2023 Garage Sale Thread

[22george]

Recognize this?

To manually safety wire. ( to get into tighter places that safety wire pliers can't )

 

[bmwrd0]

RTM, I might have some blades for that shoe leather shave. Let me look around.

 

[LostBoy(IRL)]

Feels odd to be posting mid month as I usual only buy secondhand tools from my local monthly carboot, but spotted these advertised on a Craigslist equivalent site here. These were sold as used, but no evidence of that, they were not cheap for Allen keys, but they were compared to what they sell for new.
And most importantly they are gorgeous, a much over looked characteristics

 

[ctuai]

CT, that's an interesting variant of the hand crank grinder. I wonder if it had a specific use case, and if the small wheel was intended?.

Sorry, just caught this question. I don't know. It's made by Luther Bros. and it sure goes like stink. I was reading that it has helical gears, which I guess speeds it up. Here's a vid of me cranking it to 11.

 

[ctuai]

Never heard of a DHP plane before, sounds interesting, got to read more.

Thanks for sharing. You should add it to the hand plane thread on the vintage board.

Caught this thread but was too embarrassed to reply as I realized that when I took apart the plane I had lost the screw that attaches the chip-breaker to the blade . This is not unusual given that I'm usually pushing things aside to create a 8" workspace on my bench. But tada it showed up today. So got the plane in the vaporust and when I get it out I will certainly pop it onto the hand plane thread.

 

[cmccuist1]

My wife told me about a kayak that a neighbor was selling, so i went and picked it up - $20! He also had a 6 gallon small water heater that I needed for my shop sink - $40. We got to talking and he says, "do you know anyone who needs drill bits?" I'm always looking for drill bits. He pulls out a couple boxes of bits, only they're not just drill bits! End mills, roughing mills, chamfering bits, carbide flow through drill bits, most brand new! He got them on a pallet with some other items and says he doesn't need them, so if I want them, 50 bucks! That's a lifetime supply of end mills for me.

 

[Provincial]

cmccuist1 gets a **** from me!

​

 

[mikeinri]

cmccuist1 gets a **** from me!

​

Wow, that's an understatement!!! Massive suckage there!

Mike

 

[JMLangford]

Today's flea haul....


First up is a 1/4" dr. set of Craftsman metric sockets on a socket rail.
These sockets are all U.S.A. made - 4,5,8,9,11,12,13mm sockets are -EE- code and the 5.5,6,7,10mm are -G1- code.
Note the color difference in the chrome plating between the 2 codes!
I gave $6 for the set....


Next up is a nice beginner/student 4/4 (full size) violin with a nice padded case with a bow and a few accessories (extra bridge, extra chin rest, and a shoulder rest)
It's a Mendini MV200 brand and sells on Amazon (complete with case and acc. for $110)
I gave $25 (needs a G string)....




I play guitar, banjo, mandolin but I can't play a fiddle.......I'll probably donate this to a friend of mine for her charity fund drive.

.

 

[mikeinri]

Today's flea haul....


First up is a 1/4" dr. set of Craftsman metric sockets on a socket rail.
These sockets are all U.S.A. made - 4,5,8,9,11,12,13mm sockets are -EE- code and the 5.5,6,7,10mm are -G1- code.
Note the color difference in the chrome plating between the 2 codes!
I gave $6 for the set....


Next up is a nice beginner/student 4/4 (full size) violin with a nice padded case with a bow and a few accessories (extra bridge, extra chin rest, and a shoulder rest)
It's a Mendini MV200 brand and sells on Amazon (complete with case and acc. for $110)
I gave $25 (needs a G string)....




I play guitar, banjo, mandolin but I can't play a fiddle.......I'll probably donate this to a friend of mine for her charity fund drive.

Come on... John Denver didn't let that stop him!!!

Mike

 

[d42jeep]

Here is a stack that 4 of us picked up from the Alameda Point Antiques Faire, a first Sunday of every month event that has been squashed or cancelled by the nasty weather out here the last four months. A group of us have been meeting up 2-3x per year for over 15 years, with the goal to arrive early, and grab the goodies from those who don't know what they have (maybe 1/4 of the vendors). The sale has a formal line up, the closer to the front you are, generally the longer you've been going. Some people kept their old spaces for years, some now seem to be moving a bit. The back of the sale is usually the newbies, the once a year, or once in a lifetime sale types. We try to head there first, but being newbies, they often aren't good at getting set up in a hurry. We pay for early admission (6am), and 7 or so years ago, 90% were setup by then. Now its more like 50-60%. So we go back and repeat the back to see what we missed. Not a bargain hunters delight, but often find harder to acquire tools that one is lusting after.




My stuff is mostly left, so we'll start at the right and talk briefly about the other scores. The big toolbox was an unknown wooden box, my buddy negotiated down to $40, empty, but he had to empty a fed dozen pounds of bits and bobs of a former machinists life, that someone had to use a crowbar to open. The top of the panel is broken, and at least 3 drawers were trashed. But as he finally got all the **** off the bottom drawer, including duct tape, he saw the front, and it had a big Starrett badge. He was even happier. The stone on top is a translucent Arkansas, in near new shape, for $10. The three planes to the left were re assembled from a pile of bits on the table, a few wedges came out in transit, so getting the right front nicker and wedge took a few minutes. The bigger Crescent wrench has two holes in the handle, looks like burned with a torch. The three blacksmith taps, swan neck mortise chisel, and the compass plane were items I had bought for others, and made the swap here.


Here is my haul, spread out a little easier to view.


Starting top left and going CCW:
Davis Inclinometer with an 1890s patent date (120 years old) has a 1" chunk missing out of the back rail, and a corner chipped off, but the price reflected that damage. A Sandusky 99 1/2" groove plane, to be used for drawer and box bottoms, a Shinwa protractor for a good price from a guy with lots of expensive goodies, and a leather heel shave that may get repurposed into a woodworking tool. The compound nipper, brand unknown, look sort of Bernard ish, will take a little while to get the rust off to read who made it. The tapered shaft is a ring sizer, with lots of potential as an alignment tool or circular shape restorer. The US made Vise-Grip 8"?, & 1st Starrett divider came along cheap for $6 for all three. The next few, Starrett outside calipers x2 (left is a thread caliper), and General depth gauge, (1/2" 7/8" open) HD Smith perfect handle wrench in decent shape, & SK box in decent shape w miscellaneous brands of sockets, did not come cheap, but were realistically priced. The indicator snug doesn't match the era of most of the others I own, but came at a reasonable price. Missing the class photo was a 18" long brace driven bell hangers bit, maybe 3/8" diameter, still rolling around in the truck somewhere.

If you plan to complete the blue box S-K set, I can probably help you out with missing sockets. Just let me know which ones you need.
-Don

 

[Southern83]

Wow, that's an understatement!!! Massive suckage there!

@cmccuist1 ***** big time.

 

[BD55]

You **** @cmccuist1!!!! Nice haul on all the bits!

 

[zanyad]

Survey says: @cmccuist1 *****!

 

[alinc100]

One sale today, across town from work but not far out of the commute home. Managed to find a few items:
Bernzomatic UL100 torch kit
Craftsman All in One screwdriver
Fleet 1/4" and 3/8" socket set 95% complete
Petersen Vise Grips 4LN,6LN,6SP
Napa 7/16" nutdriver D815(I suspect VACO)
Barcalo DOE
MISC loose sockets/universal unmarked
And I think every straight blade screwdriver sold under the PowrKraft name.

 

[cmccuist1]

Survey says: @cmccuist1 *****!

There was a solid carbide drill bit in there, flow through, about 12” long, 14.5mm that I looked up and that thing retails for $550! Don’t even know what that’s used for.

 

[alinc100]

There was a solid carbide drill bit in there, flow through, about 12” long, 14.5mm that I looked up and that thing retails for $550! Don’t even know what that’s used for.

Your mission is to find someone that does know what it is used for and extract $200 from their wallet and fund your next shopping adventure.

 

[bmwrd0]

Your mission is to find someone that does know what it is used for and extract $200 from their wallet and fund your next shopping adventure.

Indeed. A while back I found a group of rare Stanley planes, and I just sold one of them for a bit more than I paid for it (8X) and that went to fund one of my other hobbies, airguns. It keeps bills down, the wife happy, and me very happy!

 

[3baygarage]

A traffic detour on my commute home led me past the pawn shop. For around $1 each I was quite happy with the misc. finds on this trip.



We’ve got an ugly Husky 3/8 ratchet
S-K 1/2 ratchet
Fleet 1/2 breaker bar with cushion grip
Snap-On air hammer bit
my second Eagle Claw pliers in 2 weeks (needs new hardware, has an old hardware repair)
Klein green handle adjustable wrench
Craftsman 12mm professional wrench
Williams adjustable hook spanner with interesting Special Finish stamping, although whatever the finish was it’s long gone.
Craftsman Robogrip
Allen 1/4 extension
Walden socket

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

$10 estate sale score!
The old tape tins are pretty neat.
-Tommy

 

[d42jeep]

I use one of my K-D magnet tools daily for removing items from the evaporust. Very useful tool.
-Don

 

[Old Man Roger]

I use one of my K-D magnet tools daily for removing items from the evaporust. Very useful tool.
-Don

Saved me so much time and stress..lol Love mine.

 

[misterbill]

Was rooting through some boxes at my dad's house yesterday and found these vintage bits...

PDQ wheel weight tool



Atha (4 oz. ???) ball pein hammer.



Oxwall 1/4" socket set with Bluegrass wrench in a Simonds box.




Bill

 

[alinc100]

One sale today in a neighborhood near work, so of course ,we cut out early and shopped a bit.
Lots of import,Harbor Freight and rust but managed to sift out a few bits.
Craftsman Combo Wrenches
24mm, 13mm, 10mm, 7/16", 3/8", 11/32''
Craftsman line wrenches 3/8"x7/16" & 1/2" x 9/16"
PowrKraft 11/16" combo
Armstrong 9/16" x 5/8" DBE
Armstrong 13mm ratcheting DBE
1/2" Chrom Vanadium combo
Vise Grip Quick Clamp
Williams ST-1236 1-1/8" 12 pt shallow 1/2'' dr socket
PowrKraft 9/16" ,12 point shallow 1/2" dr socket

I also sold and shipped a Kennedy Cantilever box and the Craftsman All-in-one screwdriver from yesterday and replenished some funds.

 

[ctuai]

Picked two items out of the $4 bin: Chicago Latrobe 13/16" spiral fluted tapered bridge reamer; Stanley no. 171 plumb bob. It admittedly took me a "bit" to figure out that it was a bridge reamer.

 

[ctuai]

One sale today in a neighborhood near work, so of course ,we cut out early and shopped a bit.
Lots of import,Harbor Freight and rust but managed to sift out a few bits.
Craftsman Combo Wrenches
24mm, 13mm, 10mm, 7/16", 3/8", 11/32''
Craftsman line wrenches 3/8"x7/16" & 1/2" x 9/16"
PowrKraft 11/16" combo
Armstrong 9/16" x 5/8" DBE
Armstrong 13mm ratcheting DBE
1/2" Chrom Vanadium combo
Vise Grip Quick Clamp
Williams ST-1236 1-1/8" 12 pt shallow 1/2'' dr socket
PowrKraft 9/16" ,12 point shallow 1/2" dr socket

I also sold and shipped a Kennedy Cantilever box and the Craftsman All-in-one screwdriver from yesterday and replenished some

@alinc100 Your ebay listing "Craftsman Professional Full Polish Flare Nut Wrench Set 942012" made me stop and think if the Polish differentiate between full vs partial flare nut wrenches

 

[d42jeep]

I had a lengthy dentist appointment this morning so we went to the last hour of an El Cerrito garage sale that mentioned tools. I was satisfied with the few things we found and Grandma picked up a few kids books.
Lightly used Snap-on valve spring compressor.
Two Brink & Cotton clamps
Smooth jaw #415 Channellocks. Here they are cleaned up.12” Bahco adjustable wrench.
-Don

 

[jeffmoss26]

nice finds!

 

[Smokeshow69]

Saved me so much time and stress..lol Love mine.

Where is the fun in that when your hands can smell like evaporust the rest of the day?

 

[Outlawmws]

Not just smooth Jaw 415's but Champ ere!

 

[Old Man Roger]

Where is the fun in that when your hands can smell like evaporust the rest of the day?

For me it’s dropped nuts and bolts. My left hand is a little less coordinated since the chainsaw accident..lol

 

[Provincial]

The local flea market was pretty slow last Sunday. Perhaps some vendors went to the big Portland Swap Meet instead.

$7.00 total, five of which was for the small air compressor:


Thomas 12V air compressor for a project on my road grader.
Plomb USA 268 lineman's pliers (Danielson pattern handles)
Bonney B20 battery pliers
P&C 1196 ratcheting DBE 5/8 x 3/4

 

[Smokeshow69]

The local flea market was pretty slow last Sunday. Perhaps some vendors went to the big Portland Swap Meet instead.

$7.00 total, five of which was for the small air compressor:


Thomas 12V air compressor for a project on my road grader.
Plomb USA 268 lineman's pliers (Danielson pattern handles)
Bonney B20 battery pliers
P&C 1196 ratcheting DBE 5/8 x 3/4

Nice plomb pliers!

 

[Outlawmws]

I agree Nice find on the Plvmb Plies Prov!

Looks like the compressor is regulated? is it marked or have you tested?

 

[unkqty]

Speaking of swap meets..... I hit up the big one here in Portland and bought quite a bit. Some is for my personal plomb/proto/ craftsman collection and some of it was just stupid cheap so I bought it to clean and cherry pick the best pieces and then will resell the rest. Literally the best booth we ( myself, BMWRDO, MR.X , RIleysan and Oregon Rock Crusher) hit was pricing tools by the lb. I filled a 5 gallon bucket with proto(la era to modern era) , plomb, snap on, craftsman for $65 and that also included the Hip Roof Crown top box.

Highlights of my finds
-** hard to find GMTK wrench #723 found at the scrapper booth (barcalo buffalo doe wrench)**
- plomb #237 pliers
-various misc sockets/extensions to fill holes in my sets and proto tool boards
-Mobil brand hydraulic brake fluid can for $3
- all the craftsman professional screwdrivers pictured for $5
-craftsman c97 ratchet for $5 (snap on made)
-got my son a ww2 front seam M1 helmet shell for $10. Needs chin straps but is in good shape overall.
-cadmium plated Husky/new britain Fors patent 1/2 drive ratchet
-various Blackhawk bits from BMW including a baldie ratchet and various sockets and a proto torque wrench in yellow box.
I will post pictures in the respective threads once everything is cleaned up. Some of this is pretty clean and some of it makes you feel like you could get tetanus just from looking at it.

quite a find...

 

[Smokeshow69]

quite a find...

Thanks. I’m sorting and clean stuff this weekend! It’s fun

 

[Provincial]

I agree Nice find on the Plvmb Plies Prov!

Looks like the compressor is regulated? is it marked or have you tested?

I haven't tested it yet. It appears that the pump discharges directly to a tank/reservoir and also has that electric solenoid valve. The seller said it came off an air seat installed in a truck that had hydraulic brakes, hence no air system. I think the pump just charged a tank and shut off at 120 psi, The valve then was back-fed from the tank, and the compressor cuts in if the pressure drops to a set amount.

I'll be setting it up with a small tank and a flipper valve, which will allow the lock to engage when the valve is "off." It will run an air diaphragm that will push a lock out of engagement with the gear on the circle. This keeps unequal pressure on the grader blade from trying to backload the mechanism that changes the angle of the blade. Currently, this is done with a brake master cylinder and slave cylinder that fails all the time. The hydraulic pushes against a return spring that only applies about 40 pounds of pressure, so it is way over-engineered! Plus it requires you to have a third foot to operate.

I may remove the solenoid valve, since it probably won't be used.

This will be a bigger project that it seems, but well worth it in the end.

 

[Provincial]

Thanks for the likes on the Plomb pliers! They were well-buried in a box below a heavy layer of worthless junk!

 

[bmwrd0]

I hit four sales yesterday, with mixed results. The first sale I hit had the best chance, in my eyes, of having good and interesting things, and the last sale I hit had the potential of being the best, as it listed that the estate was for a couple who had lived there for 50+ years. The other two were sort of on the way between.

Well, wouldn't you know it but the two best looking turned out to be total duds. All the interesting tools had been Hoovered up from the first sale, while the 50 year sale had nothing to begin with. The two interstitial sales, on the other hand, were both fairly nice!


From the fist of the two, I found the PEXTO driver, ratcheting driver, Thorsen breaker bar, tool bag, MAC streering wheel puller, misc. MAC bags, and an Armstrong DOE.

From the other sale I found a very nice Starrett 230, Stanley sweetheart 6" square, and Armstrong SOE.

The Starrett is a .0001 mic,

 

[Old Radar]

Yow!! I haven't seen Zippy the Pinhead in at least 30 years. Thanks @unkqty!