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The Shop => Tools => Topic started by: chipenter on September 14, 2018, 09:35:31 AM

Title: Tool Auction
Post by: chipenter on September 14, 2018, 09:35:31 AM

I have given up on boot fairs a local Auction house has tool sales every 3 months , I got this little box for a song as it was nearly the last item and most people had gone , I will be putting the hardness tester on eBay £50 start unless anybody on hear wants it for the start price + p&p . in the hope of covering the price of the rest .

Title: Re: Tool Auction
Post by: awemawson on September 14, 2018, 10:05:57 AM

Jeff,

I've PM'd you re: the Hardness Tester

Regards,

Andrew

Title: Re: Tool Auction
Post by: chipenter on September 14, 2018, 10:25:34 AM

The pics of the Hardness Tester

Title: Re: Tool Auction
Post by: Pete. on September 14, 2018, 02:25:10 PM

That's a nice haul Jeff. Some very useful stuff you got.

Title: Re: Tool Auction
Post by: chipenter on September 14, 2018, 03:24:17 PM

I still can't believe I got them for so little after the interest in the box , already sold a 2 a 3 and a 4" More and Wright micrometre , and will pas on some other bits but I got the slip gauges and the 6" mic that I was after .

Title: Re: Tool Auction
Post by: Pete. on September 14, 2018, 03:25:57 PM

If the thread repair stuff holds no interest for you I might buy those if they are metric. I have some, but need some others.

Title: Re: Tool Auction
Post by: chipenter on September 14, 2018, 04:29:28 PM

One set is 1/2" whit and the other is 12mm , I will look tomorrow and check how many inserts there are .

Title: Re: Tool Auction
Post by: chipenter on September 15, 2018, 11:33:58 AM

Pete there are only 4 12mm inserts but has a 12mm and a 10mm insert tap .

Title: Re: Tool Auction
Post by: S. Heslop on September 15, 2018, 12:46:18 PM

I've also given up on car boot sales but i've not replaced them with anything. I sorta wonder if something happened to make them so dire this year.

Title: Re: Tool Auction
Post by: chipenter on September 15, 2018, 02:27:36 PM

Even the tool stores no longer stock engineering tools in my area I asked , but there was a lot of junk at the auction .

Title: Re: Tool Auction
Post by: chipenter on June 15, 2019, 09:33:18 AM

I have done quite well from the last two auctions , a Boxford fixed steady and a cross and compound slide mounted on quarter plate , that I have identified as a Boley 4L for £40 that was listed as two vices . Two ball Jacobs bearing 1/2" super chucks and a rotating centre for £12 .
A set of expanding reamers 1/2" to 1" .
Two mist coolant sprays £4 .
A box of leadscrews and lathe spares
3 metric leadscrews for Boley 4L with nuts unused still partialy coved with wax ,

1 Boxford cross slide leadscrew with nut ,
1 Raglan Little John leadscrew with a very loose nut ,
1 unidentyfied leadscrew ,
4 dials 1 Boford 2Myford ML7 1 unknown ,
Boxford handwheel pinion  tailstock spindle and thead cutting stop ,
and some drill arbors sleeves and centres , listed as air fittings £6 ,
20 litres of Shell soluble cutting oil £10,
there is alo a shaft with a sleeve the I dont know what it's from
Sold the fixed steady one fo the chucks and theBoxford thead cutting stop , making a small profit so the rest was free .