Excellent video, thanks Mr. Pete.

I love the Mr Pete excursions, great work.

Good morning Lyle, What a wonderful candy store to shop at. It’s GREAT to see a man in his 80’s still sharp. It’s a good thing that you already have most of those items, because I would probably buy them out. Thanks again for the field trip. I can’t wait to see how your Atlas 6” restoration project is going.

Nice video segment. As a machine shop owner I am thankful for new to me sources. I’ll be trying out KBC tools in the near future.

Thanks for doing this I work in Wood Dale and never knew they were so close. Might have to buzz over there some time on my lunch hr 👍

Wish i knew you were coming, I would've brought my South bend heavy 13 gear cover to get an autograph!!! Maybe stop up here again the check out the MSC showroom. Just around the corner from KBC. I enjoyed trying to identify all the tools in every isle LOL.

Great to hear you had a wonderful day and the folks of KBC looked at you, Mate what a showbag and cost you nothing but your time, well down to all who arranged this.

I always enjoy those "Open House" events that distributers put on. Always fascinated by the new and different things out there. Glad to hear you had a great day's outing.

Always enjoy you Mr. Pete you have great video's.

Oh boy! Another field trip with Mr. Pete. My credit card would have burst into flames if I was there at KBC tools with you.

Hold on Mr. Pete!!!! Casey’s actually has some darn good pizza

@Mrpete222 , I appreciate you Mr. Pete for your words of wisdom during our conversation and support of Mitutoyo products and services. Let me know when you are ready for that visit to our M3 Solution Center & State of the are Calibration Lab & Quality Department.

Great looking store, a lot of items and variety of vendors.

I drive by there everyday on my way home from work.

A fine day out - wow I could spend a lot of drooling time in that store. Money too, probably. Almost bought a mill from them - they seem a very reputable company. Thanks for taking us along. 👍👍

A Real Aladdin's Cave. What a great day out. Good luck to Paula, Curtiss Michelle and all from the UK.

Thanks for taking us along. I wish we had a store around here. Have a great week!

Thanks for sharing Mr Pete it looked like a great day!

You got me, thought you said Klien tools

Lots of good tools,mrpete.Thank you.

Thanks Mr. Pete!

What a great store.

My KBC (Mississauga, Ontario) has lots of good stuff too, like your store. I don't buy much as you have to have a $25 min. order over the counter. Like you I'm old and don't need that much anymore. Thanks for the tour.

Wish I had a kbc in Florida. Great video Mr pete!!

Brian from Ma wow what an amazing store Thanks Besafe

I will be in Elk Grove in the next few weeks

I just visited that area. Looks like you had a good time.

Looked like a lot of fun, dangerous for the wallet!

Hi mr Pete! Do you have any videos on faceplate workholding?? How to/how to not do? I searched ‘faceplate tubalcain’ but didn’t find anything.

OOHH, OOOHHH, A Field trip ... Tanks Much Lyle.....

Dang, I wish we had a store like this near me!

I really like the side trips...

A guy could do his wallet some real damage in a place like that. Thank you for sharing your trip Mr. Pete.

I enjoy watching your trips. A lot of my family is from around there. Decalb, Streetor, O\Pontiac, Wenons\a, Wheaton plus many more. I was born in Chicago but retired down here in Mississippi. Keep up the great work.

Thanks for the store tour. KBC closed their St. Louis location many years ago. I only went in there a very few times. Our company did not use them, so I had other local options. I always thought of them as a lower end supplier and that our vendors focused on the industrial market. Now retired and with a far more developed home shop, I would welcome a similar local source, especially for consumables. Our store focused on lower end import machinery. I didn't see much machinery on display in your camera shots. It looked like they still stock a lot of import inventory that I try to avoid, but was mixed with brands and quality that I have long trusted. I am purchasing most of my consumables online now, but I still prefer being able to do physical inspection and comparison. I would be pleased to have a local KBC option now. What is your opinion about modern mid range staple brands like Palmgren? I saw that they had Palmgren on their shelves. I am very happy with my vintage Palmgren, but I purchased a new (appeared unused) graduated Palmgren cross vise in a Craigslist larger purchase for about $20. I got it home and set it up, and felt like it is worth only about $40. I thought that I could pass it on to one of my offspring that currently have limited shops. It was graduated in mm with inked sheet metal dial plates. It feels almost like it is a good candidate for HF. You could make it work for small crude drill press tolerance hole patterns, but the CI and machining is shockingly cheesy. Has Palmgren gone totally off shore? I have never gone to the big Grizzly store in MO. They are about 4 hours from me. I think that they still pretty much exclusively private label and carry a wide range of very low end product to some upper end product. We have tried some of the Grizzly wood machinery with disappointing results. I have been tempted by their gun smith line of engine lathes just to get into some new machinery at moderate cost. I have never purchased any brand new machinery for my home shop excepting my 14k # vehicle lift. I still really like and trust old industrial machinery. When I do purchase lower end machinery, I prefer to pick it up on the secondary market. I recognize that KBC has a lot of support in the KZfaq community. I would be interested in hearing from others about their loyalty to KBC.

Great video Mr.Pete thank you

Thanks again Mr Pete what an awesome store. Lots of nice product clean and organized

A video a little short for my taste. I would like to have seen a drill down into some of what was in the aisles better. Never-the-less, thank you Lyle. And always remember, I flunked shop and got a A in HomeEc. (LOL).

Thanks for sharing mister pete

What a nice facility.........sure wish we had a tool outlet like that in the southeast part of the country.

Nice trip.

Great video and tour. Nice folks and outstanding mouth watering inventory. For a bit of contrast Mr.Pete, I wonder if you could do a "tour" of Shars Tools in St. Charles Illinois. I'm located in Orland Park Il and I hate paying those outrageous shipping fees.

Excellent video Mr Pete - Optivisor & center finders. I’m in. John

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Good Vid Tubes. When is your next Auction??????

I'd be like a kid in a candy store.

I wish we had one of there stores close by..

Morning Lyle

Thanks Mr Pete. I'm guessing that you must have felt like a kid in a candy store. It must have been hard NOT to buy something.

Love that shirt! Do they sell those to the public?

How long is the warrantee on the Vaughan hammers? -2.5 months? Nice tour, and I'm starting to hate that kind of traffic as well!

That was neat. A good influencer you are. That ain't wrong. Why? You try out and use the products too. : - ) Elk Grove Village is a nice town. Made airport friends over on Sell St. I'm not sure I could've been happy enough heading to the counter with a 100 bill.

Cool stuff Lyle! Have u thaught of helping homeschoolers manufacture? Teaching ambitious students >s nothing like highschool??

I wonder if Paula Bass has any connection with Bass Tool Co. in Houston, Texas? The both have similar stuff for sale.

Never been in a machine shop store like that. Harbor Freight and the occasional wood working store is all we have around here. Seems strange to see machine shop tools in a store instead of a catalog. How come KBC hasn't sold out to MSC like all the others have?

You recently have made several comments about losing viewers. I also subscribe to a channel called "Bearded Butchers ", which is also an educational channel that teaches people how to butcher their own livestock. They disappeared from my feed several months ago, and recently showed up again. Seems that they got shadow banned, and their account just got reinstated. In the comments one viewer said that a woodworking channel he subscribes to disappeared for a few months, and when it reappeared all of the woodworkers previous videos had been deleted, which caused several sponsors to drop his channel. Sad how liberals behave when they have power. So I guess that you can try to rein in the conservative comments that you make, or starve with the rest of us conservatives. Might also check the archives to see if your older videos are still available.

mrpete, is kbc tools mostly china import or usa ?

Used to order a lot from KBC, but their fedex shipping got to be ridiculous. $17 shipping on a $13 endmill... Anyway, nice field trip!

cool keychain

Husband: Honey I went down to KBC tools, and they had 30% off on stuff I needed. I saved us a ton of money. Wife: sigh ... little boys and their toys.

I see they're selling a new lathe.New lathes are(or were)traditionally sold bare bones when new,chuck and other accesories were always extra.These asian jobs throw in everything including the kitchen sink,Now what has that always told you?People of a certain age have always known what THAT means in past times.

Maybe I need a new phone. Freezes up on comments. Forgot what i was commenting about already. Hey Pete, be careful in Chigago, plus have you ate at the Billy goat? Cheeseburgers are their specialty. Old buddy of mine used to offer me a ride to Chicago in his truck, he didn't have a second seat, just a lawn chair, hey he didn't want to listen to a second air ride seat rattle , plus it gave him more room in cab. Never took him up on offer.

Nice hearing American music instead of Spanish.

KBC Tools has a lot of Chinese trash, to be honest. It's not like they actually vet stuff for quality, so you need to be careful.

I certainly believe in God or a creator, if you will, and it's not a matter of faith, but rather simple logic. I'll explain. Just look at all of the millions of different animals on this planet and the tools they DON'T build and DON'T use. Sure, a few animals use some very primitive tools such as a stick or a rock, but most don't use any tools and certainly don't build any! Some say it's brain size that matters, but many animals have much larger brains than humans and they don't build/use tools. Man alone is a tool builder and its mind-blowing when you reflect upon the wide array and complexity of his tools!