2020 Garage Sale Thread

[Private Lugnutz]

...thread traffic has fallen off, thanks to quarantine, but we’ve enjoyed a bit more focus on history and context in the storytelling...

And as I was saying to a few friends offboard, I have a feeling it could pick up right quick and in a big way when the lockdowns are lifted. The typical vendors and house liquidators at my flea markets, if they can ride this out, are probably chomping on the bit just as hard as I am. So they will show up looking to make up for lost time, and we will show up with extra cash in our pockets. That sounds like a good combination to me!

 

[dodge610]

And as I was saying to a few friends offboard, I have a feeling it could pick up right quick and in a big way when the lockdowns are lifted. The typical vendors and house liquidators at my flea markets, if they can ride this out, are probably chomping on the bit just as hard as I am. So they will show up looking to make up for lost time, and we will show up with extra cash in our pockets. That sounds like a good combination to me!

I can see that happening we are on lockdown with the rest of the world. I am saving up to hit the used tool market when it opens up in a big way.

 

[Shiftless]

Thanks for those posts, guys.
I feel the same way.
It’s good to hear some optimism amidst the gloom and doom.

 

[dodge610]

Thanks for those posts, guys.
I feel the same way.
It’s good to hear some optimism amidst the gloom and doom.

Only gloom and doom if you listen to the media we will make it thru together.

 

[Smokeshow69]

Amidst all the doom and gloom, I was searching face book market place.., keeping an eye out for a vintage craftsman 8 drawer roller and 10 drawer top chest which is not super easy to find. I noticed a listing just up the street from me! Lady was cleaning out items left over from her dad’s estate because she was moving... lot was listed at $50. I had no interest in much besides the carry chest and what appeared to be a decent craftsman hand brace in a box. I hurried to text my craftsman guru Rileysan to see if it was legit. With his blessing i headed out the door. I purchased the lot that included the hand carry box , which turned out to be a minty Power craft set and also was able to finally convince the reluctant seller to separate the hand brace from the other lot that was 80’s power tools. The lot included several power tools, vintage hammers, pipe wrenches, Klein pliers, a nice plomb chisel, almost unused Stanley plane and block plane in box! I will be selling most of the extra tools, The power craft carry box and assorted tools, minus the 1/4 drive set are going to Riley’s tool trove and I am keeping the very minty, craftsman plane! In original box, with almost no use on it! Came with a handful of original craftsman bits, some Irwin adjusting bits and some junk imported bits which don’t belong with this museum piece!








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[Smokeshow69]

More photos of lot purchased for $65 total








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[Smokeshow69]

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[Smokeshow69]

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1959 catalog excerpt... I believe that may be a date code inside the box?





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[dodge610]

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1959 catalog excerpt... I believe that may be a date code inside the box?





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OK you **** there i said it

 

[Old Radar]

U ****!

Maybe we need to start a Rockwell Sander thread!



Estate sale agent threw it in for free last year because it didn't work. Works fine now!

 

[glenmore]

Speaking about dies, I found these old ones at a sale. Interesting how they have changed over time and how need brings forth improvements.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

This is going to sound kooky, but I get that way sometimes. The way you have them laid out like that reminds me of several things all at once, including, and not in any order of significance, ancient symbols, crop circle alphabets, the symbols on the Roswell I-Beam, the Led Zeppelin Zoso logo, and hieroglyphics. Seriously.

 

[alinc100]

OK you **** there i said it

^^Saved me the trouble. That brace and bits is an awesome find.

 

[Outlawmws]

This is going to sound kooky, but I get that way sometimes. The way you have them laid out like that reminds me of several things all at once, including, and not in any order of significance, ancient symbols, crop circle alphabets, the symbols on the Roswell I-Beam, the Led Zeppelin Zoso logo, and hieroglyphics. Seriously.

Someone is getting cabin fever!

seriously, I see what you are saying...

Had a neighbor put out a pile for "bulky waste Pickup" and then the PU people canceled (c-19) I saw a metal cabinet and saw it was a cheap "gun safe" No keys but had the locks I need for one I have that will hold the bb/pellet guns and swords...

I left them a note offering to "rescue" it and asked if they had keys., and my number. Got a call and he said he'd found the key and to PLEASE come get it (and that was how I found out the PU had been canceled)

So a little walk with my hand truck and a grab (with rubber gloves till I clean it) and this was my first score since lock-down...

I'l stick a cheap Tee style lock/latch on it and some shelves for chemicals and sue those locks on the (larger) cheap "safe" I have...

 

[bmwrd0]

I recently sold some things for more than I thought I would get, and that plus my usual weekley allowance gave me some spending room on eBay. So, here is what I picked up:
First, I spotted a nice Fleet set

The pics didn't show the outside of the box, so I was pleasantly surprised by this

I couldn't find a specific mention of this set in the catalogs I have (they all have rounded "streamlined" corners), but that box does show up in the back of one catalog as an add on. But, I don't understand why a seller would limit themselves by not showing the label on the front.

Then I found these

I was looking for the socket spinner, a 10CA from the thirties, the others were just icing on the cake.

Then a Tru-test set:

Missing the box, but I will need some challenge when this is over. Also, a bag of resistors from Don.

And finally, this little gem:

Missing a few of the smallest sockets, but I couldn't pass up that decal. Surprisingly cheap also.

 

[Smokeshow69]

I recently sold some things for more than I thought I would get, and that plus my usual weekley allowance gave me some spending room on eBay. So, here is what I picked up:

First, I spotted a nice Fleet set



The pics didn't show the outside of the box, so I was pleasantly surprised by this



I couldn't find a specific mention of this set in the catalogs I have (they all have rounded "streamlined" corners), but that box does show up in the back of one catalog as an add on. But, I don't understand why a seller would limit themselves by not showing the label on the front.



Then I found these



I was looking for the socket spinner, a 10CA from the thirties, the others were just icing on the cake.



Then a Tru-test set:



Missing the box, but I will need some challenge when this is over. Also, a bag of resistors from Don.



And finally, this little gem:



Missing a few of the smallest sockets, but I couldn't pass up that decal. Surprisingly cheap also.

Don’t you ****! That fleet set and the art craft set[emoji15][emoji106]


Looking to buy a craftsman heritage era 10 drawer top chest

 

[Outlawmws]

SOME of you guys are saving your dough and SOME are spending it on Eprey...

Nice scores none the less!

 

[Smokeshow69]

^^Saved me the trouble. That brace and bits is an awesome find.

Well thank you ! [emoji41] they were in such good shape I thought it was a reproduction based on the picture


Looking to buy a craftsman heritage era 10 drawer top chest

 

[Provincial]

A **** for Outlaw!

 

[Shiftless]

Stevens Walden partial set

Background...
Not too long ago I did a favor for a friend of my wife’s. This woman lived in a hundred year old house and wanted to get rid of an old workbench and replace it with shelves. She lost her husband long ago and I had some free time so I spent parts of 2 days on the project. I found some old tools under the workbench and asked her if she wanted them. As you could probably guess, she said take them.

Now that I (and many of the rest of you guys) have extra time, I decided to clean them up for display on these pages.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

...seriously, I see what you are saying...

Thanks for the sanity check! No, seriously, I bet LesserSon, who has an artistic mind, and an artistic daughter, will "see" the analogy, too. Anyone who has ever studied language, philology, and semantics will. There are only so many basic shapes in nature, and comparisons of pictograms to abstract shapes, in cuneiform, in any language, reveals that all languages evolved from nature.

Then again, I am predisposed to it. Before I became an engineer, I was a linguist and a cryptologic analyst. I attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA in the early 80's. At that time, students still wore plain clothes, so we wouldn't know who were the soldiers and airmen and who were the spooks.

Anyway, to gain acceptance, you had to pass a Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB), measuring, as the name implies, your aptitude for learning a language. The test was basically a series of timed exercises in a little blue book. You had a minute or so to look at a series of shapes on a page representing certain letters, phrases, and concepts, and then you turned the page and you had a minute to interpret an arrangement of those shapes - without the translation!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

And finally, this little gem...

Manny, Moe, and Jack.

 

[Outlawmws]

You know, those would be cool done up in a display for wall Mount. Sort of a history of the threading die...

Shift, those came out nice! I don't remember if you received suckage for the freebie before, but its awarded belatedly now...

I don't recall ever seeing a 1/4" driver marked as a Spintite however? Have I not been paying attention?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

You know, those would be cool done up in a display for wall Mount. Sort of a history of the threading die...

Or for the next wave of industrial art (on a mantle, or over a door frame) that is so popular with yuppies who are actively repopulating formerly industrial areas in Chicago and Brooklyn and elsewhere in the form of renovated lofts. I have a good 7 or 8 old sets in wooden boxes that I wouldn't dream of breaking up, but I may make it a mission to start collecting orphans now just for this purpose!

 

[OMMP]

Lugz, I'm very pleased, 'cause I see now I was right! Right 'bout you. Your style, building themes, sentences, layers of thinking about your thoughts, always spiralling in mental gymnastics... Also, analysis of others and trying to involve into constructive discussions...
I have question for you: when you asked about that odd wrench, and you returned couple of times... Did you know the answer?

 

[Shiftless]

Lugz:
I think you’re really on to something with your industrial art theme. There is a well established business in Chicago where they sell artifacts from the old buildings that get torn down in the name of progress. When I remember, I’ll ad a link to this post.

Edit: here is the link... These guys find VERY interesting stuff. Prices seem high to guys like us who haunt estate sales rather than just write big checks to get cool stuff without getting dirty or leaving our hip urban lofts.

https://www.urbanremainschicago.com/



Outlaw:
Thanks!
I know vises pretty well, but for the vintage hand tools I to the knowledge of you and a few of the other guys on this thread. I had seen Walden tools before but never a Stevens Walden metal case and never a Spintite driver handle.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Lugz: There is a well established business in Chicago where they sell artifacts from the old buildings that get torn down in the name of progress.

Urban Remains. Link here. I've sold them a few small pieces in the past. And I've also sold to antiques stores. I live near a town with a vibrant antiques center catering to the wealthy with genuine antique decor aesthetics.

 

[Shiftless]

Lugz: You’re right on it. You beat me to my edit.

Isn’t it weird to be sitting at home drinking coffee on Saturday morning instead of standing out in the cold waiting for an estate sale to open and wondering if the guy right in front of you is planing to run directly into the garage and pick up that one item you’re there for?

 

[d42jeep]

Shiftless,
Here is the list of contents from a set I found in February. The reason for the inclusion of an Allen wrench is a bit of a mystery.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Did you know the answer?

No. I am smart enough to turn to the collective knowledge base of GJ when I have exhausted my own or new research and when I am truly stumped. I am not above mild deception - such as making reproduction decals, or making a refinished toolbox look like a reserved "barn find" toolbox, but the only time I have ever tried to intentionally deceive anyone here is when I want to "test" the decals or boxes. Then I 'fess up. But I'm glad you're pleased.

 

[Shiftless]

Thanks Don,

Your find looks to be in mint condition. Unlike mine that evidently sat on the floor in a damp basement for more than a few years.
Your paper insert indicates the set was aimed at lawnmower and outboard boat owners. That’s interesting.

I’m missing the 3/4 inch socket. And the spark plug socket, and ...

You're right. Why include one Allen wrench?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Why include one Allen wrench?

Didn't this mystery get resolved in another thread? Something about the text on the decals pointing to some fastener on small marine engines.

 

[Shiftless]

That’s a likely reason. Many of us have a ridiculous number of Allen wrenches but probably use only a few common sizes.

 

[LesserSon]

I bet LesserSon, who has an artistic mind, and an artistic daughter, will "see" the analogy, too.

Good guess. I see it. Just don’t go all John Forbes Nash Jr on us, Lugz!

I got interested in semiotics way before I ever heard the word. I was probably ten or eleven, employing the familiar code that begins “aurochs, building, camel” when I ran into some little dancing men. (If I may comment on another lesson in this photo: I bet you can read the line of text above the dancing men, but not the line below them!)

Loved Kit Williams’ books (particularly the one about bees, made with marquetry), read Umberto Eco’s Limits of Interpretation.

Fascinated for a time by Maya hieroglyphs.

And these pictographs along the Columbia in central WA. (PA has some cool ones, too - around where John Smith disparaged the navigability of the Susquehanna - but they were drowned by PPL.)

Some of the aviation-oriented threadsters may like this puzzle by Ken Jennings. I was doing very well on his Smithsonian contributions until the final puzzle. For some reason it did not occur to me to read the html, like the winner did, even though I was then the webmaster for my organization.

 

[OMMP]

Uh-uuhh... This is bad... Got my degree on semantics and semiotics... Pierre Giraud, Dell Hymes, Leonard Bernstein, Franz Boas, Umberto Eco, Claude Levi-Strauss, Bronislaw Malinowski, Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm... Many more. Jeeezz, looks like an eternity

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Just don’t go all John Forbes Nash Jr on us, Lugz!

No chance. I created a little parody called "Game (of Thrones) Theory" as an intro for a briefing I gave at a recent professional conference to evoke my displeasure with the fascination with it in the modeling and simulation community. It was not well-received!

I bet you can read the line of text above the dancing men, but not the line below them!

I will leave it up to the other Sherlocks out there.

Uh-uuhh... This is bad... Got my degree on semantics and semiotics...

Uh-oh. We're going to have to suppress ourselves!

Book rec for you two though: The Names of Things: Life, Language, and Beginnings in the Egyptian Desert by Susan Brind Morrow. A thoroughly enjoyable armchair (not academic...) approach to the subject.

 

[TOTO]

. I attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA in the early 80's. At that time, students still wore plain clothes, so we wouldn't know who were the soldiers and airmen and who were the spooks.

Lugz,

This sounded familiar so I called my sister to check and she attended in 1981-82 studying Arabic. She was in the Air Force and recalls having to wear her uniform. Previously she had worked on the jet engines for the U2 and SR71.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Smart sis. Was she in a Golf class or a J2 class? I'm not asking to press her. Not that important.

 

[glenmore]

Thanks for the sanity check! No, seriously, I bet LesserSon, who has an artistic mind, and an artistic daughter, will "see" the analogy, too.

There WAS a subliminal message!

It was "TRUMP". No, it was "BIDEN". Ackkkk!! Nevermind!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Haha