2019 Garage Sale Thread

[Prichman38]

The cool stuff that was in the Craftsman toolbox.




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[Outlawmws]

I would not use them for anything heavy or you want a nice finished cut on. Sheet rock, Masonite, softwoods maybe...

 

[Prichman38]

I would not use them for anything heavy or you want a nice finished cut on. Sheet rock, Masonite, softwoods maybe...

The look very poor quality. I’ll stick with my Bosch daredevil spade bits. These looked very dangerous and was wondering how long they lasted on the market.




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[LesserSon]

Has anyone tried those craftsman power wood bits? They look very thin and dangerous.

I have some, but I don’t recall actually ever using them. I have used solid spade bits. The advantage is, you can change direction while drilling, to avoid obstructions. Disadvantage is, it’s nearly impossible to drill a truly straight hole. And on thin goods, the tearout is ridiculous.
My guess is, the danger is mainly to the shaft, which would probably fail near the spade, if you hit something uneven in density and got hung up. Repeatedly loosening and tightening the nut to swap the bits is bound to wear out the threads eventually, sooner if they’re overtightened, which is what most people do. If you do try them, have a visegrips handy to dig the spade out of the hole.

In flea news, I had a quick spin through a small local sale Friday morning. Handled a couple things, but didn’t find anything I really wanted. Friday afternoon, my son borrowed my vehicle to drive down to DC, and my soon-to-graduate daughter has my wife’s vehicle for a few more weeks while she finishes up her double-trouble dual-major twin art shows. So I have no vehicle until they both descend on us for Easter Sunday dinner.
But I am not idle! At Miss Dual-Major’s request, I am fabricating a pedestal to display her metals work in accord with her vision. 1-1/2 sheets of 3/4” MDF, yielding 19x37x49” ODs, with a 3”-deep basin lined with 6mil black plastic sheeting to hold fine black gravel and water. Her work will emerge on clear acrylic rods, which she is fabricating. I can hardly wait to see the installation, though I will miss the opening, as I must be in DC myself that day. Hope she gets plenty of help and a dolly, because it is MASSIVE. I’m in the home stretch of my part, glueing up the picture frame topper that will conceal the edge of the black plastic. I’m in about $70 of materials, but I think it would make a fine Tiki Bar after the show ends.
BTW, I am legitimizing this post by USING 6 clamps purchased second-hand at flea markets!

 

[Stuart in MN]

Sorry for:

1. Being so far off topic, although these will be in a garage sale shortly after my burial no doubt.

2. Lousy picture.

Bruce

We must be similar in age...I still have my Matchbox 'briefcase' full of cars from when I was a kid, and I have most of the same ones you do.

 

[Crabman]

We must be similar in age...I still have my Matchbox 'briefcase' full of cars from when I was a kid, and I have most of the same ones you do.

Stuart,

Thanks for the post, I have my briefcase around here somewhere too.

Bruce

 

[Provincial]

Just one sale this weekend. Found this set of 8" casters, two fixed and two swivel. Heavy duty with grease fittings for the swivels as well as the axles. $8.00 for the set.

 

[Magnum440d100]

Finally brought home the truck I bought last year. We cleaned it out fairly well at my friends house.

Messing around with it tonight and peeked down into the stake pockets. I spotted the top of the breaker bar. Had to pull out some strips of wood, and the wire brush, then hook the breaker bar and pulled it out.

No name or COO on it. It looks like it had both a 1/2” drive and 3/&” drive at one point, but the 3/8” drive has broken off at some point in time.

I already called my friend and asked if they want it back. After all, the truck belonged to my friends nephew who died too young of leukemia. It’d be nice for the breaker bar to go back to his family

 

[3baygarage]

Any other numbers on it under the rust? Certain Caterpillar tool groups used this style.

Looks like one panel has 29H and a small symbol or letter to the right of it.

3bay, a 25/32 hex was standard for 7/16" U.S.S. bolts (not "cap screws", which were 5/8" hex) before SAE took over. Now it is 5/8" hex for bolts and 11/16" hex for the nuts. If you had the original nut on there, it would also be 25/32" hex.

Thanks for the info. That could explain it.

 

[Oily Nails]

Got to love Easter Bank Holidays in the UK.... Friday and Monday Public holidays...
......4 day weekend AND ITS SUNNY IN THE UK!!!!!!

Nipped out this morning and went back to the Leeds/Bradford Airport Car Boot sale.

BUSY! But lots of stalls with tools.

Anyhoo.... Group shot in the sun.


Right to Left:
>NATO std Shell Box - £5 (I asked how much, she said "what'll you give", she took the deal and I ran!)
>4 x 3" G-Clamps - Unbranded- £4 (can never have too many)
>Full Set of GORDON AF DOE spanners - UK made - £5 (they are like new)
>Bridgeport Handvise - Made in USA - £2.50 (more pics in Vise thread)
>Articulated Snips - UK made - £0.50p
>Baby Stillson - USA made - £1 (My first ACTUAL Stillson)
>PLUMB Ball Pein Hammer - USA - £3 (My first PLUMB tool!)
>CROWN CORK Bottle Opener - £Free (never turn down a bottle opener)
>Spare Pine hammer handle - £0.50p
>Machinists "jack/prop" - Shop made - £3 (heavy ****** but all stainless!)
>Book "The Guns of Navarone" - £1 (possibly 1st edition)

A close up of the items ontop of the step:


6 x SNAIL branded spanners - UK made - £3
I was going to pass on them until I spotted the dates on some of them [1945] no Broad Arrow markings but certainly some were wartime production. Beyond that where else do you see a SNAIL on a tool, apart from the garden shed

Oh and someone put there date of birth on them OLD SCHOOL..


X II VIII = 10/02/1908 (In UK dating)

Right time for more cider in the sun, and looking out for the finds from the rest of Garage Journal.

 

[BlueBomber]

Not much will lure me out on Easter Sunday morning, but an OfferUp ad with "Huge amount of tools, most are antique or vintage, from basement shop unused for 50 years" kinda gets your attention!

Unfortunately, it was a big disappointment. Turned out to be a guy living with his mom (or vice versus, I'm not sure who owned the house) who picks estate sales and Mom is the one who put up the ad. The guy did not have "tons of tools", only a few tools boxes with some plain-jane, mostly uninteresting stuff. The fella was nice enough about the whole thing and apologized for the exaggerated ad by his Mom. We swapped a few tales about finding stuff in local estate sales. I did end up buying a NIB Porter Cable brad nailer and three wrenches from him for $30, and he promised to let me know if he was ever at a sale and saw a bunch of old hand tools for sale.

 

[bmwrd0]

Oily nice finds! Guns of Navarone is always good, and the Gordon spanners are very nice. One thing, Plumb is not Plomb, which is what everyone goes crazy for. Still very nice hammers.

Oh, and the last time I was in England there was a heat wave in London. That stunk, literally!

 

[Oily Nails]

Oily nice finds! Guns of Navarone is always good...... One thing, Plumb is not Plomb, which is what everyone goes crazy for.

Cheers bmwrd0
Yeah I realised after buying it that it was a Plumb not a PLOMB after walking away from the stall, but still nice to have a good USA hammer.

The car boot sale is on tomorrow as it's a Bank Holiday so I might go back!

 

[d42jeep]

After returning home around 4:00 from family Easter festivities, I did a quick check of Craigslist to see if I missed anything and spotted this ad. Needless to say, I jumped in the car and headed over. I passed on the entire machinists set and Craftsman Crown lathe but came home with four wartime treasures. The Snap-on tools are both dated 1944. The file card/brush has the pick that is always missing.
-Don

 

[Jim_No_Garage]

It's bulk pickup weekend here in my town and I made a nighttime loop around looking for things of interest. I snagged a Craftsman 28" 9HP snowblower from the curb. It has a Tecumseh Snow king motor that seems to be stuck - but it has a brand new spark plug in it - so I got that going for me.

I'll take a closer look at it and see if it's fixable or not. If not I will pillage it for the parts and/or sell the carcass. It seems to be a single shaft engine based on what I see online so it's possibly a candidate for a Predator engine swap for someone else.

I also picked up a piece of garage art - if I ever have a garage with wall space.

Cheers

Jim

 

[BlueBomber]

Nice snags, Don. That looks like the exact lathe I have.

Jim: hopeful for you that the snow throwa just needs a little TLC...

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[MercLSU]

Just one grab today...this older oval logo, Proto Professional 15 piece satin chrome SAE long pattern combo wrench set, 5/16" to 1-1/4". Non-ASD open ends. Unused.

All have L after part number except 5/16 which appears to be a factory std length included by mistake as it matches. The 1-1/4" wrench is 20" long.
With vinyl roll. Maybe 90s-00s?

$80

Nice! I'm a sucker for wrenches in their original tool roll, though I don't tend to retain them for some reason.

 

[MercLSU]

I saw a pawn shop advertising some large Proto wrenches on FB Marketplace and sent a low ball offer which they took. Sometimes I wonder what they actually paid. They were asking $40 each on FB Marketplace, $70 each in store, and took $20 each. I should have offered less.

2-1/16" x 2
2-1/8"
2-3/16" x 2
2-1/2"

 

[BFBOB]

Oh and someone put there date of birth on them OLD SCHOOL..


X II VIII = 10/02/1908 (In UK dating)
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Yes, but is that October Second or the Tenth of February? I can never remember which is which on your side of the Pond.
...and of course,the year could be 1808 (approximately when steel started taking over from iron) 1908 or 2008!

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Just one sale this weekend. Found this set of 8" casters, two fixed and two swivel. Heavy duty with grease fittings for the swivels as well as the axles. $8.00 for the set.

I find it hard to pass on casters. At some point, I need to have a casters sale because anyone left after I'm gone is gonna think they're worthless and just toss 'em in the trash.

Nice find Prov!

 

[Oily Nails]

Yes, but is that October Second or the Tenth of February? I can never remember which is which on your side of the Pond.
...and of course,the year could be 1808 (approximately when steel started taking over from iron) 1908 or 2008!

BFBOB
My Good Man in these United Kingdoms of Great Britain one reads and writes the date in the only correct manner of Day, Month an finally Year. There's a good chap. [emoji14]

Also in terms of '08 years..... 1808 seems a tad old and 2008 would mean the previous owner is just turning 11yo this year ....and I hope his father has throughly thrashed him for cutting up his tools.

Anyway... Nipped back to the Car Boot sale this morning, pretty low turn out so spent 45mins and £11 on the below:

>Brand new Rivet Gun set, no name, £5
>Large file handle £0.50p
>SNAIL doe spanner BA, £1 (seller had clearly bought out the other seller yesterday as it has the same Roman Numerals cut into it)
>1" G-clamp £0.50p
> Strawberry Plants + 1 other, £4, (Primary school kids selling for local Cancer Hospice)

 

[Oily Nails]

Well after coming home from the car boot, having breakfast and posting my finds on here I got a little bored of lounging in the sun and nipped to an Antiques Fair in Doncaster for lunch.

Picked up an odd assortment:
> Tarzan and a Jules Verne book £1 each
>Old blade screw driver, unmarked, £2.50
>50cm/20" Steel Rule, Chesterman&Rabone, £1
>Small caliper with unusual adjustment, unmarked, £2.50
(Rather than a thread joining both arms, the knob pivots only arm marked "B". So you move it roughly to position by hand the fine adjust with th thread.
>Old brass "multi-tool" set. £3. The screw driver, corkscrew, etc. Stored in the handle attach to make a "T" tool.
>chromed Letter opener with small folding knife blade on other end!! £3.50

The two Kingfishers were also from the show and whilst I'm not into "figurines/statues" they just had something about them [emoji854]

Overall a fun weekend and not too expensive View attachment 886356

 

[LesserSon]

Marked or not, that looks like Starrett’s US patent 672424 of 16/04/1901 (XVI IV MCMI).

 

[Oily Nails]

Marked or not, that looks like Starrett’s US patent 672424 of 16/04/1901.

Cheers LesserSon interesting design for sure, guessing it was thought to be a quicker way to gauge something without fiddling with a threaded winder.

Not sure what happened to the group shot so here it is again:



That Letter Opener isn't the easiest thing to use if your trying to cut with the knife, guess it was intended just to cut string on parcels.

 

[LesserSon]

Interesting birds. Painted wood? Not sure I would have recognized what they were. Over here, kingfishers have a dark belt running across the breast.

 

[bluebolt]

The best price of all, FREE! 2 rolling retail stands and a drafting or artists workbench. Mother and daughter were moving to Florida, father had passed. After talking to the daughter realized I knew her father, we both were Crewchiefs on Air Force tankers and bombers at the same 2 bases, Castle AFB California and Barksdale AFB. Castle closed in 1995 and we both came here at the same time. MSgt Johnson, rest in peace and thank you for your service.

 

[Outlawmws]

Drafting table not artists table. I spent many a day in front of one of those!

Side drawer for some of your tools, and looks like the wide drawer is there for small/medium drawings or paper...

 

[davethorik]

Nice! I'm a sucker for wrenches in their original tool roll, though I don't tend to retain them for some reason.

I like the roll, although vinyl definitely not the best material IMO. I like the Wright denim rolls better. This one looks good in the pics but up close it looks like it was stored rolled up for a long time, and there are lots of little cracks starting where the roll was creased. Also the edge seam by the 1-1/4 is starting to separate probably due to weight.

I bought this set because it was SAE, Proto, and cheap. Then it turns out to be some unicorn long pattern set. Not seeing many other examples out there. And I don't think Proto offers an equivalent currently. The lengths of these are close to Snap-on long pattern combos.

Typical.

 

[bmwrd0]

Cheers LesserSon interesting design for sure, guessing it was thought to be a quicker way to gauge something without fiddling with a threaded winder.

Not sure what happened to the group shot so here it is again:



That Letter Opener isn't the easiest thing to use if your trying to cut with the knife, guess it was intended just to cut string on parcels.

Oily nice finds! That Tarzan has a cover I am not familiar with, is it the British edition? If so, who was the publisher, and is a date listed?

I am a total book ****, as that is where I started after college.

 

[Oily Nails]

Hi bmwrd, no problem at all. It was the cover that caught my eye.

Publisher: Methuen&Co. Ltd. London
Collection/Series: Methuen's Cheap Novels
Published: 1920
(original story published 1917)
Edition: 8th

 

[Oily Nails]

Dammit all to hell, my photos and the GJ Mobile App just will not play nice. Here you go bmwrd0

 

[Boofer]

Catching up on posting some finds over the last couple of weeks.

Estate sale

A set of Williams combos, Joseph Fakes machinist vise, Starret V block (with the obligatory single clamp)



Almost unused Drexel flex drive, Utica, Klein, trigger start torch, etc. Think I paid about $50 for all.


Flea market
Mac combos/DBEs, SK line wrenches, Large metric CM sockets, couple of Indestro Supers, and a socket tray. $10


My favorite find was from an estate sale last Friday. The home was in an upscale golf community with nice furnishings and only one picture of any tools, but it was a good one. Unfortunately, I didn't save the original pic from the ad, but here's what second in line got me.


She's a little dinged up, but I've already straightened most of it since the pics were taken. I've always wanted one of these, but they so rarely come up for sale that it hasn't really been on my radar.

It also came with many of the original tools and some add-ons, but they were in less than perfect condition.



After a good bit of cleaning, here's the total haul including the Circle U and Circle H speeders and breakers.


Long C- Circle H and BE 1/2" set missing one deep and one shallow.


Mismatched 1/4" partial set. Couple of BEs.


Set of BE 3/8 flex sockets missing the 7/16.


Set of =v= 3/8" metrics missing the 13.


One question: Did Craftsman make cadmium plated tools from this era? Some of the =v= DBEs and various extensions look far different than the slider bar at the top of this picture.


Also, is there a thread for these wall cabinets and does anyone know how to date them? The first catalog I found it in was a 1954 mechanics tool catalogue, but I know the Circle U tools predate that.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

One question: Did Craftsman make cadmium plated tools from this era? Some of the =v= DBEs and various extensions look far different than the slider bar at the top of this picture.

Cadmium-plating was used as an economy line finish well before, and then again after the war. Whether Sears Roebuck did that or not, I don't know. If you have cadmium-plated =V= tools, it would seem to prove that they did.

Also, is there a thread for these wall cabinets and does anyone know how to date them? The first catalog I found it in was a 1954 mechanics tool catalogue, but I know the Circle U tools predate that.

There isn't a thread I know of, but I found one last year, and I posted it on the 2018 Garage Sale thread, linked here, as well as the 'Show your Heritage Logo Love' thread, linked here. Congrats, by the way. Yours is in much better shape than mine was. Mine did have some cool vintage stickers though! Photo of those linked here.

 

[Boofer]

Thanks for the info Lugz. And your stickers are awesome!

 

[bmwrd0]

Hi bmwrd, no problem at all. It was the cover that caught my eye.

Publisher: Methuen&Co. Ltd. London
Collection/Series: Methuen's Cheap Novels
Published: 1920
(original story published 1917)
Edition: 8th

Thank You Sir!

 

[tym]

Visited the first MIT flea of the season. Picked up a pop rivet gun (unpictured) for my dad, a little Corsair coping saw with extra blade, and this absurdly overbuilt GE meter on lab-made stand. There were several on sale. Navy marking on top (the forum will not accept upload of that image) and from the same vendor that had other Navy analog test equipment, presumably from a lab cleanout.

 

[JMLangford]

Today's haul....

I gave $4 for the cane for a less-than-lethal defense....(YouTube "Cane Masters")


The TMNT cup, survival bracelet, and air gun was a $1 (33.3¢ each)


It's a good thing I only gave .33¢ for the blow gun.....it doesn't work
I've got it apart now working on it.....





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[3jakes]

Two for $2.00
Kind of pleased about the Starrett. Scratched up & no case, but still seems to zero out ok.

 

[BlueBomber]

Tried a sale that was supposed to be open until 2 pm, but it was closed by the time I got there at 1230. I may have another in my town tomorrow. Good luck to all other pickers this weekend--it may be a washout in the northeast!

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[d42jeep]

There was only one sale on Craigslist that looked promising and we arrived one minute after it opened. Much to my surprise we were not only the first customers but the only customers the whole time we were there. It was at an old marina on the SF Bay with quite possibly the worst road leading to it in the state! The first picture is the Craigslist ad. Next is the whole haul, followed by the Craftsman. Snap-on is next, followed by S-K and PowrKraft. The last item is a Bell System torque wrench that I just had to have. Anybody know who the manufacturer was? Before anyone asks, I left the Snap-on toolbox behind due to not having one more square foot of garage space to put another box.
-Don