Garage Sale Gold !!!

[Mt Goat]

Just scored this old Columbian vise model 606, with swivel base for $50, and this vintage Sears and Roebuck Craftsman air compressor, that works for $20.

Ive never seen this air compressor before, anyone know anything about them ???

Also on the vise, where can i find the manufacturing date ???

 

[rusty65]

That craftsman compressor is sweet. Probably used for paint spraying.


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[Leviton]

Nice!

 

[Rileysan]

That craftsman compressor is sweet. Probably used for paint spraying.


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Agreed. These were sold/advertised as a paint sprayer.

Grats on some great finds!

 

[Farmall450]

Neat compressor and dolly.

 

[thehorse13]

That's a fine day of garage sale goodies. Both will clean up nicely with some elbow grease.

 

[Stuart in MN]

There have been a couple of those compressors posted here in the past, but none that were in as good condition as that one.

 

[Shiftless]

Interesting old compressor but...
I’m more impressed by that vise for only $50
That’s a major score!

A smaller version, (unrestored), a 604 1/2, recently sold on eBay for $225 and somebody had to pay expensive shipping on top of that.

 

[Mt Goat]

I was thinking that it waa possibly a paint speyer pump too. The guy I got it from thought it was a pump for bikes and balls. Irs cool for sure and still runs too.

Im super stoked about the vise too, that sucker is a big boy. Needs some cleaning up but pretty much all there with the swivel base and all. It works too, came right off his work bench.

I have about 9 or 10 old vintage vises now..

 

[Mt Goat]

Got these from the same guy for $1 each. A Indian Head break fluid can, and a stool, and work bench chair.

 

[Roberts210]

That is the coolest looking compressor I've ever seen.

 

[outofbounds]

Nice $1 finds for sure! But what I really want to know is where did you find the sunshine at?

 

[bonneyman]

That compressor is worthy for sure!

 

[319]

Great score on the vise, and the compressor........which looks like it belongs in a museum!

 

[bugnut]

The indian head needs to be in the vintage automobile paraphernalia thread, that's cool!

 

[outofbounds]

Not sure if this qualifies as "garage sale" gold, but had to put on my hardest negotiating hat to deal with the proprietor at a local resale junk shop / trailer hitch place...... needed to be very matter of fact in saying "I can pay your price and wonder if it's worth me ever coming back, or you accept my price, and count on me coming back to scrounge through your bins of rusty carved up **** and spending more money here. She quickly made the right choice. a couple of decent wrenches, and a bunch of old rusty sockets that will need a bath, including 3 Craftsman Cricle H sockets, 3 hex drive sockets, and some other promising junk. walking out the door and skimming their "dollar table" (literally three tables of **** that belongs in the dumpster, I happened on the SK ratchet tray which was a nice capper on the lunch time dalliance.

 

[d42jeep]

Here is my junior size compressor.
-Don

 

[outofbounds]

Walked across the street from my office for lunch and met up with some folks doing a final cleanout on grandpa's house. Mind you, this house was the site of three 2 or 3 day estate sales over the course of the summer, and I myself had spent a couple of hours there swimming through the basement enduring indescribable smells. Previously found a union post-war box chock full of Wizard and some SK, and various and sundry old tools. I thought I might at least find one or maybe two interesting things. Ended up Putting another hour in today and produced the attached highlights, which represent by volume only about 25% of what $30 bought me. Brand New Old Stock Wilton 4" vise, similar small Columbian Pennypincher vise, Stanley Bailey 5-1/4 Plane, some semi-vintage Stanley chisels, Proto items, NOS Lufkin tape measure, vintage Channellock hammer, etc. etc. Plus tons of USA screwdrivers, Craftsman V sockets, and so on and so forth. A better haul that I could have imagined

 

[McBrownie]

What a vise for $50! I saw one in the basement at an old factory in Cleveland a few years ago and had to take some pictures. It was probably only a mile from the Columbian plant. The 606 is a very large vise. Here is a pic with a $10 bill laying on the jaws:

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The handle had to be 3/4" diameter:

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How did you get it home?

 

[outofbounds]

Out of sheer and utter boredom, I crafted a bit of a "flyer" deal with a seller on Facebook for a lot of random tools at $2.00 a pound (+$15 flat shipping). I asked the guy to "sub package" the goods, and create no room for any shifting, and to tape the box until he thought he couldn't anymore, and at that point he was "halfway there". So I get the box with a big hole in it. I'm sure some contents, spilled, but the post office got it into a tub and it at least arrived 95% intact.

I was already aware of a few ditties I had interest in and knew can project some ROI, so I'm eager to sort it, and catalog it to some degree and share it here. A little something for everybody!

 

[bonneyman]

Just that one pic from the top shows all sorts of promise.

Buying loose tools by the pound. What a concept!

 

[tulenutn2o]

That's a fine day of garage sale goodies. Both will clean up nicely with some elbow grease.

I am running low on “elbow grease”, where can I get that?

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Mt Goat. Nice find. It looks like that vice swivels.

 

[Dumber than lumber]

Just scored this old Columbian vise model 606, with swivel base for $50, and this vintage Sears and Roebuck Craftsman air compressor, that works for $20.

Ive never seen this air compressor before, anyone know anything about them ???

Also on the vise, where can i find the manufacturing date ???

Well done Grasshopper. You have earned your "You ****".

 

[outofbounds]

Some rough groupings from this trove......

Various and sundry sockets from name makers (including some tall SK that dovetailed perfectly into some I had already been after. Also to include some non-chrome D/I sockets I'll presume as war era.

The highlight of the Snap-On is the ratchet adaptor.

Some Plomb, including a 1/4" pebble ratchet, and some crows foot socket.

The Proto features a cute little 4" adjustable wrench that works great.

P & C 3/8" ratchets x 2, and same for a couple wire cutters.

Some 1940s Williams DBEs, and a similar vintage ignition wrench.

 

[outofbounds]

A few more pics.

Various Extensions & Breaker bars from New Britain, and Wright.

A mixed Thorsen lot

A rough Herbrand ratchet & Boker Ring clamp pliers.

The "leftovers" including a neat PWA feeler gage, some Bonney Zenel wrenches & a punch, some Vlchek, Barcalo, and loose ends.

 

[davethorik]

Not to be a Debbie downer, but it looks like the mounting feet were busted off that Columbian and replaced with something else. Look at the feet on the one Mcbrownie posted.
Yesh, a bit late. Oh well.

 

[bonneyman]

The deeper you dig the bigger the diamonds!

 

[yardiron]

Here is my junior size compressor.
-Don

About two years ago I trash picked the same set up while waiting in traffic. Traffic was jammed up due to construction and as I sat there I noticed it sitting on the curb next to a bunch of old kitchen appliances and a tool box.
I grabbed the tool box and the compressor.
The compressor needs a belt, someone tried to duct tape a broken one back together, and the motor is missing a few bolts. The motor runs and the compressor feels like it works.
Its almost identical to a SpeedAire model a buddy of mine has.
The motor on mine is smaller, maybe 1/4hp or so.
Its been sitting on the floor in my shed since I brought it home. I sort of figured it was for air brushing or light spray painting since it had no tank.

 

[outofbounds]

Can I just say how glad I am that garage sales are starting to blossom across the land! It's been a long arduous coronavirus season containing opportunities primarily to Facebook and Craigslist, among other online listing sites. With that comes higher prices and in some cases payment required in advance that injects another element of chance into the equation. I am much more inclined to rooting through buckets, boxes, and the like to prospect for treasure. Came home with all this for a $10 bill after a good 15 minutes in the hot hot heat toppling a large rubbermaid tub of junk, and fishing for the "pickers"....... particularly delighted to find several Fairmount offset wrenches, as they were a topic of discussion in a Martin Tools thread the other day, and the Bonney 90 deg. wrenches were a highlight as well.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

nice haul oob! Glad to hear you are back on the street.

 

[outofbounds]

nice haul oob! Glad to hear you are back on the street.

Thanks, OTG. Always looking for the next thing I can redirect to AZ.

 

[JoCoSawdust]

Dang I want that compressor!! Great find OP!! This is a catalog clip from the 1957 Fall and Winter Catalog. The 106 prefix in the model number indicates Campbell Hausfeld. Great find!!

 

[outofbounds]

Dang I want that compressor!! Great find OP!! This is a catalog clip from the 1957 Fall and Winter Catalog. The 106 prefix in the model number indicates Campbell Hausfeld. Great find!!

Wow that compressor was pretty pricey in it's day too!

 

[Modern Garage]

Just what I was about to say. One inflation calculator said $128.50 is almost $1200 today! And the fine print says without cart...
Joe

 

[American Iron]

Love that welding hammer wire brush combination.. Never seen one before.

 

[outofbounds]

Tripped over a "live" online auction the other day, and tossed an opening $10 bid for this box of tools based on the fact that I thought I saw the handle of an old Herbrand ratchet. I wasn't really serious in engaging in an auction, but bid to "mark" it and see where it ended up......Well I guess you all can guess where it ended up! After buyer's premium and sales tax, I'm sunk for $12.90 total. I'll take that any day. Turns out the "Herbrand" was actually a Stevens-Walden 1151 1/2 drive ratchet (bullet-point handle) along with two extensions and a run of sockets, some nice older wrenches, a mostly complete 1/4" SK socket set, and a run of Tru-Test 3/8 sockets, to match a ratchet I bought last Friday at a Garage Sale!