MACHINIST TOOLBOX TOUR Part 1 of 4 tubalcain

howdy is tubal-cain by popular demand I'm going to present a series on the contents of my machinist toolboxes that is it's a toolbox tour and there are a total of four toolboxes similar to this they're not all quite this big and this series was inspired by Keith Fenner now be sure and watch his many many wonderful videos and he is a machinist car excellent and a wonderful communicator as well so watch Keith Fenner now these boxes do not contain all machinist tools as you know it's a potpourri of things that just get stuck in these drawers but it may be of some interest to you and I'm sure I will make some discoveries during this presentation as well and I think this is going to go on rather endlessly so it'll be divided into more than one video on YouTube so stay tuned as I present these several different parts and if there's a part that's boring to you I go ahead and fast-forward through it because I will take the time to explain some things not everything but the different brands that I have in there and the different purposes of some of these tools some things I'll just gloss over and I'll move along a little more quickly but you know there are hundreds and hundreds of tools here so let this represent the introduction to this series and let's get started now on this box this large Kennedy box which has also a riser panel on it and God blessed the man who came up I've devised the idea for the riser panel he should get a well deserved Nobel Peace Prize here we go with box number one and we opened the lid and you can see that there isn't a whole lot in this one what happens with the top of my boxes is that I store things on the top of this so I can't really get at it most of the time so I don't keep anything in there that needs a day-to-day attention and you know how it is in shop any flat surface becomes a catch-all so here's what we got in here another number three optivisor oh how I love these things I guess I haven't fear that I might damage mine and not have one on hand so I have several of them number three is the best okay on this end we got well and this brown and sharp pouch but if these aren't really a brown and sharp product but these are thread triangles now thread triangles are used to measure the size of the depth of threads so you stick the little triangle into each side of the thread and check it with a micrometer but you need a chart to do that and I don't have the chart I don't know where it is and I kind of forgot that I even had these and I generally just make a thread by checking with a nut but if you really want to get accurate thread triangles or thread wire so this it's a similar process to thread wires if you know what that is here we're going to MIT tutorial 183 shaft lens and this is I don't use this very often it's got a cap on it too but the beauty of this clear part that holds it at the correct distance and allows a light to get in there because when you're using a magnifying glass you can't get enough light especially when you're looking through cataracts like me another little loop handy little tool and I've got several of these jeweler's loops that clip onto my glasses but I never use them look you got them just in case there's another one it has two different powers to it let's see what it is you know a lot of this stuff came from Hawk auction or garage sales and I bring it home and I stick it in a drawer and I forget that I got and I got more than I can use in 10 lifetimes and I think the Lord for this luxury and passion that I have another magnifying glass just a cheapy and then in the back here we got an inspection mirror I got all kinds of those in different magnets and to retrieve parts I know you all got the some of those and and you know why I got a big ball a heavy twine I don't know but I do I do and I've got a magnet here that probably came from a garage sale I do go to garage sales and auctions if I haven't mentioned that this is a handy tool for making gaskets circular gaskets it's got a knife blade right here and this is the pivot point and it cuts cork gasket or gasket material or a cardboard or just about anything you want you can change the radius of course by moving this and it has a little graduation here spare blades well they left no stone unturned when they made that this is a nice tool and I have used that from time to time that's it for the top hope you weren't disappointed all right let's start with the drawers drawer number one that a lot of miscellaneous in here as you can see but among various things here we've got for my pattern making these are Filat shapers by the freemen company and when I use a body putter putty type of material this is used for making Phillips and there's all different radiuses there they can be cleaned with lacquer thinner those are nice rather obscure tools and also when I'm doing pattern making I've made several of these radius tools these are used for pressing leather radiuses are leather Phillips rather into the radius so there's a bunch of those and what's that a screw extractor or something that's been around forever I love these little oil applicators for my little engines there's something I have no idea what it is but it's enough set on that another screw starter I believe that is a bunch of wedges when I take old hammer handles off I always save those and here we got our usual odd works I like the little flashlights I have a bunch of them although I've converted to a LED one so I don't use that very often there's a couple of extra rods here for depth micrometer I don't know what they fit I really don't there's a stair gauge but there's only one of them there needs to be two to fit on a framing square these are various parts from Caterpillar used in fuel injectors left from the olden days and on this side here we got all three inch stearic dividers a couple of them one isn't enough you know you've got one for each hand another one of those these little devices here are for putting on the end of a micrometer spindle and you can measure the diameter or the thickness rather of tubing now there's three of them there I don't know where they came from drafting a compass there's a one inch Weber gauge block and another gauge block of got some scribers here nice little ruler it's not just cut off it's made that way it's a brown and sharp because you can see it's got the graduations on the end sometimes you'll see where people cut a ruler and two pieces but this is and that I recognize those initials Henry Sieben himer my brother got his box after he died he worked at West clocks as life here's a drill sharpening gauge there's several of those in these boxes and that's about it of interest in this particular drawer let's move down next drawer down some interesting tools in here we've got another oiler and a spare nozzle for it to throw away there's a scriber I don't know what that fits we got all kinds of standards here to check micrometer that's a three inch and several of the one inches I like the round ones better than than this type but I'm sure this type is cheaper to make I've got the various wrenches to adjust micrometers each different brand takes a different kind of wrench more dividers I have a lot of dividers a little bit of a three-inch starett inside caliper and one of those I have an awful lot of these depth gauges I don't know why I have so many but there must be a dozen amount and all this type uses a rod the rods around here someplace rather than a blade no one uses a blade - that's what those two little pins are and the first of several more fitted calipers I hope you know what a more fitted caliper is but there's a brown and sharp or kind of a small one got some rust on it you know if you see any rust on any of my tools it's a prior to my ownership because I keep a dehumidifier down here any tools that are kept in a unheated garage will rust the worst thing for precision tools so avoid buying tools that are rusty they never do clean up properly this I suppose is the ruler that goes in here a nice little narrow ruler this is a nice drawer I like die making squares and here's one with all the accessories that's a brown and sharp different blades sit in there if you're doing small work you've got to have these die maker squares they're just wonderful little items and of course I have more than one of them I think this is a starett also a nice little tool lay it there for now this Stuart I guess you call a bevel square it's got two different angles here never have used it more accessories for a die square that's some kind of homemade gage again all kinds of dividers different lengths all nice and sharp to multiples of everything you know the proportions on a starett outside caliper is absolutely magnificent it's a pretty tool that's artwork I'm sure that most of you will agree to that and I think that's why I had such a strong attraction and bought so many and if I saw some at a sale today I'd have to buy them I would have to and it's almost uncontrollable as it is with you to love holics and there are some patter die makers or machinist buttons we won't go into the use of those I haven't had those very long it's one of my newer items that's also a stearic it will fit into a blade with a bubble level never have used it forgot to add it to thermometers real mercury ones don't tell the EPA on me they would want to take them away and charge hundreds of dollars for the disposal of the mercury or some other insane thing according to their rules I know none of you likey EPA either so we're on the same side on that here's a jackknife I don't know why that's in there I'm sure I have 50 or more pocketknife that's a craftsman no bent or broken blades for me I throw them out I will throw them out don't know what that is but I think I need two of them in a pair I need a pair of them them to make it work they fit into a combination square ruler all right that's it for that drawer as you know the middle drawer the deep drawer on a toolbox is reserved for Machinery's handbook which is the machinist Bible I like this particular machinist guide to real handy you know you can get these out there's a hole in the bottom of the drawer to push it out and I think you've all got one of these or should have when I got three or four everything you ever wanted to know about machine shop is in that book time for a short story before I continue with this drawer I do like the metal Kennedy boxes I've often admired the wooden oak Gerstner box as they're magnificent but I lament the fact that they became a collector's item and women like them for jewelry so they get to the point where the price is so high that you can't afford them at an auction and you know they're being hoarded for another purpose than than what we would like but my brother has one and had it since we were in high school and I recall my dad coming down the basement stairs with it and he got about halfway down the stairs and the front of the cabinet opened and the drawers fell out because the drawers no stops and several the drawers hit the floor with tools in them and smash to Flinders and I don't think that'll happen with a Kennedy box so that's why that's my preference right now is for the Kennedy box I do not own a wooden one but I do covet them alright what do we got in this drawer well we've got some inspection mirrors and pin laces several different sizes of pin vices more of those screw starters got tons of those I never use them I'll set that aside so I can talk about it here in a minute a lot of screw starters that these are Center punches to start screws for hinges I think you've seen those large but hinges like you'd use on a door there's several of those in here two more pin vices this is a double-ended one so you can hole little drill bits in there or small work that you're you need to hold in some way and they're knurled and that is made by I think it's a general Hardware on there we've got an extra swivel for a c-clamp more magnets and inspection mirrors and here's a little scriber I don't know where that maybe that scriber was in one of the other drawers it's not inside but this has a or this might be a screwdriver because this swivels I take that back I don't believe this is for a scraper I always like this little magnet by Brown and sharp because you can turn it on and off and it's great to pick up chips out of T slots and such the magnet over on this side we've got another one of those Center punches I just talked about two of them there's an ice scraper either three or four scribers they're some more pin laces these are for woodworking I think you know what those are you ever seen one of these Center punches you can punch holes in a row and equally-spaced them once you have your your first one started this is the punch and this is just like a little extra finger to guide it I believe that's a steric and these are automatic Center punches let me take just a minute to show you what those are because someone the other day said when I mentioned one is that what's an automatic Center punch so let me show you that I'll show you a couple different things here here's an automatic Center punch and you just have a scribe line and your layout line and when you find where x marks the spot just put that automatic Center punch on that mark and push down and the spring loaded and will give you a nice Center punch mark you don't need to pick up a hammer so those are handy I have many of them and this other little tool I set aside this is by brownells be sure and get yourself a Brownells catalog you know they have great machinist tools in there and gunsmithing tools but this is like a little center finder and other than the middle part is a punch so you can immediately find the center of anything within its range for instance this is a piece of quarter-inch stock here if you would straddle that with the pins and then turn it until the two pins are touching and then strike this with your brass hammer you would have a center punch mark exactly in the middle of this piece handy little tool I had thought about making one larger than Eska this is really for small work very unique tool I venture a guess that 90% of you have never seen one here's one of the deep drawers again nothing but calipers and dividers here's a nice starett even came with a little protective sheet on the end back when they went to the extra effort I think this must have come out of a ignition kit I don't know why it's in there we get more stearic dividers and calipers and oh here's an interesting one and again you probably haven't seen one of these I think it's called a keyhole calipers stearic it looks like somebody straightened out the other side doesn't it but it is factory made I forgot the exact use of it but there must be some use for it but I would call that probably a rather rarer tool another inside dividers I very seldom use them I don't consider them accurate enough this particular starett dividers is the one I believe they call the PHA pattern and it is absolutely magnificent that they went to the extra effort here of going from thick to thin spring caliper wow what a tool what proportions you know it gives credence to their motto the world's greatest tool maker doesn't it you know schools I go to their auctions but there's a bunch of drafting tools that came out of a drafting lab that they were closing or they had converted totally to CAD and you know there are some other ones and well here's another more fitted caliper we all know what a morph Edyta is I recall going to the sideshow in Wisconsin when I was 10 years old and we were in there and of course you know how they teach you in a sideshow even getting in there and everything is a fraud now you'll see a fat lady at Walmart this far fatter than what do you saw and paid for in the sideshow but once you got in the sideshow of course they still were after more your money so for an extra quarter or dime or whatever was at the time you could go through another set of curtains and see the morpha date and out on the large canvas poster the more fat I tore half-man half-woman was was shown depicted as a as a person that was split down the middle wearing a skirt on one side and pants on the other I'm sure the some of you have been scammed similarly in your life I particularly like this kind of drafting tool this is made by Herlihy and you can open it fast with this very special screw here which i think is a to start or three start or something like that and then your fine adjustments made here of it is very clever but believe me in a school the kids are murder on these precision instruments absolute murder this drawer will make you drool because it still makes me drool every time I open it you know there's a $500 worth in there if you had to buy at new minimum you're a little box that has all kinds of spare parts for starett combination squares it might be some brown and sharp in there to the vials I think are more modern they they aren't for starett in this drawer you're going to see that I have an awful lot of these protractors and I don't know why I have so many what I do when they're there to brown and sharp square head I won't even mention these I do like them but I sure have a lot of there's a slight different variation on one with a with a straight rule rather than a bar made by general you know general I'll made some pretty good tools you know I don't think they got much credit and you know when you look at a starett square and that's hardened and it's you know it's like brand-new in it its ground and this was stair its first product leroy starett LS starett invented the combination square I want wonderful tool it is not to be confused with the cheapy you buy at the hardware store for carpentry work but uh we're talking a hundred dollars for this along with the blade I like a hook ruler I've mentioned that before and this is on eight incher lookin you know lookin oh how I meant the fact that Lufkin is out of business or they make tape rollers basically nothing but tape rulers but so but so does everybody else there's a very nice center finder made in England that's one of my favorites I use all the time Oh another one of these but it's been a ruler on it which is a nice feature well you know every time I touch one of my little precision squares I'm thrilled this is a starett also know this is Lufkin Wow Lufkin but on the little die maker square this other knurled knob that I'm touching allows you to set it out of square in other words you can set this square at an angle which is a you know what do they call it when when a words are incorrect I'll think of that in a second I'll get back to that there's a blade that fits any starett ruler this is for laying out hexagons that size for laying out octagons even got it marked another one are you counting these there's a starett blade for a small square these are nice squares this is a 6-inch stearic not to be confused with and looking for another one in here the four inch square that was my father is one of the very few tools left from my dad but these are nice tools just the right size to do a lot of work getting back to Lufkin here's a lookin combination Square every bit as good as a stair again they have that pretty green color which probably isn't going to show up and I have that in two sizes a 4 and a 6 and you know if I saw any of these at a sale I would I would buy them again in an instant you can only use so many square you know I only got two hands this craftsman six inch square is one that I bought when I started at Osborne engineering in 1966 and I had to buy some tools so that served me well even though it's not satin chrome well there's yet another one of the little ones and that would be a starett are you counting another one Brown and sharp also the highest quality that also I bought that year that I started at that factory a couple little starett combination squares one with a center finding head oh and you had another Lufkin so there's three of those lovekins Wow I'm a happy man that's homemade I think you've seen that in some of my videos be sure and watch many of my other videos this is a handy little device from England 45 degrees you know I just thought of that word oxymoron you know this this is an oxymoron I guess because it's a square that can be taken out a square maybe that's not thicker Holt look I have been looking for this for years as brown and sharp square I love this thing and I had misplaced it or I thought maybe I had lost it and there it is Eureka I made a discovery love it love it I can lay that aside well don't lose it again Oh another one of those and yet another nice little square it'll rust on that one a hook ruler there's a pair of scribes I think these are from trammel points because they got knurls on the end here I'm not sure what they're for but I got them in case I ever need them and I guess that about concludes this drawer and this is certainly one of my favorite drawers hope you liked it too here's the last drawer some goodies in there boy that's Terra is magical to me absolutely magical I hope you're having fun I am okay here we got a brown and sharp center finder now satin chrome rule those are hardened you know you know when I was teaching school a boy came up to me some years ago and he said mr. Peterson don't you have any 12-inch rulers in the shop and I said well yeah look in the rack there we got eight of them and he's there oh no no you know you don't they're all 11 inches yeah well they got to learn you know okay here's a starett shaper gage thank you most of you know what those are I use it as an adjustable parallel nobody uses a shaper anymore there's a dial caliper paid in Japan I've had that for quite a while that's a good one a nice have chewed on the corner of this long before I came into my ownership here we got a several different little caliper the old wooden sila is to collect these this type of thing we've got a Stanley Anna loaf gun and a Roebling you know a man by the name of Roebling was responsible for the part of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and he was the first one to use wire rope and you know that goes back when steel wasn't very popular but they were using iron but they came up with iron rope and that allowed him to build suspension bridges and the name of the company that I first made wire rope was Roebling whether or not this has any connection I do not know it was a sidebar and that's free of charge I always had a bunch of these lenses whenever I take an old projector or something or a camera part I keep the lenses I don't know why here's a shop microscope and it's a I don't know what kindness is oh it's 20 power oh it's a Bosch and long and when you put something under here the little mirror gathers light so this works really well I have used that another magnifier with two lenses and an extra lens for my optivisor over on this side we got starett caliper electronic you know one thing I don't like about this particular one I believe does not have the automatic shutoff so if you don't turn it off you know that baby's dead and the next time you use it I don't really like anything with a battery and it's just nothing but an aggravation this ankle something my brother Jan from Cody Wyoming gave me for Christmas in 1970 about so that's I kind of cherish that it's still in perfect shape this little hammer here starik used to make one and you could do your layout work with it you can see across lines with this magnifier and then you would tap your Center punch but this is a knockoff you know it's made in you know where and and it says a Winchester on it there's no more winchester than the man in the moon and a flashlight here says mercury on it probably doesn't work well it does must have copper top in it yes several of these screw checkers allows you to check the size of threads this one is from Brownell some of these holes are threaded see Brown elegance for gunsmiths this appears to be the same tool with a different name on it by Brookstone remember originally Brookstone build themselves as hard-to-find tools now it's hard to find novelties if they're still around had a few other things in here yet I'll get another more fitted caliper longer one Brown ensure a couple of things I have to demonstrate there so that's why I'm holding them to last there's a starett ruler now this is a shrink ruler see it says shrink 3/16 to a foot so this is the one I use when I'm making patterns because patterns need to be made oversized to allow for the shrinkage of the metal after the castings have cooled so this 12-inch ruler is actually 12 and 1/16 long and these are available in different shrink numbers I have a whole bunch of them in another box somewhere in this basement this is like a transfer punch that can be used for about any different sized hole Universal hit this with your hammer and you can transfer a hole you already know what transfer punches are there's a similar product this is used to find the center no if I had something around here to show you you lay something round in there like this and tap it and you're finding the center of it it's of dubious quality stamped steel and dubious that it works very well but I got one a case I needed to show you what that is in a second I showed this torch and one of my other videos but there's this was in this box too if you just saw it there my little micro torch I had to have that when I saw that I think was a rural King but these micro torches are beautiful for soldering tiny wires are getting inside of even under a dashboard or something like that of an older car and it also works great for shrinking the shrink tubing so get yourself one of those it's refillable with butane on the bottom and so is this other one that's a sidebar here is the last item in that bottom drawer anybody know what this is this is a quiz anybody know what this is anyone at all you in the front roll shop dog Sam in the front row there in your usual seat do you know what this is everybody should have one well it's a Bell Center punch this is the punch and you can immediately find the center of any round work within its limits of course by putting it over the work like that as it looks like a bell making sure that is perfectly square server' tikal I should say tap it with your brass hammer and you have found the center probably a rather archaic and unknown tool and this is hardened and there's a manufacturer's name on it that I do not know who made it or I can't read the name I used to have the boys in school attempt to make one of these but they really couldn't get this centered properly in here and then of course if it's not accurate it had no use at all raise your hand if you knew what that was

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Keywords: starrett, brown & sharpe, mitutoyo, fowler, lufkin, millers falls, craftsman, south bend lathe, atlas

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Length: 36min 15sec (2175 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 03 2013