Dear Mike, if you're seriously pondering what will happen to your goods after your passing, unless you decide to begin reselling in first person this huge amount of stuff you mentioned, I warmly suggest that you at least attach a tag with make, model and possibly year and approximate value at least to the most saleable machines and/or those with a significant number of parts to be "cannibalised". If you do this, it would be fairly easy to your family members to sell these goods, and the goods will most probably go to fellow collectors who need them.
Should selling these goods require instead a long work of information gathering by your family in order to understand what each piece is and if it may rise any interest, most probably everything will be dumped due to lack of time, or sold as a stock at a laughable fraction of its value.
As I also appreciate very much your work as a supplier of new gramphone springs, and your needle assortment has to be greatly praised also, in turn I respectfully suggest that sooner or later you pass the information about which factories manufacture these goods for you to someone you trust. If I may suggest a name, Andy (Orchorsol), who also participated in this discussion, is a true gentleman who deserves trust (and he also has experience about dealing with needles). It doesn't necessarily mean that anyone else will have sufficient time/money/space to act as a supplier of parts as you wonderfully do, but at least the information about who still has the machinery to craft these parts will not be lost.
Keep up the good work!
