Just wanted to say thank you for making that video about 'how to get a stuck lathe chuck loose". I managed to get a chuck off a 90 year old lathe by fastening the spindle with a wratched strap and let' s just say my solution was inspired by your ideas. Take care and keep em coming!

I love digging through stuff like that , it’s awesome when you find a few things that you would like but never buy new. Thanks for the ride along . 👍 !

I love looking through old cans of treasure. I enjoy spending time on lazy days in the shop going through stuff I didn't realize I had and forgotten about.

Here in western Canada it would be impossible to find a lot of machinist tools like that. Yes i am envious , and i love these type of videos when you bring them home.

Good morning Mr.. Pete. If every one gives you grief about dumping out the end mills and such just dump them in a box and ship them my way.

it is always nice to see someone play with old iron. I always like the long video's and kind advice. Thank you Mr.Pete!

I too was shocked to hear the master say he does not know everything. He certainly HAS everything.

I learn something new from just about every video you put out! Thank you for passing on your helpful knowledge sir.

Yes...still watching. Going through tools never gets old. Thanks Mr Pete. I don’t recall hearing the prices.

If anybody stops looking at your videos before the end they are not very bright. Little gems are always present all throughout your videos. Thanks for all you do for us and take care!

Please do a video on how to critique cutters- what to look for, what is worth sharpening etc- what is junk what is worth saving Thanks Frank

That was actually relaxing. It looks like many hours of sorting, cleaning up and pitching out.

For an amateur machinist (like me) your purchase would be a BONANZA. I’m very envious of your treasure trove.

Back in the late 1990's after may dad passed away, I went thru the shop and gathered up all of the dull endmills that were laying around to re-sharpen. Just an wild guess, around 400 endmills! Most were 3/8 and 1/2". Sizes all the way up to around 1". I re-ground the flutes on all, wrapped in black electrical tape from HF for storage and use later on. Well, twenty years later, I still have some of them left, I've given away most of them to friends I know that have home shops for their use. I doubt I've used a half dozen of them over the years. I now use mostly carbide endmills, slowly getting away from HSS. And I still have lots of new HSS endmills that I probably will never use! I'll let my son worry about it after I'm gone. Stuff may all wind up in flea markets and such long after I'm gone. Who knows. OF course, by then, it maybe illegal to own anything of steel that may cause cancer by that time! Thanks California!

That Acute angle attachment from Starrett is very expensive to buy individually new. I believe it's in the area of $250 by itself. The odd square bits are probably solid carbide Die Drill bits. The tapered reamers may be the ones used to taper slug drop through holes on the bottom of stamping die steels. They were identified by a letter, and are called Diemakers reamers. Ones identified by a number are for tapered pins if my memory serves me correctly.

I have bought lots of carbide end mills at auctions, most are ball end which I did not know ahead of time. Thanks for an entertaining video.

I made a jig, from a Pinterest post, that bolts to my bench grinder. this allows me to sharpen end mills and slot drills.

11:15 that spherical bit is a surgeon's bone-cutting tool. I ended up with a set, but no handle.

The parts at around 6:50 are a guide that clamps to the bottom of a small surface gauge. They are shown in the old 1920's 1930's Starrett catalogs

When I walk into homes I clean out ,mainly machinery shops they save everything... carbide scrap prices are way up at the moment .. I love finding and sorting out massive bit lots ... that’s was fun ... thanks Mr Pete

Thank You Mr Pete for your dedication to the machinist trade. You remind me so much of my father who inspired me and was my first teacher on the subject. I'm sure many students look back and remember you as one of the most inspiring teachers they ever had, I know my Vo-Tech machine shop teacher was mine. I remember many things my father used to say but this video reminded me of a specific one. "It's a sad day you don't learn anything new". Thanks.

WOW that's awesome. Time to tap some holes!

Never can have too many tools you just have to keep the elements off them,... it teaches you organisational skills.

Watched the entire video. Thanks for sharing

Cool stuff. Dump the first box in Evapo-Rust. It leaves a dull finish because it gets the most microscopic bits of oxide. It is great stuff. Does not touch unoxidized iron. Totally safe. Dump the used up in the garden for extra iron and sulfur. Make sure the items stay covered or it will cut a ring where the steel penetrates into the air and oxidizes at the liquids surface. I sold the4 stuff nearly 20 years ago when it was a new invention. Caution: It removes all oxides including bluing and Parkerizing (and makes old wood look new!). I bet the telescoping gauge will recover with a soak. Was that an annular cutter for wood plugs? I bet those jugs are from a shop where they saved up used tools for sharpening for sale by the pound? Broken carbide has a pretty good value on eBay. I want to try or fishing weights.

I have a gauge like the two you showed first only instead of the small plate screwed t the end there is a sharp pin through at right angles. It is a mortice gauge for wood work. Vinegar will remove rust by soaking the part or wrapping in paper towel soaked with it over night then clean up with a scotch brite pad and CRC. It will damage chrome, nickle plating and paint. Thanks for another great video.

Pete I like the auction stuff even when you do not buy anything.

I watched the entire video. I to like the un known items bought at a sale, and then the time to go thru and see what I bought. I do approve of this type of video. Thanks fo sharing.

I am still watching and loving it!

The two items with the clamp screws at about time 6:10 appear to be guide fences for a small surface gauge (could be Starrett). I think this was an alternative to the little push down guide pins. Install one way and you have a straight fence. Install the other way and you have a "v" fence to follow a curve.

Where I used to work I saved tungsten drop offs from a reoccurring job . Had over 80 pounds worth a lot when sold for scrap

Wonderful Sir, thank you for sharing

the pint is you cud sell then as use stock like we used to have often called the reading post . I loved to visit such places . in England you could get good & bad stuff along with the it & put it to ues .

I grind rotary broach bits out of broken or dull end mills. If you don't have much and your on a tight budget they can be useful.

Good grab.

I thought you said you didn't buy anything... More stuff you'll never use... I save spent HSS cutters so I can grind them down as other tools. Missing tips .. not a problem, side cutters.. you got a lot of nice stuff in that pile as well... Thanks for all you do...

Wifes name and pic. Mark here. Yes 25 of 1/2" and still watching. Probably a lot of people just like me that like this and learn new things. Didnt realize that those items in my grandfathers tool box were reamers. Thanks a bunch Mr. Pete. Peace

I love that corn grinding mill at the end. I wish I could find an attachment I could pull behind my mower that would grind up sweet gum balls and spray them out on my lawn.

At 9:04, I think that is a core drill, for removing battery cables and inter-cell connectors from industrial batteries. It had a center that went down the center of it.

Mr Pete, have you tried soaking the rusted tools in vinegar or a diluted vinegar solution ? Be sure to rinse thoroughly and dry. Sorry I cannot offer any ratio of water/vinegar or soak time. Just experiment with some scrap to see what works best. You could also use electrolysis and there are numerous video's about that here on yt. Thanks for the interesting video.

Going for retail therapy always cheers me up after a prize-less auction :) Watched to the very last second and then started again to see if I missed anything, nothing like seeing what surprise may be in the bottom of the boxes when you get home.

Taper reamers are called car reamers in the old tool catalogs. I used them to line up holes when changing length on heavy truck frames.

As I will always be a student of this discipline, , I would find a video on sharp vs dull and when to toss out an end milll useful. Just sayin.

That’s quite a nice cache of cutting tools

They say "One man's scrap is another man's treasure"! I always wonder which man I am, cause I got a lot of "S" crap in my basement!!!

It would be interesting to see a video on how you do rust removal on some older fine measuring tools or parallels. I don't have a surface grinder. So I use either rotary wire brush and that does a nice job without scoring the part too much. Chemically one can do that too. I have seen a WD40 rust remover video that left a chuck in perfect condition. Just wonder how you tackle that problem. Thanks.

Watching you go through these boxes makes me want to go through and sort out my own collection.

The corn mill would look great with a hit-and-miss engine Mr. Pete..... but "somebody" sold his collection!!!! :) )-

Very interesting video. I am reminded of several farm auction I attended and was so excited when I won a $2.00 box of files. That is until I got home and realized they were worth nothing and I sent them to the scrap yard!!

The spot price for tungsten carbide is $3.25 today As heavy as it is, it doesn't take long for dull/chipped/snapped tools to add up

The tapered items are space bands from Linotype machines.

I got a bunch of reamers from a company that was shutting down. They supposedly did contract work for the government. I gave some to two friends of mine. There were also some go/no go pieces that I could have gotten, but the temperature was soo cold that day. I got a handful of them, but fishing with a magnet in his dumpster was a lot of work, and I'm sure I missed a bunch of reamers under the car in there. I always get permission before I go fishing.

I love watching you go through boxes of stuff Mr Pete, always interesting and you never know what you are going to come across. I swear by white vinegar for removing rust, doesn't affect the finish on the metal just gets rid of the rust, cheap too. Cheers, Alan.

A buy like that is exactly what I need.

THANK YOU...for sharing. I am sure I would have not passed those boxes up either.

Looks like the first indicator holder was deformed in a lantern lathe tool holder. The mill with he open belts makes me nervous, thanks for the cool scavenger session.

Thanks. Makes me think I should build a project tool sharpener.

I don't think it was a waste. You can always carry some of that to Arnfest and recoup some of your money. Thanks Mr. Peterson.

Tools at 11:56 look like drills for very hard steel. "Blackalloy" comes to mind. Maybe for armor steel? The straight flute one lip tool was a gun drill. Too often you don't pause the view or show enough of things to get a handle on things. Reminds me of the silhouettes of airplanes that were on flash cards that you had to learn during WWII. I always liked to have boxes of tooling like that around to make special tools for a unique operation. End mills are easy to turn into internal grooving tools and boring tools for lathe work. Just sayin. Keep up the good work! JIM

The tool resharpening procrastinators' club... proud member of it... Those marking gauges would make a quick lathe project... could be interesting

with the price of good tooling going thru the roof, i like to comb flea markets and buy up grab bags like this. then send them in to be re-sharpened. so you can get into some decent tooling for about half the new price....

I have that same little Starrett ruler clamp. I was at my local Habitat Restore and was looking thru a table of tools. I was walking around the table and stepped on something. It was the Starrett clamp. It cost me a whole 50 cents. They always have a good selection of good tools there.

Nope, not foolish at all. Even the bad ones can be repurposed for something. Tool steel is expensive! As always, enjoyed the extra credit. Looks like a homemade sheet metal brake next to the corn grinder.

Thank you for sharing, we all like hoarding cutters :-) 11:54 I Think these are drills to remove broken taps

Ones mans trash is another mans treasure,big flea market near me one vendor in particular sells mill clean outs by the pound all of what you've shown us and a lot more.

"Is it possible to have too many tools?" I don't know the answer to that question but it sure looks like Mr. Pete is trying :D

The two tapered steel items at around the 7 minute mark are space bands used by linotype machine operators. I can't tell you how they were used exactly but I am guessing something to do with spaces in a line of type based on what dad called them. My dad who was a linotype operator had boxes of them in his basement shop and now I have them. I know he had ground some into small knives like an exacto or scalpel kind of tool as they are hardened steel.

When you sort your endmills, scrap carbide is over $5 a pound where I live. If there is enough you can recover some of your cost, which makes the usable tools a better value.

If you are sorting through boxes of used end mills remember that for any high-speed end mill smaller than about 5/16" (8mm) its usually just as cost effective to buy a new one than pay to have it resharpened. Do keep your good sharp end mills stored so they don't get nicked or damaged. Everyday used end mills can be kept next to the machine in a cigar box if they are handled with reasonable care. If you draw your finger across an end mill's flute or face and it doesn't feel sharp... it isn't. Cheers from NC/USA

The little wedges from your first box are from a linotype machine. When the operator was setting a line of type these were placed between words to separate one word from the next word.

Hi Lyle, were you mad to buy these?? NO! What a haul, the pots at the end were particularly useful...... every dull tool in that collection has another useful and sharp tool inside of it just waiting to be released! Totally useful and interesting. Cheers, Jon

I dont know why but your viewers including myself like to see you display and describe these auction/flea market "treasures."

The two longish items with the groove down the centre shown at 7:04, look like the sliding half of a spaceband from a Linotype machine from the days of hot metal Letterpress Printing. The other half had two lugs protruding that sat on the rail. They were tapered to match and retained the pieces you have, so as they slid past each other they would expand. They were inserted between the brass matrices in the spaces between the words. When the line was complete and just before the line of matrices were to be cast into a slug, the large end of the spacebands would be pressed up with a bar to create equal spaces between the words and make the line of matrices tight at the mold, so no hot metal would escape into the machine. The operator had to make sure that there wasn't more space in the line than the spacebands could accommodate. If when the bands were fully expanded and the line of matrices was still loose, what was known as a splash would happen, where molten metal would spill between matrices into the machine around the mold and turn solid. Depending how bad, there could be quite some down time removing the cooled type metal from the mechanism.

at 7:09 those looks like half of he spacebands used in linecasters (for casting type for newspapers etc.) such as Linotype or Interrtype machines. They re missing another matching wedge, and these are placed in the line where you want spaces that can expand so the text fills the line. The caster pushes all the wedges in together so they all expand equally.

9:16.Looks like a woodwork router bit

Whats with the corn at the end? Amazing how many $10 to $30 cutters in America go for the price of coffee. And so few understand the value of that steel.

Looks like grinding corn into baby chick food well 4k views in 5 hrs well on it's way to be another 25k video nice work, I wish I'd have went to school back east here in the SW we didnt have machine classes we did have a metals class that went from sheet metal to welding alot of kids didnt take it seriously but those of who did we really learned some valuable life skills

Great 👌 video . Love auctions. You get some cool👍 ken machine nc 😊

"Too many tools" - is that a foreign language?, because I have no idea what it means. ;' )

I recently discovered that you can use Meguiar’s professional medium-cut cleaner #1 polishing compound to remove rust from parts. Give it a try.

Those plows looked ready for your Moline to hook up!

I would say you did good with the tools. I had bought a bunch of used tools and there was 4 shoe boxes full of end mills, spent hours sorting it all.

Metal museum , metal art

Dull and junk endmills can be used for making tools. Good steel normally and worth having. Just keep them in a metal box for use later. Grind a pin or something. Cobalt is heavy. Carbide is gray metal looking.

I could sure use that corn grinder. I am in the mood to make some whiskey, I mean make some hush puppies. :>)

Just a little gunsmith tip. If you don't want to use rust remover to clean up tools, boil them in water for 45 minutes. After the are cool, use degreased steel wool to card off the rust (or a Brownell"s carding wheel). It might need a few cycles to clean up but you should be able to restore the original finish. Just oil it when done.

If you think you don't know everything then get a teenager, because they do. ;) Great look at all the old pieces-parts, and I thought that corn grinder was pretty neat. Engineering students designing one nowadays would insist on a microprocessor to control the vibration of the screen down to the picosecond…

Alot of people like videos with fire in them 👍👍

Still watching at the 1/2" bottle. Interesting video.

This stuff just does not exist anymore here in California. The equipment dealers scooped up all the aerospace shops when they closed up and the farm/ag shops have been cannibalized by people and only total junk remains. I have to either buy Chinese junk from eBay/Amazon or blow half a paycheck at JISCO to get whatever cutters I need.

Lyle its a good thing that you don,t have to value your time searching for the sharp tool btw way Steve summers has a cutter grinder have a ggood one regards Ray

8:58 I think I have 1 of those as well collecting rust in my shop

I am unashamed to admit how many things I did recognize during the first segment. The bevel protractor small angle blade is unmistakable, and the toolmaker clamp (vise) jaws are as well, and I have used those for years as an exercise in measure and do production drawings with students, since I have a number of spares. No clue if the marking gages are commercial, though I have seen a bunch of similar ones, and have seen similar in machinist exercise books. The slide for the planer gauge looks like it is from a B&S 625. 9:31: I can't tell from the video for sure, but that might be a cone tip for a trammel, similar to Starrett 251E ball tips. I have one for one of mine. B&S if I recall. 13:15: yup- bridge reamer. The taper pin reamers are real handy, even if not perfect. They do the job of the 'mechanics reamer' to get expand holes in thin material and when the hole can either have a little taper or be finished with another reamer after expanding. The stubby drills remind me why I have a sharpener. The machine cost less then the drills it did in the first month. Thanks for showing this stuff. Always a joy to see a good pick pile.

A few guesses,6:58 vise adapter for round stock? 7:06 blade keeper for wood plane. 9:30 lathe dead center. 12:00 drill for broken taps.

Thanks for sharing!

The cutting tip with the rounded end................,.. ,( @ 11:58) looks like the same kind of cutting tool that are found in my radii cutter I got for my lathe!!!

I love color case hardening. I have a Colt Single Action Army from 1882. And some of the color case hardening is still visible

I'm also interested in those 2 unknown items from the first box. The ones with the shallow V. I have one, and have no clue what it's used for.

Those are unusual containers at the end of the video. I wonder what they were originally?

How come every time someone says look at the box of junk there is a option to a tool that I own.That resharpend carbide has to be worth the price of admission alone.