Hi Keith, A few years ago I had the chance to get a set of 2 tool chests, they were from a man 86 years old still machining until a little before his son had to sell those. It's a very special feeling to dig through such find, it's kind of intimate... Looked like what you've got, but, about over 3000 pounds of it, all sort of stuff, old and still brand new items. I'm still discovering what is the purpose of certain of the items every time I dig through. Nice to see that you can respect another fellow companion in that manner, Pierre
Keith great video, and to see the things he wrote in the book , thanks for sharing that. It makes me think of my dads tools, he died in 2012 , born in 1923. I guess holding on to their tools were holding on to them. THANK YOU KEITH
This why I am a fan of estate sales. I love to preserve old toolboxes for their history and just love to handle vintage machinist tools, some that might be nearly 100 years old. They are beautiful. I especially enjoy your older videos, they are more in line with where I am now, now that I am retired. I like the home shop stuff, I’ll never have room for the larger machinery that you now are working on, I’m more of a vintage bench top guy. But I do learn a lot from watching your current videos as well.
Nice, Keith. It is especially nice that these tools went to someone who understands their enduring value and worth, and who also honors the man who previously was their caretaker.
This type of flashlight is often used in the bore of a firearm. It doesn't actually cast a light but when you look down the muzzle toward the chamber where the light is, it reflects light really well and you can see the lans and groves etc. Enjoy.
Keith, very nice buy on a great machinist tool box and tools. That was great getting to hear a little back history on one of our machinist brothers. He had a well rounded box. The Machinist handbook is great, and was a pleasure seeing. I say that because I own the same exact book and it belonged to my Garandad, then my dad. Its also the seventh edition, and looks nearly exactly the same condition. Very cool! You'll love it! If your not to partial on the General Telescoping gage set, I would love to take it off your hands. Maybe trade for that Starrett strain gage I'm bringing you. Let me know. I love the General gages, and have an older set that I used for years before I bought the Starretts. Thanks for sharing that wonderful treasure trove with us. It was fun! Regards, Adam
Keith , the long rod with the short small threads on the end and knurled on the other end, is a handle for an inside micromiter. I have a set of Miller Falls that has that same handle. It screws into the side so you can reach into a deep bore. Nice buy Keith.
I see allot of the things we traded for came out of this machinist's box! It's nice to know more about where my first machinist's tools came from, and I'm still so happy to know that what my Grandpa traded for so long ago is being as well cared for too. Aloha Keith, Sincerely...Chuck.
Keith, That's soooo cool! You actually know who owned the tools and, like you said, have a connection with him. I have used both dial and digital calipers when I was a service tech. The dial ones never have a dead battery when you want to use them! Like you, you see the relationship between the measurement and the rest of the dial. A great find! I know you will cherish these tools. Thanks for sharing. A most enjoyable video! Regards, Dave
Very nice tour Keith. I bought a Kennedy box full of machinist tools a few years back at a garage sale. It was a very nice assortment and since I was just getting started into machining I could use almost every one of them. The one thing that I fantasized most about were his prescription safety glasses. I wondered what those glasses saw when he was working and how he needed them for his livelihood. I kept the tools in the original box and even kept the safety glasses. Hey you can't break up a set... Fred
What a nice collection of tools. I really like how you treated the previous owner with the respect he deserved. He would of been just a month younger than my Dad, who is 92 at this time.
It was a big transition for that generation. After WWII, my Dad took over a farm and bought 2 good work horses, because that is how he farmed with his Dad before the war. Within a year he bought his first tractor and the hay-burners were sold.
On the spring clips our shipping clerk use to use them to keep the box open while he fill the box. He would open the flap and put one of those spring clips. Nice tools in that box.
Calculating for inflation he made the equivalent of $29.88 /hr in 1966 and topped out and $34 in 1987. Incredible how far the value of the mighty dollar has fallen. Great story. Thanks for sharing.
In case you didnt figure it out yet, the small red light with the plastic tube is a bore light for cleaning guns. You put the tube into the barrel of the rifle or pistol and it clearly illuminates inside the barrel for cleaning!
On the L. S. Starrett adjustable protractor, write to them and they can probably supply the needed parts. They came up with parts for my granddad's pocket caliper from the very early 1900s. The long tap wrenches are called pulley tap wrenches by Starrett.
You know we all hate you (Ebay deal envy) ;) The tooling was well worth the $$. The 2 boxes basically double the value. You'll like the digital calipers. I had a vernier caliper that i liked but with old eyes can no longer read. Digitals are nice, especially when switching between inch and metric. I.e need to drill a 10.5mm hole? Slide the caliper to 10.5 and switch to inches then you can find the closest inch drill bit. Once I got the digital calipers, I found the vernier one had the inside measurement 0.004" off. No wonder my bores seemed to come out large. You would think Craftsman would have been better. I now got smart and bought a set of telescoping gauges so I can measure a bore and shaft with the same caliper/micrometer. A buddy of mine gave me 3 dial calipers. You are right, you know where you need to go and get a quick ball park on how much more machining is needed without knowing the actual numbers. Check with Tom Lipton. I think he said those Mitutoyo calipers actually use less power if left on (when off, most will still read but just turn off the display.) One of the reasons I bought the second digital is the first ate batts every 6 weeks the other reason was a larger display. Turns out the first circuit board was never cleaned properly (you can guess what country they came from :) ) Keep up the great vids. I'm in Stone Mountain, one of these days I'll stop by the museum on one of my FL trips. Let us know when they will be doing a demo of the woodworking shop. I'd love to see the result of all that excellent work on the Vance Matcher and see it eating boards.
***** Yeah, remember when Snellvile was the boonies? Check if the batt has leaked. Mine ate batts every 6 weeks, then it started every 2 weeks. I found one of the batts had leaked. Cleaned and now 5 months so far on the same batt. I get batts off ebay, a card of 20 for the same price you pay for 1 at a drug store. Keep them in the fridge.
I saw that tool box on eBay! I didn't bid though. Glad you got it. The little light witht the tube on it is used to look into the chamber of a rifle to see the bore. Nice lot of tools.
Thanks Keith, now I know what another item I have is for. I have a "drill point angle" and did not know what it was for, now I do. BTW, mine looks just like that one, and it was in the case with my Starrett bevel gage, and fits the blade perfectly. Those Helios calipers are the same as the first pair I ever owned, now I have a Starrett, and a cheap HF digital, but I still find myself reaching for this Helios ones from time to time. Funny how we get attached to certain tools. That Reed mic is an oldie. Worcester is only 20 minutes north of me. I'm pretty sure those were made by the same Reed who made Reed Prentice lathes, also in that city.
Wonderful video Keith and great find. Nice to have that history presented in the machinist book. Also nice to find an ebay auction where the box went whole rather than someone separating it into lots of 10 items a piece.....
Keith; While watching your video, I realized that you may have misconstrued what one of the items was. What you thought was a Starrett drill point angle gage, is not. It is the clamp from a Starrett 454 Height Gage (this clamps a scriber to the height gage head) that has been modified with some kind of angle attachment. Not saying that you can't use it as a drill point gage, but this is not what the Starrett 22 drill point gage looks like. It may have been used as a scriber on a height gage. Might be worth asking your friend to check if one of the items he didn't ship you was a Starrett height gage. Nice score on the tool boxes and tools and glad to see they are going to be put to use. BTW, I have a lot of Starrett tools I have collected, along with a number of the older catalogs, and if you ever want to know what type of Starrett tool you have, please feel free to PM me. I would be happy to help you out. This goes for Tom, Adam, Chuck, Stan, etc. Regards; Ron Kluwe
I just stumbled across this and decided to look up what his "raises" were if you factor in inflation because on paper you say, "wow, he worked his way up a decent amount". But in 1966 $3.50/hr was equal to $28.61/hr in 2021 dollars. Whereas his retirement wage of $13.71/hr in 1987 was only equal to $31.97/hr in 2021 dollars. So really, over the entire course of his tenure at that company, his raises basically only matched inflation.
Hey Keith, Helios were pretty popular before some of the more current popular brands passed them by... I like the black faced B&S are I think came about to read better in certain lighting,, maybe when shops started going fluorescent... Found this: Helios dial calipers are a brand made in Germany currently owned by Mahr. Originally, they were copies of the Etalon calipers. Several models are available in the US market from Fred Fowler Company, among others. •Sales: Fred Fowler Company for some models •Repairs: not possible on old models •Parts: not available •Information: search the web for Helios using the German language option I am very sentimental also... Always nice to see others with the same respect for things! Thanks for sharing your finds with us! :o] O,
Very cool Keith. I wonder if both pairs are Rx safety glasses? I have one of those Cleveland drill grinding gauges and I really like it. On the Craftsman punch, verify that it is for striking and not one of the alignment only tools.
Kind of wonder what will happen to my toolbox when I’m no longer here, callipers and dividers from 1941, vee blocks from 1945 and mitutoyo digital mics ands callipers from 2020 and bits from each era in between. Probably make a good video for someone at some point
You're like an archeologist of Kennedys. I usually wonder what the tools might have made, especially old ones dating back to WWII, and the challenges the owner might have overcome to get it made. Perhaps parts that saved lives? I wonder if karma sticks to them? Who knows? Thanks.
I recently inherited a Agerstnba and sons machinist tool box full of machinist tools, bits, and miscellaneous measuring instruments. anyone interested?
Hello Keith I found your page while browsing some of your friends pages mrpete222 and others, who I found by going to shopdogsam page .... the story kind of is like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon LOL anyway I am a huge fan of many things which your page deals with History - Steam Engines- Old Tools - Woodworking - Machine Shop practice and of Course Old Machine Tools My story of starts with my Father who worked as a apprentice pattern maker in the 1930's for Reeves Pulley Co. which was the inventor of the variable speed drive and the Reeves Gas Engine and then he worked as a machinist for the Eli Lilly Co for 33 years I have my Fathers Machinist tools And have a few antique Starrett Tools I kind of picked up on mechanics as a career I worked as a Maintenance Man/Millwright 38 years and Now that I am retired I am in the process of restoring a 1943 9" South Bend bench Lathe it was used in the war effort during WWII anyway I saw this story about The Craftsman Mr.Schleich And since one of my "OTHER" hobbies is Genealogy so I am pretty good at tracking down People Sooooo. I located more Info about Mr.Schleich its always adds to the enjoyment when you have the history of things we acquire and we become the custodians of below is a transcript of Mr. Schleich's obituary ....... Hope this adds to your enjoyment of the Tools which you now have and will pass down someday The Journal-Standard (Freeport, Illinois) Wednesday, January 8, 2003 ROSCOE -- On Tuesday morning, Jan. 7, 2003, John J. Schleich, 80, of Roscoe, formerly of Freeport, our loving husband, father, Grandpa, great-grandfather and friend of many, left this life at Freeport Manor Nursing Home to be with his mom, dad, sister and the Lord. He was born April 29, 1922, in Freeport, son of Clarence and Cassie (Ackerman) Schleich. He graduated from Freeport Senior High School. In 1943, John and Doris Knauff were married in Freeport. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in Germany. Mr. Schleich was a tool and dye maker at Atwood Manufacturing Company in Rockford until retiring in 1987. He officiated football and basketball games, and played fast pitch softball for many years. Also, he loved boating on the Mississippi. He was known by many as an avid sports fan and an individual who loved people and conversation. The pictures of Freeport High School and collegiate athletes in the high school gym were donated by him. "Our world will be a little emptier without him and he will be sadly missed. For those who knew him, Heaven won't be the same now either!" Mr. Schleich was a former member of Bethany United Church of Christ. Preceding him in death were his parents and one sister, Gladys. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Burke-Tubbs Funeral Home in Freeport with the Rev. John Erenz officiating. Burial will be at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens.
the nicest part of this video for me is the celebration of a life that has passed by. I look around at all my tools / toys and think of how many people will be fighting over them, but wonder if they will truly appreciate them on the same level as they should be. or even give thought to the fact that these tools were an extension of me personally in so many ways. a very nice video tribute indeed for a complete stranger yet a brother tradesman!
As a 19 year old tool and die apprentice I love finding old tools I can’t stand the crappy quality of the new tools so whenever I can find a good deal on an old tool box I jump on it there’s nothing better than looking through someone’s collection of tools lol
42:22 - analogue clock - you can instantly "see" the time - you don't have to think! I am happy that I grew up with both; they both have their uses - I use a digital timer for working out times/money on a small job, while I use an analogue watch to fill in my time sheets. It's horses for courses... Love your videos, Keith, especially this one; I find myself saying 'got one of those', 'got one of those', 'ooh don't have one of those' - I think you get the gist... I think that's how bucket lists happen
hi Keith i think the long rod with the knurled end and the thread on the other is a handle for a internal micrometer ,i have a Moore and Wright set with one in ,it is used for measuring deep bores ,love the video .Dave in the UK.
hi keith we are no longer on feet and inches or pounds and ounces here in the uk any more since the EU ruling we are on meters millimeters kilograms i myself still work in feet and inches and pounds and ounces i dont think i will ever swap over to metric next thing you know they will be wanting us to use the euro forbid the day any way great video looks like a bargain that tool box
***** I was going to ask you what you did for a job to earn money. Now we know. Enjoy your videos. Thank you for keeping them clean. I don't have to worry about my little girl listening. Nice score on the toolbox and it's contents. I picked up a lot of used lathe cutters and know what it's like to dig through something like that! FUN FUN! Thank you for the information on the tool for making the wax fillet. I have a set of 3 of those and didn't know what they were for. Now I know. I don't think I would have guess their use.
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Thanks for sharing the history you found. I appreciate your old school values and your quality heart.
Hi Keith,
A few years ago I had the chance to get a set of 2 tool chests, they were from a man 86 years old still machining until a little before his son had to sell those.
It's a very special feeling to dig through such find, it's kind of intimate...
Looked like what you've got, but, about over 3000 pounds of it, all sort of stuff, old and still brand new items.
I'm still discovering what is the purpose of certain of the items every time I dig through.
Nice to see that you can respect another fellow companion in that manner,
Pierre
Keith great video, and to see the things he wrote in the book , thanks for sharing that. It makes me think of my dads tools, he died in 2012 , born in 1923. I guess holding on to their tools were holding on to them. THANK YOU KEITH
This why I am a fan of estate sales. I love to preserve old toolboxes for their history and just love to handle vintage machinist tools, some that might be nearly 100 years old. They are beautiful. I especially enjoy your older videos, they are more in line with where I am now, now that I am retired. I like the home shop stuff, I’ll never have room for the larger machinery that you now are working on, I’m more of a vintage bench top guy. But I do learn a lot from watching your current videos as well.
Nice, Keith. It is especially nice that these tools went to someone who understands their enduring value and worth, and who also honors the man who previously was their caretaker.
This type of flashlight is often used in the bore of a firearm. It doesn't actually cast a light but when you look down the muzzle toward the chamber where the light is, it reflects light really well and you can see the lans and groves etc. Enjoy.
Great video. Thank you. Bob
Keith, very nice buy on a great machinist tool box and tools. That was great getting to hear a little back history on one of our machinist brothers. He had a well rounded box.
The Machinist handbook is great, and was a pleasure seeing. I say that because I own the same exact book and it belonged to my Garandad, then my dad. Its also the seventh edition, and looks nearly exactly the same condition. Very cool! You'll love it!
If your not to partial on the General Telescoping gage set, I would love to take it off your hands. Maybe trade for that Starrett strain gage I'm bringing you. Let me know. I love the General gages, and have an older set that I used for years before I bought the Starretts.
Thanks for sharing that wonderful treasure trove with us. It was fun!
Regards,
Adam
Thanks Keith. Well maybe I will get a chance to peak at all your tools...LOL
Keith , the long rod with the short small threads on the end and knurled on the other end, is a handle for an inside micromiter.
I have a set of Miller Falls that has that same
handle. It screws into the side so you can
reach into a deep bore. Nice buy Keith.
i realize I'm kind of off topic but does anybody know of a good place to stream newly released movies online?
@Maximilian Santiago I use Flixzone. You can find it on google =)
@Dustin Landry Definitely, I have been watching on FlixZone for months myself =)
I see allot of the things we traded for came out of this machinist's box! It's nice to know more about where my first machinist's tools came from, and I'm still so happy to know that what my Grandpa traded for so long ago is being as well cared for too.
Aloha Keith, Sincerely...Chuck.
Knolltop Farms Thanks Chuck - yes, quite a few of those items were sent along to you. I hope that the tools are serving you well!
Well done and a most worthy transition to you, thanks for presenting!
Keith,
That's soooo cool! You actually know who owned the tools and, like you said, have a connection with him. I have used both dial and digital calipers when I was a service tech. The dial ones never have a dead battery when you want to use them! Like you, you see the relationship between the measurement and the rest of the dial. A great find! I know you will cherish these tools. Thanks for sharing. A most enjoyable video!
Regards,
Dave
Very nice tour Keith. I bought a Kennedy box full of machinist tools a few years back at a garage sale. It was a very nice assortment and since I was just getting started into machining I could use almost every one of them. The one thing that I fantasized most about were his prescription safety glasses. I wondered what those glasses saw when he was working and how he needed them for his livelihood. I kept the tools in the original box and even kept the safety glasses. Hey you can't break up a set... Fred
What a nice collection of tools. I really like how you treated the previous owner with the respect he deserved. He would of been just a month younger than my Dad, who is 92 at this time.
It was a big transition for that generation. After WWII, my Dad took over a farm and bought 2 good work horses, because that is how he farmed with his Dad before the war. Within a year he bought his first tractor and the hay-burners were sold.
On the spring clips our shipping clerk use to use them to keep the box open while he fill the box. He would open the flap and put one of those spring clips. Nice tools in that box.
Calculating for inflation he made the equivalent of $29.88 /hr in 1966 and topped out and $34 in 1987. Incredible how far the value of the mighty dollar has fallen. Great story. Thanks for sharing.
In case you didnt figure it out yet, the small red light with the plastic tube is a bore light for cleaning guns. You put the tube into the barrel of the rifle or pistol and it clearly illuminates inside the barrel for cleaning!
Welcome to the Special people Club!
thanks for sharing your goodies.
I'm happy for you, ans a bit envious too, but in a good way!
thanks again!
On the L. S. Starrett adjustable protractor, write to them and they can probably supply the needed parts. They came up with parts for my granddad's pocket caliper from the very early 1900s. The long tap wrenches are called pulley tap wrenches by Starrett.
I consider myself to have very little tooling but I was surprised at having so many tools that you said that did not have. Great video.
You know we all hate you (Ebay deal envy) ;) The tooling was well worth the $$. The 2 boxes basically double the value.
You'll like the digital calipers. I had a vernier caliper that i liked but with old eyes can no longer read. Digitals are nice, especially when switching between inch and metric. I.e need to drill a 10.5mm hole? Slide the caliper to 10.5 and switch to inches then you can find the closest inch drill bit.
Once I got the digital calipers, I found the vernier one had the inside measurement 0.004" off. No wonder my bores seemed to come out large. You would think Craftsman would have been better. I now got smart and bought a set of telescoping gauges so I can measure a bore and shaft with the same caliper/micrometer.
A buddy of mine gave me 3 dial calipers. You are right, you know where you need to go and get a quick ball park on how much more machining is needed without knowing the actual numbers.
Check with Tom Lipton. I think he said those Mitutoyo calipers actually use less power if left on (when off, most will still read but just turn off the display.) One of the reasons I bought the second digital is the first ate batts every 6 weeks the other reason was a larger display. Turns out the first circuit board was never cleaned properly (you can guess what country they came from :) )
Keep up the great vids. I'm in Stone Mountain, one of these days I'll stop by the museum on one of my FL trips. Let us know when they will be doing a demo of the woodworking shop. I'd love to see the result of all that excellent work on the Vance Matcher and see it eating boards.
***** Yeah, remember when Snellvile was the boonies?
Check if the batt has leaked. Mine ate batts every 6 weeks, then it started every 2 weeks. I found one of the batts had leaked. Cleaned and now 5 months so far on the same batt.
I get batts off ebay, a card of 20 for the same price you pay for 1 at a drug store. Keep them in the fridge.
Interesting tool find. Thanks for sharing.
I saw that tool box on eBay! I didn't bid though. Glad you got it. The little light witht the tube on it is used to look into the chamber of a rifle to see the bore. Nice lot of tools.
Thanks Keith, now I know what another item I have is for. I have a "drill point angle" and did not know what it was for, now I do. BTW, mine looks just like that one, and it was in the case with my Starrett bevel gage, and fits the blade perfectly. Those Helios calipers are the same as the first pair I ever owned, now I have a Starrett, and a cheap HF digital, but I still find myself reaching for this Helios ones from time to time. Funny how we get attached to certain tools. That Reed mic is an oldie. Worcester is only 20 minutes north of me. I'm pretty sure those were made by the same Reed who made Reed Prentice lathes, also in that city.
Wonderful video Keith and great find. Nice to have that history presented in the machinist book. Also nice to find an ebay auction where the box went whole rather than someone separating it into lots of 10 items a piece.....
Very cool, thanks so much for sharing!
Keith;
While watching your video, I realized that you may have misconstrued what one of the items was. What you thought was a Starrett drill point angle gage, is not.
It is the clamp from a Starrett 454 Height Gage (this clamps a scriber to the height gage head) that has been modified with some kind of angle attachment. Not saying that you can't use it as a drill point gage, but this is not what the Starrett 22 drill point gage looks like. It may have been used as a scriber on a height gage. Might be worth asking your friend to check if one of the items he didn't ship you was a Starrett height gage.
Nice score on the tool boxes and tools and glad to see they are going to be put to use.
BTW, I have a lot of Starrett tools I have collected, along with a number of the older catalogs, and if you ever want to know what type of Starrett tool you have, please feel free to PM me. I would be happy to help you out. This goes for Tom, Adam, Chuck, Stan, etc.
Regards;
Ron Kluwe
the flashlight is a bore flashlight for guns. You stick it in the chamber and it puts the light down the barrel for inspection.
Great set of tooling you got there Keith nice score.
12:45 It started life as a mold ejector pin. Probably turned into a punch
"Here's the good old comb...YMCA...I probably won't be using that" 😂😂😂
I just stumbled across this and decided to look up what his "raises" were if you factor in inflation because on paper you say, "wow, he worked his way up a decent amount". But in 1966 $3.50/hr was equal to $28.61/hr in 2021 dollars. Whereas his retirement wage of $13.71/hr in 1987 was only equal to $31.97/hr in 2021 dollars. So really, over the entire course of his tenure at that company, his raises basically only matched inflation.
that "punch" is a ejector pin
Thanks keith great video.
Ian
Hey Keith, Helios were pretty popular before some of the more current popular brands passed them by... I like the black faced B&S are I think came about to read better in certain lighting,, maybe when shops started going fluorescent...
Found this:
Helios dial calipers are a brand made in Germany currently owned by Mahr. Originally, they were copies of the Etalon calipers. Several models are available in the US market from Fred Fowler Company, among others.
•Sales: Fred Fowler Company for some models
•Repairs: not possible on old models
•Parts: not available
•Information: search the web for Helios using the German language option
I am very sentimental also... Always nice to see others with the same respect for things! Thanks for sharing your finds with us! :o]
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I agree I don't like them either. I just gave a little info on them...
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I'm jealous Keith. You outbid me!
Very cool Keith.
I wonder if both pairs are Rx safety glasses?
I have one of those Cleveland drill grinding gauges and I really like it.
On the Craftsman punch, verify that it is for striking and not one of the alignment only tools.
The #22 Drill gage goes on a combination square rule.
Hi Rucker, nice video. Where do you go to get some of things? You shod make a tool box lol Ike that ?very nice tool
box
Kind of wonder what will happen to my toolbox when I’m no longer here, callipers and dividers from 1941, vee blocks from 1945 and mitutoyo digital mics ands callipers from 2020 and bits from each era in between. Probably make a good video for someone at some point
I'd love those dial verniers... I know you'd like to keep them, but is there anyway in which I could make you an offer?
Sad thing about this is one day that will be our stuff someone is rummaging thru
Atwood is in Stockton Illinois..about 50 miles west of Rockford Illinois.
You're like an archeologist of Kennedys. I usually wonder what the tools might have made, especially old ones dating back to WWII, and the challenges the owner might have overcome to get it made. Perhaps parts that saved lives? I wonder if karma sticks to them? Who knows?
Thanks.
His last name sounds German… Cool!!
I recently inherited a Agerstnba and sons machinist tool box full of machinist tools, bits, and miscellaneous measuring instruments. anyone interested?
I for one am interested. If nothing else, I like to see what is inside these old boxes. They tell a great story!
I think your friend kept the good stuff and gave you his junk, very poor tools
Hello Keith I found your page while browsing some of your friends pages mrpete222 and others, who I found by going to shopdogsam page .... the story kind of is like the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon LOL anyway I am a huge fan of many things which your page deals with History - Steam Engines- Old Tools - Woodworking - Machine Shop practice and of Course Old Machine Tools My story of starts with my Father who worked as a apprentice pattern maker in the 1930's for Reeves Pulley Co. which was the inventor of the variable speed drive and the Reeves Gas Engine and then he worked as a machinist for the Eli Lilly Co for 33 years I have my Fathers Machinist tools And have a few antique Starrett Tools I kind of picked up on mechanics as a career I worked as a Maintenance Man/Millwright 38 years and Now that I am retired I am in the process of restoring a 1943 9" South Bend bench Lathe it was used in the war effort during WWII anyway I saw this story about The Craftsman Mr.Schleich And since one of my "OTHER" hobbies is Genealogy so I am pretty good at tracking down People Sooooo. I located more Info about Mr.Schleich its always adds to the enjoyment when you have the history of things we acquire and we become the custodians of below is a transcript of Mr. Schleich's obituary ....... Hope this adds to your enjoyment of the Tools which you now have and will pass down someday
The Journal-Standard (Freeport, Illinois) Wednesday, January 8, 2003
ROSCOE -- On Tuesday morning, Jan. 7, 2003, John J. Schleich, 80, of Roscoe, formerly of Freeport, our loving husband, father, Grandpa, great-grandfather and friend of many, left this life at Freeport Manor Nursing Home to be with his mom, dad, sister and the Lord.
He was born April 29, 1922, in Freeport, son of Clarence and Cassie (Ackerman) Schleich. He graduated from Freeport Senior High School. In 1943, John and Doris Knauff were married in Freeport.
During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in Germany.
Mr. Schleich was a tool and dye maker at Atwood Manufacturing Company in Rockford until retiring in 1987.
He officiated football and basketball games, and played fast pitch softball for many years. Also, he loved boating on the Mississippi.
He was known by many as an avid sports fan and an individual who loved people and conversation. The pictures of Freeport High School and collegiate athletes in the high school gym were donated by him.
"Our world will be a little emptier without him and he will be sadly missed. For those who knew him, Heaven won't be the same now either!"
Mr. Schleich was a former member of Bethany United Church of Christ.
Preceding him in death were his parents and one sister, Gladys.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Burke-Tubbs Funeral Home in Freeport with the Rev. John Erenz officiating. Burial will be at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens.
the nicest part of this video for me is the celebration of a life that has passed by. I look around at all my tools / toys and think of how many people will be fighting over them, but wonder if they will truly appreciate them on the same level as they should be. or even give thought to the fact that these tools were an extension of me personally in so many ways. a very nice video tribute indeed for a complete stranger yet a brother tradesman!
As a 19 year old tool and die apprentice I love finding old tools I can’t stand the crappy quality of the new tools so whenever I can find a good deal on an old tool box I jump on it there’s nothing better than looking through someone’s collection of tools lol
@@griffincopley6674 I agree 100%
42:22 - analogue clock - you can instantly "see" the time - you don't have to think! I am happy that I grew up with both; they both have their uses - I use a digital timer for working out times/money on a small job, while I use an analogue watch to fill in my time sheets. It's horses for courses... Love your videos, Keith, especially this one; I find myself saying 'got one of those', 'got one of those', 'ooh don't have one of those' - I think you get the gist... I think that's how bucket lists happen
hi Keith i think the long rod with the knurled end and the thread on the other is a handle for a internal micrometer ,i have a Moore and Wright set with one in ,it is used for measuring deep bores ,love the video .Dave in the UK.
Hold on when it said Johns name it said on the caption 1922-2003 and then keith said at a later stage he died in 2002??
hi keith we are no longer on feet and inches or pounds and ounces here in the uk any more since the EU ruling we are on meters millimeters kilograms i myself still work in feet and inches and pounds and ounces i dont think i will ever swap over to metric next thing you know they will be wanting us to use the euro forbid the day any way great video looks like a bargain that tool box
***** I was going to ask you what you did for a job to earn money. Now we know.
Enjoy your videos. Thank you for keeping them clean. I don't have to worry about my little girl listening.
Nice score on the toolbox and it's contents. I picked up a lot of used lathe cutters and know what it's like to dig through something like that! FUN FUN!
Thank you for the information on the tool for making the wax fillet. I have a set of 3 of those and didn't know what they were for. Now I know. I don't think I would have guess their use.
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i still like feet and inches and pints and gallons i wont change no matter what the EU say lol