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Is a huge surplus machine, tooling and odds and ends dealer. I go there if I have a morning free and I want to walk for four hours. It would be a great mini vacation spot for us cuemakers who enjoy scrounging for machinery. They set up shop in a old GM Fisher Body plant in Cleveland that closed up years ago. Huge building.
They have a 2 foot bin with maybe 100 gun drills for sale for $3.99 each. They are all metric: 19.1, 13, 8 mm maybe other sizes, and about 10-12 inches long. Carbide tip and ground sharp but only have a single leading cutting edge. The long bit cross section is like the old pac man symbol. Looks like a long boring bar really with a way to shoot air into the cut. Their part number is: 12-273-687 if anyone wants one. I bought a 19 (engraved by factory as 19.1mm though I have not yet tested with a cut) for cutting butt sleeves and handle pieces. the best part is the price of $3.99 each.
If any AZer lives within driving distance to Cleveland, and wants to see the store, message me and maybe I can meet up with you and give you a tour, it is always fun to go on a tool hunt there. I also saw an unmarked bin of drill bits they got in. A huge 4 foot metal cube bin, mostly filled with assorted bits, many with morse taper shank, many sizes, all sharp, they usually sell that kind of stuff for a few bucks a pound! They buy out huge plants in the rust belt that have gone belly up. You never know what you will find there. Ball screws? I have seen them seven feet long, though mostly 1 inch and larger diameter. I go every other month and everything is different! It is like a flee market on several football fields, all indoors. There are also several other used machine dealers here in this area. One has quite a few old south bend lathes, he rebuilds the machines, sells some as is, sells many totally rebuilt, including ways scraped. That company is: Lee's Machinery in Perry Ohio.
