Oerlikon UB2

Oh, there were all kinds of treasures but the real issue is one of space.....they had a lot of stuff I couldn't fit in my garage even if it was empty to start with...and it ain't!

Like a lovely Chicago, Dreis & Krump press brake, 12' x 65 ton....it sold for a whopping $4500 and is headed down to Mexico. That's about 25 cents a pound. Over the years that brake bent a ton of metal for me, including the gas tank in my Valiant.

This was all at auction a couple weeks ago...they sold everything. What was funny is the big stuff went dirt cheap and the crap went for big dollars. There were people buying common 4'x8' sheets of regular steel for twice what they could buy it for new at a steel supply place. A pallet of old broken casters for $300. And welders? Guys were paying new prices for 20 year old welders. It's a strange world.