2018 Garage Sale Thread

[Private Lugnutz]

Maybe it should debut in a new "let's see your old trash can thread" It is pretty cool!! I'll even say You ****!!

Thanks. I'm still waiting for someone to start the "Show off your man cave" thread that was suggested. So far, I am the only one who has outed the inner sanctum. HAHA. But maybe I will. I'm having trouble finding anything like it. I see some Victorian era that are even more ornate and you can't believe how many people consider those round ubiquitous galvanized trash cans "vintage".

The SK “DEFIANCE OHIO” 9710 model is my runner up,

I'll have to go look that up.

I’m in the right part of the country......someday.

That's the spirit.

 

[shanny19]

I'll have to go look that up.
.

Couple of different variations, SK TOOLS vs SK WAYNE.

I really like seeing the “DEFIANCE” in the big font, one of my other hobbies is fireboats, and Tacoma has used the name Defiance twice now.

 

[drivesitfar]

Lug: way cool trash can!! I suppose you could scratch the paint on the inside to see if it’s brass which would be even cooler but I like it as is too. Well done!!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Lug: way cool trash can!! I suppose you could scratch the paint on the inside to see if it’s brass which would be even cooler but I like it as is too. Well done!!

Thanks. I thought you would! It's galvanized steel. Unpainted on the inside.

I already installed it!

(Excuse the infamous poor light in the Lugzsonian...)

It is a perfect fit - with just a skosh to spare.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

BTW, there is a surprise for you in Pic 1. Did you notice it?

 

[Outlawmws]

I salvage the stainless steel stiffeners from windshield wiper blades to use for this sort of thing. Some are wider than others, but all are tempered to spring temper. I keep an assortment and it is surprising how many times I find a use for them. Cheap, too!

I do that also and use them for lots of things. Recently I used one to make "scraper hooks": for the air tube in lanterns that often get full of spider and mud wasp nests.

Thanks for asking, Dave! And funny you should call it a cabinet - because when I saw it from afar, that's exactly what I thought it was, too. My heart was racing and my hand was already going into my front cash pocket.

However, I wasn't too disappointed to discover that it was actually an ornate antique trash bin!

As I was leaving with it, a lady said, "Oh, you bought that. I really like it, but I wish it wasn't painted." She's got an antiques store, thinks it's fin de siècle and probably came out of a pantry in one of the fancy houses on the main line. When I asked her what she thought was under the paint she said brass, but it seems like galvanized steel to me.

If you recall the workbench in the Lugzsonian, I've got a perfect spot for it! I've never been happy with the blue one that's under there now, which is waaaay too small for the space, and, it's not time period correct!

VERY cool trash can Lugz!

 

[drivesitfar]

Lug: the orange parts cabinets? or the tool board or poster? i saw maybe 50 of those orange parts cabinets at a sale last weekend and they were in some sort of rack that was about 8 foot tall. the prices on them were so pricey that even i I came back the last day of the sale for 1/2 price it was still way above what i'd spend.

or do tell?

nice that your cool new garbage can fit in the man cave spot you hoped it would too. what a good way to end the year.

I commented on your cool award, but I guess you didn't see it so i will again. WELL DONE!!

have you named PICKER OF THE YEAR yet or are you waiting for JAN 1st to do that?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

VERY cool trash can Lugz!

Thanks, Outlaw. The best thing about GJ is we get congrats for things like that instead of three-head looks. HAHA. Some people just don't get it!

Lug: the orange parts cabinets? or the tool board or poster?

Neither of those! (You've seen the Dorman chest here and on your thread, although I guess I didn't have it up on the bench filled with all my orphan sockets at that time, and I posted the B&S tool board in that spot on the B&S thread a few weeks ago.) It's in a glare, from the glass lid, but I was referring to the New Britain high speed drill bits display case! I have been re-arranging the furniture in the Lugzsonian to make proper spaces for the other three tool boards (Mossberg, B&S#2, and Bonney), and in the process, decided to take your advice by using it for displaying something else. The drill bit dishes are the prefect size for my ignition wrenches, one dish per brand.

So now I freed up a drawer for something else, which put smore stuff away instead of it being out and in the way. It's all a slow domino effect until I have some space for the boards. HAHA. And I have so many things that are stowed somewhere, including the NB drill bits case, that I forget I even have them. So I am happy it's out and on my bench and part of my daily meanderings.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I commented on your cool award, but I guess you didn't see it so i will again. WELL DONE!!

I saw that and thought I thanked you. I appreciate the appreciation.

have you named PICKER OF THE YEAR yet or are you waiting for JAN 1st to do that?

I am not naming the POY. I am going to nominate a few names and set up a poll. That way I am picking several of the guys who I think deserve it the most, but we will vote as a thread - to share the responsibility (and blame)! HAHA.

My original plan was to have that done already. If you look back at my December schedule post, we were supposed to be voting this week. Frankly, and full admission, the nominations are killing me. I have two "locks". I wanted to find a third and keep it to three. But that third name is tough. There are four of five guys that are so equal in my mind for all my criteria. I may just open it up to more names. Problem there is the homework! I have been going through hundreds and hundreds of posts. In one way it was nice, Like re-living the thread on Fast Forward. And I found that even though I paid close attention, I missed little things here and there. In another way, my head is spinning.

So I need to de-compress a little.

Plus, my oldest son just came home with his fiancee. He's a Captain-Promotable in the US Army and we haven't seen him in almost 2 years. He went from an assignment in Korea to an assignment at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii.

I think I will have the Nominee Profiles and the Poll ready to go by this weekend.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I need some help identifying this box I also picked up today. It's not that important that I know what it is, because I am going to use it as a tool display case. For what tools, I'm not yet sure. Small ones! I have a few ideas. But I'm curious about what it is.

The lid has a detachable hinge with multiple positions. The front of the top is also hinged. That's to slide something thin and flat inside. And there are slots for three of those. There's also one of those little pivoting clasps that you find on the backs of framed paintings, to hold the painting in place. And the latches are not simply latches, they are the locking kind (by coincidence, very similar to the latches on my Bethlehem Spark Plug Company Set A/B box.). I want to say it's for works of art, that the slots are for hard oil painting canvasses. But what would go under the canvasses in the bottom half of the box? And if the plexiglass is there to protect the paintings and look through, why does it need a slip-joint hinge?

 

[Jayman17]

Lug: the orange parts cabinets? or the tool board or poster? i saw maybe 50 of those orange parts cabinets at a sale last weekend and they were in some sort of rack that was about 8 foot tall. the prices on them were so pricey that even i I came back the last day of the sale for 1/2 price it was still way above what i'd spend.

or do tell?

nice that your cool new garbage can fit in the man cave spot you hoped it would too. what a good way to end the year.

I commented on your cool award, but I guess you didn't see it so i will again. WELL DONE!!

have you named PICKER OF THE YEAR yet or are you waiting for JAN 1st to do that?

Drives, I went to that same estate sale you did. I passed on the parts cabinets too, way too much $. They sure did have a lot of them though. They went quick on 1/2 price day. That's where I bought my 2 drawer file cabinet posted earlier in this thread.

Jay

 

[tin medic]

I've emptied all options in Colorado so I went East to St. Louis for stuff. The boxes are all Proto.

 

[tin medic]

A few more things.

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Lugz,
That trash can is absolutely bitchin'!!!! You can now tell everyone you built the Lugzsonian around the trash can and who will ever know you didn't? Perfecto!!!!

 

[BlueBomber]

Impressive haul, tinmedic!

Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

 

[Smokeshow69]

THAT is a great idea!



Smoke: Love the new avatar!

You have no idea how long I have wanted one! Ever since rileysan found his a few years ago I have been enamored with finding one ! Finally got lucky this year and found if for $1[emoji16][emoji41]


Sent from my iPhone using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[Smokeshow69]

Impressive haul, tinmedic!

Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

Voting for blue bomber to win the award for understatement of the year [emoji41]


Sent from my iPhone using The Garage Journal mobile app

 

[3baygarage]

That’s quite the haul Tin. Some of everything. Cool Herbrand 4 way. Please tell us about the blades.


Good use for the NB cabinet, Lugz.

 

[drivesitfar]

ALL: i'm guessing LUG won't put himself in the running for PICKER OF THE YEAR FOR 2018 so I'd like to add him to his short list. anybody else second that so he can maybe have a chance at winning that award even if he doesn't need or can make his own trophy?

too bad the cameras can't follow Lug around cause he'd have us all watching to see how he managed the variety of people he meets at the local fleas and sales.

I'd probably vote for him even if he didn't make the biggest hauls cause he's always digging (or let's say PICKING) through piles of stuff to find one or more gems and then he seems to research and give us the history on that item more times than not.

cheers

 

[3baygarage]

I’d like to second that Drives. Lugz is out there weekly on the flea market trail bringing goodies home and posting them here.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I've emptied all options in Colorado so I went East to St. Louis for stuff.

HAHA! That Herbrand 4-Way is awesome! Love the script.

That trash can is absolutely bitchin'!!!!

Only on GJ can a trash can be "bitchin'"!. Love it.

Finally got lucky this year and found if for $1[emoji16][emoji41]

I remember!

Good use for the NB cabinet, Lugz.

Right? Most of the dishes are the perfect size!

ALL: i'm guessing LUG won't put himself in the running for PICKER OF THE YEAR FOR 2018

I"d like to second that Drives.

I appreciate the gesture, and thanks for noticing - I did have a good year if I do say so myself, but that is not happening. Next year is another year!

 

[RagTopTA]

HAHA! Okay, from that perspective, I can see your point!

I don't know about this part though...


The Blackhawk 4-way is pretty cool. And I am waiting to see my first Herbrand (someone we all know just found one!)

I have the Pebble P&C, a cool Blackhawk,Plomb, and a Herbrand 4 way that I have scored over the last year or so... also one more I cant find the makers mark on...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

PROGRAMMING NOTE

I am glad guys are still reporting hauls because I was worried we started langing the auld synes too early. We still need to vote for 2018 POY and 2019 Host. So, please, everyone, keep checking back in here for notices on those TWO different polls. The POY Poll will be up today or tomorrow - I promise.

 

[LesserSon]

I need some help identifying this box I also picked up today. It's not that important that I know what it is, because I am going to use it as a tool display case. For what tools, I'm not yet sure. Small ones! I have a few ideas. But I'm curious about what it is.

The lid has a detachable hinge with multiple positions. The front of the top is also hinged. That's to slide something thin and flat inside. And there are slots for three of those. There's also one of those little pivoting clasps that you find on the backs of framed paintings, to hold the painting in place. And the latches are not simply latches, they are the locking kind (by coincidence, very similar to the latches on my Bethlehem Spark Plug Company Set A/B box.). I want to say it's for works of art, that the slots are for hard oil painting canvasses. But what would go under the canvasses in the bottom half of the box? And if the plexiglass is there to protect the paintings and look through, why does it need a slip-joint hinge?

I am 100% sure that is an artist’s box. Looks like the dividing trays (for brushes, palette knives, tube paints (oil, acrylic, watercolor), solvents, etc) have been removed from the bottom. My parents were both art teachers, and my grandfather painted as an avocation, so we always had a couple of those boxes. I have two (one’s a Grumbacher, I think; other is unbranded) at home but I’m out today. I’ll add pics when I get back. I suspect the plexi is a PO’s addition. I’m not sure what you mean by slip-joint hinge. The lid may have multi positions for use as an easel in the field.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I am 100% sure that is an artist’s box...[ ]...I suspect the plexi is a PO’s addition. I’m not sure what you mean by slip-joint hinge. The lid may have multi positions for use as an easel in the field.

Thanks, LS. You nailed it. The plexiglass is what was confusing me, because it implies looking through it, obviously, so I was trying to figure out what the hinge had to do with that. It does turn it into an easel! And I see where the compartment separators have been removed.

I think I am going to replace the plexiglass and mount some of my tinier treasures in here.

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Nice haul TM. You cleared out Colorado then head to St Louis which it appears you cleared out in a day. Was that all from one day of picking?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Just a few things today - and a Rookie Mistake story.

The things: Two frozen and unmarked (as far as I can tell through the rust) parallel clamps, a 4" Crestoloy, and a Remington knife. See Pic 1.

The headline of the story: There Should Have Been Three Knives!

The story: Vendor at my flea shows up with a cardboard box the size of a microwave oven with knives, folding and fixed, and many with no sheaths or guards of any kind. Now I've bought stuff from Wally before, mainly machinists' stuff, and he does have a Starrett mic in a wood case and a Starrett dial indicator in a red vinyl sheath, with attachments, and some other machine shop stuff, but I am carefully picking around through the box of knives like there's no bottom, while Wally is talking to "the boys" (other oldtimers who walk around this flea every week not buying anything). They are joking about his 5,000 knives and how his son got half of them and I am thinking, 'I hope he doesn't treat the other 4,900 this way', and trying to make a deal for the three I pulled out at the same time and I only have so much cash and I didn't make the rounds yet. So I put them in the little box with the machine shop knick knacks and tell Wally I will swing back around.

If your Rookie Mistake flags just went up, uh yeah, I just pulled three gems out of a jumbled mess for the next guy to not have to find.

Of course the other two were gone. A Camillus TL-29 badge type. (This is a little esoteric for this thread, but I have proven that it's the only TL that is acceptable in a GMTK.) And a WWI mess knife (serifs on the "U.S.", green paint on the handle).

So there's your POY candidate for you Drives!

And one in the LEAVE-BEHIND category:

A really nice duffel with some Rat Fink looking trench artwork. The seller wanted way more than I was willing to spend, and it was USMC. See Pic 2.

 

[drivesitfar]

LUG: POY doesn't mean you do everything 100% it means that you are LEARNING (A LOT) while gathering some gems in the meantime to keep or pass on so you can buy more.

speaking of that drill bit display case in the picture you posted all I saw as a drill index on top and a glare that looked like a white piece of plywood and not the glass on that cool cabinet. Yep it looks good there.

great to hear i'm not the only one that likes you new (maybe 100 year old) trash can.

KEEP LEARNING!!

and sorry for your loss, but he would have wanted all your fun funds and now you can still go shopping and buy something else.

ALL: maybe before Lugs nominates the members to choose from to be next years host you might send him a PM telling him you are interested. or if you aren't interested in hosting probably the fastest and most informative thread on GJ pass it on to the guy that has time and the personality to take on a JERRY CAN ISSUE and look at rusty stuff and see the diamonds.

cheers

 

[Private Lugnutz]

LUG: POY doesn't mean you do everything 100% it means that you are LEARNING (A LOT) while gathering some gems in the meantime to keep or pass on so you can buy more.

Of course. (A little self-deprecation goes a long way...)

ALL: maybe before Lugs nominates the members to choose from to be next years host you might send him a PM...

First of all, before this gets out of control, I am not nominating next year's host, Drives. We always put the top 10 or so names by number of posts into the poll for next year's host, thereby selecting a host for next year who was a very active participant this year. If the member who wins the host poll declines, it will go to the next guy, and so forth, until we have a host. I am adding a second poll this year for my POY trophy. Those names I will be nominating soon.

2018 POY and 2019 Host are two different polls.

 

[drivesitfar]

LUG: it's early here and I should be doing my own style of PICKING instead of commenting on thread winners and new hosts.

Sorry and I know you have it under control and again you've done well as the host for 2018. it's been fun learning and watching all the cool stuff found and talked about here.

CARRY ON!!

ALL: I want to nominate my bride as Picker's wife of the year cause she's always (almost) willing to jump in my Honda Pilot and go on a drive to pick up some or deliver some of stuff.

last night I had to move these to my storage from my parent's garage where i'm setting up a woodshop cause i'm passing them on to a gal that is starting a vintage nautical store and she needs some tables.

my bride helped me load all 9 of these into my honda and then unload all 9 at my storage unit that is 20 miles away so they can be picked up today.

anybody else's brides (or SWMBO) go with them to pick up or drop off STUFF?

cheers

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Drives: Wow. I would love to have just ONE of those! What did you pull out of a shipyard a few years ago? Also several of them. Also made me extremely envious. It wasn't portholes. Something nautical and wooden.

anybody else's brides (or SWMBO) go with them to pick up or drop off STUFF?

What a koinkydink you should mention this now... I am polishing off my Nominee profiles and this is a funny little theme running through most of them...

 

[3baygarage]

Aww man that story, Lugz. I made a similar rookie mistake when I visited Buffalo over the summer. One of the first stands, the vendor had antique tools and I picked up a rare “wrench”. The vendor said 4 dollars. I simply set it down while looking at another item and next guy scooped it right the heck up in a second and bought it. Not sure where my mind was and I sure couldn’t do anything because I hadn’t agreed to buy it.

Not my first blunder and probably not my last.

Would you care to see the $4 tool in question?

 

[tin medic]

Nice haul TM. You cleared out Colorado then head to St Louis which it appears you cleared out in a day. Was that all from one day of picking?

That was one stop.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Would you care to see the $4 tool in question?

If it's not painful for you, sure.

 

[3baygarage]

If it's not painful for you, sure.

I wasn’t looking for one but it’ll haunt me for a while. I believe a company still makes them.

Straight from AA:

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Ouch.

Yeah well, you hang around here long enough, you know everybody has AT LEAST one of those stories.

 

[fowldarr]

I was at an estate sale and had dropped some stuff off at the cash register. Went to pick up a few more items. The cashier changed over while I was in the garage, came back somebody had claimed my box as theirs and bought the whole thing. Pretty sure it was a cranky old guy that is at most estate sales that I go to. He's been known to do shady stuff in the past, even saw him push a teenager out of the way once to get to a stop sign (wasn't even an old one). Lesson learned. Most of the regulars around here are pretty great and we help each other out. We know what's competitive, and what each other are looking for and will let them know if we find it. That guy, is not one that gets any help.

 

[3baygarage]

Yeah that’s a shady move.

Ouch.

Yeah well, you hang around here long enough, you know everybody has AT LEAST one of those stories.

Oh yeah. Funny thing was I could feel the guy peering over my shoulder as I was looking at it.

 

[LesserSon]

Thanks, LS. You nailed it. The plexiglass is what was confusing me, because it implies looking through it, obviously, so I was trying to figure out what the hinge had to do with that. It does turn it into an easel! And I see where the compartment separators have been removed.

I think I am going to replace the plexiglass and mount some of my tinier treasures in here.

Here’s two. The one on left was my grandfather’s. It’s a little larger, no name on it. I think yours has a similar age to it. The one on right is the Grumbacher, slightly smaller, newer. I forgot that there are rectangular pallets made to fit the same slots. It could be your plexi was used as a pallet, or maybe as you surmised, just to protect the canvas boards from getting paint on them from tubes in the lower section. And maybe the whole thing was modified for some other purpose, such as the one you’re considering.
I tried to foist these on my middle daughter, but she has been concentrating on metalwork.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Very cool! Thanks, LS.

Here is that Remington UMC knife I picked up at the flea this morning. It has a Bakelite handle and copper rivets.