2024 Garage Sale Thread (13th Annual)

[Outlawmws]

and some bells for my daughter's collection.

I agree with Lugz, cool to collect, SWMBO collects them, and I'm her main source...

Browning HiPower 9mm made in Belgium

Wow! nice find!

Stove was $12

Yeah, you **** for the stove

unknown contents tube $1

Is it empty? or???

that I suspect are very early prototype duck bill tin snips from Wiss. They have a PAT PEND mark

Very cool! I've never seen that configuration from Wiss. And (no surprise) I love the 4 drawer as well! is it NOS? Just "garage storage damage"?

Everything except the hand grinder came from that sale.

Great Finds all! I have to be careful around those hand grinders. I have a pile of them now. generally easily oiled and cranking again.

General number drill index

And another nice find! I like those "linked" indexes a lot.

 

[jeffmoss26]

From the restore this week:

 

[Private Lugnutz]

And (no surprise) I love the 4 drawer as well! is it NOS? Just "garage storage damage"?

It was being used. Full of nuts and bolts and brads and screws and the like. The PO just left that wrap around on it, which got stained and worn. I will post more photos on Drives' "Metal cabinets" thread after I clean it up a little.

 

[Beerhippie]

Hit a garage sale I saw on the way home today. Really nice 88 year old woodworking guy and his daughters running it. Stove was $12 spoke shaves $6 unkown contents tube $1 and the Carhartt Pants were $6. I wasnt thinking about the pants but needed to round up to 25bucks so he could change a C note so I grabbed them. Thinking I could get all my money back on the pants after the fact. Pants are from the 70s im thinking and they are getting descent money. Glad I grabbed them.

The stove is a Coleman model 530 "GI Pocket stove", appears to be A (first half of the year) 1946? Not real sure of the last digit. They were marketed as GI Pocket stove after Ernie Pyle's articles about the "stove that won the war", the Model 520. The 530 was never used by the US military or any other that I know of.

It's an excellent stove, but known for being spectacular on the light-up. Start it outside!

Finding one with the can? You ****!

Carhartts are also **** worthy! What size?

 

[NJ Marty]

The stove is a Coleman model 530 "GI Pocket stove", appears to be A (first half of the year) 1946? Not real sure of the last digit. They were marketed as GI Pocket stove after Ernie Pyle's articles about the "stove that won the war", the Model 520. The 530 was never used by the US military or any other that I know of.

It's an excellent stove, but known for being spectacular on the light-up. Start it outside!

Finding one with the can? You ****!

Carhartts are also **** worthy! What size?

Pants are 36x28. Thanks for the info on the 530.

 

[Beerhippie]

You all ****! I went to the only sale I could find today and got:



The flivver is cast iron, but I suspect pretty new. The handles all had shiny files in them--I got the lot for $1. The only branded one is Lutz File and Tool.

On the way back, I stopped off at No Tell'Em Crick and got some of these:





So the day wasn't a total loss. 6 1/2 lb.

Unfortunately, the Russel #1 Belt Knife is still out there. I missed the sheath at some point and spent at least an hour searching for it. I'll probably be back to look for it again on Sunday. Private property, and not much grass so there's a good chance.

 

[NJ Marty]

I agree with Lugz, cool to collect, SWMBO collects them, and I'm her main source...




Wow! nice find!




Yeah, you **** for the stove



Is it empty? or???



Very cool! I've never seen that configuration from Wiss. And (no surprise) I love the 4 drawer as well! is it NOS? Just "garage storage damage"?



Great Finds all! I have to be careful around those hand grinders. I have a pile of them now. generally easily oiled and cranking again.



And another nice find! I like those "linked" indexes a lot.

The tube is full. Most well protected item I have come across. Tube is coated in wax. It took 5 min to get lid the off and the item is protected again AND wrapped in cosmolene. Crazy.

 

[Outlawmws]

I missed the sheath at some point and spent at least an hour searching for it. I'll probably be back to look for it again on Sunday. Private property, and not much grass so there's a good chance.

Been there done that! Borrow a metal detector - even a cheap "toy" version, as long as it will buzz.

Nice finds on the mushrooms though!

Tube is coated in wax. It took 5 min to get lid the off and the item is protected again AND wrapped in cosmolene. Crazy.

The last remains of Jimmy Hoffa!

 

[Outlawmws]

I snuk out for 2 estate sales, one planned, one a TOO - pretty light, but it is what it is:

Lemon oil (this stuff is getting expensive!), a jar/basket for an ultrasonic, wood chisel handle, rotary file type auger bit - this is an odd one! SO special for a company, 3/8 and 5/16ths, but marked 3 and 2? two mini driver sets, and a leather case one was in.




The Little SO:






1970 edition of the Hobbit, (I used to read this from the school library in HS); 2 seam Rippers, tweezers, and a brush, (all from sewing supplies)

 

[Beerhippie]

Been there done that! Borrow a metal detector - even a cheap "toy" version, as long as it will buzz.

.....

What really ***** is that the knife was the last birthday present from my mother, about 30 years ago.

 

[Outlawmws]

What really ***** is that the knife was the last birthday present from my mother, about 30 years ago.

Its gonna be in near plain sight, but with the blade "on edge" so its near invisible. that's how mine played out..

 

[3baygarage]

Neat wrench Outlaw. I've seen several of those before online, but haven't noticed any in a while.

 

[mikeinri]

We had a couple of missions to accomplish in NV this morning. The car was low on gas and we wanted a case of bottled water. Gas in the Tahoe basin is priced like gold and any water bottles smaller than 1 gallon are banned to keep the empties from ending up in Lake Tahoe. Of course, there were a couple of garage sales that needed to be checked out. The first sale was in Gardnerville and had some interesting pieces. Everything except the hand grinder came from that sale.




I was pleasantly surprised to find a dual marked cold chisel.
The combo monkey/pipe wrench is Bemis & Call
I only see a patent date on the hollow multi tool, Aug 12, 1884.
General number drill index
The rather large hand grinder came from a garage sale in Minden that was otherwise a bust.
-Don

Cool grinder! But, I had to look up how to use that thing.... I'd thought it was handheld, like an eggbeater drill, which wouldn't make any sense (at all). This helped a lot:

Mike

 

[Outlawmws]

I always knew they were mounted; but then my HS buddy and I used one in his grandmothers Garage several times. Helps to have one guy cranking and one grinding.

 

[SC Fly Guy]

What really ***** is that the knife was the last birthday present from my mother, about 30 years ago.

You WILL find it!!

 

[Outlawmws]

what I suspect are very early prototype duck bill tin snips from Wiss. They have a PAT PEND mark -

Pretty sure those are the precursor to the compound aviation snips that came later. I'm green with Envy Lugz!



And Yes, you ****

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Helps to have one guy cranking and one grinding.

There are wartime photos of armorers and mechanics doing it that way in the field.

What really ***** is that the knife was the last birthday present from my mother, about 30 years ago.

Sending good 'homing' thoughts that you find it or it finds you. Now I have to re-tell my lost-and-found knife story...

This goes back 20+ years. The knife was my dad's, a smaller version of the fixed blade wartime PAL RH-36 fighting knife with stacked leather washers. I was in a skiff pulling crab traps on the Shrewsbury river with one of my sons, PJ, who was just a young boy at the time. He was always a very curious, attentive kid, and I trusted him with my things more than any of the others, but he fumbled it into the water accidentally. This is a muddy tidal estuary. Chances were slim I would ever recover it, even at low tide. When I stopped yelling at him, and he stopped sobbing, and I apologized, and he was still more upset than me, I pulled up the next trap. Guess what was inside?

 

[i7083]

@alinc100 - Belgian HI Powers always earn a You ****, at least in my book.

 

[Outlawmws]

I pulled up the next trap. Guess what was inside?

Biggest crab you ever saw!


Nothing quite like dumb luck is there?

 

[in_a_silent_way]

Found this Snap-on K-21 Mechanikit plus contents for $15
Like this style / size box
Mostly run of the mill tools but useful
A few Mac punches, Cornwell pry bar, rosewood handled gouges, Wright pear head ratchet, and nice 1" corner chisel of note, among others

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Like this style / size box

Heckuva nice find! Easily my favorite. Perfect hybrid mashup of a carry box and a machinists' chest. I found and prestorved one a few years ago. Link here.

 

[Beerhippie]

There are wartime photos of armorers and mechanics doing it that way in the field.

Sending good 'homing' thoughts that you find it or it finds you. Now I have to re-tell my lost-and-found knife story...

This goes back 20+ years. The knife was my dad's, a smaller version of the fixed blade wartime PAL RH-36 fighting knife with stacked leather washers. I was in a skiff pulling crab traps on the Shrewsbury river with one of my sons, PJ, who was just a young boy at the time. He was always a very curious, attentive kid, and I trusted him with my things more than any of the others, but he fumbled it into the water accidentally. This is a muddy tidal estuary. Chances were slim I would ever recover it, even at low tide. When I stopped yelling at him, and he stopped sobbing, and I apologized, and he was still more upset than me, I pulled up the next trap. Guess what was inside?

OK, Lost and found knife stories:

Many years ago, as a teen-age hippie, we discovered how to build a sweat lodge. This native American tradition had the magical ability to get the girls to remove their clothes! We young fellas were also nekkid, but what the heck--we were young and felt awesome and the girls were nekkid!

I had a nice, simple SAK, a few blades and aluminum flakes--no idea where I got it, but a treasured possession (were were also really into knives back then, unlike now, when I'm really into knives). While digging out the pit in the sand for the sweat lodge (I'm sure there's a YouTube video), I lost it.

Now, this sand bar beside the John Day river is inundated during the spring floods, so we had to re-build it every year--or no nekkid girls Digging in the same general area the next year, what do I dig up? Yep, my treasured SAK.

A few years later, I lost it again. This time, it was the left-on-the-roof-and-drove off lost. A few weeks later, I pulled into a buddy's driveway, and there sat my SAK!

I then lost it again....

No happy ending.

I will find my Russell #1! Canada will support me!

 

[in_a_silent_way]

Heckuva nice find! Easily my favorite. Perfect hybrid mashup of a carry box and a machinists' chest. I found and prestorved one a few years ago. Link here.

There is usually something missing or broken but fortunately this box is complete and solid with only some bottom surface rust to attend to
Your prestorvation is perfection

 

[Smokeshow69]

Found this Snap-on K-21 Mechanikit plus contents for $15
Like this style / size box
Mostly run of the mill tools but useful
A few Mac punches, Cornwell pry bar, rosewood handled gouges, Wright pear head ratchet, and nice 1" corner chisel of note, among others

Wow dont you ****! That snappy box is an amazing find in that condition.

 

[Straightgrain]

I was pleasantly surprised to find a dual marked cold chisel.

I've never seen a dual marked chisel before, nice find!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Nothing quite like dumb luck is there?

Or divine providence, good karma, etc, depending on your worldview! I gave him the knife when he was older and the story has passed into family lore to be recalled along with all the others on well lubricated festive get-togethers.

This native American tradition had the magical ability to get the girls to remove their clothes!

Hmm. We had good results with Southern Comfort and Thai sticks.

There is usually something missing or broken but fortunately this box is complete and solid with only some bottom surface rust to attend to

Indeed. As Smoke said, amazing condition.

Your prestorvation is perfection

Thanks!

Btw, your New Member status would normally prompt a "Welcome to GJ," but I snooped your profile for some suspicous reason. Dude, you have one of the strangest posting histories I have seen. You joined GJ waaaay back in 2011, posted once - with a rare 1950s MAC box, in the Toolboxes Megathread down on the vintage board, and disappeared. Thirteen (13) years later you show up again with a stellar Snappy find. So I'll just say, "Welcome back to GJ" instead, and I hope I'm still around in 2037, when cicada brood XIX hatches again, to see what cool toolbox you show up with next!

 

[zanyad]

Found this Snap-on K-21 Mechanikit plus contents for $15
Like this style / size box

Nice find. You ****!
Looks like a great box, as stated above, great combination of size and storage capacity/organization....

 

[Patrickm82]

3 sales today. 2 busts and one decent. Got a Williams 3/8 socket set. (Any info about it is appreciated)
nice zippo can with a little juice left
Wizard locking pliers
Proto angled slip joints
3 vlchek dbe
SK Wayne dbe
Indestro doe
Craftsman dbe and doe

$10 out the door

 

[gleman]

Thrift store for me.



Two shirts for $10.



Two ball jars for my blue ball collection $2.



An AllClad 9" D5 pan $4.



Dimalloy lineman SL57 $1.

 

[gleman]

Part 2



An odd lot for me. I never see Canadian tools or BluePoint $4.

 

[Beerhippie]

Today's humble haul:



Cole-Hersee M705 marine battery selector. Dust, water, vapor and explosion-proof. I can actually use this when I restore my old Vanangon. Feels perfectly functional.

Three more file handles, complete with shiny Nicholson files. Files will go in the scrap bin, handles on not-shiny files.

Completely unmarked--including sizes--DOE.

$2 for the lot.

The landowner where I was 'shroomin' yesterday found my missing DH Russel #1 Belt Knife this AM, so I might head back thataway for another haul and to recover the knife. But first, I have her axe to grind.

 

[bbbarracuda]

I came across something I hadn't seen before.
Aluminum folding advertising yardsticks.
Two 18" pieces fold out to 3' stick.
Phone numbers on 2 of them are 2 digit and one is 4 digit, so must be probably 40's??
It's hard to get decent pictures, the lettering is not deep and not much contrast to the body.
"Klick" Yardstick
Trademark patent pending.

 

[mikeinri]

Extremely pleased by the variety and oddity quotient in my small haul (Lugz 2024_31) this morning.



- I know that a few of us (prominently, @Outlawmws) are fond of these tiny, seemingly ubiquitous, 4-drawer metal small parts chests. I have never seen one with any kind of original literature/packaging on it before. Too precious to pass up. Instant buy. The same funny bone it tickled will be even more tickled since I think I will fill it up, literally, with gadgets from my extensive collection of small useless vintage thingies. EDIT Porter /EDIT is the mfgr.

- The loooong-handled body hammer is a Fairmount. It's hard to see in the photo, but it has a sharp point on one end and the peen action on the other. I have never seen one like it before and it will be my pleasure to research it.

- The "steampunk glasses" are brindled Bakelite with glass blackout lenses. Can't find a mfgr yet. As some of you know, I like to shop with a strict limit of whatever cash is my pocket. Basically lunch and scratch off money. I rarely exceed it. I saw these on my way to the truck and I was tapped out. So I had to circle back and borrow $2 from a vendor buddy, a foul-mouthed constant dirty joker kind of wiseass, who asked me, "What are you going to buy, a condom?"

- Last but definitely not least, maybe my coolest find in a while, what I suspect are very early prototype duck bill tin snips from Wiss. They have a PAT PEND mark - and just look at the handles! They are pliers-type handles, not shears-like finger guards that are so characteristic of the type.

Cool stuff.. You **** for that Porter mini chest!

Today's humble haul:



Cole-Hersee M705 marine battery selector. Dust, water, vapor and explosion-proof. I can actually use this when I restore my old Vanangon. Feels perfectly functional.

Three more file handles, complete with shiny Nicholson files. Files will go in the scrap bin, handles on not-shiny files.

Completely unmarked--including sizes--DOE.

$2 for the lot.

The landowner where I was 'shroomin' yesterday found my missing DH Russel #1 Belt Knife this AM, so I might head back thataway for another haul and to recover the knife. But first, I have her axe to grind.

You **** for that $2 haul. Glad your kinfe was found safe and sound!


Mike

 

[in_a_silent_way]

Or divine providence, good karma, etc, depending on your worldview! I gave him the knife when he was older and the story has passed into family lore to be recalled along with all the others on well lubricated festive get-togethers.

Hmm. We had good results with Southern Comfort and Thai sticks.

Indeed. As Smoke said, amazing condition.

Thanks!

Btw, your New Member status would normally prompt a "Welcome to GJ," but I snooped your profile for some suspicous reason. Dude, you have one of the strangest posting histories I have seen. You joined GJ waaaay back in 2011, posted once - with a rare 1950s MAC box, in the Toolboxes Megathread down on the vintage board, and disappeared. Thirteen (13) years later you show up again with a stellar Snappy find. So I'll just say, "Welcome back to GJ" instead, and I hope I'm still around in 2037, when cicada brood XIX hatches again, to see what cool toolbox you show up with next!

I've been around. Just keeping my powder dry. There is so much worthwhile to read here it took me 13 years to get through it all. Still using the MAC. Will add another box next week as time allows. By then the cicadas will have driven me indoors.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

There is so much worthwhile to read here it took me 13 years to get through it all.

Haha! Too true. And that's just the toolboxes and vises threads!

By then the cicadas will have driven me indoors.

With headphones on.

 

[mikeinri]

Haha! Too true. And that's just the toolboxes and vises threads!

Thankfully, I apparently showed up here after the bulk of the gas can discussions, and have successfully avoided coming across those...

Mike

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

a couple finds at a neighborhood sale today. The tape is nothing special but the shovel head is probably the strongest I’ve ever seen. The back has welded gussets. For $4 I couldn’t pass it up. If anyone has a good source for a wood handle please let me know

 

[alinc100]

One sale today, was empty compared to pics, but it was day 2 and 25% off. I was headed out to buy a new to me used PC and visited this sale first. PC upgrade is much faster. Should have all my settings/tweaks done in a few days. I keep everything on external HDs so swapping PC's isn't a super hard chore.
SOCKETS

1/4” DRIVE
Craftsman 7mm 6 pt shallow
Craftsman 3/8” 6 pt deep


3/8” DRIVE
Craftsman 13mm 6 pt deep
Craftsman 14,17,18,2-19mm, 13/16” 12 pt shallow
Craftsman 11/16”,3/4”,13,16” 6 pt shallow
S-k 3” extension knurled

1/2” DRIVE
Craftsman 7/16”,17mm,1”,1-1/8” 12 pt shallow
Williams ST-1230 15/16” 12 pt shallow

Craftsman 3/4” dr Sliding Tee

WRENCHES

Cornwell 1/2” ,5/8” line wrench/open
2-Indestro 1/2” x 9/16” offset dbe
Tru Test 1/2” x 9/16” offset dbe
2-Challenger 1/2” combos
Craftsman 3/8” combo

MISC.
Millers Falls No.365 scratch awl
Craftsman pouch (easy outs?)

 

[RTM]

If anyone has a good source for a wood handle please let me know

House handle dot com, buy several other handles you need at the same time, cuts down on shipping % of total.

 

[Levaughn]

I picked up these items from a yard sale today.

- Step 2 # 5A00 Garden Helper $2 (Good for brake jobs)
- Shovel (metal edge) $2
- Gloves $2
- Clamp $3