2025 Garage Sale Thread (14th Annual)

[Beerhippie]

@Outlawmws : Gun cleaning kit is for a 1903 Springfield. I recently gave one to a buddy who's re-making a GI '03.

 

[Outlawmws]

So WWI not WWII. Thx Timm!

 

[Beerhippie]

So WWI not WWII. Thx Timm!

'03 Springer was used well into the Vietnam era, if not longer. Generally a designated marksman's or sharpshooter's gun.

 

[alinc100]

Update: Bad idea. the dirtiest one cleaned up very well, the cleaner one lost all paint and flash rusted. Running the DW through a cleaning cycle with a powder cleaning agent to shine it back up. I'll not try that experiment again. Before:

The follow up with the pieces out if the dishwasher:

 

[Beerhippie]

The follow up with the pieces out if the dishwasher:

Dishwasher detergent is largely sodium carbonate, AKA washing soda. Caustic and not paint friendly, but you seem to have figured that out.

 

[Skellyii]

The lady of the house has been under the weather, so this was the first day she's been out of the house in a while. I took her out to lunch and we stopped at an estate sale that was on the way. Very little sign of male habitation, the stuff there looked like the inventory of a Tuesday Morning.

I was bored out of my mind, then saw this in a random grab box of stuff:

Not an expert on the Diamond stuff, I'm guessing this is from the 50's??

 

[RTM]

Dishwasher detergent is largely sodium carbonate, AKA washing soda. Caustic and not paint friendly, but you seem to have figured that out.

Also why you shouldn't put coated things like printed glassware in the dishwasher. It's not the temperature it's the chemicals.

 

[Beerhippie]

Also why you shouldn't put coated things like printed glassware in the dishwasher. It's not the temperature it's the chemicals.

Any metallic finish on china or glass will quickly be finished, too. A local glass blower makes beautiful custom glasses that our clients buy for use at the pub. Some regulars leave them here, but are warned that if they have a reduced metallic finish (many do), it will not survive our glass washer.

 

[ctuai]

I have this 9210 available for trade if you want to fill out that set. It’s not really an exact match to the rest of your set. Looks more Xcelite than Vaco supplied.
-Don

Thanks for the offer. How about the Keen Kutter screwdriver, I listed earlier. If you're looking for SK sockets, I've got a ton. PM me if you're interested or can think of something else I might have hanging around.

 

[mikeinri]

Any metallic finish on china or glass will quickly be finished, too. A local glass blower makes beautiful custom glasses that our clients buy for use at the pub. Some regulars leave them here, but are warned that if they have a reduced metallic finish (many do), it will not survive our glass washer.

For sure, 100%. I inherited my great-grandmother's china set (every piece has a gold rim) and remember being warned about it as a kid: "Keep that out of the dishwasher!"

Mike

 

[mikeinri]

Mostly tools today, with a smattering of other things of interest to me:

Flea: $15 S&W knife, $1 Bridgeport Bell System wood handled driver, $10 SO swivel head ratchet; $10 I believe this is an M1 Garand cleaning kit tube and $10 for the Aluminum box of flies;



YS- $7 all! SK speeder, Big & small wood handle drivers, Wrenches from Indesrot, Proto, Plvmb, Craftsman Long C, Williams, SO, and Bonney, a pipe EZ out, Ideal wire stripper, and a 1" copper punch






Estate sale: $2 quart of Evaporust, and a GAM driver set orphan

Nice haul, You ****.

 

[ecotec]

The lady of the house has been under the weather, so this was the first day she's been out of the house in a while. I took her out to lunch and we stopped at an estate sale that was on the way. Very little sign of male habitation, the stuff there looked like the inventory of a Tuesday Morning.

I was bored out of my mind, then saw this in a random grab box of stuff:

Not an expert on the Diamond stuff, I'm guessing this is from the 50's??

That is a really clean pallet hammer.

 

[Beerhippie]

That is a really clean pallet hammer.

You have to be over 65 years of age to use it, so it's seen little use as most of us of that age have learned how to delegate.

 

[Skellyii]

You have to be over 65 years of age to use it, so it's seen little use as most of us of that age have learned how to delegate.

I resemble that remark!

 

[Beerhippie]

I resemble that remark!

The delegatee will use a Junior Crate Tool.

 

[Outlawmws]

Thx Mike!

 

[Patrickm82]

Great haul @Outlawmws!

 

[d42jeep]

Today I spotted a couple of sales in Marin County so off we went. The first sale was in Mill Valley and was probably the estate of an engine rebuilder. I saw a full set of valve grinding stones which I had no interest in. I did find these things. The hammers are Klein and Estwing, the screwdriver Powr-Kraft. The tape measure is a Keuffel & Esser, a brand I’m not familiar with. A little Miller Falls wood chisel next to a Cal-Van piston ring groove cleaner. The Craftsman is for starting screw holes in wood.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

The second sale was in Fairfax way down a dead end road off of Highway 1. I saw a Craftsman vise that I thought Shiftless might have interest in but I couldn’t send him pictures due to lack of internet. I finally got the seller to let me look through his toolboxes and I found some items to bring home. The little Craftsman
-v- ratchet missed the group shot.

The wartime partial S-K was fun to find. I cleaned them up a little. Just missing two of the sockets.
The empty box had a late war Plomb look but I’m not positive.
The hat was my wife’s pick and I know better than to argue.
I spent some time on the vise. Looks like a decent user.
-Don

 

[bluebolt]

Well on the way to a friend's place I "slipped" and stopped at a Flea Market. One thing I picked up is this crusty 10 - 70 date Coleman 220F lantern for $15. More than I like to pay for something this crusty but the 1946 - 1958 globe with a bright green Sunshine of the Night logo more than made up for it! I'll post photos of something REALLY long tomorrow!

 

[craftsman creep]

I’ve been waiting for my local junk store to open up because the owner sold it and the new owner had it closed for quite a while so today I went there hoping to get my first tool hall sense reopening and they got rid of all the tools so now I gotta find a new place

 

[Outlawmws]

The tape measure is a Keuffel & Esser, a brand I’m not familiar with.

K&E were very big in drafting and architectural stuff - compass sets, scales, triangles etc. so tape measures are not far off.

The hat was my wife’s pick and I know better than to argue.

Argue if she wants you to wear it!

 

[RTM]

K&E were very big in drafting and architectural stuff - compass sets, scales, triangles etc. so tape measures are not far off.

Also surveying stuff, so big tape measures helped there.

 

[bluebolt]

Learning something new! I thought the globe on the Coleman 220F I just picked up was for a USA made 1946 - 1958 lantern but I was informed it's actually a globe for a Canadian made lantern 1962 - 1964. Cool! I wonder how that globe made it to Louisiana?

 

[bmwrd0]

I am making a concerted effort to cut back, but, as are we all, I am weak.

Fray Spofford brace, unmarked brace bit reamer, OTC bearing splitter, 11/32" Superwrench combo, Matco driver, two really big nails, and a Lufkin mic box. This was from about five different estate sales, of which I only picked up things I knew I needed (nails, Spofford, Lufkin box) or could flip. Left behind, sadly, were a pair of Jewelers benches going VERY cheap. If I still had my six inch Craftsman lathe I would have dragged them home, but as it is, I don't have either room nor need.

 

[LesserSon]

LEFT-BEHINDs

Pic 1: One of the kookiest homemade multitools I have ever seen in the wild. Tempted! As some of you know, I have a collection - a whole drawer full! - of tool mods, and I am fond of efficienct designs, but at some point it can get trumped by practicality, and the thought of that file digging into one's hand with every swing is past that point for me!

Pic 2: A pair of vintage water skis. Tempted! If only for the novelty or the criss-crossed wall hanging quality on a boat shed.

Pic 3: A combination of medallions (Disston and E.C. Simmons) on the same hand saw. Curious, but not enough! Guessing that is either a standard vintage Third Party production practice I didn't know about (not really a hand saw guy), or a PO replaced one of the medallions. Calling @LesserSon.

My vote highlighted and fixed above. The top one does not seem as flush set as the lower one? Lots of Disston out there, much fewer E.C. Simmons

I agree with RTM (to a point). PO used a ubiquitous post-war Disston medallion to replace top sawnut on a somewhat earlier (looks to have undisturbed solid brass medallion and two nuts) Simonds (not EC Simmons) saw. The lower sawnut was also replaced, using a smaller-headed, steel sawnut.

BTW, that file/hammer combo is a charmer. The file brand…”NILSCH”? with an interesting mark on the tang.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

You have to be over 65 years of age to use it,

Ooooh! I thought it said, "Senor Crate Opener". Ya know, like Mr. Clean, Mrs. Butterworth, and Aunt Jemima.

PO used a ubiquitous post-war Disston medallion to replace top sawnut on a somewhat earlier (looks to have undisturbed solid brass medallion and two nuts) Simonds (not EC Simmons) saw. The lower sawnut was also replaced, using a smaller-headed, steel sawnut.

Thanks! (And for the correction, too! That was one of those that's-what-I-meant,-but-my-fingers-typed-something-else dysbrandia© errors.)

 

[Copymutt]

Sad sale as owners gone & their belongings left to scavenge.
Did score this lightly used indexed set of bits for $2.00

 

[Marsim]

I just got this at the swap meet for $10 strictly to resell. No way in hell would I want to use it.

 

[bluebolt]

The BIG item I got from the Flea Market yesterday. Vietnam War era Paratroopers Reseve 24 foot diameter parachute!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I don't know what your plans are @bluebolt, but they often get re-purposed for sails, jibs, and all kinds of bags.

 

[Outlawmws]

Is that real silk. or rip stop nylon?

 

[Debcrow]

Been kind of slow lately. I need to get the items from estate sale from weeks ago cleaned up and photographed but have not done it yet.

Just one item from yesterday.
Delta 620 from 1930's. Has the lamp mounting lug, so not the first year. Motor replaced with a Craftsman 1/2 horse sometime in its past. Runs OK. Had wood dust all over it so was probably never use for metal.

 

[cmccuist1]

This weekend was the Needville, TX city wide garage sale which I have been going to for the last 35 years. And it didn't disappoint! The holy grail of golf clubs is the Ping beryllium-copper irons. Very rare to find at a yard sale. So there was a pile of old clubs that I walked by, but at the last second saw a dull bronze looking iron sticking out of a box. Sure enough, it was a complete set of Ping Eye 2 Be-Cu irons from 1 thru pitching wedge! Paid $20 for those clubs. (Lee Trevino famously said if he's ever caught out in a thunder storm he'll hold a 1 iron over his head because only God can hit a 1 iron.)

Later on, there was a really nice old gentleman selling his Remington 760 Gamemaster rifle chambered in .270 Win and in excellent condition! Paid $175 for that. The serial number shows it was manufactured pre-1967. Gunbroker.com has several for sale between $800-$1k.

Finally, there was this really cool Easy Laser shaft aligning tool which I knew nothing about. Turns out it's a pretty sophisticated tool for aligning pump and compressor shafts. New they're about $5,000. Paid $100 for that. So all-in-all a great day at the Needville!

 

[Outlawmws]

CM ***** for all three scores!

I have my dad's 760 in 06. - He would never accept anyting but an 30-06... I'd have rather have had the Savage Model 20 in 250-3000 he rebuilt for my mom, but that we gone in the divorce 54 years back.

 

[cmccuist1]

The 760 has seen a real rise in value in the last couple of years. Really amazing action and very accurate. The 30-06 (actually developed on 1906) was one of the most successful cartridges of all time. It kicks pretty hard though.

 

[Old Radar]

Needville, TX city wide garage sale

Serious Suckage!

 

[Beerhippie]

Those beryllium-bronze clubs are perfect for playing through an explosive environment!

 

[bmwrd0]

I sold my Winchester 100 in .308 a while back, and was surprised how much it fetched. 400% increase in value from when I bought itt.

 

[Jim_No_Garage]

Sure enough, it was a complete set of Ping Eye 2 Be-Cu irons from 1 thru pitching wedge! Paid $20 for those clubs. (Lee Trevino famously said if he's ever caught out in a thunder storm he'll hold a 1 iron over his head because only God can hit a 1 iron.)

Minor correction on the Lee Trevino quote . . .


I've been skunked so far for tools in 2025.

Jim