NA,
You have some decent stuff...The wrenches and sockets maybe don't look all that high grade but the rest looks good.
A slight correction to the last picture in your second post...the thing with the dial face is called a "dial indicator". Its a Federal brand which I am pretty sure is a high line US built brand. It's only +/- .015" reading, and reads to 0.0005" (half a thousandth of an inch) so its for very fine work, usually on a lathe or milling machine. Or as Jord suggested, in some of the finer points of mechanical work.
The thing beside the dial indicator is actually a surface gauge. It can be used with the dial indicator but there are better devices that have magnetic bases to hold the dial indicator in place. The surface gauge is a specialized tool that is used with another specialized item called a "surface plate" for marking very accurate lines on your work. You will see that it has a rod on it with two pointy ends--they are used to scratch a line on the metal workpiece. Kinda hard to describe how it works without a picture....
You should be able to get a few bucks on Craigs or Kijiji for the tools and the machinists toolbox is a great score for you!
Congrats on your first score from the yard!!
How's the yard work been going? It sounds like they have been testing you on all the crappy jobs, judging from your last post about having to climb in the baler to pull out aluminum foil!!
Jon.
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