2023 Garage Sale Thread

[mikeinri]

Picked this up this morning for $10. Never made fresh butter before, so I figured why not.

Interesting. Somewhere around second grade, I vaguely recall putting heavy cream into an empty baby food jar, shaking it, and eventually making butter (this was in school, BTW). Of course, that was something like 45 years ago, so I'm probably missing some part of the recipe there...

That was an earlier picture. Here is the current batch with the duplicates circled.
-Don

Wow, you could almost make a chess set out of those!

Eagle eye Roger is correct. I need to find a few different ones.
-Don

Oh no, now you're moving them around in an otherwise identical pic??? My head is spinning!

Not a garage sale, but a consignment auction. Got the MiniMax 6 chainsaw and case for $5.
Got it home, added gas and a new spark plug, had it running in short order.

...and YOU ****!!!

Mike

 

[Outlawmws]

Wow, you could almost make a chess set out of those!

Here are most of mine, I'm still figuring put how I want to display, but we are also planing to do a major home re-arangement and I'm waiting for that to see where my easy chair/office lands.

 

[LostBoy(IRL)]

Random selection this morning.
Ward and Payne gardening fork.
4 gedore AF sockets 5/16, 11/32, 13/32, 9/16.
Plomb 5/8 WF-31
Kent pattern hatchet head, no makers name visible.
Stanley blade holder.
7 Gedore metric, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 19, & 20
Stahwille 12 spanner
Rabone chesterman measure, no spring pressure, so not sure I will get this back into action.
Gedore No. 44/9" pin spanner .
Decent enough little haul this month.

 

[LesserSon]

I vaguely recall putting heavy cream into an empty baby food jar, shaking it, and eventually making butter (this was in school, BTW). Of course, that was something like 45 years ago, so I'm probably missing some part of the recipe there...

Your recipe is not missing any parts; that’s exactly what unsalted butter is, and has been, for eleven thousand years or more (though glass baby food jars are from less than four thousand years ago).
Sometimes the consequence of a moment of distraction when intending to make whipped cream.

 

[bmwrd0]

On Saturday, I took a trip to various sales, Restores and thrift shops. Here are my finds:

First stop was a VFW post having a sale, where I picked up a set of number stamps in a cool old holder, box of Nicholson chainsaw files, Proto long handle, and Tru-test breaker.


Next stop was my favorite used tool dealer, where I picked up the Stanley dowl guide set in box and the Stanley 130 double ended plane. Next up was a sale that I found the Goodell Pratt chain drill at.


I swung by a Restore and picked up a spot light bulb (not pictured) and then I found an ERB first at a thrift store.


A stop at an estate sale yielded a rawhide mallet, long reach driver, and Goodell Pratt spiral driver. And then it was off to a garage clear out, where I found a Proto puller set at a price that I can resell for and recoup all that I spent this morning:


A good day.

 

[mikeinri]

Cool stuff, @bmwrd0. Any idea on the age of the Young Brothers stamp set?

Mike

 

[Outlawmws]

Good scores all around BMW! But wow on the first edition ERB!

 

[bmwrd0]

Cool stuff, @bmwrd0. Any idea on the age of the Young Brothers stamp set?

Mike

The company started in 1904, but that is as much as I know.

 

[LesserSon]

$40 at Quakertown flea today. Atkins small backsaw, Bonney CV Hercules 3/4dr rat w plug (in shockingly good condition), Sears lidlifter, unmarked finish hammerhead, 3/8dr Plomb extension, Indestro screwdriver, CV obstruction doe, unknown (yet) dikes, two 1-gang coverplates on a showerhook.

 

[LesserSon]

Congrats on the 1st ed ERB, BMer!

 

[WisJim]

On Saturday, I took a trip to various sales, Restores and thrift shops.

It seems we have similar taste in tools and books. Great finds! Quite a few things that I would certainly have picked up, also those planes from earlier too.

 

[BlueBomber]

Guys, we are hunters. It's all about the hunt, not the take.

Well, I always like to say "I'm not much into fishing. I'm more into catching."

 

[RTM]

Atkins small backsaw,

Those tall stubby blades can be so much fun, get into tight areas to cut a tenon.

 

[3baygarage]

Nice Hercules ratchet! I've missed out on that one many a time. I also like BMW's Proto puller find, and LostBoy's really interesting gardening fork (never seen one).

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Late getting home from Philly, where I picked (Lugz 2023_08), with Mrs Lugz, at her mom's house, which is still full of Marie's Junque Shop stuff. I left her upstairs in that menagerie and went through the basement and sheds.



-Unmarked file card
-Palmer slip joint water pump pliers
-Tiny E.C. Stearns mill vise
-Lufkin folding 24" rule
-Goodell-Pratt Babbitt scraper
-Some kind of utilities wrench, perhaps fire apparatus (LE-HI)
-Plomb pebble DBE
-E.C. Atkins saw
-1945 Ames intrenching tool

 

[Private Lugnutz]

And...I'm going back for this, with one of my sons, my brother, and one of his sons. I could barely get one corner off the floor. Easily a 4 man lift just to get it in the truck. We're planning to use it as a rolling liquor cabinet in the parlor. Super excited about this!

 

[3baygarage]

The latest haul...3Baby!

Well, her mom gets the credit, though she looks just like I do in old photos.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Congrats 3Bay, and you look like an actor whos name escapes me at the moment. I'll remember at some inconvenient time.

 

[Old Man Roger]

I got it! You look like the guy who played the father on Veronica Mars, except you have hair..lol

Enrico Colantoni
He also played the alien on Galaxy quest.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The latest haul...3Baby!

Snerk. So cute

you look like an actor whos name escapes me at the moment.

Charles Grodin?

 

[Smokeshow69]

And...I'm going back for this, with one of my sons, my brother, and one of his sons. I could barely get one corner off the floor. Easily a 4 man lift just to get it in the truck. We're planning to use it as a rolling liquor cabinet in the parlor. Super excited about this!

You guys must take your liquor seriously if you need a safe to hold it

 

[alinc100]

And...I'm going back for this, with one of my sons, my brother, and one of his sons. I could barely get one corner off the floor. Easily a 4 man lift just to get it in the truck. We're planning to use it as a rolling liquor cabinet in the parlor. Super excited about this!

I'll be glad to drop in and offer some lifting/moving assistance.....of said liquors that is.

 

[ecotec]

The latest haul...3Baby!

Well, her mom gets the credit, though she looks just like I do in old photos.

Congratulations, man, she is beautiful.

 

[bmwrd0]

NICE! Three bay for the win!

 

[duddly]

Congratulations 3 Bay! Truly a life changing blessing.

 

[bbbarracuda]

And...I'm going back for this, with one of my sons, my brother, and one of his sons. I could barely get one corner off the floor. Easily a 4 man lift just to get it in the truck. We're planning to use it as a rolling liquor cabinet in the parlor. Super excited about this!

If that “rolling liquor cabinet” starts rolling, don’t get in its way

 

[mikeinri]

Congrats, @3baygarage!!!

Mike

 

[mikeinri]

And...I'm going back for this, with one of my sons, my brother, and one of his sons. I could barely get one corner off the floor. Easily a 4 man lift just to get it in the truck. We're planning to use it as a rolling liquor cabinet in the parlor. Super excited about this!

Wow, that's cool! You ****!!!

Is that box inside a separate item, or was that part of the safe originally?

Mike

 

[Outlawmws]

Congrats 3bay! Hope 3Baby and mom are doing well

 

[LesserSon]

Congratulations, 3bay!

 

[Old Man Roger]

Charles Grodin?

I can see a little young grodin too.

 

[LesserSon]

I cleared the rust off the “unmarked” items, discovering the 4oz claw hammer is an E.C.Simmons “Oak Leaf” and the dikes (which I bought for the mystery of the sort-of “nested diamonds meets arrow fletching” grip pattern are 6113 Sheffield England. The Plomb extension is a WF19.

EDIT - found a second pair of the mystery dikes, on which GLOBEMASTER is stamped above England.

 

[jeffmoss26]

congrats on the new addition!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

You guys must take your liquor seriously if you need a safe to hold it

I'll be glad to drop in and offer some lifting/moving assistance.....of said liquors that is.

If that “rolling liquor cabinet” starts rolling, don’t get in its way

Hahaha. Seriously, it does roll well once you get it going. It's going to look so cool in our house (built in 1893!) once it's cleaned up with an antique serving tray on top with a few bottles and vintage glasses. Can't wait to go back and get it.

Is that box inside a separate item, or was that part of the safe originally?

That's built in. Only one of the drawers is still there, though.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I did also find a Whatzit. It was coated with rust and stubborn mud in a box with old (1860's) clothing irons. Giving this thread first crack at it. My first thought was antique rocketry, almost like a flechette, but it's soft, porous metal. Malleable iron if I had to guess. Next thought was a stake of some kind, but for what, I don't know. That slot-head brass plug will not budge. I chewed it up a little trying.

 

[Outlawmws]

Lugz, I'm thinking cheap wrought (rot...) iron fence finials, for the early cheap "Tubing" fences and gates and you pound the tubing flrst to fit.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That makes sense.

 

[jeffmoss26]

Hahaha. Seriously, it does roll well once you get it going. It's going to look so cool in our house (built in 1893!) once it's cleaned up with an antique serving tray on top with a few bottles and vintage glasses. Can't wait to go back and get it.

That's built in. Only one of the drawers is still there, though.

Sweet safe! Do you have the combo?

 

[CoogarXR]

these came from my buddy's garage, not a sale
I am curious about the Hunter screwdrivers, if anyone has info let me know!

I don't know much about the Hunter drivers, but the Xcelite RP102 is one that is one you don't see too often. The RPXXX series is Reed-Prince as opposed to a standard Phillips. I wouldn't go so far as to call it "rare", but it's not a common one to find.

 

[mikeinri]

I did also find a Whatzit. It was coated with rust and stubborn mud in a box with old (1860's) clothing irons. Giving this thread first crack at it. My first thought was antique rocketry, almost like a flechette, but it's soft, porous metal. Malleable iron if I had to guess. Next thought was a stake of some kind, but for what, I don't know. That slot-head brass plug will not budge. I chewed it up a little trying.

That looks a lot like the (cheap plastic) stake tips on things like lighted candy cane lawn decorations.

Mike