jeffmoss26
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nine4, you **** on the hardware bins!!
What is with the Craftsman handled whisk-broom type thing? Looks home-made!
What is with the Craftsman handled whisk-broom type thing? Looks home-made!
nine4, you **** on the hardware bins!!
What is with the Craftsman handled whisk-broom type thing? Looks home-made!
What is with the Craftsman handled whisk-broom type thing? Looks home-made!
Baster from the grill set of tools?
SNIP
What is with the Craftsman handled whisk-broom type thing? Looks home-made!

ZK, all I could think is, "why is there one socked foot and one unsocked foot"
Shoot I just now saw that. Short version is that I dropped a full oil filter on my right foot and quickly ripped off my shoe and sock. Good catch. I see a crate full of rust, how much I ask. $10 he says, I say, throw in the bag full of rust and it's a deal.
I found an old GE metal desk fan at city hall when dropping off some recycling.

Yes.
And a used one I shall never touch nor buy.
Ewwwww.
But that is just me.
Hardware slide out holder is da' bomb.
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I have a perfect use for that, not food related! It would be nice for brushing off brass shavings from my key machine!
So my second stop was at an estate sale, and got the millermatic mig welder and a box of hand tools for 100.00 including the C02 tank, not sure what they sell for or what it is worth, but I can tell you it is heavy as can be, made my little truck squat and I used the bucket from my tractor to get it out of the back and it almost lifted the rear tires from the tractor off the ground...Rich...
That ratchet is a TRUTH ratchet. Look at the big T to identify the maker. No idea what the BS means but Alloy Artifacts suggests it was a sub-contractors mark. TRUTH made the R6A ratchet sometime prior to 1950 when they were acquired by OTC. That is a cool damn find!
Your guess would be better than mine sir. I thought and planed to use them as just long reach blow guns. They have a standard quick disconnect air line fitting on them. I have seen people use them for blowing out hard to reach areas (ex back of an engine bay). Or I could at least take the valves and quick disconnect off them for something else. If you want up close pics let me know. They have a few different markings on them. One end is ported like a safety blow gun would be.
BTW, what is that level you picked up graduated in? That was an awesome find for $1.
Here are a few pics. I think you are correct about it being re-purposed from something else. Any ideas what it originally was?
I like this one as it is short, so it packs where the others may not.


Cool vise Outlaw, never saw one with a round shaft like that, other than the bullets. good find
Jim, you know I'm jealous of that Dazor incandescent.,,![]()

There was a rock island vise on CL that I wanted to seebut I was stuck taking brush to the dump. First trip to the dump I back up to pile and get out and there's a stainless garden fork laying on the ground. Nobody near me. Cool, I think and grab it and put it in the cab of my truck. I'm unloading and a truck comes up and backs in near me. Guy gets out and starts looking for something. I'm like "you missing something?" a couple times. the guy is pretty intense in his search but finally he gives me a little attention and says he is looking for his fork. Hold on I say, and get the fork and give it to him. He was pretty thankful and we both had a laugh about it. He didn't blame me at all for picking it up.
On the way out, I swing by the free stuff section. I spot this right under the kids junk bikes, hop out of the truck and grab it:
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It's pretty small
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Close up
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Obviously a Columbian 2 1/2" but when I googled it I didn't see anything too relevant. I think it says 702 1/2. Works fine, main flaw is the chipped part of the beam in the pic with my glove in it.
Anybody help me out with more info about this? Thanks!

Nice score with the vise. Those zip tie guns are stupid $ new.
Went on vacation and ended up forgetting about them and didnt "discover" them for another few months. IT has been good hunting around here all weekend. First stop was great and i was the first in the door. Lots of random tools including a 2 arm Plomb puller and plomb socket attached to a Proto LA ratchet. Its the first one ive seen with a smooth handle and no knurling on the grip.
The whole pile, including the vise was 20.00
I also found my first Plomb/Proto branded tool that day. Its the 1 1/4" flare nut wrench.
Actually, the garage sale was a minute from my barber... saw he wasn't open yet, hit the sale, saw that, got my hair cut, picked up the wife to be, went back to the sale, and she laughed and said yes, absolutely![]()

Friday and Saturday weren't the biggest haul in the world, but I feel pretty good about it. I found the Dunlap Approved box for $2.00 and the HEAVY gray steel lock box for $1. No clue what its for seeing that it has no mounting holes or anything. But I think it will work well for keeping small children from playing with things that go bang. And the Dunlap will be a good, safe, home for the choicest of old ratchets.
I paid $5 for the 1/2" =V= just to have them all. Not in great shape on the outside cosmetically, but slicker than snot with a little de-gunking and fresh grease.
At another sale a local guy had the sockets and ratchets. I was after the Craftsman H circle and wanted to see if I could get him to throw in the little ratchet for $10. When I didn't even get a chance to talk price, he said "Ten dollars and you can have the ratchets, the bar, and the sockets. you can have the box for an extra two if you want something to carry them in". I had glanced at the box and saw NAPA on it, so I figured cheap and flimsy and passed it by. But for $2? Sure! It turns out that the thing is built like a tank! And built by New Britain. And the little ratchet? Ends up being an old Snap-on "Ferret".
Might have scored a good small box, but I still pine for the old Craftsman matched top and bottom I passed on for $50 last weekend.
The round SS security lock was free at a sale. The guy there had a planter full of keys and told me if I wanted to look for it more than likely it was there. It cost me about 5 min and I gave him a buck for the key. Another freebie came from an estate, a Honeywell security panel that looks like it was installed and never used. Works, too. It looks like it can do all sorts of voodoo with it looking at their site, like use it as a clock.
Paid a buck for Battery and Antifreeze tester part out of curiosity. Never seen one of these before. Its only the optics, so if you recognize it as a part you need, let me know.
Not in the photos is a hacksaw I picked up in a moment of insanity for $40. It's embarrassing, paying that kind of money for an old hacksaw. I must have had some kind of tool delirium or temporary schizophrenia, maybe even occasional delusional hysteria. That's for a qualified doctor to decide. I might post it later. Or I might not. That will hinge on my diagnosis.![]()