I ran across an auction listing last week, of one near Memphis. After encouragement from a few friends, I decided to drive three hours to attend. They auctioned off eight lathes, a Bridgeport, 2 bandsaws, and a load of woodworking machinery. There was a lifetime accumulation of machinists items and tooling. Several barns of old lumber and two tractor trailers of stuff. There was a little bit of everything. The sad thing was the daughter shut the auction down early before they got to the bulk of the better machinist tooling and equipment. The lathes and machines were sold. She had threee little birdies whispering to her, that she was getting ripped off by what people were bidding and winning. Some things went cheap others went way more than they were worth. I managed some nice pieces for the shop at fair prices.
Precision boring head for the Bridgeport
Thread pin gauges. New never been touched
5C collet fixture
Lot of NOS Bridgeport r8 collets, jacobs 14n chuck on rb collet
Two sets of radius gauges
Lot of Micrometers.
Glad I won it, didnt know this one was buried in the lot
Two lots of new endmills
three lots of old blacksmith hammers
A few things for a friend.
It saddens me to see family go through selling off after a loss. They always seem to think their family member's legacy is being sold off and destroyed. But the truly sad thing is seeing her fathers friends playing little birdy to get at his stuff dirt cheap. They had not even gotten through a third of the stuff. The crowd had thinned out, and the main ones buying the machinist equipment was bidding fair. Things were going more a middle prices than the dirt cheap prices of earlier in the day.
I wanted a rotary table and few of the baldor motors that were sitting on the shelves. I have never seen so many baldors in one place at a time.
Precision boring head for the Bridgeport
Thread pin gauges. New never been touched
5C collet fixture
Lot of NOS Bridgeport r8 collets, jacobs 14n chuck on rb collet
Two sets of radius gauges
Lot of Micrometers.
Glad I won it, didnt know this one was buried in the lot
Two lots of new endmills
three lots of old blacksmith hammers
A few things for a friend.
It saddens me to see family go through selling off after a loss. They always seem to think their family member's legacy is being sold off and destroyed. But the truly sad thing is seeing her fathers friends playing little birdy to get at his stuff dirt cheap. They had not even gotten through a third of the stuff. The crowd had thinned out, and the main ones buying the machinist equipment was bidding fair. Things were going more a middle prices than the dirt cheap prices of earlier in the day.
I wanted a rotary table and few of the baldor motors that were sitting on the shelves. I have never seen so many baldors in one place at a time.
