I went to an auction today just south of Spruce Meadows. My opinion - probably the best offering of metal working 'everything' that I've seen. Here was the listing: auction link
I didn't recognize anyone that I've met from the group yet, if you were there, chime in and let me know what you thought.
The auction was primarily inside a riding arena (think about 1.5 times the size of a hockey rink. The listing didn't do it justice, I went because of the lathe/surface-grinder, but there turned out to be a lot more. 3 surface gingers, multiple metal brakes/shears, 3 iron workers (first one went for 500), and tooling, tooling, tooling.
No reserver, no buyers fee. Very very fast pace, everything was organized on pallets, you had to buy the pallet (some tolerance for taking items out as singles).
Think end-mills x 100s, drill bits x 1000s, bandsaws, welders, calipers x 50, gauge pin sets x 15, bar stock, sheet stock and so on and so on.
I didn't buy anything. Not that I didn't want to, I'm a hoarder, but I couldn't fathom where I'd get the time to sort/load/move/store this stuff. I'm still shell shocked. Peterson surface grinder - $130 (that I bid on). 3 end-mill grinders.......... Now, the majority of the 'quality' stuff was bought by about 4 different guys.
The part that mesmerized me was thinking how long it took to amass such a collection of stuff. There an entire table of smaller lathe tool holder kits (chinesium or worse) and the entire pallet sold for 60. What do you do with 200 tool holders?
Band saw wheels, on a palette (think ~50) - $50. Table saw fences (same branch I have), a whole palette $90.
I didn't recognize anyone that I've met from the group yet, if you were there, chime in and let me know what you thought.
The auction was primarily inside a riding arena (think about 1.5 times the size of a hockey rink. The listing didn't do it justice, I went because of the lathe/surface-grinder, but there turned out to be a lot more. 3 surface gingers, multiple metal brakes/shears, 3 iron workers (first one went for 500), and tooling, tooling, tooling.
No reserver, no buyers fee. Very very fast pace, everything was organized on pallets, you had to buy the pallet (some tolerance for taking items out as singles).
Think end-mills x 100s, drill bits x 1000s, bandsaws, welders, calipers x 50, gauge pin sets x 15, bar stock, sheet stock and so on and so on.
I didn't buy anything. Not that I didn't want to, I'm a hoarder, but I couldn't fathom where I'd get the time to sort/load/move/store this stuff. I'm still shell shocked. Peterson surface grinder - $130 (that I bid on). 3 end-mill grinders.......... Now, the majority of the 'quality' stuff was bought by about 4 different guys.
The part that mesmerized me was thinking how long it took to amass such a collection of stuff. There an entire table of smaller lathe tool holder kits (chinesium or worse) and the entire pallet sold for 60. What do you do with 200 tool holders?
Band saw wheels, on a palette (think ~50) - $50. Table saw fences (same branch I have), a whole palette $90.
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