My father was a Tool and die maker some 50 years before retirement , Now at 89 I have inherited his tools, Two triple stack Kennedy boxes of tools, Real Kennedy's, I am a millwright myself and have a 3000 pound box of tools myself, here at the end of my career coming soon. I don't have access to a mill or a lathe anymore and I have machine tools also, My dad was also a NM pistol shooter in his day, and some of these tools lean torward gun smithing too, is there a website I can list vsome of this stuff on ? I have small taps I did not know they made that small, these pics are just a sample of what I have, mics and calipers, V blocks and all kind of stuff, Starrett, Mitutomo, nothing cheap some very old. end mills out my butt
MACHINE TOOLS??????????
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@cmysix There's a group on facebook, too... Used machinists tools or something along those lines. I bet there's some cool stuff in there.
It's a bit of a pain selling on Ebay- but it's a good way to get rid of a lot of that stuff in "lots".
That's how I bought a couple drawers full of HSS end mills. Package together in lots of maybe 10-20, and sell that way. Same for drills, taps, etc. Because buyers have no way of knowing how much use used cutting tools have had, selling in quantity packages is a good way to go IMO.
I've bought probably half of my precision measuring tools (calipers, mikes, thread mikes, depth gages) there as well.
That's how I bought a couple drawers full of HSS end mills. Package together in lots of maybe 10-20, and sell that way. Same for drills, taps, etc. Because buyers have no way of knowing how much use used cutting tools have had, selling in quantity packages is a good way to go IMO.
I've bought probably half of my precision measuring tools (calipers, mikes, thread mikes, depth gages) there as well.
facebook marketplace on steves used machinist tools or used machinist tools
Practical machinist forum ( they will quickly let you know if your prices are out of line
or here
some tips
separate the drills, taps, etc from the measuring stuff and the set up stuff like v blocks and angle plates
used cutting tools are basically unknown garbage in terms of value
specialty form tools and taps , same, unless you need them
If you want to sell the whole lot at once, go to a local trade school, offer up a package deal to some kid starting out. Keep the tools and your dads memory alive.
Practical machinist forum ( they will quickly let you know if your prices are out of line
or here
some tips
separate the drills, taps, etc from the measuring stuff and the set up stuff like v blocks and angle plates
used cutting tools are basically unknown garbage in terms of value
specialty form tools and taps , same, unless you need them
If you want to sell the whole lot at once, go to a local trade school, offer up a package deal to some kid starting out. Keep the tools and your dads memory alive.
Unfortunately my experience has been that used tooling is a crap shoot. Even measuring tools and gauges are suspect until proven undamaged and accurate. Buying used tools is a great way to tool up and fine for hobby work, providing the prices are good. I have to look at it like this, I might only *need* a very small percentage of the tools in the lot so most goes in a drawer and collect dust. When doing a job it just isn't worth the risk of running unknown used tools and creating problems for myself.
jackieschmidt
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I agree with @akajun on his tips to separate things that, if in good condition, hold their value.
I also agree with Scott above, just about word for word.
when my Dad past away almost 25 years ago, my brothers and I simply absorbed most his belongings into our business. He had a lifetime worth of personal tools that we did divide up. But most had much more sentimental value than monetary.
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As a 40 year and retired tool maker, I'm passing everything
down to my son who is a Penn State papered mechanical
engineer, and he will pass them down to his two sons and
daughter. With everything in his garage along with a mill
and lathe, It's now play time for me....Still have locate a
Herig 612.
Get on practicalmachinist . com for some help.
down to my son who is a Penn State papered mechanical
engineer, and he will pass them down to his two sons and
daughter. With everything in his garage along with a mill
and lathe, It's now play time for me....Still have locate a
Herig 612.
Get on practicalmachinist . com for some help.
I wanna see a picture of that,please
I will dig it out and post a pic, he was a soldier i WW1 and then a tool and die maker the rest of his life, as far as I know he used these tools his entire career
Please show us machinist types.....please
To a point, depends on the tool.
Not much you can do, to eff up a micrometer other than rank abuse. It's a threaded screw, nothing more.
I have seen them used as C-clamps.
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