associate tools that didn't pass QC with that manufacturer. Other reasons possible reaasons for grinding taps...In some instances when the machine shop was less well stocked, we didn't have that many chuck wrenches and not all our taps had centres in the end for a centre point, we would occasionally grind flats into the shank of a tap that didn't have a centre on the end. We would then lighty hold the tap in a chuck on a pillar drill to keep it aligned and turned the tap using the flat a tap wrench.
The magnet you skimmed over is a good tool. It is a magnetizer/demagnetizer for a screwdriver. They work well. I have owned one since the 90's when I sold SnapOn tools. Magnetizing a screwdriver has been a real benefit through the years when working on cars. Starting a screw or retrieving one that you dropped that settled in a precarious place that your arm, hand and fingers cannot maneuver into. Plus, demagnetizing it is also a good thing. It may not be perfect but they were inexpensive and did what the package states.
That was a good amount at that auction. That Champion looks like when I worked there. They were good compressors and why I have two. I have the same Mitutoyo set except my ruler is a 24" and my protracter is missing the same nut. I guess either they loosened themselves over time or people liked to fiddle with them. Most of the auctioneers allow you to and actually want you to sign up for their email list so you know when there is a new auction. Was that a Mantis tiller there as well? I wanted one for the little gardening I do at they were very expensive even for wore out ones. I bought one that I don't think was ever used for $55 in November when no one wanted them.
If you have a Starrett tool and know the Starrett tool number, the company can usually supply the missing part. I've found that the older "General" brand stuff is usually adequate for average shop work. I have General tools purchased in the 1960s that are still in use. Be cautious when servicing micrometers that are stuck, stiff, or need adjustment. There are often tricks that you need to know to service micrometers from different manufacturers. Brown & Sharpe and Lufkin are the micrometers you are most likely to see that have different internal construction from Starrett and Asian imports. There are videos and publications that will keep you on the right track. Cheers from NC/USA
Last Saturday I missed an auction due to bad weather. There was a tub of taps of all sizes and a few dies. A vintage Craftsman toolbox full of sockets ratchets, wrenches and extensions. Also a milling machine index with tailstock not sure of the make with a good 4 jaw chuck. This is an annual sale with lots of bidding competition so I probably wouldn't have bought anything but would have been fun anyway. AL B.
Id be interested in buying a half inch or inch micrometer I can clean it up I also need a tap wrench for 2-56 and 1-72 machine screw taps, im getting into knife making so I been acquiring little by little. Thanks for the great video Mr Pete!
Mr. Pete, You seem like a "well meaning elderly man with a GOOD memory". I love my auctions but what exactly can you do with all the tools? Save them for another auction in a few years?
Nice haul mrpete. OK so you like to have a rant now and then and most of us really enjoy them. So can I have one now ? Why do most Americans insist on saying Mit Su toyo when it is clearly written on each instrument Mit U toyo Not an S in sight. I am sure most Americans would be real upset if we foreigners could not say Starrett as it is spelt. Rant over. Great channel and enjoy all your output. ATB regards from the UK
A Precise with a pointed burr to initial W H S on my satin chrome Brown & Sharpe tools. I could find them by seeing the slant lines, the rest of the shop bought Starrett. No stamps and hammer! Coworkers: William Shaw, Wayne Shuhart, William Street.
You know, being pitted a little doesn't hurt a lot of that stuff if it's just below the surface. The pictures and videos were fine, the early morning shadows gave it some character. Have you ever been forced to cut a steel ruler blade in half because you had to have it. It's tough to do. That was a pretty good haul. I went thru my tri-square parts the other day and polished up an old one to use around the house. Didn't want to leave my good stuff out. I need to pick up some paste wax to coat stuff with. A person needs a container with a basket and some oil (maybe with some silicone even like they use on guns that keep the fingerprints off) so you can just dip and drain items before putting them up. Some of that really smells though. Keep going to the auctions, everyone loves it when you do and you know what to look for.
You showed the short small diameter rods with a turned down and threaded section on one end; I have a dial type cylinder bore gauge that uses different length rods similar to those to fit different diameter cylinders. Might or might not be for a similar tool.
Thanks, I think I will check several with a micrometer and see if they are fractional. If they are regrind, someone did a heckuva good job. But you cannot re-sharpeners without changing the size
Grinding the shanks is suspicious , maybe stolen from the work place. Nice plunder, up here in western Canada you would spend a fortune to get your lots. Probably at least $1000 and more. Thank you.
First, you did well at $400 for that lot. There's 400 in mikes alone, then the Albrecht drill chuck. Now you asked why keep broken taps or dull reamers. Simple, it's tool steel. I've made internal grooving tools with a short length of shank from a reamer or tap and a section of steel rod. Cross drill the rod the diameter of the tool steel and add a set screw from the end and you have a grooving tool for snap ring grooves or O ring grooves for next to nothing. Waste not, want not.
@3:05, stop worrying about someone complaining about you bragging. It's not bragging if you got it ! Some people will say you are bragging because you have a shop. Please, ignore them !!
I wish we had auctions like this down here in Texas. Never seen one like this unless it's a business closure. And, every man is master of his own house, but I would not tolerate the Mrs. fiscal irresponsibility. I would deduct that $12.00 from her semi-annual allowance.
The $20 dollar bill has now taken over the $1 bill. The federal reserve needs to start printing $500 and $1,000 notes to make up for inflation and the wad of $100 bills we have to carry these days just to get by.
OK, OK, I get it. Not going over $10 on that Kennedy Cantilever box that looked in really good shape & finished at $35, shows me that the bidding wasn't outrageous or unreasonable at all, definitely not a sign that the USofA Dollar is now worthless. I've heard Farmers 'talk poor' when they ain't to psych out neighbors, and this looks it. Seems everything bought is priced TOO HIGH, and everything sold is TOO LOW!
Cognitively declining , you & me & Joe . Looks like you have a knob to make for the speed square . Where are some people getting money ? Some people are still willing to work & earn it .
I’m glad to see you are still having fun going to auctions. I can see how excited you are. I know the feeling. I have learned to be satisfied with a lot less these days. 😊
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People are here to see/hear you for a reason - set your own pace just as always, speaking your own mind, and we'll continue learning and being thankful for your time and knowledge.
Cheers
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Wow, that was a lot of tools at that auction, I would have lost my mind there and came home broke! Thanks for the trip.
Another great educational video. My most excellent wife watches these with me, so she knows what to look out for at auctions and garage sales.
That is awesome!
I really do enjoy sharing in your auction finds/ envy sometimes too
This just made my morning. Thanks for the great content as always Mr. Pete!
My pleasure!
There's a certain irony to this video being posted alongside a Petebay video 🙂 I say keep them both going if it makes you happy. There's no harm in pursuing your hobby. Add to that you provide us with entertainment and education. And it can be argued that you provide a valuable service as middleman in the acquisition-distribution cycle.
New car?
This man is responsible for my sizable collection of machinists tools even though I'm an electrician by trade.
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Here i am, an old guy watching an even older guy going throu some auction finds.
And the strange thing is, i liked to watch this video.
Thanks Mr. Pete
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You commentary is refreshing and insightful.
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Hello mrpete222, I am glad to see you haven't stopped attending tools and machinery actions, it really is enjoyable to see you having fun and sharing with us out there, thanks, much appreciated, cheers from me, keep them coming.😷👍👍👍👍👍
As someone who grew up near Chicago (northwest Indiana), I loved your "588-2300...Empire" reference!! Remember Jack Brickhouse, Lou Boudreau, and Danly Garage Doors? And as so many others have said, you do your thing and don't worry about what people think. And, thank you, thank you, thank you!! Happy trails from Longmont, Colorado.
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I still use a vernier caliper. Keeps the skill fresh.
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Lots of great finds. Looks like a fun time.
Great video,mrpete.Thank you.
Lol, how many times have we heard Mr Pete say, "This is my LAST auction!" ?
Great job! Consistency is fantastic. You remind me why I first watched. ❤ u and God Bless!
Wow, thank you!
Wow, my two takeaways from this. I am glad we don't have things like this in my area! I am so happy to not have any more space for stuff and that I am content with what I have.
I get more pleasure watching others buy, drag home, and sort this stuff!! So thanks for sharing!!
Oh, those short rods with the threaded end and little knurl. If the other side is convex they could be fingers for a dial bore gauge.
Glad you enjoy it.
I finally determined the little rods belong on dial indicators
I love your videos where you don't go to any more tool autions and don't spend $400. And I look forward to watching many more videos where you don't go to any more tool autions although it's quite distressing to hear that Mrs Pete went crazy and spent $12 at the same auction that you didn't go to. You could at least tell us what tools she bought...she did buy tools...right?
(Also, have you considered making a display of Starret micrometers/measuring tools in a glass display frame? They would look great above any fire place - you could have a notice underneath saying 'in case of emergency break glass 😄)
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Good video. Empire, I was thinking of the jingle as soon as you said it. Lol
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I am happy. you keep yourself happy at the auctions. Great video
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Great to see you so fired up !
Thanks Much Lyle.
Found it interesting that You post this video after the Petbay one
The Green thing in lot 28 is a Tire Tread Depth gauge..
Thanks Much.
Mike M.
Always interesting to see the auction finds.
Thank you I really enjoy watching your videos watching from South Africa
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I am so jealous we have no auctions like this here good stuff
Nobody believed you wouldn’t go to another auction. We know addiction when we see it
The cylindrical parts you were wondering about, mixed in with the scribes and punches are from a kit that attaches to calipers so you can measure inside diameters that are larger than the caliper capacity. If they have points, they are good for measuring brake drums. They can be flipped around on the caliper to measure brake rotors too.
Lyle - Sure looked like a good auction I would have seen you at. Seems the auctioneer did a fine job with the presentation as well - some of them just jumble things. Although it seems to be those auctioneers I would never hire is where I get the best deals - LOL. Depends on if you are a buyer or seller. Keep moving and keep enjoying those - I see another PeteBay is up so you have room for more. Like you I appreciate verniers - the height gauge I use on my surface plate is a very old B&S vernier model, nothing at all wrong with it. We haven't had a good tool auction around here in a while. Enjoy.
I would have loved to go to an auction like that. However, it probably would have increased the prices even more. LOL Awesome video Mr. Pete!
MRPETE how do you find these tool auctions and other places that are selling such as garage sales etc.? We don't see ads for them anymore in CA.
Who doesn't love "junk"
I use verniers ! only caliper that will stay working in the crane business .... Fabulous auction quite the score ! best regards Steve
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More things for us to admire 😊
The dressing stone that you said might be for diamond wheels is a carborundum stone for dressing regular vitrified grinding wheels and mounted shank wheels. Don't throw it away.You can some what true grinding wheels with it. It will work well to true up your pedestal grinding wheels if you don't have a rotary crush dressing tool.
That Albrecht drill chuck costs as much as you paid for everything.
Great job. Thank you 😊
Those knurled threaded rods look like handle that screw into the thimble of a an inside micrometer.
Also, were the reamers and taps bought by the original owner as seconds and marked with the incorrect sizes or had the manufacturers name removed so as not to associate tools that didn't pass QC with that manufacturer.
Other reasons possible reaasons for grinding taps...In some instances when the machine shop was less well stocked, we didn't have that many chuck wrenches and not all our taps had centres in the end for a centre point, we would occasionally grind flats into the shank of a tap that didn't have a centre on the end. We would then lighty hold the tap in a chuck on a pillar drill to keep it aligned and turned the tap using the flat a tap wrench.
Thanks
The magnet you skimmed over is a good tool. It is a magnetizer/demagnetizer for a screwdriver. They work well. I have owned one since the 90's when I sold SnapOn tools. Magnetizing a screwdriver has been a real benefit through the years when working on cars. Starting a screw or retrieving one that you dropped that settled in a precarious place that your arm, hand and fingers cannot maneuver into. Plus, demagnetizing it is also a good thing. It may not be perfect but they were inexpensive and did what the package states.
Thanks,. Yes, I already have one of those magnetizers. I think I showed it in a video long time ago.
That was a good amount at that auction. That Champion looks like when I worked there. They were good compressors and why I have two. I have the same Mitutoyo set except my ruler is a 24" and my protracter is missing the same nut. I guess either they loosened themselves over time or people liked to fiddle with them. Most of the auctioneers allow you to and actually want you to sign up for their email list so you know when there is a new auction. Was that a Mantis tiller there as well? I wanted one for the little gardening I do at they were very expensive even for wore out ones. I bought one that I don't think was ever used for $55 in November when no one wanted them.
The only item I would be interested in purchasing would be the 1/4" Albrecht Keyless drill chuck. The rest I already have or do not need or want!
If you have a Starrett tool and know the Starrett tool number, the company can usually supply the missing part.
I've found that the older "General" brand stuff is usually adequate for average shop work. I have General tools purchased in the 1960s that are still in use.
Be cautious when servicing micrometers that are stuck, stiff, or need adjustment. There are often tricks that you need to know to service micrometers from different manufacturers. Brown & Sharpe and Lufkin are the micrometers you are most likely to see that have different internal construction from Starrett and Asian imports. There are videos and publications that will keep you on the right track.
Cheers from NC/USA
Thanks
Thanks again
The Albrecht chuck is the only thing I would have bought, have the rest of the stuff already, don’t need more at my age
The reamers and taps might have been held in a collar with a few set screws. The recess would give clearance for any burrs raised by the set screws.
I think we all knew you would go to another auction.
You're still kicking, a man cant help himself. Lol
Last Saturday I missed an auction due to bad weather. There was a tub of taps of all sizes and a few dies. A vintage Craftsman toolbox full of sockets ratchets, wrenches and extensions. Also a milling machine index with tailstock not sure of the make with a good 4 jaw chuck. This is an annual sale with lots of bidding competition so I probably wouldn't have bought anything but would have been fun anyway. AL B.
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Mr Pete there is a market for may of these items. Where I live there are auctions
Id be interested in buying a half inch or inch micrometer I can clean it up I also need a tap wrench for 2-56 and 1-72 machine screw taps, im getting into knife making so I been acquiring little by little. Thanks for the great video Mr Pete!
Mr. Pete, You seem like a "well meaning elderly man with a GOOD memory". I love my auctions but what exactly can you do with all the tools? Save them for another auction in a few years?
Nice haul mrpete. OK so you like to have a rant now and then and most of us really enjoy them. So can I have one now ? Why do most Americans insist on saying Mit Su toyo when it is clearly written on each instrument Mit U toyo Not an S in sight. I am sure most Americans would be real upset if we foreigners could not say Starrett as it is spelt. Rant over. Great channel and enjoy all your output. ATB regards from the UK
Good round.
But I have never heard anyone pronounce it that way
A Precise with a pointed burr to initial W H S on my satin chrome Brown & Sharpe tools. I could find them by seeing the slant lines, the rest of the shop bought Starrett. No stamps and hammer! Coworkers: William Shaw, Wayne Shuhart, William Street.
Morning Lyle
Could they have ground the shafts of those taps and reamers, to remove the hard surface, so they could grip them with Mole Grips or something?
You know, being pitted a little doesn't hurt a lot of that stuff if it's just below the surface. The pictures and videos were fine, the early morning shadows gave it some character. Have you ever been forced to cut a steel ruler blade in half because you had to have it. It's tough to do. That was a pretty good haul. I went thru my tri-square parts the other day and polished up an old one to use around the house. Didn't want to leave my good stuff out. I need to pick up some paste wax to coat stuff with. A person needs a container with a basket and some oil (maybe with some silicone even like they use on guns that keep the fingerprints off) so you can just dip and drain items before putting them up. Some of that really smells though. Keep going to the auctions, everyone loves it when you do and you know what to look for.
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You showed the short small diameter rods with a turned down and threaded section on one end; I have a dial type cylinder bore gauge that uses different length rods similar to those to fit different diameter cylinders. Might or might not be for a similar tool.
Thank you yes, I finally figured out. They are to be used as extension rods on a dial indicator.
Education on what and what not to go for at auction for newbie toolies😂
Mr Pete. I am new to machining and would like to come do a class with you. Is this something you do? I am in Chicago
😉 My Grandfather once told me "Boy... you got wantitis"!
here in Europe German is really good next best thing to British tools the german engineering is very precise
They always were noted for their engineering
Re-ground and the size ground off. On the reamers. Maybe Imperial to Metric . Maybe just needed reground from use.
Thanks, I think I will check several with a micrometer and see if they are fractional. If they are regrind, someone did a heckuva good job.
But you cannot re-sharpeners without changing the size
There was a box of hand warmers on the table that you fill with lighter fluid or white gas and they looked new. I didn't know they still made them.
I was outbid on them. I think they were older ones.
I have seen Reimers get resharpened and ground off like used for custom fittings and fabrication
We in the UK call hermaphrodites oddlegs. That shouldn't upset anybody, but you never know.
Imagine going through life worried you may upset someone. Not me.
Grinding the shanks is suspicious , maybe stolen from the work place. Nice plunder, up here in western Canada you would spend a fortune to get your lots. Probably at least $1000 and more. Thank you.
And, what do you use aluminum reamers on, wax? Thanks, Mr Pete!
Butter
Those 12 bucks tipped it over the edge, surely. No more auctions for you!
First, you did well at $400 for that lot. There's 400 in mikes alone, then the Albrecht drill chuck.
Now you asked why keep broken taps or dull reamers. Simple, it's tool steel. I've made internal grooving tools with a short length of shank from a reamer or tap and a section of steel rod. Cross drill the rod the diameter of the tool steel and add a set screw from the end and you have a grooving tool for snap ring grooves or O ring grooves for next to nothing. Waste not, want not.
I think when you are over 65, you can do whatever you want in public... I mean what does it matter anyway?
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@3:05, stop worrying about someone complaining about you bragging. It's not bragging if you got it ! Some people will say you are bragging because you have a shop. Please, ignore them !!
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I would like very much to go to a auction with you.
half and half lol!!!
I wish we had auctions like this down here in Texas. Never seen one like this unless it's a business closure. And, every man is master of his own house, but I would not tolerate the Mrs. fiscal irresponsibility. I would deduct that $12.00 from her semi-annual allowance.
You are a harsh taskmaster.
I simply grounded her for a month
Guys with tools are never without money.
It's sad to think that's someone lifes work being sold. ☹
Never trust a politician or an addict.
You mean I shouldn’t trust the people that are supposed to represent us?
I think you paid too much. But that's only because I am really cheap. 😂
Mr. Pete, don't you already have, 10 of every thing. How could your wife spend so much money?
Send me some of that stuff I will buy it
The $20 dollar bill has now taken over the $1 bill. The federal reserve needs to start printing $500 and $1,000 notes to make up for inflation and the wad of $100 bills we have to carry these days just to get by.
Do not expect anything sensible out of the bureaucrats
@@mrpete222That is so true...Congress and state legislatures need a complete enema.
OK, OK, I get it. Not going over $10 on that Kennedy Cantilever box that looked in really good shape & finished at $35, shows me that the bidding wasn't outrageous or unreasonable at all, definitely not a sign that the USofA Dollar is now worthless. I've heard Farmers 'talk poor' when they ain't to psych out neighbors, and this looks it. Seems everything bought is priced TOO HIGH, and everything sold is TOO LOW!
Some people are still acting as if nothing is happening. The incident in Athens woke up a few.
You are a bad influence on me. I keep giving tools away and then buying more!
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Lol not woke enough
Cognitively declining , you & me & Joe . Looks like you have a knob to make for the speed square . Where are some people getting money ? Some people are still willing to work & earn it .
Which means yes, those were working men. The non-workers were at home playing video games.
How big a buyer's premium do these folks charge? Or do they? Love these auction videos!!!