Watched it all, and enjoyed it! Don`t know how many of those boxes I`ve bought back in the day. I love digging through stuff looking for treasure. Please keep on posting cause I`ll be there watching. Thank you so much for what you do and the way you do it! Trust me you have many more friends than you realize. My hat is off to you Sir!
this takes me back to my childhood , buying boxes of treasure at farm sales and machinery sales. thanks for taking the time to make the video. really enjoyed them!
I sure am a Johnny Come Lately with these videos. Where was I in 2014? Oh I know, hip deep in a 5 year remodel plan on our house. That 5 year plan took about 12 years to complete and my wife complains I'm not done yet, I avoid looking at her list of "to dos". Great video Mr. Pete.
Some of the tools you showed took me back to the early 70's through mid 80's when I worked in oil field machine shops in Texas. If we had any kind of specialty job that came in, sometimes we had to think up and make our own tools and jigs.
Awesome Mr. Pete, you are not bragging at all as their are deals to be found at estate sales or auctions. I love your video's...Im middle aged now and have a job now that requires machining and you area GREAT teacher!!! . I just recently bought a south bend 10L, in great shape with a lot of tooling, a 3 jaw buck chuck, a 4 jaw, etc for 1300$. Thanks for all the great video's
Keep up the good work Mr. Pete. It's always fun to watch whatever you do. Looks like you have acquired a couple more projects to do in the up coming months.
Really enjoy these videos Mr Pete, I wish I lived in an area where I could buy so much stuff such low cost. I am really looking forward to the videos with your "new" Logan Lathe. I appreciate that you take time out of your day to bring such videos to RU-vid. KEEP THEM COMING
Nice bunch of tools for the most part, if you like old stuff like I do. The previous owner probably grew up during the Depression and couldn't through out anything. Get a kick out of watching your videos especially when you come across a nice piece of tooling, reminds me of my grandkids at Christmas. Thanks
As a guy who went to a lot of farm auctions as a kid, I enjoyed this. In the end you almost always wind up with a good treasure find, and a lot of traffic for the scrap metal dealer. I've bought several crates of random tools for $5 a box, and out of them have come some decades-old tools that 30 years later are still some of my best tools.
Mr. Pete, Would enjoy seeing you do a video on shop organization. I always struggle with where to put small parts, fasteners, etc., and then find it later.
Mr. Pete, you got a nice lathe, some nice tooling and some so so, just like most auctions. A very good haul. Your entire three part series was great. Do some more! I'm sure you enjoyed some of the entertainment, such as buyers who knew when to bid and fools who thought they knew when to bid. Sometimes competition is fierce and a joy to watch, or a joy to join in. I also like going to auctions, but when I go to pay out I usually say, "how much?!!!!" Thanks....13
Absolutely enjoyable video! - Can' wait for the "What is it" regarding the pliers at approx. 5'10". - I own one of these and, without fail, I get my fingers pinched whenever I use them for very fine/small jobs.... I often wondered about the strange design of them... Thanks for the tremendous effort you invest in making and sharing these videos. I have learned SO MUCH from you. Cheers, Rolf
I don't take these auction videos as bragging at all! I love them! I can't wait to see your next set of videos on your latest Logan. It looks like my model 820 built in 1946.
Another thing I saw in the previous video was they had that one 3 jaw setup so that it could be easily chucked up into a big lathe.If you get that small 4 jaw free,you could easily make a similar adapter in order to use it if the threads dont fit your lathes.
Watched it all, enjoyed it all except when you say Lufkin like you do. I've never heard it pronounced Looofkin. I guess you are used to saying it like Luis. - - I am from TEXAS where Lufkin Tools and our city of Lufkin, Texas are pronounced like the u in guff. - - - Thanks for the great sharing of your fun adventures.
You have a lot of stuff to look through and I don't doubt you will find yet more useful items when you have the time to do things at a more leisurely pace. I look forward to seeing the video's on the lathe. Where was a sale like this advertised or did the auctioneer send you a catalogue on spec knowing from previous auctions that you had an interest in this sort of equipment and tooling?
The "D" bits are very useful for squaring the bottom of a drilled hole. For instance at the bottom of a "clack" valve on a steam engine so the ball sits square. I have a set I made years ago.
watched it all...watch them all the way through.... how does one look or find such machine auctions ?. i am still looking for my lathe. mill. just to many things i need to work in my garage/shop.
I go to a lot of sales to. I live my Bushnell il. I got a lot of hammers. All most every jack box has one or 2 (= .love tools of all kinds. I love your videos...
Am curious, Mr Pete - you found several centerpunches with different designator numbers, 2 & 3. What is the need for more than one type? What can a #3 do that a #2 can’t?
Is that a Logan 820 lathe? It looks an awful lot like mine. Some nice finds, and a little bit of scrap metal. I've bought several tooling lots from auctions, and many machinists kept every old piece of tool steel so it could be re-ground into new "job specific" cutting tools... often times for boring bars like the ones you found. Broken reamers and taps were favorites, but even drill bits were fair game. I obviously have the disease, because I was enjoying the search through all those old boxes of stuff.
LQQks like you did reasonably well at the auction. Good for you! I really enjoyed the videos. For your consideration, you might want to give molasses a try for removing rust. You might be amazed. Stay well
Stephen Deakin is right about the D-bits, someone must have worked around turret lathes. I hope that when you throw stuff out that it goes to be remelted.
I had a good laugh after hearing the comment "why would anybody have/keep this..." several times, it occurred to me that the deceased person probably went to a lot of estate auctions, bought boxes of stuff, brought them home and dumped them into drawers and cubby holes. Some of that stuff has probably gone through several cycles like that.
First time lathe owner. i just got a Logan 400 and I didn't get the change gears just like the man who bought the other lathe at your auction. The worst part is I looked right at the gears mixed in with a bunch of stock as I was moving the lathe and didn't think twice until I started doing some research on cutting threads. How hard would it be to manufacture an entire set? Any where to get specs? Thanks in advance!
With a rotary table and a horizontal mill plus the set of 14.5 degree 16 DP gear cutters, not bad. For the rest of us who are a few gears short of a 1945 Logan drivetrain, not good. With a 3d printer, this guy seems to have made a nylon set: www.thingiverse.com/thing:200294 I guess they would be quiet, and you could always make more when they wear out. I imagine that the first thing to go would be at the bushing, but maybe that could be made from steel and formed into the 3d print or pressed into it.
That shows us that you are not old enough to stay around your rocking chair 😉. So we can count on you many years to come to show us many other working tips.
Awesome, heart failure on some of the stuff you said were useless, or no good. :) Just kidding, I am a "pack-rat" and keep things just because. Nice to see some of that stuff you brought home. Thank You for sharing it with us.
There is no junk. I remember having to repair a trailer so my son could take it with him the next day to his new home in another state filled with items he needed to take with him- time was of the essence since he had to show up for work at his new job. I needed a 4"x 1/2" bolt to finish up. I had to go get one 20 miles away and by the time I got back it started raining and the project was halted so he had to leave without the trailer and his possessions. Had I even a bent bolt, I could have hammered it out and used it and all would have been well. I thought about all the old bolts and nuts I had thrown away and quit doing that. Enjoy your videos.
+newstart49 * I used to save everything with any potential at all. Problem became that I couldn't find things when I finally needed them. I compromise now. I keep things that are in good condition and are the kinds of things I actually do use regularly.
I think, it's possible people keep stuff like that because they actually don't know when it's not any good anymore. Though, I know the feeling on the bolt story. No doubt we all have our own "if I only had that thing I had for 25 years and threw away last week" story.
also the cresent wrench you said goes for $30 there in the US here in australia you would pay at minimum $80 for a cheapie and up to $150 for a good brand
You know I was thinking that too. There almost seems to be enough there to put together a couple machinist starter tool sets. Would be funny to include a random key in every set. =D hA!
Been looking for a lantern post for my South Bend Heavy 10...my lathe is missing quite a few parts. Lantern-type tool post, an Armstrong tool holder, & a tailstock. Would you be willing to sell that little tool post??? Just wondering... Nice score....
There is nothing like cleaning up something, making sure it is working properly, and then with a little paint, making it look new again. Yes, I said that dirty word paint. smiles.
i have that same Jacobs chuck @ 0:48. I FREAKING HATE IT!! it does hold larger drill bits, but is nearly impossible to get it tight enough to be useful
I can't tell whether you are joking or serious. Are you talking about the one with the brass jaws? It is not meant to tighten ever! That is an Armature Chuck
I had to chuckle a bit . No mention of whether u got a bargain ? Been at estate auctions a lot . I could use some internal pipe extractors myself . Sure I've had some if I could remember where I put them ? Last auction I attended went with a ??? by the time I got back to his house to load up what I purchased he'd already claimed my purchases ! The reason I live alone work alone, I get along just fine ! Patriot Perry .
Even the junk that you find has value. I'll give you an example if I found an old trailer hitch in a box that was all chewed up like that I would say Jeff what can I do with this being Jeff I would Crown Point answer myself. I would say well Jeff what I would do with this is throw this in a collet block thread side and take that chewed up section and make it a nut instead on the mill. Then I would take all the old Chrome off of it and put it on the wire wheel and fiber will it make it all nice and smooth again. Then I would heat it up a little bit to get it darkened up and apply gun blowing to it and make a nice dark black trailer hitch. I would find a little box and set it next to it take some pictures at different angles and sell it on eBay for about $25 as a Preppers trailer hitch. You make sure the word prepper is in the description somewhere and you will sell that sucker in about 10 minutes. There is a fortune to be made by people with a very rudimentary bit of imagination. Now the $25 is just a wild guess I would actually look to see what they're selling for and then adjust accordingly. But the thing is you basically taking something that's going to end up in a landfill and giving it value and put money in your pocket. And the best part of it is you get to make it look new again and that's a great feeling
That lead screw and nut as well as that little gear are for a logan 200 (10inch) lathe. The prior owner may have swoped it out when he changed the gear box. Please put that on ebay as I know that somewhere there is some ne repairing a logan and can't find replacement parts.
I like your vedios Pete just wish you would tell what you pay for the lathes,, but I was happy to find out atlas and Logan use the same change gears being I have 2 sets of them but both my 12 inch atlas have quick change gear boxes and my Logan gear box is broken,,,do you know of anyone that has a Logan gear box for the 11 inch I can buy?
South Bend 9 10k Lathe Milling Attachment MLA maybe :) Remove the compound rest by loosening the two bolts that are at an angle in the front of the compound rest. They normally are allen set screws,.The compound rest should then be lifted off the cross-slide. The hole in the top of the cross-slide should accept the boss feature on the bottom of the milling attachment.??Or not ive another theory its from the 16 "South Bend lathe"..
A worthwhile collection of items! There is a real nice auction that I was wanting to go to here in Ohio on Saturday, but sadly, my wife has made other plans. Probably will save me a bit of cash however.
lots of neat and usefull stuff. I used to go to auctions but found people acted like sharks in a feeding frenzy and would pay far to much for things and I felt it was a waste of my time standing there all day and buying very little or nothing.
