2023 Garage Sale Thread
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Outlawmws
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Yep, W Jim *****.
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Smokeshow69
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** Editors note- with Outlaws bestowing of suckage on wisjim above, this brought his total ***** to a full 10, all in one day. This just goes to show you how quickly this thread moves and how important it is to post each and every find as much as possible. You don't know who will be watching or what members will gravitate to. I am a tracking ***** for the year 
. As we enter into our busiest time of picking and garage sales/estates sales/TOO's, I want to remind everyone to participate and please post pictures **
. As we enter into our busiest time of picking and garage sales/estates sales/TOO's, I want to remind everyone to participate and please post pictures **To Outlaws above. Just an FYI , those two little kits with scalpels and tweezers and probes, etc., are college biology and zoology lab dissection kits. Usually pretty high quality stuff. Scalpels and tweezers are often German import items. Oh btw, you **** for those two scores, so double suckage to you. JimDon
S-K Tool Fanatic!
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I forgot to post last week’s auction haul. Don’t think I did too bad at $25 for everything.
-Tommy
-Tommy
Debcrow
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14-inch Winchester pipe wrench
1942 Kearney & Trecker/Milwaukee milling practices book
Indestro Rivet punch
Gripso vice grip type pliers
Channel Lock pliers common 1953 pat.
Clausing Atlas cross slide drill table
Americas Newest Station Service ding remover
all in all, less than $35
1942 Kearney & Trecker/Milwaukee milling practices book
Indestro Rivet punch
Gripso vice grip type pliers
Channel Lock pliers common 1953 pat.
Clausing Atlas cross slide drill table
Americas Newest Station Service ding remover
all in all, less than $35
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Ole Slewfoot
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A handheld English wheel? Never saw one before, but even without the shiny Gripso I'm pretty pretty sure you ****.Americas Newest Service Station ding remover
all in all, less than $35
BlueBomber
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With all the talk about the lows of estate sales, can I mention how I prefer even those over online auctions? At least at an estate sale, you have to show up to play, and there's always a chance of finding a bargain in the corner that no one saw. In an online auction, everything, by design, has been assessed, presented and pictured, and a bazillion people can look it over and bid from their couch/bed/toilet without much effort. As a result, it is hard to find bargains in an online auction...unless you get lucky.
Case in point, I picked up some Proxibid.com purchases today from a sign company going out of business. I bid on a dozen plus items, and accidentally/on purpose didn't watch the items close out (i.e. I forgot). The three lots I won are representative of the different types of auction luck.
1. Unknown condition: Six Makita 18V cordless tools w/ 3 batteries and 3 chargers for $88.50. The luck here involves buying heavily used contractor tools w/o trying them out first, which could scare off some bidders. They could have been completely worn out junk, but I already have a set of Makita 18V tools and batteries, so took a chance on these as backups. My luck was good--they are pretty worn, but everything fires up (the flashlight needs a bulb). I'll charge the batteries to see if the luck held throughout.
2. Heavy/bulky supplies: 2x 5/8"x4'x8' sheets of plywood for $13 ea. People will hire riggers to go pick up heavy/bulky equipment, but turn their noses up at more mundane items. I was lucky to get these two sheets at 1/3 Home Depot prices because apparently no one else could be bothered.
3. Misidentified Item: RapidAir Maxline Air Line Kit with a few extra parts, $35.40. The online auction labeled this lot as "PEX Cutters and 3/4" PEX Pipe". But having installed a RapidAir Maxline kit in my garage, I knew what this really was. Fortunately for me, no one else did. This turned out to be the biggest bargain of the lots.
Sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good. Or maybe being good at something generates its own luck. Regardless, I'll take in-person barn/garage/basement crawl estate sales over auctions any day, but if there are none to be had, I'll reluctantly hold my nose and get my fix online.
Maybe I'll get lucky.
Case in point, I picked up some Proxibid.com purchases today from a sign company going out of business. I bid on a dozen plus items, and accidentally/on purpose didn't watch the items close out (i.e. I forgot). The three lots I won are representative of the different types of auction luck.
1. Unknown condition: Six Makita 18V cordless tools w/ 3 batteries and 3 chargers for $88.50. The luck here involves buying heavily used contractor tools w/o trying them out first, which could scare off some bidders. They could have been completely worn out junk, but I already have a set of Makita 18V tools and batteries, so took a chance on these as backups. My luck was good--they are pretty worn, but everything fires up (the flashlight needs a bulb). I'll charge the batteries to see if the luck held throughout.
2. Heavy/bulky supplies: 2x 5/8"x4'x8' sheets of plywood for $13 ea. People will hire riggers to go pick up heavy/bulky equipment, but turn their noses up at more mundane items. I was lucky to get these two sheets at 1/3 Home Depot prices because apparently no one else could be bothered.
3. Misidentified Item: RapidAir Maxline Air Line Kit with a few extra parts, $35.40. The online auction labeled this lot as "PEX Cutters and 3/4" PEX Pipe". But having installed a RapidAir Maxline kit in my garage, I knew what this really was. Fortunately for me, no one else did. This turned out to be the biggest bargain of the lots.
Sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good. Or maybe being good at something generates its own luck. Regardless, I'll take in-person barn/garage/basement crawl estate sales over auctions any day, but if there are none to be had, I'll reluctantly hold my nose and get my fix online.
Maybe I'll get lucky.
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mjdarg
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First post here, and this sale I hit a few weeks ago is what brought me to this forum. Kids were selling everything their dad had as they had to sell the house in a week. The old man had tons of mechanics tools along with 8 Ford Pintos scattered around the property. I spent hours looking through stuff and ultimately found a plastic tote tucked away inside the house and knew I hit jackpot shortly after. I'm still kicking myself for not picking up any other toolboxes as they probably could've been had for pennies on the dollar. The entire basement of the house was full of stuff.
Here's what I left with for $40.
Notable wins are 7-19 mm Craftsman Professional wrenches, 5/8 - 1-1/8" Snap-On 1/2" drive sockets. Many Snap-On wrenches, mostly SAE. I got 80-90 USA Craftsman sockets, many with this rubber knurled ring around them. Has anybody seen this style around? I can find one ad online from 1989 with them pictured. They are stubby sockets, very nice when clearance is tight. Many tools looked unused and some were even in packaging still with price tags on them. I'm still riding the high from this one!
Here's what I left with for $40.
Notable wins are 7-19 mm Craftsman Professional wrenches, 5/8 - 1-1/8" Snap-On 1/2" drive sockets. Many Snap-On wrenches, mostly SAE. I got 80-90 USA Craftsman sockets, many with this rubber knurled ring around them. Has anybody seen this style around? I can find one ad online from 1989 with them pictured. They are stubby sockets, very nice when clearance is tight. Many tools looked unused and some were even in packaging still with price tags on them. I'm still riding the high from this one!
Raineman
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Allow me to be the first to tell you mjdarg, you ****. Nice haul. Show us more, I see more goodies in there.
3jakes
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mjdarg,
Welcome to the land of ****.
Welcome to the land of ****.
alinc100
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mjdarg, Welcome to GJ and the garage sale thread. As others have correctly said" You ****!!" which if you read back you will discover the rules and the term of endearment of ,you ****. Great first post. And I believe with some digging you will find out those are mildly collectible Craftsman Stainless Steel sockets.
Provincial
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mjdarg *****, and Blue Bomber ***** for the air line kit!
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jeffmoss26
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Yep, you definitely ****!
tooljunkie4
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I got 80-90 USA Craftsman sockets, many with this rubber knurled ring around them. Has anybody seen this style around? I can find one ad online from 1989 with them pictured. They are stubby sockets, very nice when clearance is tight. Many tools looked unused and some were even in packaging still with price tags on them. I'm still riding the high from this one!
I can confirm this. One of the sets I have, I received new in packaging that included a 1/4" "Lifetime" ratchet. Same design as the ratchets that are marked "Stainless". Also collectible.
BlueBomber
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Holy cow, mjdarg! Are you sure you didn't leave a zero off your pricetag?! You're well into golf-ball-thru-a-gardenhose suckage there--well done!
For me, I had a rare two-fer today. SWMBO sent me a link to a small town junk auction this evening and asked if I wanted to make a date of it. Naturally, I said yes to my best girl. For her, it was a flashback to her youth, attending farm sales where her grandpa clerked for the auctioneers.
We both won on the lots we bid on. SWMBO got some owl planters, a bag of unused greeting cards and a box full of decorative Halloween pumpkins for $25 (not shown). I bid on one lot and got it for $45.
Red Comet fire grenades--glass bulbs full of chemical that automatically dispense or can be thrown at fires to put them out.
Yes, these babies have the highly hazardous carbon tetrachloride that was "removed from service" in the 1950s when it was determined to be highly toxic to the liver and central nervous system. Note the compressed springs retained by soldered tabs that would release a piston in a fire to shatter the globe. The wall brackets have a nice art deco design.
Now I need to decide what to do with them. First thing is to see if I can legally ship them in the US!
For me, I had a rare two-fer today. SWMBO sent me a link to a small town junk auction this evening and asked if I wanted to make a date of it. Naturally, I said yes to my best girl. For her, it was a flashback to her youth, attending farm sales where her grandpa clerked for the auctioneers.
We both won on the lots we bid on. SWMBO got some owl planters, a bag of unused greeting cards and a box full of decorative Halloween pumpkins for $25 (not shown). I bid on one lot and got it for $45.
Red Comet fire grenades--glass bulbs full of chemical that automatically dispense or can be thrown at fires to put them out.
Yes, these babies have the highly hazardous carbon tetrachloride that was "removed from service" in the 1950s when it was determined to be highly toxic to the liver and central nervous system. Note the compressed springs retained by soldered tabs that would release a piston in a fire to shatter the globe. The wall brackets have a nice art deco design.
Now I need to decide what to do with them. First thing is to see if I can legally ship them in the US!
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Outlawmws
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Dang guys, Suckage all around!
MJD, were there any wagons in all the Pintos, and were they inside or outside and rotted away? I'd love to find a running 73 or older wagon (skinny bumpers) with the 1600...
mjdarg
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Sadly, I’m sure they’re gone as the new developer was going to put 3 houses up on the lot.
Thanks everyone for the ID of the stainless sockets, this guys obviously LOVED them. There’s probably more than 100, I put more in my truck toolkit.
The Erem cutters were a shock to me when I looked them up, they still feel great and just had minor patina on them. The large channellocks have also gotten some use already.
Got 4 Cornwell 3/8” impact sockets (9mm, 12mm, 14mm, 18mm), snap on screwdriver, Mac 19mm deep well, Mac socket spinner, SK mini extension, and Thorsen Torx set.
Old Radar
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We in the B-52 were still flying with carbon tetrachloride fire extinguishers (although in pressurized cylinders) into the 1990s to fight in-flight fires. At that point, the USAF transitioned to Halon 1211--which had its own set of deadly problems when it came into contact with flames...
For those not familiar with Air Force Technical Order Warnings, Cautions and Notes:
But hey, as long as you keep your oxygen mask on with the selector on "Emergency", you'll be okay. Right??
Provincial
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The engine compartment fire extinguishers in the DC-3 (C-47) and Convair 440 (C-121) airplanes I flew used Chloroflorobromomethane. I didn't have any interest in getting a whiff of that stuff!
alinc100
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Jeff Moss, this is within driving range....the padlocks would cost as much to ship as turnpike tolls: https://www.estatesales.net/MI/Monroe/48162/3567711
jeffmoss26
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S-K Tool Fanatic!
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What brand is the big green one Jeff?
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Tommy
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Tommy
jeffmoss26
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no markings except for MADE IN USA
Old Radar
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Tools, Jools, Rifles and a Glass Casket--I'd be all over that sale if I lived in Dearborn!
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Smokeshow69
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14-inch Winchester pipe wrench
1942 Kearney & Trecker/Milwaukee milling practices book
Indestro Rivet punch
Gripso vice grip type pliers
Channel Lock pliers common 1953 pat.
Clausing Atlas cross slide drill table
Americas Newest Station Service ding remover
all in all, less than $35
** you got an x/y vise for less than $50. That's insane! Well done and yes, you got a suckage vote from me**
** As others have alluded to, those craftsman sockets are late 80's/ early 90's and are collectible. I noticed you said you put them in your truck tool box? I wouldn't do that. I would put them on ebay. I bet you could get $80 per set at least. Do you self a favor and research "lifetime" or "stainless" sockets. Those sockets are not "stainless" but they were part of those sets. And yes, you **** majorly!**First post here, and this sale I hit a few weeks ago is what brought me to this forum. Kids were selling everything their dad had as they had to sell the house in a week. The old man had tons of mechanics tools along with 8 Ford Pintos scattered around the property. I spent hours looking through stuff and ultimately found a plastic tote tucked away inside the house and knew I hit jackpot shortly after. I'm still kicking myself for not picking up any other toolboxes as they probably could've been had for pennies on the dollar. The entire basement of the house was full of stuff.
Here's what I left with for $40.
Notable wins are 7-19 mm Craftsman Professional wrenches, 5/8 - 1-1/8" Snap-On 1/2" drive sockets. Many Snap-On wrenches, mostly SAE. I got 80-90 USA Craftsman sockets, many with this rubber knurled ring around them. Has anybody seen this style around? I can find one ad online from 1989 with them pictured. They are stubby sockets, very nice when clearance is tight. Many tools looked unused and some were even in packaging still with price tags on them. I'm still riding the high from this one!
wrenchguy
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Breaking protocol a bit.1942 Kearney & Trecker/Milwaukee milling practices book
My sons recent Kearney & Trecker/Milwaukee mill, acquired at scrap price. It was hardly used and in like new condition according to him. Maybe manufactured around the time of the manual printing. With War Finish items brought up here often I thought I'd post its War Finish embossing that i hadn't seen before. PM sent.
jeffmoss26
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Wow, that is a lot of collections
Wow, lots of cool stuff there!
...there's even a rare Day-After-Rave Barbie!
(Or, it's Hooked on Meth/Crack/Tranq Barbie...)
Mike
Provincial
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Debcrow gets a **** on the x-y table.
Old Radar
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I’ve been slacking. This is a haul from last Friday—a ranch about an hour north of town. They advertised a lot of tools and even more guns. I made a point to get there early and was the third car in line to enter the property. Then they made us line up at the gate to the yard for another hour but relented about halfway through, when the skies opened up and it started coming down in buckets. Most folks headed for the house, where the guns were—only a handful of us darted for the garage/shop. They had a big Reed and a big Rock Island vise but wanted too much for them. In fact, most of the tools seemed pretty spendy to me. Besides the vises, I was drawn to the military machinist chest. After I gathered it, and a few other items, the sale agent asked me if I needed a ticket. I said the chest marked at $65 was pretty steep so it would depend on how reasonable the prices for the unpriced items turned out to be. He looked at the Starrett 436 0-1” micrometer and double square, the rail of Plomb swivel sockets and another rail of ¼” sockets; thought for a moment and said $70. I looked at him and said, Well, that’s pretty reasonable. We shared a chuckle and I started putting the items in the chest—which had most of the things in the photo included already. I couldn’t comfortably get the ¼“ rail into the chest so I took the sockets off and said he could have the rail back. He asked for my ticket back, tore it up and wrote another with $65 on it. I said now that’s damned reasonable! I spent about 1.5 hours in there because it was still raining in sheets and there was a river between the garage and the house. I added several more things and the final price was $70. I had coordinated to meet up with tin medic but never saw him. As I left the ranch, I called him to see if he was still coming. He said he was in the house and had spent the whole time waiting to get into the gun room. We were able to have a barbecue lunch in the little town of Blanco to catch up.
The Haul:
Plomb 5281 3/8" Speeder; 5 Plomb WF, 2 Plomb & 1 Proto LA 3/8" swivels; From the mic to the pin vises is Starrett; the Frankensquare is a Lufin stock with a too-small 4" Starrett rule; 4 no-name telescoping gages. No idea what the two things at the bottom of the pic are for.
Lufkin No. 89 Wiggler center finder and pocket scriber
Horstmann (Phila) brass whistle and Yale padlock for the Ord Dept.--no key. Calling Jeff Moss!! Does the hole in the case indicate it has been drilled to open? If so, how does that work? Numbers next to key hole are U A 2394 G C.
Duro Chrome socket case and dark 1/4" sockets. Socket on right end is D-I and has been shaved down. Note the 292 stamped above the decal. USA is stamped on the exterior.
Hallowell No. 25 Socket Screw Key. Gerald has a similar one on Progress is Fine. Stamps on the handle vary slightly from this one and his has a knurled
collar that I don't think is functional.
The prize is the machinist chest. No markings at all that I can find, but it is very sturdy with no dings, dents or bends. Cleaned up well and includes the latchable front door. I've viewed three of these on the web and they all had only one narrow drawer and four deep drawers. This one has two narrow and four deep drawers. The felt "flocking" in all the drawers has worn away but they are still green except for a 5" spot on one of the narrow drawers where something was spilled and ate it down to the metal.
Finally, a bonus item found in one of the drawers--a 2-inch multi-blade tool. My theory is that it is designed for a pipe smoker, but that's just a theory. The scales are stamped "Sterling" and examples with the same carving but less/different tools are listed on eprey for $130-$160.
The Haul:
Plomb 5281 3/8" Speeder; 5 Plomb WF, 2 Plomb & 1 Proto LA 3/8" swivels; From the mic to the pin vises is Starrett; the Frankensquare is a Lufin stock with a too-small 4" Starrett rule; 4 no-name telescoping gages. No idea what the two things at the bottom of the pic are for.
Lufkin No. 89 Wiggler center finder and pocket scriber
Horstmann (Phila) brass whistle and Yale padlock for the Ord Dept.--no key. Calling Jeff Moss!! Does the hole in the case indicate it has been drilled to open? If so, how does that work? Numbers next to key hole are U A 2394 G C.
Duro Chrome socket case and dark 1/4" sockets. Socket on right end is D-I and has been shaved down. Note the 292 stamped above the decal. USA is stamped on the exterior.
Hallowell No. 25 Socket Screw Key. Gerald has a similar one on Progress is Fine. Stamps on the handle vary slightly from this one and his has a knurled
collar that I don't think is functional.
The prize is the machinist chest. No markings at all that I can find, but it is very sturdy with no dings, dents or bends. Cleaned up well and includes the latchable front door. I've viewed three of these on the web and they all had only one narrow drawer and four deep drawers. This one has two narrow and four deep drawers. The felt "flocking" in all the drawers has worn away but they are still green except for a 5" spot on one of the narrow drawers where something was spilled and ate it down to the metal.
Finally, a bonus item found in one of the drawers--a 2-inch multi-blade tool. My theory is that it is designed for a pipe smoker, but that's just a theory. The scales are stamped "Sterling" and examples with the same carving but less/different tools are listed on eprey for $130-$160.
alinc100
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Took the long way home, slight detour and stopped at an estate sale. Found all these goodies for less than a McD's combo meal.
Bonney 10mm,11mm wrenches
Bonney 9/16" swivel socket ,11/16" 12 point socket
Par-X 7/16" combo
Craftsman full Polish 13mm combo
Craftsman 1/2" x 9/16" DBE
Craftsman 1/4" dr ratchet
Proto 1/2" x 9/16" DOE
Pony 1" spring Clamp
Bonney 10mm,11mm wrenches
Bonney 9/16" swivel socket ,11/16" 12 point socket
Par-X 7/16" combo
Craftsman full Polish 13mm combo
Craftsman 1/2" x 9/16" DBE
Craftsman 1/4" dr ratchet
Proto 1/2" x 9/16" DOE
Pony 1" spring Clamp
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Shiftless
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The only tool worth picking up at a neighborhood estate sale was this P & C 4 inch adjustable. It was stuck shut but a bit of oil solved that problem. It looks like it was only used once or twice in the past 50+ years. Does anybody collect P&C?
The photos make it look lighter than it is. I see most of the original oxide finish on the handle still intact.
The photos make it look lighter than it is. I see most of the original oxide finish on the handle still intact.
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Outlawmws
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That would be a great addition to both my P&C and 4" adjustable collections!
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