Spotted an estate sale in the paper touting machinist tools. Got there late as I mistakenly turned off on a similarly named street, so when I arrived, it was a struggle to decide what to look at first, as I see guys already paying for stuff I would have bought. I scored a nice Dake model 1-1/2 ratcheting arbor press for $30! 3 ton capacity, retails for $880 in MSC. I'm happy with that!
But as I was looking around trying to decide what to lay claim to next, I hesitated a bit too long and missed out on a nice little Barker horizontal mill with collets and tooling that went for $150. Dang...
And there was a large plastic tub half full of quick change lathe tool holders and tool post. All home made, but very nicely done, almost commercial quality. That got grabbed while I was scoping out a watchmaker's lathe trying to decide if I really had a use for it.
However, scored some other nice little misc tools. And in talking to the folks running it, learned there's a nice late
40's Logan buried in the garage. Left my number, I'll get a private shot at that in a few weeks. All and all, not a bad Saturday morning...
Jon