There is nothing more satisfying than coming back from something like that and looking through all the loot. The second most satisfying thing is watching you do it.
Dude.. I am not a machinist I don't have a lathe or anything even remotely related to machine shops yet I love watching your content. I appreciate your pure honesty. There isnt a false sense in anything you do. I wish all the success in the world for you.
I’m just a lowly metal fabricator aka “weldor”. But I love watching your videos and wish I had RU-vid 30 years ago when I was graduating HS and wondering what I wanted to be when I grew up. Keep inspiring the new generations Adam! You’re the man! 💪🏻👍🏻
Adam, I have a super spacer similar to those. To change your number of divisions you loosen the Allen bolt on the circle piece with the pin and line up the number of spaces to the index line. Then this determines how far the handle throw is. I use mine a lot. Much faster for simple spacing than an indexing head in my opinion. I think a worthy piece in the shop! You got some great stuff, and so cheap! Tom
Wow, some great tools Adam Please make some covers for the Optical Comparator to protect both glass screens. We had wooden covers that stayed on with magnets. Cheers from Australia.
Hi Adam, Definitely a great bargain on the optical comparator! As we have some very tight tolerance proprietary threading inserts custom ground for us, the comparator is our 'go to tool' for inspection of the inserts to qualify them for production. Using a CAD system, printable transparency film & a laser printer, we print the profile out at 100x size. This is placed on the view screen and the insert 'adjusted' to best fit of the profile. If it fits within the limit lines of the transparency, it is 'good'. If it does not, that tip is scrap and is ground off of the insert. Obviously, one must print at the scale of the magnification level of the lens used. Take care & be safe, Ken
well, the EASY part was buying...now the HARD part is sorting, cleaning, storing, selling, trashing....ATB....you will find the optical comparator handy for checking angles and measurements
“I’m just going through trying to show you something cool” 🤣🤣🤣 That’s more tooling than I have ever owned in my life Adam... you basically could set up another machine shop with that haul, that’s pretty cool. Thanks for making me jealous.
I know it's a lot to work through but I'm glad you were able to get everything. Not just wanting to see things to not get wasted but seeing it go to a good guy is a big plus. Hope you can sell the stuff you don't need for a big profit. We want you to be taken care of. Congrats!
Abom, Quite a score! For someone who has a grand total of eight end mills and a few other odds and ends and little money this is somewhat overwhelming to me. Lol No need to disclaim on the ego bit. Most viewers are delighted to see a haul like this. Mr. Pete always makes a no bragging claim but it’s unnecessary. I, for one, revel in your good fortune and find the sorting through process fascinating.
I have two identical looking super spacers to your three, mine being Bison brand with three jaw Bison chucks. These are incredibly handy and remain at each end of my 60" mill table. One has the jaws reversed for larger items. As "Okie-Tom" states in his comment below, very easy and quick to change index angle. NO plates to change but unit has indents at common angles. Check pricing on these, it will scare you! What a great score on all the stuff you bought!
Adam back in the day when I worked at Brubaker Tool Co. I used one of them daily...we had patterns that we clipped under those four clips in the big screen then under the light we had a set if centers that we spun the end mill on to check that we ground the tangent arc (radius) from the front cutting edge to the side cutting edge...
Good catch! Based on your video I've been looking at local auctions, but since I'm not registered as a company I can only attend public auctions. There prices are unrealistic. After taxes and handling fees some items are more expensive than they would be to buy them brand new!
Abomb, I envy your Craftsmanship and appreciation of the tools for professional results!!.. Youre a Hard, Intelligent worker and my friend you are part of a Group of Mens Men!!!..
That's an awesome haul. I might be interested in an indexer or two, a couple of jacobs chucks, some lathe tooling, carbide end mills, silver and demming bits, and some reamers.
Adam one of your subscribers said that the bolts in the rock well hardness tester is for the feet to level it with. I did not know if you saw that. About your gloves the last of my 17 years with ford. The young guys would were them and I would joke with them calling them panzies. at the end of the day they would strip there gloves off and rinse there hands and go home. sure enough I started wearing them and I was called old man panzie. but it was well worth it. thanks young guys. sorry for dragging this own
Hey, Adam, just wanted to say thanks for all you do and all you share. Learning a lot from your easy to understand and intelligent style. Keep 'em coming!
Adam, Don't let anyone tell you an optical comparator is obsolete. I work in the lab of a major auto parts maker and we still use a comparator everyday. So there are 2019 Vehicles that have parts checked by a comparator. They are so useful they are absolutely a necessity. We have a new digital comparator made by Starrett that uses a video camera instead of mirrors and it is touch screen, it is pretty sweet stuff.
@@sparkplug1018 You can do a lot with a comparator. It is really useful for small measurements like you said, but I've checked parts over a foot wide on one before. You can measure diameters, heights, angles, radii, true position, etc. I've even used a comparator to check a polished weld sample for penetration. They are extremely versatile. A comparator with a DRO and a scientific calculator can be used to measure a lot of things.
@@warcube91 That does sound like an incredibly versatile piece of equipment, and not surprising that a company like Starrett are making digital ones. Thanks for the reply.
If only "My Mechanics" was in Florida. (He is in Switzerland). The things that young man could do, for example, to that rotary table. It would be like brand new. You got great deals at this auction Adam. It is like a huge, second Christmas. I can tell you are stoked. Congratulations.
You can use the optical comparator to precisely measure lengths, diameters, and angles of small objects. We use it in the calibration profession to measure radius gages and insertion and extraction tools.
Optical comparators are still a useful thing for shops, especially those making precision threads, gear teeth, or other parts with small features. Where I work, there's a unit made by Optical Gauging Products in the metrology room, and we use it to measure rubber components that would deflect if you try to use a touch-probe CMM. That one is a bit fancier than yours, with motor-driven stage and DRO on the axes, but it's the same concept. It's also a good way to look at nose radius on a tool.
Adam, I was wondering what your plans were for future content in videos? I really enjoyed the content in the past of common job shop work. Just curious on what you are planning in the future for the channel. Not being negative, just curious, thanks John
Optical comparator keyword compare. U take a scale drawing , put it on the glass under the clips and you compare your part to your drawing using the dials to dial it in and focus on the blueprint. Mostly used on Gears and radius
You could use Avon's "Machine Tool So Soft" on some of those fixtures. I heard it makes them really smooth, and gets rid of that nasty rust. Visit "Avon79". He'll be happy to hook you up. 😉 You are a great man, and a great sport, Adam.
I bet if you sell off all the bits you can’t use or don’t need on ebay you’ll get back way more than you paid for the whole lot and have a great deal of useful stuff you wanted, and be quids up ( sorry as a Brit i mean more money than you started with )
Wow, 75 bucks for the optical comparator that is something else, I can't even imagine what something like that would cost new. You could sell the tooling you don't want by the pound.
Congrats on the huge score. It's always fun hitting auctions and digging through the spoils after and find the stuff you missed. Gives ya butterflies in the stomach when you pull out a well known branded box and find a gem of a tool. Thanks for sharing Adam.
Awesome Adam, I know you will have to shift some of this stuff on. It's hard I know but some of those odd ball taps are worth keeping hold of and have minimal value for sale. I'm sure you have been in a crazy situation where you need to clean up a 12mmX0.75 crazy metric fine thread at the bottom of a 6 inch hole😉 always good to keep that odd stuff about. I work in both Imperial and metric my friend. Don't even know any metric guys, do they exist? Great auction scores dude🤘
Hey Adam, outsidescrewball just put up a video of him at his friends shop and they were exploring a comparater exactly like the one you just got. Maybe check Chuck out.
Any thumbs down to these videos are just jealous people. Mr Pete has an optical Comparator, and now Abom has one. So who is next? Keith Fenner or Jason at Fireball tools....
You got a pretty good deal in that stuff it seems. Here in Indianapolis, I’ve seen people pay more for stuff at auctions than if you bought it new lots of times. It gets very discouraging. Also a lot of people buy to resell and so you’re competing with them.
It's funny how much tubes i watch these days from pensacola, Just went thru the poker run emerald coast. well i guess the good stuff comes out of pensacola. 👌🤘
That Comparator looks to be a "Scherr-Tumico 22-1500 14” Vertical Profile Projection Optical Beam Comparator". I've seen others use them. You can actually measure, with a high degree of accuracy with them.
Hope you read comments on older videos... You should consider cleaning up the seized up and nonfunctional peices and selling them as paperweights, knickknacks, mementos etc. You could even put a flat face on them for engraving. Or etch your logo on them as collectibles.
Well done. You really went to town at that auction bud. You could keep Steve Summers busy for a good long time sharpening all these for ya. $ 75 for that comparator is an insane price. Great buy.
I didn't see much in this vein but I have a little Horror Fright micro mill, I'd be interested in anything small enough to fit it. Feel free to let me know once you've stopped laughing...
To my knowledge, the Optical comparator has other viewing plates for different types of measurements. (Like measuring angles, distances, and other fancy stuff) Though, one could also put some transparency "paper" into the printer, and print one's own "reference films" for the optical comparator. After all, it is just magnifying stuff X amount. So by that point it is all down to how accurate one's printer is. (unless the actual plates for the machine are cheap.) Though, soon you will likely need to expand the work shop a bit, get some more room for all the tools you are collecting.
I just took a first try at building an adapter to run an annular cutter in a mill. It worked, but I didn't get the depth just right for the ejector so I only cuts about 1/2" deep... instead of an inch or two. Going to make another and try to get the depth right this time.
Very cool score... If i may opine a bit on the Optical Comparator? They may be old tech but certainly relevant in today's "high tech" times. used one just like that for many years at a job shop. They are great for reverse engineering, and making blueprints for odd ball small parts with radius and angles, Form Tools, Reamers, you name it. i would love to have in my shop for $75.00... compared to a $10,000. cmm. I love this shit!!!!!!
Hay Adam if you are not careful you will be the next Sanford and son ...Nice toys man I wish I was closer id be there in a shot and relieve you of a few 100 pounds of stuff and MT my wallet
Adam, Chuck Bomaritto at outside screwball posted a video 5 years ago (watch?v=Ywp-D0lyKKs) of a Scherr Tumico optical comparator exactly the same as yours. Go to the 6:00 minute mark.
At work we put carbide tipped annular cutters right in to the 3/4" R8 collet on the Bridgeport clone. We don't get the spring loaded center ejector, but the slug don't fight too hard when we use the kool mist and peck drill.
