2026 Garage Sale Thread (15th Annual)

[Outlawmws]

Ok, not quite a GS find…. But I thought I’d share it here any way. Got a new QC mgr at work and they wanted to clean house. They wete buying new and most of these were still in calibration and not due to check till 27. I missed the first load by dumb luck, but scored the second load on Thursday. Only stipulation / cost was it had to leave the shop ASAP. There should be more after the weekend, height gauges and such….So far everything has checked out fine, been using my gage blocks all around the dial. Right place at the right time…

Steve

Awesome Free Suckage!

 

[INSP380]

More….

 

[INSP380]

Last for now…

 

[d42jeep]

We headed to town to try and straighten out our ballot situation and vote. There were five election workers and us two in the polling place so we got squared away in a hurry. We wanted to check out a free estate sale I spotted on my wife’s facebook account. Unfortunately, anything of value to us was already gone. I grabbed a piece of redwood lumber and a couple of steak knives. From there we found a series of TOOs and picked up a few items here and there.
The TOO with the light bulbs also produced the 1945 hatchet sheath.
Another stop had a #2 Snap-on screwdriver in good condition. It went right into my user box.
I found a short Thorsen extension at another sale.
The 6” perfect handle screwdriver was unmarked. I buffed off most of the rust.
-Don

 

[Provincial]

Major suckage for INSP 380.

 

[Tarantula]

Careful! that snail will likely eat the corn right off that seahorse!

A salt circle makes for great, budget-friendly protection from all manner of exploitative escargot, pernicious poltergeists, and hypertensive hijackers.

 

[mikeinri]

Ok, not quite a GS find…. But I thought I’d share it here any way. Got a new QC mgr at work and they wanted to clean house. They were buying new and most of these were still in calibration and not due to check till 27. I missed the first load by dumb luck, but scored the second load on Thursday. Only stipulation / cost was it had to leave the shop ASAP. There should be more after the weekend, height gauges and such….So far everything has checked out fine, been using my gage blocks all around the dial. Right place at the right time…

Steve

More….

Last for now…

My kind of score!!!!! YOU ****!!!

Mike

 

[Patrickm82]

All for the doughnut @INSP380 YOU **** for that absolute haul.

 

[INSP380]

Thanks for the **** guys… I still feel horrible about the first box. It had to be three times this one. One of my biggest peeves is waste. I hate to see it. I completely support their decision based on time alone. I have all the hours I need to go thru this stuff, but at a decent labor rate in the shop, it makes no sense. Business decision. Stay tuned for more, my shop is filling up…

Steve

 

[3baygarage]

Another YOU ****! for INSP380! By the way, we love free goodies posts here.

Just ask Mikeinri, who also gets a YOUSUCK! for all the free storage and stainless, etc..

 

[INSP380]

I did hit up a garage sale and scored these. Owner had some killer dealer stuff hanging and would not part with it yet… $2 score..

 

[3baygarage]

The flea market gods came shining down in a funny way yesterday.

I went a little later, and only made it to the tiny outdoor flea market. There were six whole vendors. Luckily a storage guy was there with a truckload.

I took my time looking and pulled these out. I was actually satisfied because the old Blackhawk 1/4” sockets in a tool bag of mostly modern junk were a nice surprise and made my day.

Other finds include a 1/2” Powrkraft extension, 3/8” Dayton swivel, 17mm Gearwrench, and Ridgid inside tubing cutter for cheap.



There wasn’t much else to look at. After a trip to the car, I went back to look at another vendor’s household wares and had an internal battle over a piece of cookware which I ended up buying.

Suddenly, as I’m talking to that vendor someone pointed out a guy who popped up next to him with a trailer. By now it’s 10 something in the morning and these guys were making comments about him setting up so late. The guy was putting out lots of old power tools and misc.. I moseyed on over and asked if he had any hand tools. He reached in the trailer and plopped a full mail tote on his tarp. That really made my day.

I parked myself there in the melting sun and examined every piece as I had the bin to myself. For 30 bucks we were both happy.

-A small Wright box with 3/8 hex bits, a few Herbrand bits, and a Master Mechanic
- A no name adjustable spud wrench
-Novent locking refrigerant cap wrench
-1/4 Gearwrench and Husky 10mm flex
-Blue-Point and Duralast 1/4 extensions
-Camillus sailor’s ? Knife needing some tlc
-S-K pry bar, 3/8 u joint, and 1/4” S-K Wayne socket set with a nice ratchet
-other ratchets: 3/8 Craftsman polished, Task Force 1/4,
NB guts partial 1/2” torque wrench for parts, Snap-On long 1/4”, Allen 3/8” with 1/4 adapter
- Snap-On die stock with partial tap/die set

 

[RTM]

My tiny haul, after getting shut out at a ranch flea market. Saw the same 10" wide vise as last time I went, and still passed it by.

Backstory
As we went out to walk the dogs yesterday, I saw a Lawson box at the curb at the neighbor's, and forgot to pick it up yesterday.

So I was reminded today, and stopped by today on my way to grab dinner. It is filled with some electrical construction components, which will get rehomed, and this box will get added to my component storage stack.

 

[Outlawmws]

For 30 bucks we were both happy.

SO much suckage!

 

[Patrickm82]

@3baygarage ***** for that trip! Nice score

 

[Patrickm82]

Slow rainy morning, only 1 sale found! Small haul for a 5 spot.

Estwing pry bar
Craftsman professional #4 Phillips
1/2” Armstrong combo
Craftsman 1/4” 43175 ratchet
Utica B5458 pliers, nippers, I have no idea but pretty interesting. Anybody know anything about them. Well constructed

 

[Outlawmws]

Utica B5458 pliers, nippers, I have no idea but pretty interesting. Anybody know anything about them. Well constructed

Those are interesting -- compound gear drive - I found a catalog page for similar nippers, but not those?

Utica Nippers and Pliers : The Quality Line : Utica Drop Forge & Tool Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

36 p., illus., 23.4 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

 

[Patrickm82]

Here is a close up of the tips

 

[LesserSon]

Slow rainy morning, only 1 sale found! Small haul for a 5 spot.

Estwing pry bar
Craftsman professional #4 Phillips
1/2” Armstrong combo
Craftsman 1/4” 43175 ratchet
Utica B5458 pliers, nippers, I have no idea but pretty interesting. Anybody know anything about them. Well constructed

Utica made a couple compound leverage tools similar to that. No3 end nipper @Outlawmws showed, and No24 seal press (No 1375 seal press had differently shaped side plates). Though similar to those, the jaws look different. Possibly B5458 is special/contract, because I don’t see it in catalogs.

 

[LesserSon]

Despite the different-looking jaws, it seems the function would be similar.

 

[LesserSon]

Different suggested uses.

 

[Patrickm82]

Those seem similar, the 24A’s

 

[Patrickm82]

I didn’t realize they were rounded till the second picture, never mind

 

[LesserSon]

 

[Patrickm82]

Very interesting unit! Let me know if any Utica guys are interested in it. I will pass it along!

 

[Levaughn]

These are some items I picked up yesterday at an Estate Sale for $25.

- Williams PL-6 Pliers
- Williams # 404 C Clamps
- Williams # 77 Needle Nose Pliers
- Williams # PLM-1CS Snips
- Williams Superwrench Mini Wenches
- Bristol Torque T Key Hex Key Allen Wrench
- Pexto Pliers
- Pexto Pipe Wrench
- Wiss Sissors
- Skylar Surgical Tool
- Challenger Pliers
- Swing A Way Can Opener
- Simonds Mini File
- Assorted No Name Mini Files
- Assorted No Name Tools
- Router Bits
- Drill Bits
- Master Lock #3
- Bliss,Handy & S.W Card Taps

 

[Outlawmws]

No24 seal press

Pretty sure he seals mentioned ate the wire and lead disk seals like are used for showing workers if the meter has been opened.

 

[ctuai]

Last for now…

Wow, that's quite a suckage of a haul

 

[ctuai]

This was a fun one for a change. A hoarder in his 90s passed away. The 1950's toy boat is pretty cool. All in for $60. They are opening up some Storage sheds tomorrow, and I'll be there.

Suckage for that totally fun pull, from the 5.56 cartridges, the Lionel watch, boat and nice Wilton vise.

 

[Beerhippie]

Ok, not quite a GS find…. But I thought I’d share it here any way. Got a new QC mgr at work and they wanted to clean house. They were buying new and most of these were still in calibration and not due to check till 27. I missed the first load by dumb luck, but scored the second load on Thursday. Only stipulation / cost was it had to leave the shop ASAP. There should be more after the weekend, height gauges and such….So far everything has checked out fine, been using my gage blocks all around the dial. Right place at the right time…

Steve

As my Mormon acquaintances would say: CHEESE AND RICE!

 

[alinc100]

So I was able to do a rough sort on The Bucket from a couple nights ago. The majority of the sockets listed as "Craftsman " are just that with some None Better,and some odds and ends mixed in but 99% Cman. I'll refine the sorting at a later time. I was able to while sorting pull out the obvious Kobalt due to the red blue bands, I also kept the Companion stuff separate as I have a handful of that, Snap On was obvious in it's own tray.

	pounds	ounces
DeRust pile	8	2
Snap On	2	7
Craftsman wrench	5	1.5
Craftsman 1/4" sockets	4	0
Craftsman 3/8" sockets	18	7
Craftsman 1/2" sockets	11	10
Kobalt tools	9	7
Companion sockets	1	7
Misc	3	5
Taiwan	31	14
scrap	6	7
total	102	9

 

[mikeinri]

SO much suckage!

DITTO!!!

Slow rainy morning, only 1 sale found! Small haul for a 5 spot.

Estwing pry bar
Craftsman professional #4 Phillips
1/2” Armstrong combo
Craftsman 1/4” 43175 ratchet
Utica B5458 pliers, nippers, I have no idea but pretty interesting. Anybody know anything about them. Well constructed

Nice $5 haul!


Mike

 

[ctuai]

Slowish day, probably due to the 3 day W/E:
A free sale and picked up a stack of short square buckets, 4 jumpers, Umbrella in great shape (for the T-van), Long bracket (material), rafter hook (Tire?), 2 big Tire chocks, can of Bic lighters (all but one worked, I figured a lifetime supply of flints otherwise), 2 Glider kit set w/book, a phone charger, 20 odd loupe magnifiers (Baggie), and a stubby driver







Second stop nada, third stop some free, some not - Free:

Table top ironing board, (for my youngest daughter, she's hot and heavy into cos-play costumes now) and some votive candles:




And 10 for the Mitutoyo calipers, and Blackhawk tubing wrenches:




and another $15 for the aluminum hitch mount cargo rack - needs 2 bolts and a hitch pin:

My daughter just got back from Momocon in Atlanta. 3 days from 10am - 3:00am of full tilt cosplay. Gen Z knows how to have fun.

 

[Beerhippie]

My daughter just got back from Momocon in Atlanta. 3 days from 10am - 3:00am of full tilt cosplay. Gen Z knows how to have fun.

WTH is "cosplay"?

Asking for a friend.

 

[mikeinri]

New to me Craigslist find. I've never seen the dual table. I don't need another drill press. I wanted the tables, base, and post. I'll strip down the rest and keep some useful parts. The motor is absolutely toast.

Wow, that's a great find. Too bad about the top end.

I do have one of the Craftsman Professional wrenches in size 1/2 that I found at the pawn shop and I really like it. I’ve used it on my dad’s truck a few times. Might look for some common sizes in Craftsman Professional as it would complement my Craftsman collection well.

I should start acquiring Craftsman Professional tools, I don't have any, but have only heard good things about them.

Mike

 

[Outlawmws]

WTH is "cosplay"?

Asking for a friend.

COStume rePLAY (I think a generic term) Dress up as characters in anything games, movies, Comics, super heroes, name it and many times the actors, both voice and spacial, come and have panels to talk about doing it. If you have seen peoples on stages at a theater dressed up as the characters during a Rocky Horror Picture Show as the characters, its similar but on steroids.

ex. Faname, Aname Expo, Momocon, Comic Con.

These conventions are a mini industry themselves and people get invested.

 

[BlakeTheCarGuy]

I should start acquiring Craftsman Professional tools, I don't have any, but have only heard good things about them.

We had a bunch when I was in school and they worked great. Very precise fit. I believe most of the professional series wrenches were made by SK. Could have been other manufacturers at some point but they look and feel a lot like SK. I also was looking at some tools I had in a box I forgot about and found a few Craftsman Professional screwdrivers that I have in my collection as well.

 

[INSP380]

Back at it again today…. Been following a FBM listing for a Proto chest for a few weeks. Alright, I’m an idiot for not moving sooner, but the force was strong on this one. Price kept tumbling and how it managed to not sell is beyond me. I sent an offer this am while eating B-Fest and the seller accepted $40. Got a killer set of Greenfield Tap& Die as well. Still with the oil paper!! The bottom drawer, once removed held a 9-72 Bolens tractor manual. I figured the chest was late 60’s early 70’s. This is how I brought it all home, untouched….

Steve

 

[mikeinri]

Back at it again today…. Been following a FBM listing for a Proto chest for a few weeks. Alright, I’m an idiot for not moving sooner, but the force was strong on this one. Price kept tumbling and how it managed to not sell is beyond me. I sent an offer this am while eating B-Fest and the seller accepted $40. Got a killer set of Greenfield Tap& Die as well. Still with the oil paper!! The bottom drawer, once removed held a 9-72 Bolens tractor manual. I figured the chest was late 60’s early 70’s. This is how I brought it all home, untouched….

Steve

Oh my... That box is immaculate! AND the bonus T&D set??? You ****!

 

[INSP380]

Oh my... That box is immaculate! AND the bonus T&D set??? You ****!

Thanks… I’ve been after a box to hold my Proto stuff…. While not as big as I’d like, it more then made up for it in quality and condition. Well built, and well cared for.

Steve