I scored a whole bunch of old stuff from Chuck across the street that he was just going to take to the scrap yard.
Right now it’s scattered about out in the Disaster Zone but a small sample would be a vintage Craftsman cutting torch with one Craftsman oxygen regulator and another brand of acetyline regulator, six old school twisty hand braces with an entire Ammo box full of auger bits, old chisels and punches, sockets, wrenches and I even found a vintage 3/8’s Snap On breaker bar in one box. In good condition no less.
Two small vintage pipe vises, a medium sized tool box chock full of different kinds of pulleys, an actual antique bench grinder that looks like you could either drive it with a V bet or a leather flat belt that bolts to a bench,plus a bunch of other stuff like a small Jack Shaft with a pulley that actually has small babbit pillow block bearings on it and a junked out air compressor that worked but someone took the regulator off of.
I told him I didn’t want the tank so he took the motor and compressor head off and that’s all I wanted.
That motor is going to get mounted on something like my big drill press. Air compressor motors have got some power behind them.
There is also this massively heavy cast iron piece off of something he was using as a weight to hold his little car port cover down with. I have no idea what it’s off of but whatever it was had to be huge. It’s flat on one side, has four threaded holes on the other side that look like 1 inch pipe thread and it was something that flipped up and down off the side of some big ass machine.
Heavy?
Um, yeah. I can think of a couple of uses for that.
This is just part of it and he has a shit load more over there.
He was just going to throw everything in the back of his truck and haul it off for scrap.
I gave him ten times more than he would ever get for scrap for any of it and now I have to get serious about making some room.
He has tool boxes full of vintage wrenches and other hand tools plus some other vintage equipment that I will be more than happy to take off his hands and clean up.
This is how I like to entertain myself.
Cleaning up rusty nasty old tools and shit and making them useful again.
My bucket of EvapORust is about to get a serious work out.
You desperately need to build a workshop in your back yard (if you have space). That, or move to some place with more room!
Having all the neat tools in the world is no good if you can’t get to ’em or find space to *use* the darn things!
Great score. I can send you a pic of my bench wire brush, same concept only just for V belt. Also, that big hunk of cast iron sure looks like an old school welding table or layout table. has 4 mounting points below for legs. Sand the top a bit and see how flat it is, but I think more welding table for small jobs.
Good Score. We have to clear out my Grand Dads shop at my moms and I would like to have almost everything in it. He was a mechanic machinist from 1910 on to 1962 or so.
Good find as those tools will be needed in the coming dark ages.
That is going to be The Mother Load.
You are probably just going to walk around in it with your mouth hanging open for a while first. Good luck and good hunting.
That looks like a cast iron surface plate. You can scrape it flat for sure and for certain..
Good stuff, wish I was closer to help you out!!
I was kind of wondering about that but I haven’t seen enough of them to even hazard a guess.
I sure as hell ain’t going to try and scrape it myself and screw it all up.
I am jealous!
Once the supply chain (5/0 galvanized) finally breaks, Phil et al “room o’parts” will become the new Ace Hardware of dystopianville USA. You boys will need to protect your hoarder if you want to repair anything.
Imagine owning a good junk yard.
shame, used to be a very good grinding shop in philly that could have handled
that old surface plate. was offered a smaller grinder but I had no place to put
the thing ! damn shame as he was going to set me up with extra wheels and
a very nice vise for it. most of his work was a bit larger that the small machine
like 5-700 pounds of it and a foot print of 4 by 4 ft and like 5 feet high.
a lot of well made older tools where a lot better made than a lot of the newer
stuff made today. deals like this do not come by often, best to grab them when
they do ! good for you. buy a extra shed if need be .
SCOOOOOORE!!!!
another thing, the steel in old tools make fine stock to make other stuff with.
I throw the old tool in the wood stove over night and it is really too work afterwards
old reamers and tool bits have great steel in them, reuse it !