Today's garage sale finds

Pics pretty much speak for themselves.. $90 for all of it.

Nice grab for the price.

Yep you ****, nice haul lots of neat stuff there.

Nice score, you did alot better than I did today.
I went to an estate sale at a tiny auto upholstery shop, mostly junk though.

That's a real good haul.

I lucked out myself and found 3 more 3/8 drive New Britain Kilness patent round head ratchets I've been wanting - a Sparta, a Mustang, and a unique Penncraft. Whats unique about it is that it has a knurled spinner on the drive side of the ratchet, ala the Craftsman (Easco) RHFTQR catalog ratchet. It's definitely a New Britain ratchet - the spinner isn't cast/forged as part of the overall drive like the Craftsman/Easco - it's a thinner disk, concave in the center and fitted over the square shaft, and is held on by a separate snapring that the shaft has been machined for. It doesn't add anything to the head thickness like the Crafty/Easco design does. It also does't rattle and slide around like the elcheapo ones you usta-could find that snapped on between the socket and ratchet. I've never seen any other New Britain design ratchet with this spinner - well actually once, it was here in an old ad pic (drawing actually) somebody posted awhile back. Think it might have been a Penncraft ad too.

I know - "this post is useless without pics!" - but the camera is buried somewhere since the move and I'm stuck using dial-up for the time being, so an upload would likely take hours, if it didn't keep timing out...

Oh yeah, $16 for all three ratchets, and another $6 for a dozen or so mixed USA wrenches and sockets from another table.

OK, no pics, can not figure out yet, anyways, I got a set of plomb? wrenches, craftsman tap die set, 8 and 10 "craftsman end wrenches set of k-d old stubby ratchet wrench different odds and end wrenches and 3 different ford specialty wrenches and a craftsman crow bar, all for the amazing low price of 25.00 bucks.................... I may be missing another item but you get the drift...........

Nice haul at the garage sale Alex, but what I'm really digging is your bench! Looks like you used I-beam on top of that angle iron frame. One sturdy looking SOB! And I like the outlets in front with the quick connectors for the air. Nice job! How about some closer photos?

I like the lead hammers in the 2nd pic. Nice pic up.

JohnK007 said:

Nice haul at the garage sale Alex, but what I'm really digging is your bench! Looks like you used I-beam on top of that angle iron frame. One sturdy looking SOB! And I like the outlets in front with the quick connectors for the air. Nice job! How about some closer photos?

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Thanks

That's actually a machinist's surface plate. The top is a 6"+ thick fine grain iron casting precision ground flat. It has 8 leveling screws so I was able to get it perfectly level. I drilled and tapped a few 1/2-13 holes into the bottom of the casting to screw it to the base (when I picked it up, it was just sitting on the base--getting it home was quite an adventure). I added the outlets and air. The reason there is a pair of air connects on each side is, one is dry air, the other is oiled. Here are some pics: