2023 Garage Sale Thread

[Raineman]

I interrupt your regularly scheduled show for some seriously overdue catching up.

Hopefully organized well enough for Smoke, in order from I think page 42. I've missed the last 4 or so pages of great finds and I apologize.

The following people ****:

Blue Bomber--Maxline kit
wrenchguy's son--war finish mill
NJMarty--chucks & Starrett
chenry318--$50 haul with your brother
chenry318--$20 Easco haul which includes a Snappy 1/4" drive 9/16 hens tooth
mjgarg--Snap on metric impact set--that is an absolute steal
3bay--$23 Coleman haul
3jakes--Craftsman lot
Beemer (bmwrd0)--Kennedy mid box...and FREE Kroil?
Rickster--Snap on garden--jeez man
ctuai--I don't know anything about climbing gear, but it has to be expensive for a life to depend on it
Oldsmobile--I mean...damn.
d42jeep--Don, you just ****
alinc--Grandpa's tool box
Blue Bomber--Snap on box

Great finds all, and here is a collective YOU ****.

 

[alinc100]

Well, while I SHOULD be cleaning,sorting, listing,selling the Sunday pick, I was tempted by a sale on the work side of town. 30 minutes of picking gathered this:
Craftsman
¼” dr 5/16” 8 point socket shallow
⅜” drive
3” extension
⅜” 12 point deep socket -v-
⅝”,11/16” ,¾” 12 point shallow =v=
¾” 6 point,deep -invG-
½” drive
½”,9/16”,12 point shallow =v=
⅝” 8 point shallow =v=
⅝” 12 point shallow -v-
⅞” 6 point shallow -v-
⅞” 12 point shallow BE
Mag socket retainers

Wright
½” drive
7/16”,9/16”,11/16”,⅞”,15/16”,1” 6 point shallow
½”,11/16” 6 point deep

Stahlwille
7/16” ,½” 12617A stud remover sockets ½” dr

MAC
½” drive
7/16” 12 point deep
⅝” 12 point shallow

S-K
⅜” x 7/16”,⅝” x 11/16” line wrench
5/16” combo wrench 6 point
⅜” ratchet
⅜” dr ½” swivel ,12 point
½” dr 25/32” 12 point shallow

Herbrand 7/16” x ⅜” DOE

DuroChrome Tappet

Xcelite Nutdrivers
11/32”,(2) ½” ,9/16”

PowrKraft
½” dr
¾” 12 point deep
½”,9/16,13/16” 12 point shallow

⅜” dr
⅜” female to ½” male adapter
½” 12 point shallow
⅝” 12 point deep
Cushion grip ratchet

Cornwell
⅜” dr
8-½” extension
7/16” 12 point deep
⅞” 6 point shallow

Proto
⅜” drive
⅜”,½” 12 point shallow

½” dr
⅝” 12 point shallow
13/16” 12 point deep

Plomb
⅜” dr ⅝” 12 point shallow

 

[Outlawmws]

For BB:

 

[BlueBomber]

@BlueBomber you ****! All great stuff that will clean up nicely and easily recoup costs

@BlueBomber, You ****!

Mike

@emeraldcoupe and @BlueBomber ****!

@BlueBomber really ***** for that haul!

For BB:

Thanks, all! Just don't tell SWMBO I brought all those greasy grimy tools...and the cart!...home in the back of her Beemer hatchback!

 

[jeffmoss26]

nice find on the orange handle Jeff. IIRC weren’t those catalog exclusives?

I think so

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Wow. I know I haven't been out huntin' for awhile, but it's hard to believe my last haul (Lugz 2023_10) was March 10, page 30, post #1,194!

I guess it was 'Broken/Incomplete Day' at the flea, as today's haul (Lugz 2023_11) has more than a few I will need to fix and augment.



It's not visible, but the concrete slab is hanging out of that leather slapstick on the side. It will need mending.

I'm not much of a plastic case era collector, but I couldn't leave the X-Acto set behind. It's only missing the handle, which I probably have.

All the tools were in the same Type II USAAF Simonsen carry box. It took me a long time to find all the pieces to the disassembled WF-8 ratchet. The swivels, uni joint, and the socket go with it.

I never did find the adjusting nut for the USHCO-Lawson angled piper, but I am hoping I have something that will fit in my Misc Stuff drawer at home.

The other swivel to the left is a Snappy G. That very odd looking tapered socket is an early TT Thorsen.

The cotter pin puller is marked either ORD or possibly (F)ORD. Not sure yet.

The real prizes are the Vlchek 3/8-drive sockets. Super, super rare. In 15 years of tool scrounging, I have never seen them in the wild.

 

[mikeinri]

Thanks, all! Just don't tell SWMBO I brought all those greasy grimy tools...and the cart!...home in the back of her Beemer hatchback!

Wow, living dangerously!

Mike

 

[gleman]

My picks.for today.

A TRW 20D wrench with a GTD 5/8 11 die for 2 bucks. Not too rusty, should clean up nicely.



A nib Anova sous vide cooker for 15 bucks.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Anova sous vide cooker

I’ve never heard of one, so I googled it. I found a two minute video of a guy putting the steak in a plastic bag and cooking it in water. Somehow the outside of the steak was seared, and looked like it had been cooked in a pan. How the hell does that happen in a plastic bag?

 

[gleman]

I’ve never heard of one, so I googled it. I found a two minute video of a guy putting the steak in a plastic bag and cooking it in water. Somehow the outside of the steak was seared, and looked like it had been cooked in a pan. How the hell does that happen in a plastic bag?

I'd guess the video didn't show him finishing it off in the pan.

 

[mikeinri]

Steamed / boiled steak??? No thanks!

Mike

 

[Old Radar]

This morning I went to the annual New Braunfels Car Club Swap Meet. I was hoping to find some vintage tools since my ’89 Toyota Turbo Supra dosen’t need any parts and I don’t think it’s that kind of a car club, anyway. A couple of vendors had a few old (at least rusty) Stanley planes, one guy had several distressed grinders. Most of the hand tools were from off shore and heaped in small boxes with large price tags. One vendor actually had his wares separated into brand-specific bins and although there was nothing I was interested in, I wanted to recognize and congratulate a fellow OCD hero for his effort. Unfortunately, both times I passed his table he was in a deep phone conversation—probably with his therapist.

The only thing I came away with was this Plomb WF-20 for a buck.


Yesterday I went to a sale that had a photo of a wooden machinist chest. I was first in line and when I got to it I was excited to see it had ring pulls and was priced at only $55! Of course, the spell was broken as soon as I handled it. It wasn’t a hoped-for Gerstner. The joinery was simple (and loose) **** joints. When I took the bottom drawer out to check for a maker’s name (none found) I almost couldn’t get the draw back in because the runners were splintering. A dark finish had been applied years ago including over a water decal pasted on the front. Lastly, it was missing the front case door. It still took all my will power and the realization that I have way to many “projects” clamoring for my attention at home as it is.

I did buy a rotting leather pocket protector that had three lapel pins stuck into it for $2. With some effort, I was able to liberate the pins while the protector now resides in the circular file.


The first to catch my eye was what I thought was the pin version of the Navy E ribbon. Turns out it is an Army-Navy Production Award “For skill, industry, and devotion on the production front of the greatest war in history”. The design patent 134,959 was awarded on 3 Feb 1943 to William S. Knudsen, LTG, USA. Most examples I’ve seen on the web are emblazoned with “Sterling” on the back in addition to the name of the award and the design patent number. Mine however lacks Sterling (although that tarnish looks familiar...) and has instead, in cursive script, “Corv” which I assume is the maker, but I can find nothing about it.

The next pin is a tiny globe, less than 3/8” in diameter. The three airplanes’ contrails around the circumference bump that dimension out to 7/16”. The stylized letters over the globe are DEA. The back has the maker—Entenmann, Los Angeles. The Entenmann bakery makes it impossible to search the net, even using Boolean operators. Therefore, I haven’t seen another example.

The final pin is for five years of service with the Douglas Aircraft Company. 10K gold and that’s a tiny diamond in the center. Apparently you got an additional diamond for every five years. Douglas merged with McDonnell Aircraft Corp. 56 years ago, next week.

 

[d42jeep]

One moving sale listed today in the Oakland hills. My favorite is the filthy 3/8” drive Kraeuter set made by S-K. I’ll need to figure out what was included but at least all of the sockets seem to be there.
Blackhawk 3/8“ drive ratchet
Little Powr-Kraft longnoses
Xcelite #3 Phillips
Blue Point ratcheting DOE and SO universal socket

Rusty Millers Falls square



ShinyCrescent pliers
Time to clean some tools.
-Don

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

Sweet haul don! How do you find so many good sales?

 

[Old Man Roger]

Steamed / boiled steak??? No thanks!

Mike

The cooking in plastic is the part that bothered me. Although, in my youth, I can’t count the number of TV dinners I nuked in a plastic tray.lol Had the tin ones before we had a microwave.

Now that I think about it, there was another TV dinner type meal. It came in a plastic bag, you boiled it in the bag.

 

[alinc100]

I’ve never heard of one, so I googled it. I found a two minute video of a guy putting the steak in a plastic bag and cooking it in water. Somehow the outside of the steak was seared, and looked like it had been cooked in a pan. How the hell does that happen in a plastic bag?

I'd guess the video didn't show him finishing it off in the pan.

Steamed / boiled steak??? No thanks!

Mike

 

[bmwrd0]

Sous Vide is the cooking type preferred by gadget lovers. Basically, you bring the meat up to the "perfect" temp in the water bath, and right after that you seer. It is an engineers dream of cooking.

I am not much of a food person, but I always found it Idiotic. A solution in search of a problem.

 

[tyyost]

Hit the restore on the way home - someone did a tool clean out and there were dozens of 80s vintage Lufkin tapes and folding rules, a pile of NOS Allen wrenches, and some of the stuff I grabbed.

A mismatched set of NOS Proto Standard impacts was $10, two NOS inspection mirrors for $5 each, the $5 yellow box is a general tools 6 pack of replacement inspection mirrors. My $1 grabs were the USA soapstone holder, the general ruler, Craftsman Spinner, and another tungsten scribe out of the package. The burr is a USA made from the metal removal division of federal mogul.

 

[BlueBomber]

The next pin is a tiny globe, less than 3/8” in diameter. The three airplanes’ contrails around the circumference bump that dimension out to 7/16”. The stylized letters over the globe are DEA. The back has the maker—Entenmann, Los Angeles. The Entenmann bakery makes it impossible to search the net, even using Boolean operators. Therefore, I haven’t seen another example.

Cool set of pins, OR! Maybe your DEA pin came from these guys: https://www.entenmann-rovin.com/

 

[Outlawmws]

Nice Sleuthing BB!

 

[RTM]

The next pin is a tiny globe, less than 3/8” in diameter. The three airplanes’ contrails around the circumference bump that dimension out to 7/16”. The stylized letters over the globe are DEA. The back has the maker—Entenmann, Los Angeles. The Entenmann bakery makes it impossible to search the net, even using Boolean operators. Therefore, I haven’t seen another example.

Here is one thought on this pin

Quantas Empire Airways ( DEA ) Dang, apparently poor scans, should have double checked my work, per below QEA.

Drug Enforcement Agency (not found prior to 1960)

 

[d42jeep]

Sweet haul don! How do you find so many good sales?

I just check Craigslist and estatesales.org regularly and look for sales that mention tools. Lots of sales are duds but some are quite productive.
-Don

 

[LesserSon]

The next pin is a tiny globe, less than 3/8” in diameter. The three airplanes’ contrails around the circumference bump that dimension out to 7/16”. The stylized letters over the globe are DEA.

Drug Enforcement Agency

There is a variety of specific local DEA pins on eBay. Most include “US” on them. Plausibly, an international initiative or program could be commemorated with a pin like that.

 

[Old Radar]

Cool set of pins, OR! Maybe your DEA pin came from these guys: https://www.entenmann-rovin.com/

Here is one thought on this pin

Quantas Empire Airways ( DEA )

Drug Enforcement Agency (not found prior to 1960)

There is a variety of specific local DEA pins on eBay. Most include “US” on them. Plausibly, an international initiative or program could be commemorated with a pin like that.

BB--I don't think there can be any doubt--you found the manufacturer! I'll try to contact them to see what they know about it.
RTM--I jumped all over your suggestion as a possibility since I really like flight-related artifacts. It seems, however, the three-letter identifier for Qantas Empire Airways is disappointingly, but unsurprisingly, QEA. "In 1934 QANTAS formed a new company called Qantas Empire Airways Ltd (QEA) to operate the Empire Air Mail scheme with Britain's Imperial Airways - the forerunner of British Overseas Airways Corporation and British Airways." aussieairliners.org
I think LS has the most likely theory since drug enforcement and interdiction is a global effort.

 

[alinc100]

3 sales yesterday,interfered with my ability to drive home from work. Wasn't a lot I was able to buy ,some of the pictured items on EstateSales.net had already gone. But managed this short list. Not pictured is a rolling painter scaffold,destined to become a rolling saw cart for my cordless miter saw and a quart of tap magic(both still in the car)
ESTATE SALE 04/21/23

3 sales,small list

WRENCHES

Craftsman 7/16”,½” ,9/16” early speed/ratchet end combo wrenches
Craftsman 17mm/19mm DOE
Bonney E2428 ¾” x ⅞” DOE
Barcalo 6” adjustable
Blue Point Supreme 11/6” x ¾” DOE
PowrKraft 15/16” combo
AutoKit wrench set

Sockets

Herbrand ⅜” dr -⅜” hex driver
Snap On ⅜” f to ½” m adapter
SK ⅜” dr 8mm 6 point shallow
Craftsman ⅜” f to ¼” m adapter
Craftsman ⅜” dr ½” swivel socket

MISC
2 Craftsman ¼” spinner handles
Channelock pliers/cutters
Craftsman Long C punch
6 inch ruler

 

[83VillageRepair]

Fun little brake hone set I found this weekend.

 

[Old Man Roger]

I must have honed a thousand wheel cylinders back in the day..lol We rebuilt them on every car we did brakes on.

 

[83VillageRepair]

I must have honed a thousand wheel cylinders back in the day..lol We rebuilt them on every car we did brakes on.

Hard to get kits anymore

 

[Old Man Roger]

Hard to get kits anymore

At the time, we stocked so many cups and dust covers, that I don’t ever remember not having the parts in stock for any car I ever worked on.

We had caliper rebuild kits and even some caliper pistons. The owner was a brake job nazi..I think he must have been burned by one too many comebacks..lol

 

[mikeinri]

I'm a DIY guy, so I've never had the volume to justify learning how to hone them. I have, however, burned myself by not replacing wheel cylinders. Made that mistake exactly one time too many, one blew out within a day or two of finishing a brake job, had to start over to fix them.

Had a shop refuse to replace calipers once on my RV even though I specifically asked them to, one froze a block away from the shop when I drove it away. Billowing smoke, I expected it to catch on fire. A-holes obviously never bothered to road test it. Never went back there (after making them fix it).

Now, I just buy everything in advance to replace everything: rotors, drums, cylinders, calipers, all hardware and hoses. Then I pray that the hard lines hold up; otherwise, I upgrade those to CuNi.

Mike

 

[sea2summit]

Craigslist, had about three pictures, $80. Told him I’d take it. He was probably in his 70’s and said it was his dads toolbox and he thought he bought it new but couldn’t remember when. Several pieces popped up I’d never seen outside of a book. Near as I can tell the box was a factory made box and the initial tool set.

 

[LesserSon]

sea2summit, that’s really cool to find so much of a carpenter’s kit still together. Looks like it was put away maybe in the 1950s or 60s and never touched since.

 

[Outlawmws]

Yeah, Sea2 ***** for the Time Capsule!

 

[Outlawmws]

An OK day, 5 planned, almost too many TOO's to count; 4 paid off, 2 of each:

First planned stop, the Mitchel 300 is a made in France; needs cleaned and lubed as the grease is gummy, but seems OK, if rode hard. For $2 I decided to take it if only for parts. The spinners were another $3 for all, and the wrenches were a buck, so $6 total. The combo is a "ratcheting" open end Thorsen the Saltus in Japan




At he second stop I passed on a Parker 204, as it was stupid $$ for a parts vise, the slide had a chunk broke off the tail, and the D jaw had been busted of and welded.

But I did find this box and for once bought the box complete with contents






This was why:



7 sockets (back rail, on the right) were SO and "G" dated, so wartime, I'm guessing the box is as well?

the 4 to the left are "D" Duro, in front, L to R: Fleet, Hinsdale, Craftsman and a "Dot" size (Duro?

2 long handle SOE's both 1/2" one marked Fairmount, the other size only the Flair is a 3/4 Bluepoint

Lid L- R 3 Plvmb, a Blackhawk, no no-name 1-5/32, and 29/32, the shorty is 1", the terminal cleaner seems new



All the tools in here are pretty grubby, so need a soak, but the box (Derusted, and possibly painted outside) and SO "G" sockets will stay with the box, and it will get my other wartime SO tools.


And the two TOO's: Handle "mitt" a NOS card with a map of Santa Cruz (youngest graduated from UCSC) and the Book was on a free pile I passed.

 

[ecotec]

Proto 5463 10”ish 1/2” drive extension $.75.

Already had 3 10”ish 1/2” drive extensions… so, I really did not need this extension…

 

[gleman]

Sous Vide is the cooking type preferred by gadget lovers. Basically, you bring the meat up to the "perfect" temp in the water bath, and right after that you seer. It is an engineers dream of cooking.

I am not much of a food person, but I always found it Idiotic. A solution in search of a problem.

Idiotic is a bit too harsh for my garage sale find!

Compared to my neighbors smoker, a heating element and circulation pump in a pot is pretty basic.

I'm hoping for a perfect steak, I hope yours aren't too tough.

 

[Jim_No_Garage]

So we hit "both sides of the fence" today. We hit some Flea Markets and Garage Sales and bought a few things. We also donated 4 bags of no longer needed clothing to the local VNA for their sale next month.

I picked up a cute little 1/4 "Breaker bar" (seems like an oxymoron). It's marked "Grants" and "WTG NO 5-3355".

I can't find anything about "Grants" or by the Part Number.

Cheers

Jim

 

[Old Radar]

Idiotic is a bit too harsh for my garage sale find!

I'm sure Beemer meant it in the nicest possible way!

@sea2summit ***** for that sweet carpenter's chest!

 

[hans109h]

I thought I did pretty well today.




Happy Earth Day!

Hans

 

[gleman]

I thought I did pretty well today.




Happy Earth Day!

Hans

Reduce, reuse and recycle!

Nice score! I've been looking for one of those for a while.