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damon18

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If you're interested in the history of objects, Capt. Samuel R. Kimble (the name on my trunk...) had quite an intriguing career. ...
The 1958 edition of the Army Register indicates that he died in 1957 at Monmouth Junction, NJ, not too far from the flea market.

Thanks for the breakdown, intriguing career for sure. After just watching a docudrama about WWI trench warfare I can understand the rapid promotions during those years.

I first saw he retired in 1942 and was surprised anyone retired that year, but he was 50 years old when that was old. I have a grandfather (the mechanic who's tools and toolbox I have) who was born in 1905 and too young for WWI and they wouldn't take him at 36 years old in 1941. Instead he kept everyone in Morgan County, Kentucky's old cars running during the war years.
 
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First pick of 2020, you people are are bad influence. I always appreciated old tools and things but wasn't always watching for them and had never purchased a drill press and now I have three.

Found the ad on Facebook Marketplace a week ago but was able to resist due to the holidays and that it was 50 miles away. He had several things for sale including a Dunlap drill press (had just been reading about the Sears Dunlap's over on the old drill press thread and a crappy looking box of tools.

The toolbox only caught my attention because of the orange handlled T-Handle Hex wrenches I saw, although I figured there was a good chance they were Harbor freight or something.Turned out to be all USA brands (Allen, Clesco, and KD-Tools), 24 in all, although a lot of duplicates (Why would someone have five 7/32 hex wrenches and four of the 5/16?).

The sockets, three 3/8 ratchets (no markings), and other strays were mostly semi-rusty unbranded stuff although a few Wright, S-K, sockets. Put everything to soak in Vinegar.

The carry box was a large (22x10x9) Homak but pretty nasty and missing the tray. Would you toss it? You guys must end up with a lot of these old boxes too.

Anyway $30 for everything.
 

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Got this light today, looks homemade because the base is a piece of plumbing. The socket says Hubbel. The switch has a pretty H&H on it. The shade looks like you would find on a drill press or other industrial machine. If this post should be moved that’s fine and I apologize in advance.793c71294ab4c7a657caf45bbf790d30.jpgbf6f02b02546fc3ee88431f5cb6e8b13.jpg


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Two craftsman USA sockets and a craftsman Japan wrench $1 for everything


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Got this light today, looks homemade because the base is a piece of plumbing. The socket says Hubbel. The switch has a pretty H&H on it. The shade looks like you would find on a drill press or other industrial machine. If this post should be moved that’s fine and I apologize in advance.793c71294ab4c7a657caf45bbf790d30.jpgbf6f02b02546fc3ee88431f5cb6e8b13.jpg


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Nice light. I need one like that for my grinder.

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Craigs List Estate sale this morning about 45 min from my place. Got there early and managed to talk my way into the garage. It was definitely SK Day for the Rickster this morning. I was picking tools out of this old rusty hand box and the gal said she'd charge me less if I just took the whole box...OK, sounds like a deal to me! The guys coming up the driveway were giving me the stink-eye as I was walking out with the toolbox and a canvas bag of tools.

1/2dr Deep set 1/2to 15/16 and a shallow set 7/16 to 1-1/4
3/8dr sets deep 3/8 to 13/16, shallow set 3/8 to 7/8, metric deep 10 to 19 missing a couple.
Two wrench sets SAE & Metric
3/8dr swivel socket set 3/8 to 3/4 and a mix-mosh of 1/4dr SAE sockets.
1/2dr Ratchet, Roto-head 3/8dr Ratchet, couple of speeders, breaker bars and extensions.
Two SK ball peen hammers and a couple of Vulcan body hammers.
Husky USA 3/8dr set, the ratchet is a bit sticky so it's soaking in some trans fluid.
Also a brand new in the box Buck Brothers 7" adjustable block plane.

You ****, rickster.
 

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First pick of 2020, you people are are bad influence. I always appreciated old tools and things but wasn't always watching for them and had never purchased a drill press and now I have three.

Found the ad on Facebook Marketplace a week ago but was able to resist due to the holidays and that it was 50 miles away. He had several things for sale including a Dunlap drill press (had just been reading about the Sears Dunlap's over on the old drill press thread and a crappy looking box of tools.

The toolbox only caught my attention because of the orange handlled T-Handle Hex wrenches I saw, although I figured there was a good chance they were Harbor freight or something.Turned out to be all USA brands (Allen, Clesco, and KD-Tools), 24 in all, although a lot of duplicates (Why would someone have five 7/32 hex wrenches and four of the 5/16?).

The sockets, three 3/8 ratchets (no markings), and other strays were mostly semi-rusty unbranded stuff although a few Wright, S-K, sockets. Put everything to soak in Vinegar.

The carry box was a large (22x10x9) Homak but pretty nasty and missing the tray. Would you toss it? You guys must end up with a lot of these old boxes too.

Anyway $30 for everything.

Beadblast that homak box and repaint it.
 

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I have no clue what this 9/16 wrench and screwdriver is. Any info would be great.

Stamped MADE IN W-GERMANY. Tool is 6 inches long.
 

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harley_jim, that lamp is cool. Lamp bases are threaded for pipe (but with straight thread, rather than tapered), mostly 1/8". That curved tube is either very well done, or factory-made. The shade is classic!
 
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Love that Dunlap dp, Damon18! Looks like the same castings as the heritage-era Craftman. I’ve got three dps, all torn apart for the last couple years, for various reasons. What I’ve learned is: only tear down one thing at a time!
Right now, I should probably get one back together, because I sure could use it on a current project.
 

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Hit about 4-5 sales today, with only two having anything of real interest. The first estate sale was packed with people still in line and I had to use a bathroom, so I moved on to the next sale on my list. Which was a family run sale. Interesting stuff, but they were not much fun to deal with. Prices were kinda high and they weren't letting anyone in the garage as they hadn't sorted it yet. Well, I noticed the interior door was open, so I went into the house to at least look past the car in there. And I see a Heritage bench vise. Rushing around to the front, I hear someone else asking about it. "How about $25?" And so it goes. I did pick up a tilting drill press vise though and a book on woodworking.
Next stop didn't advertise any tools, but had interesting stuff in the pics. I picked up the oiler for $2 there. After another dead end or two, I went back to the family sale, where they had dragged some stuff out of the garage. I found two Jorgensen clamps, a #0 and a #4 and the guy (not a family member, just helping out) gave me a price. So, I go to pay and one of the family members all of a sudden decides that the #0 was not for sale. So, I had to get a new price (and picked up the cleaning patches) They had stuff tarped now as not for sale, tools weren't for sale any longer sometimes, etc. I am not a fan of family-run sales. Give me pro's. The prices might be higher, but they know what is going on. Anyway:

And yes, I am becoming a cranky old man. (Shakes can in the air.)
 

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Made a tactical error on Thursday when I bought the Cornwell and Diamalloy wrenches (which cleaned up very nicely)
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Anyway, the error was not buying the three panel Herbrand tool display boards they had nailed to the back wall of the garage. I didn't get back to the sale the next day and today they were gone. Did any other San Antonio GJ members scoop them up?

A sale down the street from there had this group of miscellaneous 1/4" grinder stones, wire wheels and an buffer pad. All the spindles are from Japan and a couple of the stones are Fuller. $7.50 for the group including the Brest Drill Aux handle and the knife.

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The knife is interesting and my guess is it is part of a mess kit set--what era is the question. Is the 1917 stamp to be believed as a Great War artifact? Calling Lugz for your expertise! The tang goes into the aluminum handle just a little over an inch.
 
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And yes, I am becoming a cranky old man.
Who made the tilting DP/mill vise?

The knife is interesting and my guess is it is part of a mess kit set--what era is the question. Is the 1917 stamp to be believed as a Great War artifact?
It is a Model 1910 pattern mess kit knife made in 1917 by American Cutlery. The handle is aluminum and it was cast onto the steel tang. But it may not be an artifact of WWI, per se. Not to deflate your find - because it is a very nice find, in very nice condition (a lot of them are rusted or have been sharpened down to nothing...), but it's not as rare as you might think. The reason so many of these have survived is because so many more of them were made then were issued during WWI. In 1926 the Army updated the design to include an elongated hole in the handle (so they could be hung off the meat can handle to dry after cleaning...), but that pattern wasn't made until 1942, and, believe it or not, many early war WWII mess kits had WWI utensils.
 

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Craigs List Estate sale this morning about 45 min from my place. Got there early and managed to talk my way into the garage. It was definitely SK Day for the Rickster this morning. I was picking tools out of this old rusty hand box and the gal said she'd charge me less if I just took the whole box...OK, sounds like a deal to me! The guys coming up the driveway were giving me the stink-eye as I was walking out with the toolbox and a canvas bag of tools.

1/2dr Deep set 1/2to 15/16 and a shallow set 7/16 to 1-1/4
3/8dr sets deep 3/8 to 13/16, shallow set 3/8 to 7/8, metric deep 10 to 19 missing a couple.
Two wrench sets SAE & Metric
3/8dr swivel socket set 3/8 to 3/4 and a mix-mosh of 1/4dr SAE sockets.
1/2dr Ratchet, Roto-head 3/8dr Ratchet, couple of speeders, breaker bars and extensions.
Two SK ball peen hammers and a couple of Vulcan body hammers.
Husky USA 3/8dr set, the ratchet is a bit sticky so it's soaking in some trans fluid.
Also a brand new in the box Buck Brothers 7" adjustable block plane.


You don't mention price. But the suckage is literally dripping off your post.

Nice find.
 

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Thanks for all the nice comments.... I’ve had big smile on my face since yesterday morning. Sitting here with a coffee and can’t wait to get out in the garage and spend the day cleaning everything up!
 

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It is a Model 1910 pattern mess kit knife made in 1917 by American Cutlery. The handle is aluminum and it was cast onto the steel tang. But it may not be an artifact of WWI, per se. Not to deflate your find - because it is a very nice find, in very nice condition (a lot of them are rusted or have been sharpened down to nothing...), but it's not as rare as you might think. The reason so many of these have survived is because so many more of them were made then were issued during WWI. In 1926 the Army updated the design to include an elongated hole in the handle (so they could be hung off the meat can handle to dry after cleaning...), but that pattern wasn't made until 1942, and, believe it or not, many early war WWII mess kits had WWI utensils.

Thanks, Lugz! Yeah, "artifact" may have been too strong a word choice! After all, it's not a trench knife. I did a little more research last night and apparently the Boy Scouts littered them all over God's green acre post-war.
 

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Wow three pages and it is only the 2nd of January.
I hit a new pawn shop today and got a haul!
A 6" new Snap-on adjustable
A 8" Klein and Craftsman adjustable
A 12" Craftsman adjustable
A 3/8" drive newer C-man flex head ratchet. USA made
A 1/2" drive V code Craftsman ratchet.
A Diamond edge fencing tool.
ALL USA MADE. ALL FOR $6.00!!!!!!! Score!!!!:beer:

That haul deserves a You ****. Especially with a nice Snappy adjustable, you made out there.

BMW- nice Restore find with the Fulton set. I stopped by a Restore last week for some small finds.

A 1/2 dr. Wright in nice shape, and 1/4 drive 8 pointers by Thorsen and Vi-Chrome. The Vi-Chrome was unexpected.
 

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Rickster: Very nice SK haul!!!

bmw: I found the same book Principles of Woodworking by Holtrop & Hjorth last year. It has a 1961 publish date. Good reference for the beginner woodworker.

Lots of folks off to great starts this year. It ***** here for tools so far.
 

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That haul deserves a You ****. Especially with a nice Snappy adjustable, you made out there.

BMW- nice Restore find with the Fulton set. I stopped by a Restore last week for some small finds.

A 1/2 dr. Wright in nice shape, and 1/4 drive 8 pointers by Thorsen and Vi-Chrome. The Vi-Chrome was unexpected.
Nice find on the vi chrome. I found a vi chrome ratchet a few years back. That brand similar to a couple rebrand oddities such as Volume are hard to find. For the ratchet I think herbrand was the OEM. That socket resembles the Companion brand tools that I think Sears use to carry.

Looking for the following Plomb Pebbles Wrench 3061
 
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Nice find on the vi chrome. I found a vi chrome ratchet a few years back. That brand similar to a couple rebrand oddities such as Volume are hard to find. For the ratchet I think herbrand was the OEM. That socket resembles the Companion brand tools that I think Sears use to carry.

Looking for the following Plomb Pebbles Wrench 3061

Could be Bonney made or Herbrand, idk. Funny, I found two rats in a short time here in FL. Have a total of 4 or 5 now, all round heads, still don’t have a Herbrand style like you have.
 

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that safe is really cool! I have a Best padlock marked QMC.
got a few things from the ReStore this past week:
 

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Happy '20 sailing season everyone. It sounds like ya'll are off to a great start!

Went to a FM and picked up this A grade machinist square from England for $10. I also got excited when I first spotted this chainsaw but it's obviously a Chinese clone of the Stihl MS361. The guy took my offer of $20. The gas and oil caps are worth that. It looks like it was never used. I'll spend a little time checking it out and and see if it runs.

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Small haul from my first flea market of 2020. Proto LA 1/2” speeder, 3050, and 3026 doe’s, proto 1”, and a barcalo 1”x7/8” doe.
 

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$82 got me all of this at the swap meet today.

Williams 1/2 drive box filled with 90% Williams 10% P&C
Nice old Klein linesman pliers, if I’m reading the date code right August 1942
Old Bonney stud puller
Knipex nibblers, any idea if these are old?
Proto slip joints
Box of good end mills
Handful of piloted countersinks
2 US made battery cable pullers
Old bent Blue Point DOE
Nicholson US file
Blackhawk distributor wrench
Some US made hose clamps

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Nice haul. I like the Williams box. I would say the Knipex are a bit old, but how old I don’t know.




This is technically my last flea haul of the old year, when I went to two fleas last weekend. Some interesting finds in the bunch.

Pic 1: the haul

Pic 2: P&C box wrenches. 3/8 P&C and Plomb combo cousins found together in a ziploc for a buck.

Pic 3: Craftsman shorty box wrench set with the pouch, tiny unidentified S wrench, Blackhawk-Armstrong angle wrench, 3 Cornwell angle wrenches.

Diamond Handyboy- just a wall hanger. Sadly the adjustable’s jaw and wheel won’t mesh any longer. Non replaceable jaw, there’s no screw.

Dunlap and Bahco adjustables.

Pic 4: Snap On ball end long allen sockets in metric and SAE. A couple other Snappy sockets and pair of impact extensions. Mac 3/8 thumwheel spinner. Loose sockets are Mac, Duro Chrome, S-K Chrome, old Snappy, SR, Cornwell, Bonney, and Thorsen Allied ext that came with ratchet.

Pic 5: Challenger 1/4 drive box partial set. I had to fish around to find the sockets and extension. I like the skinny little extension.

Pic 6: mac dead blow, seen better days. A flat blade shank, all that remains from an old Snap On screwdriver. A Proto glitter screwdriver! Master Mechanic 1/4 spinner. Ryan tiny driver, looks alot like the old Craftsman and such. Williams double offset.

Pic 7: 3/8 Thorsen ratchet, 3/8 Snap On, a nice 1/4 Gearwrench.
 

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Happy '20 sailing season everyone. It sounds like ya'll are off to a great start!

Went to a FM and picked up this A grade machinist square from England for $10. I also got excited when I first spotted this chainsaw but it's obviously a Chinese clone of the Stihl MS361. The guy took my offer of $20. The gas and oil caps are worth that. It looks like it was never used. I'll spend a little time checking it out and and see if it runs.

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Well, some of you sure have been finding the loot this first week. Not so much here.
I got out today, with minimal result. Stop1: architectural salvage (closed due to lack of volunteers), stop2: ReStore (closed), stop3: thrift store: nada, stop4: silent auction / co-op - spotted several items of academic interest but nothing to bring home.
So nothing, after all.
 

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Well, my late picking start for 2020 ended late this afternoon. Spotted a Stanley No 4 smoothing plane on CL. All of my hand planes except one are pre-WWII. There was only 1 pic of the plane and it looked like it had a good coating of protective rust. I thought it might just possibly be pre-WWII but figured it probably wasn't. Even after having it in hand I thought it was red from rust. After getting it back to the shop and taking it apart I now see it appears to be originally primer rust colored. Definitely a Stanley type I've never seen nor had in hand. That's not a good thing. But for $10 not a big deal. If anyone knows where this was made for Stanley and an idea of how old it might be that would be appreciated.
 

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Just finished reading thru the whole thread. Looks like GJ 2020 is off to a good start.

Hey Private Lugnutz, its a shame they closed the Rt. 70 Flea Market. Having moved down here to Manchester area a year ago, that place was just a short run up the road.

Looking to get out this week and do some scrounging.
 
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Well, my late picking start for 2020 ended late this afternoon. Spotted a Stanley No 4 smoothing plane on CL. All of my hand planes except one are pre-WWII. There was only 1 pic of the plane and it looked like it had a good coating of protective rust. I thought it might just possibly be pre-WWII but figured it probably wasn't. Even after having it in hand I thought it was red from rust. After getting it back to the shop and taking it apart I now see it appears to be originally primer rust colored. Definitely a Stanley type I've never seen nor had in hand. That's not a good thing. But for $10 not a big deal. If anyone knows where this was made for Stanley and an idea of how old it might be that would be appreciated.

Longhorn, It's not a rust colored primer. It looks like what you have there is an early "Cordovan" era plane--1968-1981. I say "early" because yours still has the Y or Wishbone frog base, which appeared in the Type 19 from 1948-1961.
Here is the link to the Type Study on Time Tested Tools. https://www.timetestedtools.net/2017/07/13/the-stanley-cordovan-era/

I recommend looking over the details of the Type 19 and 20 just to be sure, but there's no getting away from the color. I'm 99-44/100 percent sure it's the Type 21. BTW, the Type 20s were Blue.

Still a good find for $10!
 

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Longhorn, It's not a rust colored primer. It looks like what you have there is an early "Cordovan" era plane--1968-1981. I say "early" because yours still has the Y or Wishbone frog base, which appeared in the Type 19 from 1948-1961.
Here is the link to the Type Study on Time Tested Tools. https://www.timetestedtools.net/2017/07/13/the-stanley-cordovan-era/

I recommend looking over the details of the Type 19 and 20 just to be sure, but there's no getting away from the color. I'm 99-44/100 percent sure it's the Type 21. BTW, the Type 20s were Blue.

Still a good find for $10!

OR, Thanks for that info! I had no idea this was the last type made in the USA. You're right that it's got both type 20 and type 21 features. Like a type 20 the body has a) plane size cast on the toe in front of the knob, b) Bailey cast on the toe behind the knob, c) Made in USA cast behind the frog, d) the ogee shaped frog but it doesn't have the frog adjustment screw. I just find that interesting and wonder how that happened. Type 20 has the frog adjustment screw. Did they start out early making the ogee shaped frogs with no adj screw but then decided to change the ogee shaped frog later during the type 21 era? And you say it has the Y or Wishbone frog base of a type 19 but again without the frog adj screw! When did that occur that they made this somewhat distinct frog and body? Weird! But makes it way more interesting to me now knowing all this.
 

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Nice scores, all! There was nothing close to me worth scrambling for, but I'm keeping my eyes peeled for next weekend.

Happy hunting!

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