Rotary lifts, Ford Rotunda special service tools, Robinair A/C machines, and a Hunter Road Force balancer lead the service department auction at Broadway Ford in St. Louis, Missouri. The lifts run from five two-post units at 12,000 to 16,000 pounds up to two SM30 four-post drive-ons rated at 30,000, plus 18 MCH mobile columns in pairs and sets of four. The Rotunda essential tools fill 36 lots, more than 500 kits in their cases for engine, transmission, drivetrain, steering, and EV work.

The A/C bay has two Robinair R-134a machines and two R-1234yf machines, an AirSept A/C flush machine, and a Robinair CoolXChange coolant exchanger. The shop floor also has a Dake 150-ton press, a Van Norman FG-5000 flywheel grinder, Midtronics and Rotunda battery stations with a Ford hybrid rescue charger, Associated fleet chargers, and Norco underhoist transmission jacks. A Caterpillar special service tool lot and Detroit Diesel and Mercedes-Benz test tools are in the catalog too.

Two Caterpillar GP25 LP forklifts and a Tennant T7 ride-on scrubber sell with Lincoln MIG and Eastwood TIG welders, a Waterloo rolling tool chest, and Highway Products topsider truck boxes. The parts room has Ford and Motorcraft OEM parts, Fleetguard filters, truck and light truck tires, batteries, and fluids. Dell monitors and Samsung commercial displays come out of the offices.

The auction begins closing Thursday, October 8 at 10:00 a.m. Central. Pickup is in St. Louis.

Evolve Additive Solutions is selling its polymer and toner research lab in Rochester, New York, from an Anton Paar rheometer, a Nicolet FTIR spectrometer, and an Instron impact tester to a Zeppelin Henschel mixer and two Kodak NexPress production presses.

The testing lab leads the catalog. The Anton Paar is an MCR 302e and comes with its RheoCompass software and measuring plates, and the Nicolet has Spectra-Tech ATR and diamond-cell accessories to go with it. An Instron CEAST pendulum impact tester and a CEAST specimen notcher are here with a Carver heated lab press, a Magtrol dynamometer, a Shore rebound resilience tester, and PTC and Shore durometers. Mettler Toledo analytical balances, an A&D moisture analyzer, a Bausch & Lomb StereoZoom microscope, and Mitutoyo gauges are on the bench too.

Powder work centers on the 2023 Zeppelin mixer with its Siemens touchscreen. Two Kawata Supermixer Piccolos, a Paul O. Abbe jar mill, a Vorti-Siv sieving machine, a vibrating sifter, and a few dozen W.S. Tyler and U.S.A. Standard test sieves are here as well, along with an Air Science ductless fume hood, a Quincy lab oven, and an SMC thermo-chiller.

On the toner side, more than two dozen Trek high-voltage power supplies, amplifiers, and electrostatic voltmeters sell with a M.E.C.C.A. charge-to-mass analyzer and Torrey Pines and Xactiv tribo analyzers. The two NexPress presses come with shelves of NexPress imaging cylinders, blanket cylinders, rollers, and press components.

Shop and support equipment includes a Jet vertical bandsaw, a Jet air cleaner, a Beko compressed air dryer, an Elmo Rietschle regenerative blower, two Stratasys WaveWash cleaning systems, Stanley Vidmar drawer cabinets, and a Global Industrial pallet stacker. Lab carts, sit/stand desks, laptops, and office furniture fill out the catalog.

Bidding begins closing Thursday, October 15 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern. Pickup is in Rochester.