I went on a bit of a trip around the PNW over the weekend, getting back last night. I hit a variety of different sales during my travels, with pretty good results. Four sales the first day, a Friday, and two on the third, a Sunday and both half price!
The first was a farm estate on the second day, so pretty cleaned out, but I picked up a box of shrink tubing, a set of Fluke leads, two Snap-on sockets, and a Plomb extension. $6
Next was one of those eternal garage sales, not my kinda thing, but here I found two vintage ammo boxes, small vintage adjustable, Duro/Indestro flip-flop ratchet, Blackhawk breaker bar, brace bit, and molding plane part. $10
After that a low-key estate sale (my favorite) were I scored a very dirty ratchet (too dirty to find the markings), Blackhawk T-handle from the late '20s, push drill, Crescent chisel, Proto Pro ratchet, and Snap-on combo. $10
And, finally, a big, pro run estate sale, Here we got a full set of unused Stanley Russel Jennings brace bits, and a set of mixed metric 3/8" sockets-Craftsman, SK, MAC, and Taiwan. I had to spend real money to get the bit set, so $80.
The two sales I was able to find that Sunday were good
Some Plomb puller parts and a old-style magneto kit. $10
And the last sale
three drawer Lyon parts cabinet, Stanley driver and chisel, early Spintite, and small socket box, containing:
Plomb drive tools, and mixed vintage sockets. $16.
Altogether, a nice mini-vacation, with lots of adventures, both good and bad. Now, I might have time to start cleaning this stuff.
Also what made the price so low was that they had all the tools in one box so it was hard to discern what was in there, thus the low price. They don't have time to lay everything out in a nice way.
