2023 Garage Sale Thread

[alinc100]

Round 2 at the Estate Sale from yesterday.It was much more empty than yesterday but I scrounged up this lot:
CRAFTSMAN =V= SERIES

1/2” DR
2@7/16”,2@1/2”,2@9/16”,19/32”,5/8”,2@3/4” ,2@15/16”,2@1”,2@ 1-1/16”,1-1/8” 12 pt shallow

3/8” DR
3/8” 8 point
7/16”,1/2”,9/16”,2@5/8”,11/16”,2@3/4” 12 pt shallow

1/4” DR
1/4” universal
3/16”,7/32”,2@9/32”,11/32”,3/8” 6 point shallow
7/16” 12 point deep
Straight bit ,clutch head bit


SK
3/8” dr 7/32”,5/16”,3/8”(missing insert) hex

PROTO

3/8” dr
3/8”,3/4” 6 point shallow
5/8” spark plug socket

1/2” dr
3/8”,7/16”,9/16” 8 point
5/8”,11/16” 6 point shallow
25/32”,13/16” 12 point shallow
3/4” 12 point deep

3/8” x 7/16” DBE wrench
1/2” x 9/16” DOE wrench
PH#1 screwdriver

Bonney A34 1/2” dr 1-1/16” 12 point shallow
Billings 1/2” dr 13/16” 12 point deep
P&C 1/2” speeder

 

[ctuai]

Thrift store ($8): Browning Cobra XL Series 60# (R) compound bow ($165).

 

[Outlawmws]

that is an early compound!

 

[ctuai]

that is an early compound!

It's a real oddball. Browning introduces compounds in 1974, but the catalogs only shows the Cobra (74-75) as a recurve. On top of that there is no mention of the XL series. Unfortunately, the vintage bow catalogs end at the point so I can't trace it any further. Hopefully, the next owner can figure out more about it.

From Browning:

• Length 43" axel to axel
• Wt 2 lbs
• Draw weight 60 lbs 35% to 50% letoff
• Draw length 29 to 31"
• 2 1/4" eccentric wheels
• Custom black dacron string
• Monofilament serving
• 4 3/4" sight window
• Shedua handle
• Full pistol grip
• Sccessory bushings
• Black face
• Black limbs

 

[BlueBomber]

Got home from hiking with my son in the Adirondacks to find SWMBO just sitting down to 6 hours of CE. So, I fired up estatesales.net and found an estate sale in the next town over.

This one was at a big custom home (listed as "MANSION!") with an impressive spiral staircase and ginormous kitchen. I got there in the last hour on the last day of a 3-day listing. Most of the interesting garage stuff in the pics was long gone, so I picked through the leftovers and grabbed the following:



Proto PWA 4644 spanner
Craftsman flatblade screwdriver
Klein 601-3 Phillips stubby screwdriver
2x box 'o brass grommets, 2 sizes with setting tools
Box 'o button snaps, with setting tool
Packet of #17 lefthanded drill bits

SWMBO looked over the online pics and sent me one of a living room chair as a potential replacement for one of ours that the cat likes to claw. The lady running the sale tried to sell me on the whole living room set, but I bargained the $250-marked chair down to $100, and she even threw in my garage items.

As I was taking the cushions off of the chair, I struck up a conversation with a couple who I quickly realized were the owners of the property. They had decided to move into a retirement community and were paring down for the move. As I returned for my little box of tools and grommets, the gentleman asked about my intentions and we discussed projects and supplies. "Did you see the big container of stainless steel bolts and other nuts and bolts out there? There must be a few thousand dollars worth of them that my business was going to just throw away and I brought home."

So, we walked back out to the garage and dragged out three 9"x24" metal boxes full of nuts, bolts, screws, electrical parts, etc. Basically, the garage junk drawer, times 3. He threw out a price of $25, which I accepted.






These boxes will be the sources for all kinds of future improvised projects! As I came back in for the last box after loading the first two, the old guy threw in another box of electrical parts and said "Here, take these too!"



Lots of neat switches, lights and other doodads in this one, including the two mercury thermostats I'll have to dispose of properly.

Now I just need to find a place for the three boxes in my garage where they are accessible and I won't forget I have them!

 

[oak_park]

Slow week and I didn't hit many sales. I probably need to take a break anyways....

Craftsman 6 Point metric wrench set nos.
Saw this padlock, ILCO 317, thought to myself, others including Jeff Moss would probably grab it if they were there so I bought it. lol
Craftsman double box offset with sticker still on it
2 - Craftsman Stubby 7/16ths
1/4 ratchet and some Orange handles.

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

Went with a relative to take a car port apart, the lady said her dad had passed away and he had stuff at another place 10 min away, so after we got it tore down and loaded up we went and checked it out, she said they had several sales already and it was very picked over, still managed to snag this stuff for $15.

Partial powr-Kraft set.

 

[mikeinri]

Went with a relative to take a car port apart, the lady said her dad had passed away and he had stuff at another place 10 min away, so after we got it tore down and loaded up we went and checked it out, she said they had several sales already and it was very picked over, still managed to snag this stuff for $15.

Partial powr-Kraft set.

Wow, that vise is in nice shape! Can you add pics of the other side (model number, any other info)?

Mike

 

[genog]

I found a very desirable Infinity InfiniTesimal speaker.
One.....
Seller said she didn't know where the other one is.
I left my number in case she ever finds it....

And part of a metric Craftsman Crowfoot socket set
The stamps are so small, I can barely make out the sizes

Also, a Bonney chisel.
I have a drawer full of cold chisels, but hey, it's a Bonney
I have very few Bonney of anything.....

 

[VolksWomble]

the weather and the season has killed off most outdoor sales here (boot fairs, auto jumbles and the like) so resorting to FBM again…

Had noted someone selling a load of Dormer drills, but decided they were a little too far away for me (about an hour and a half) however, they readvertised them at half the price (£100) which was enough to entice me…



they are all metric (good for me) albeit a lot of slightly odd sizes, and they aren’t all full - but at least 50% are new and sealed. One box of 5x12.5mm bits alone retails at £65 and there are 2 new ones here.

Also thrown in are a selection of new 10+ centre drills and 5 milling cutters of useful size.

As I’m looking through, the chap asks if I’m a machinist, and whether I use drills with taper shanks - answering that I do play at being a machinist and do indeed use taper shank drills he produces another box… I take a cursory look, and we agree on another £100 for the box. On unpacking it has the following new in box taper shank drills



and some additional loose ones in the bottom of the box



Sizes ranging from 6mm upto just over over 30mm. Taper shanks are only worthwhile if you have something which uses them - a lathe, mill or pillar drill - so can be difficult to value, however, I looked up a single 25mm Dormer drill and it listed as £95 on its own, so I’m pretty happy with this lot!

As I’m leaving he also asked if I wanted anything from another pile, as it was all being scrapped - I grabbed a nice fibreglass shafted Ball Pien Hammer, a handful or parallel pin and centre punches, some soapstone, some more drill bits and a couple of nice little military pocket knives all for nothing.

So, whilst it was a 3 hour round trip, I’d say it was worthwhile…

 

[WNYflyer]

Brazilian **** lift. A new one for this thread like TOO?

..........I had to Google that one!

 

[mikeinri]

I'm always afraid to Google stuff like that...


...EDIT: But, since you made me look, there's also a facial version, called Broadband Laser. Not sure which makes for the more vain patient...

Mike

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

Wow, that vise is in nice shape! Can you add pics of the other side (model number, any other info)?

Mike

Here ya go



(Please don’t mind the hair, we have a black lab/aussie mix that sheds constantly)

 

[mikeinri]

Thanks for the pics.

Cool dog!

Mike

 

[bmwrd0]

Nice pup!

 

[Raineman]

Thrift store ($8): Browning Cobra XL Series 60# (R) compound bow ($165).

I would put that around 1978-1980, maybe '81. Looks in great condition. That thing will still kill deer. I'd put a new string on it and wouldn't hesitate to shoot it. Check around the cutout for the wheels, the black glass used to like to splinter there. If it is splintered, its a wallhanger. If not, its good.

Also, you ****!

 

[MercLSU]

With KEYS!!!!!

Wow. Nice score! Those things go for a mint on the web.

**you **** majorly! There is seriously 1k sitting on your bench there. Well done!**

Thanks y'all! Been out of the game mostly the last couple years after selling our company and now working for the man. But I saw two of these in an advertised estate sale picture. I was there on the first day but late. I was surprised to see not two but four of them...two of them being red drawers and not gray, which I've never seen before. Most folks were curious and dang near laughing at me for paying full price for them but after showing them some additional information while waiting in the checkout line their attitudes changed.

 

[MercLSU]

All in this weekend I was at $154, with the bulk of that being the four tool boxes. Aside from that, I got a nice mess of USA made tools, a few foreign made ones, and consumables. I think my favorite was the eight gold top lantern mantles.






Driving home I found a Shumacher charger / starter that looked like hell, but works great. Fortunate as I've been through two of the HF equivalents the past five years. Can't argue with free...



But those cabinets still aren't my best find with these small Craftsman boxes. This doesn’t get credit for this year, but two years ago when my last local sears closed…I bought more than I can recall and on my last trip I got a nice heavy duty dolly (gifted to cousin’s son), a flammable / inflammable cabinet (stupidly sold for $200), two of the small CM boxes, random Sears / CM swag (gave the Sears Security vest to Nine4GMC), and hundreds of rebuild kits for $100.

 

[mikeinri]

@MercLSU: You ****!

Mike

 

[misterbill]

Picked up this red Kennedy 273 box today from a FBM ad. They never seem to have the handles attached to them. A little surface rust, but it should clean up nicely.




Bill

 

[Old Radar]

Basically, the garage junk drawer, times 3. He threw out a price of $25, which I accepted.

I'm not sure I would have survived the double barreled laser stare from Mrs. Radar if I had brought those home...

 

[SuburbGuy]

"... and hundreds of rebuild kits for $100. "

 

[SuburbGuy]

This reminds me, during the final days of Sears I went to the local one and showed the cashier 3 Craftsman ratchets I brought saying I needed 3 rebuild kits for them. I was then taken into a back stockroom (almost totally empty since everything was out in the store) and on a steel shelf was a large wooden flat that was divided into maybe 2 dozen sections filled with rebuild kits exactly like the ones you bought. The Sears worker gave me 6 rebuild kits, 2 for each. Damn, I should have asked to buy them all, it didn't occur to me then. Congrats for buying those rebuild kits, you should be able to sell them all eventually.

 

[JMLangford]

First of last week my Matco BC1055 battery charger that I've had since 1996 crapped out on me.
So, I was looking for a new one at Auto Zone, Advance Auto, Walmart, etc.....and most of the small portable ones looked light weight and plastic (also expensive)
I said to myself, I wish I could find an old metal cased Schumacher battery charger, like use to be everywhere and was like the standard in the automotive industry.....

.....Well, lo and behold last Friday at a thrift store I found a metal cased Schumacher SE-40M battery charger....lucky me, and it even works!


It wasn't free like the nice large one MercLSU got (You **** MercLSU) but for the low, low price of foe-nine-de-nine
(I didn't get the 25% senior discount off cause it wasn't Tuesday - but that's O.K. I'm happy)


Oh, did I mention MercLSU *****



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[Outlawmws]

@MercLSU: You ****!

Mike

Majorly!

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

Slowly going through latest auction haul(didn’t post).
All these locks were a buck.

The 2 Corbin Cabinet locks are keyed the same and the 2 Abus ones are the same, the rest are boat anchors.

 

[Outlawmws]

the rest are boat anchors.

Except to guys like Jeff!

 

[mikeinri]

Except to guys like Jeff!

Beat me to it!

Mike

 

[Old Man Roger]

First of last week my Matco BC1055 battery charger that I've had since 1996 crapped out on me.
So, I was looking for a new one at Auto Zone, Advance Auto, Walmart, etc.....and most of the small portable ones looked light weight and plastic (also expensive)
I said to myself, I wish I could find an old metal cased Schumacher battery charger, like use to be everywhere and was like the standard in the automotive industry.....

.....Well, lo and behold last Friday at a thrift store I found a metal cased Schumacher SE-40M battery charger....lucky me, and it even works!


It wasn't free like the nice large one MercLSU got (You **** MercLSU) but for the low, low price of foe-nine-de-nine
(I didn't get the 25% senior discount off cause it wasn't Tuesday - but that's O.K. I'm happy)


Oh, did I mention MercLSU *****



.

My old metal Schumacher just died not too long ago, had to by a plastic Schumacher. I doubt it will last the same 40 years as my 80’s one did.

 

[ctuai]

I would put that around 1978-1980, maybe '81. Looks in great condition. That thing will still kill deer. I'd put a new string on it and wouldn't hesitate to shoot it. Check around the cutout for the wheels, the black glass used to like to splinter there. If it is splintered, its a wallhanger. If not, its good.

Also, you ****!

Wow, thanks for giving more details on the bow. Way too heavy for this tired soul to pull. Sold it for $165 to someone in WA state.

 

[jeffmoss26]

Slowly going through latest auction haul(didn’t post).
All these locks were a buck.

The 2 Corbin Cabinet locks are keyed the same and the 2 Abus ones are the same, the rest are boat anchors.

You ****!

 

[ctuai]

Estate sales ($35): Mastering the Art of French Cooking; 3 Revere Ware pots 8 ($38), 3, 2 qt; Heinkel knife block; Mori Design Radiator pipe; Le Creuset #28 7-1/4 qt dutch oven ($235); Irwin right angle clamps; AC Delco radio; Consumables.

Not a lot of hardware out there these days.

 

[ObnoxiousFumes]

the rest are boat anchors

Those ones are just practice

My old metal Schumacher just died not too long ago, had to by a plastic Schumacher. I doubt it will last the same 40 years as my 80’s one did.

Unfortunately, it probably won’t.
Mine died a month after the warranty ran out (go figure). Luckily, I’ve got a friend who is an electrical genius and he bypassed the “smart” stuff on it so it works again. Just doesn’t have the trickle charge option anymore, and won’t shut off when the battery is charged, so you can’t leave it on a battery for too long unattended.
Which is fine for boosting dead vehicles and such, and I have a Noco for trickle charging (till that one dies, then I’m SOL haha).

 

[tombell572]

ctuai--those Le Creuset pots are expensive!! We've found a couple and my wife loves them. A You **** just for that.

Tom B.

 

[mikeinri]

ctuai--those Le Creuset pots are expensive!! We've found a couple and my wife loves them. A You **** just for that.

Tom B.

That whole pile for $35 is pretty sucky!

Mike

 

[bmwrd0]

Some good finds, my friends!

 

[BlueBomber]

I'm not sure I would have survived the double barreled laser stare from Mrs. Radar if I had brought those home...

Oh, they went straight to the garage. I'd have only faced the DBLS if I'd brought them in the house.

 

[d42jeep]

Picked up this red Kennedy 273 box today from a FBM ad. They never seem to have the handles attached to them. A little surface rust, but it should clean up nicely.




Bill

Nice pickup on the red Kennedy roller Bill. You ****!
-Don

 

[alinc100]

One sale today was able to pick up a few things. Some of the ad/pictured items,like a heritage badged Craftsman small tombstone box was gone,(I wonder what the contents were?) But I grabbed a few items:
TRUTH Metric socket set 1/2” DR 9mm-19mm (MISSING 15mm)
Craftsman 1/2”dr 13mm shallow socket
Craftsman Combo wrenches 1/4”,5/16”,3/8”,7/16” ,1/2” ,11mm,12mm,13mm
Craftsman DBE Long C 1/2” x 9/16”
Craftsman DBEs 7/16”x 1/2” ,1/2” x 9/16”
Dunlap 7/16”,5/8” combo wrenches
Stahlwille Motor DOE Metric Wrench Set 20x22,18x19,16x17,15x14,13x12,11x10,9x8
Vaco T15 Torx driver

 

[Fred Knox]

Sometimes you just get lucky. Late one night, I was looking for some vintage tool brands I love. I came across a Blackhawk tool chest that had been posted for sale about an hour earlier. The three photos were blurry, but the price was extremely reasonable. I emailed, texted and left messages to the Seller to confirm I wanted it, but didn’t hear back. It is an older Blackhawk Master Mechanic Wrench Chest.

I started to work on the next step, which was how the heck to get it, as it was located nowhere near me. I thought of everyone I knew nearby and finally remembered a cousin (now she has been renamed FCM as in “Favorite Cousin Mary”) who I texted because it was too late at night her time.

The next morning, I received a text that the chest was mine and how was I going to pick it up? FCM was willing to be the go-between and one of my daughters Venmo’d her the money. I massively underestimated its size or dimensions, which of course were much too heavy for her to lift. The dimensions are 27” x 13” x 11” and it weighs 67 lbs.

Somehow FCM got it to a UPS store which quoted her more than twice the purchase price to transport it to me. Then, real luck happened. She remembered that one son-in-law may be driving out here in the following 6-8 weeks for a short business trip. Of course, he’s a big strong young man who delivered it door-to-door! I can’t stop admiring it. It is in great condition, and it did come with the original key. The Blackhawk sticker says it’s a Blackhawk “Chief” Wrench Set.

I do not know what tool set came with the chest (any help appreciated). The PO did not have any Blackhawk tools to go with it, so any help/trades there is also appreciated. In any case, a little luck, divine intervention, good family, or whatever, makes for a memorable tool day.