it's 2013 garage sale season!...

[rdsk8ter]

picked this up today anyone know anything about it


I figured for 5 bucks its cool enough ill take it.

 

[Amitygravel]

Here's some better photos of Saturdays auction take.
No name on the bottom cab that I could find , at some point in its life it was given a coat of paint on the back with a brush.
Nothing too exciting inside of it. However , the Craftsman grinder was on top of it and was included for the $12.50.
This auction had a lot of cheap tools but by sheer size and years of the accumulation there was some good stuff.
About 4 vises , all import were sold and the Morgan bolted to a welding table , was at the end of the day back in the "somebody will buy it" area.

The Wisconsin motor is a model AKN 6.5 hp made from 1959-1974.

The Lincoln oil pump was a total impulse buy at a buck.
Very little of the logo remains on the body this might make for a cool resto someday.

No name on the mini bike , paid lot more than I should have considering the motor is incomplete.

 

[DrivewayDave]

Look familiar?

 

[ArtDeco]

Here's some better photos of Saturdays auction take.
No name on the bottom cab that I could find , at some point in its life it was given a coat of paint on the back with a brush.
Nothing too exciting inside of it. However , the Craftsman grinder was on top of it and was included for the $12.50.
This auction had a lot of cheap tools but by sheer size and years of the accumulation there was some good stuff.
About 4 vises , all import were sold and the Morgan bolted to a welding table , was at the end of the day back in the "somebody will buy it" area.

The Wisconsin motor is a model AKN 6.5 hp made from 1959-1974.

The Lincoln oil pump was a total impulse buy at a buck.
Very little of the logo remains on the body this might make for a cool resto someday.

No name on the mini bike , paid lot more than I should have considering the motor is incomplete.

The minibike is a Bird Lark - late 60's -early '70s. Sears also sold theirs re-badged

 

[jeffmoss26]

Went to a small sale yesterday, did not see any tools outside but they had some inside.
Picked up these for 5 bucks: Old monkey wrench, Craftsman awl, and a small file.

 

[Amitygravel]

DrivewayDave ,
Sure does. Are the wheels an original feature ?


ArtDeco ,
Thanks for the info !

Craig

 

[Lump]

Almost perfect Outlaw - and I'm not trying to start an argument either - a hubcap is the cap that seals a wheel hub - not the stamped steel wheel cover that most people call a hubcap. Your description of how they are used is spot on. Again - not starting an argument - just giving out my 35 years of experience as an auto and truck mechanic.

LOL. You're both right, really. Rather than a matter of different names by region for the same part, it is instead an issue of name-changes over time. For example, very old cars often had wood-spoke wheels (like my 1923 Hupmobile), with screw-on "hubcaps" in the center. And these were true "caps"-over-the-hubs, which covered only the hub and wheel bearings. Later cars began to have steel wheels with caps which covered various amounts of the wheel center...some edge-to-edge, but most of them dog-dish-sized. And if you look at the official description of these parts in old auto parts books, "hubcaps" are the names which were usually used. At some point, sales literature for new cars began to call them "wheel covers," probably to make them sound more luxurious. Remember that most car companies had several different levels of "wheel covers" for sale, and sales men worked pretty hard to upsell buyers to the deluxe version wheel covers, such as wire-wheel lookalikes.

 

[bluebolt]

Here's some better photos of Saturdays auction take.
Nothing too exciting inside of it. However , the Craftsman grinder was on top of it and was included for the $12.50.

Mmm cast side guards, 1/2 HP, light. YOU ****!

 

[Amitygravel]

Well Thanks bluebolt !!!!!

Does anyone have a link to where I might find original logos or artwork and the correct red for the Lincoln grease pump ?
I'm thinking that might be a really cool piece to restore.

Craig

 

[jpickar]

LOL. You're both right, really. Rather than a matter of different names by region for the same part, it is instead an issue of name-changes over time. For example, very old cars often had wood-spoke wheels (like my 1923 Hupmobile), with screw-on "hubcaps" in the center. And these were true "caps"-over-the-hubs, which covered only the hub and wheel bearings. Later cars began to have steel wheels with caps which covered various amounts of the wheel center...some edge-to-edge, but most of them dog-dish-sized. And if you look at the official description of these parts in old auto parts books, "hubcaps" are the names which were usually used. At some point, sales literature for new cars began to call them "wheel covers," probably to make them sound more luxurious. Remember that most car companies had several different levels of "wheel covers" for sale, and sales men worked pretty hard to upsell buyers to the deluxe version wheel covers, such as wire-wheel lookalikes.

This is exactly the history of hubcaps!

John

 

[msgtsmithret]

Went to a small sale yesterday, did not see any tools outside but they had some inside.
Picked up these for 5 bucks: Old monkey wrench

Jeff that looks EXACTLY like a 9" Craftsman in my collection, minus the word CRAFTSMAN of course. They (whomever they are) must have made the CRAFTSMAN wrench that year. Interesting . . .

 

[msgtsmithret]

LOL. You're both right, really. Rather than a matter of different names by region for the same part, it is instead an issue of name-changes over time.

Thanks for the history perspective. I guess a rose by any other name is still a rose.

 

[zkling]

This is exactly the history of hubcaps!

John

Can someone please give the history of rimz and spinners? When and why were they invented?

 

[Outlawmws]

Look familiar?

DD I don't think Amity's is a Kennedy. The one you are showing (I have two of the rollers that era, but solid drawers.) has a very flat drawer pull that the ends are bent at an angle, that is corrected on the second bend. you can hardly get fingers under the ****** pull.

Amity's looks more like a Rem-line or the like, based on the drawer pulls.

 

[Outlawmws]

Went to a small sale yesterday, did not see any tools outside but they had some inside.
Picked up these for 5 bucks: Old monkey wrench

Jeff that looks EXACTLY like a 9" Craftsman in my collection, minus the word CRAFTSMAN of course. They (whomever they are) must have made the CRAFTSMAN wrench that year. Interesting . . .

MSG, I think whole lot of the tool companies made a pass at making 9" auto wrenches at one point or another... Not sure why... (Heck, I'm not sure what they are still being made, but they are...)

Ford contracted with a number of companies over the years for the one they supplied with the model A's T's and others, in the teens, 20's and 30's at least.

 

[Amitygravel]

Well since you're talkin about my pulls.
Here's a closeup.

 

[SackOHammers]

Hello all,

I found these at a hoarders sale the weekend before last. The family was cleaning out the basement of a house here in town (Blaine, WA) and I only had a couple min. to look around. TONS OF ALL SORTS OF STUFF. Talking to the son the gentleman moved into the basement of the house around 1965 and the wife lived a normal life upstairs. In fact, he was pretty active in the local community, so no one outside of the family knew. He finally got to the point they had to put him in a home. They had to glove up and just haul the stuff out in the yard and let people pick through it. Everything had a heavy layer of grunge on it but was oddly organized. Like neatly packaged boxes that had "Broken Cassette Player-1982".
Not a lot for tools, but I found a pretty neat adjustable wrench I'm hoping Outlaw, the resident Yoda, can ID. It just says "Made in England". Most I paid was $5 for the clock. The boots were new unissued combats, $2.00, dried stiff and dirty. A little saddle soap and neatsfoot oil and they are good as new. The book is a 1948 hardcover Mammoth Novelty catalog from Johnson Smith & Co out of Detroit. Went back the next day and everything had been picked over. but they did sell me this honking Stancor transformer for a whopping twenty five cents.

 

[Outlawmws]

Sorry Sackohammers, that one I've never seen. I'd say check on AA, but that tends to be US tools only IIR.

 

[SackOHammers]

Sorry Sackohammers, that one I've never seen. I'd say check on AA, but that tends to be US tools only IIR.

Dang...worth a shot. It's a strange piece. It looks to be mostly hand forged with only the jaws and the gear being machined. Found some similar wrenches but all of them are more advanced looking than this.

 

[msgtsmithret]

Hello all,

I found these at a hoarders sale . . . adjustable wrench . . . "Made in England".

I believe that is a CLYBURN spanner a.k.a. an English Key. Given its weight and size it was used to break open wooden crates, etc. - thus the name English Key.
Pretty cool find!

 

[ShadowRuleZ]

Pictures to follow tonight, but picked up a Duro brake spring plier, KD brake spring tool, and a Duro 2 jaw puller for $5.

 

[rusty65]

Dropped by the pawn shop after work and scored big. And I spent 40 bucks for every thing in the pictures.
All the drill bits pictured which are 57 in total are all precision twist,Chicago Latrobe,and one Hanson and Kirsch but all USA Hss and many still have the coating from when they were resharpened

Next photos is all the drive tools/ sockets.
Ratchets: 1/2 usag,3/8 Husky,1/4 indestro. T-handles: 1/2 usag,3/8 snap on. Speeders: 1/2 craftsman/plumb ,3/8 snap on kinda rusty. 1/2 blackhawk breaker bar. Sockets: 1 1/16 bon-e-con,7/16 blackhawk, 15/16 deep cat/snap on.

Next photos c-clamps: pony ***********, adjustable 3in,2in malleable iron. Bondhus SAE Allen wrench set. Lindstrom pliers ,wiss 366 scissors. Eagle 1pint oiler and small Phillips screwdriver.

And final picture the wrenches are almost a complete set of jc Penney DOEs and a cat/snap on 5/8 off set.

 

[Farmall450]

Very Nice!

 

[jpickar]

Great score!!!!!!! I love deals like that!

John

 

[t4runner]

Picked up a few things from a middle of the week sale [ $20 ]. I had to dig through a garage full of trash. I kept finding things but the kid running it would say "oh no thats not for sale" so I figured he was just looking for some one to dig out the stuff he thought he wanted to keep.

 

[zkling]

Dropped by the pawn shop after work and scored big. And I spent 40 bucks for every thing in the pictures.

Pawn shop? WOW, ain't like any of the pawn shops I have seen. The few I have been to would have wanted probably$150 for all that.

Great deal

 

[rusty65]

Pawn shop? WOW, ain't like any of the pawn shops I have seen. The few I have been to would have wanted probably$150 for all that.

Great deal

I'm pretty good friends with the owner and he has loads of great quality tools. About a month ago I got a old kennedy from him with a couple mics and some other tools for 45 bucks. he's a really nice older guy. The pawn shop is Dave's in pekin so if any one wants some great tools for a fair price check him out.

 

[rickhigginshtbr]

Stopped by my favorite store Retool on the hunt for some Plvmb Pebble's or Bonney Streamlines... and came home with these....




And then... got some presents


and now I have a fully functioning (yet ugly) 1/2" guy...

Just need that 1/2" flex and 1/4" flex for the whole set...

 

[JC23]

Picked up a 16 inch, channel lock pliers with Blue Point Made in USA on it fer $4.

Is it SO?

 

[thundermug]

Pretty good score today.

Was at ACE Hardware today and saw a stack of steel hardware bins sitting in the back of the store. They had been sitting there about a year. I asked the manager if I could take them, and he yes, granted I leave behind the contents. Deal. An hour later, I have 11 storage units. They were going to throw them away.

Eight "cubes". I have drawers for them. I didn't need these, so the wife will use them.

The two dark gray units on top are steel and each have four drawers. Each drawer has 32 compartments molded into a single plastic piece, which can be removed. The four cube units underneath are also from ACE.
https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/q71/1005347_644067582062_2031341330_n.jpg

 

[bluebolt]

Pretty good score today.

Was at ACE Hardware today and saw a stack of steel hardware bins sitting in the back of the store. They had been sitting there about a year. I asked the manager if I could take them, and he yes, granted I leave behind the contents. Deal. An hour later, I have 11 storage units. They were going to throw them away.

Eight "cubes". I have drawers for them. I didn't need these, so the wife will use them.

The two dark gray units on top are steel and each have four drawers. Each drawer has 32 compartments molded into a single plastic piece, which can be removed. The four cube units underneath are also from ACE.
https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/q71/1005347_644067582062_2031341330_n.jpg

Those gray ones are great, have a few. So price was free right? YOU ****!

 

[jeffmoss26]

Great stuff guys! Those hardware drawers are expensive!!
JC, what's the part number on the pliers? Some of them are rebranded Channellock.

 

[jpickar]

I stopped at a pawn shop yesterday and picked up a few sockets and real rusty 6" craftsman adjustable wrench which is in vinegar right now. And this old stapler. It is a Kling-Tite and uses number 3 staples. It is in very good condition. Has anyone heard of Kling-Tite staplers? And does anyone know what a #3 staple is equivilent to todays sizes in staples?

Thanks, John

 

[DrivewayDave]

Amitygravel,

No, real funky ad ons. Wagon wheel rears.

 

[DrivewayDave]

rickhigginshtbr,
Nice find! CM Series? C, BE? Some of both?

 

[thundermug]

Yeah, all the storage stuff was free.

 

[Lump]

I stopped at a pawn shop yesterday and picked up a few sockets and real rusty 6" craftsman adjustable wrench which is in vinegar right now. And this old stapler. It is a Kling-Tite and uses number 3 staples. It is in very good condition. Has anyone heard of Kling-Tite staplers? And does anyone know what a #3 staple is equivilent to todays sizes in staples?

Thanks, John

John,
In my most recent auction haul, I bought several box lots of tools. But one tray I DIDN'T get had an old stapler, and I THINK it was the same as yours. The guy who bought it told me it used unique sized staples. Later that day, when I got home and sorted through my haul, I found a couple boxes of oddball staples, which I THINK are those same ones. I'll check when I get home.

If I do have 'em...do you want 'em?

 

[cole_CT]

Those gray ones are great, have a few. So price was free right? YOU ****!

Nice hardware drawers!

 

[jpickar]

John,
In my most recent auction haul, I bought several box lots of tools. But one tray I DIDN'T get had an old stapler, and I THINK it was the same as yours. The guy who bought it told me it used unique sized staples. Later that day, when I got home and sorted through my haul, I found a couple boxes of oddball staples, which I THINK are those same ones. I'll check when I get home.

If I do have 'em...do you want 'em?

Oh yea, Kling-tite #3's if you have them I will take them. Just let me know!!

Thanks, John

 

[jakemac]

jpickar -
Check your local hardware stores for the Surebonder brand. They used to offer a #3 staple, as well as other numbered staples.