2021 Garage Sale Thread

[Shelbylex]

A lot of great finds, everybody.
Old Radar - nice stash, especially pristine SK and Kennedy box (only $40!)
BMWRD0, you prayed to right tool Gods! Free Blackhawk! Off the scale luck!!!

 

[Outlawmws]

Not sure what going on but I'm not getting Emails from GJ on new posts anymore - Settings look right?

# stops, No TOOS that had anytgong but I managed with the three stops:

First was best overall;

This box kept puling at me - it's a 12X12X4 box for electrical but NO knock outs - toy have to drill and (usually) use Greenlee punches. but It likely it will become a camp box... it had a lot of "stuff" inside it besides the Mag Light and whisk Broom, and that will be mostly restock fodder:




Lots Of screws and finish nails (Plus a box of 3" finish nails I forgot t put in the pic)




A Miller auto darken welding helmet, -needs a battery cover and batteries - already ordered.




A frost guard for the windshield - it fits the T-bird and the Van!




And Giants bats - orange is the MLB team and black is the San Jose Giants - the Minor league team... 2010 and 2012 so World series years!




All for $10

The second YS had these, I thought the Pot was Guardian like the griddle, but its "Flavor Seal by Kinney"






and the last Yardsale -Plvmb, Torx, Indestro, and SW sockets, and the SOE is Williams - the brass cable clamp I found in my Rig, drooped from some other sale..

 

[mikeinri]

Old Radar, BMW and Outlaw crushing it again!

Mike

 

[Magnum440d100]

I don't doubt that you saw something shiny, but your eyes are MUCH better than mine if you ID'd that at 70 mph!



You guys are wearing off on me. At my son's baseball game today, a house across the street from the field had a bunch of stuff on the sidewalk, with a "FREE" sign posted on a tree. Unfortunately, it was all baby toys (we just unloaded at of that stuff ourselves over the past few years)...



Mike

I saw it, but thought it was needle nose at first. So yeah, I saw shiny, saw a shape, and kinda had an idea what it was, but not that it was vise grip locking pliers lol

 

[RTM]

First find in a few weeks, a Kennedy carry box, and a couple of shelf brackets for some future shelf in the garage.

 

[bmwrd0]

I keep that same Kennedy in my truck for general tools

 

[Old Radar]

The Key.

And I hear you on the bagged misc. tools. Drives me nuts, though I have grabbed a couple of bags and asked to make up the correct set before. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I have tried to tell them that tool people are pretty specific, but I get the feeling that those sellers don't care.

The Kennedy key was certainly a welcomed bonus, but not the gem I was referring to. If you look close, set on the stem of the wire bottle brush is a little cube-like instrument I found in one of the Kennedy drawers. Here's a much better picture:

I almost pitched it but decided to run it past Google just in case. Glad I did. It's a terminal board time totalizing meter. It is going for between $150 & $395 on eBay. WooHoo!

On with the show. Thursday was a Snap-on day--and much more!
For the S.O., I scored:
F-720 Ratchet - 1985
F-670 Flex Head - 1962
F-4-L Speeder - 1956
FX-11 12" Extension - 1960
AT-55 1/4" Hex Bit - 1956
FP-42A Phillips #4 - 1960
FS-18 Swivel Socket - 1966
FS-14 Swivel Socket - 1963
PS-12 10" Extension - 1956
F281 thru F081 12pt sockets w/patent number - no date code. This is their "Flank Drive" patent issued in 1966. There is an additional F281 that has a 1950 date.

Next was a box of Thorsen 3/8 drive swivel sockets--missing the 3/4" 424J--followed by an even smaller box of 3/8 drive Wright Hex bits. The two smallest, 3/16 & 5/32 have both been over torqued and sheared from their bases.

The last four items are all first-time-in-the-wild finds for me.
Craftsman Flying V Spinner Ratchet
Crescent Double Adjustable Wrench 4" & 6" heads
New Britain 374 Offset Screwdriver
and finally, a Winchester 7102 3-inch Screwdriver from the late 50s.

$44 for the lot.

 

[Old Radar]

To round out the week, I went back to the first sale where I bagged the Kennedy chest for their 75% off day.

Brink & Cotton 8" Wood Clamp
Package of 10 abrasive sheets
A & S Co. (anyone know who they were?) Trojan No. 46 12" throat coping saw
File Comb
Another ziplock bags worth of mis-matched vintage sockets
Two Proto 4" Adjustables -- codes appear to be S43 & Q39 (63 & 59)?
German Multi-Tool with bits
Millers Falls Awl (my 2nd) and MF Double Ended Scriber
Bonsai Snips (for my neighbor)
Possible Cross Bar
Snap-on WA171B Alignment Hook
P&C 6211 1/2" Ratchet
Irwin Perfect Handle Screwdriver with "Gov. Stock #41-S-1076" (calling Dr. Lugz!)

Finally is what I'm going to claim as the oldest relic ever displayed on GJ--and one amazingly advanced for its time!
This screw adjustable wrench is stamped "Germania", a region in Europe which, contributed to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Baring any observations on forging techniques, I estimate this tool to be between 1400 & 1500 years old--and I got it for 25 cents.

$7 for everything.

 

[glenmore]

I probably skipped over these 100 times over the years but it finally occurred to me to pick up an old vintage electric clock. Those #$&!?>!! battery clocks from IKEA etc. are cheap and only last a year or so.

Just got this nice GE clock. It worked in some kitchen for the past 50 years and will probably go another 50 years.

 

[3jakes]

Old Radar,
Those two posts....
Beyond ****. We need another vacuum level for those scores.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The Key.

That was a great guess! (I wanted to metaphorically throw the largest "cube-like instrument" within my grasp at OR for the minutes and brains cells I burned going through each and every innocuous piece in that photo wondering what I was missing.)

Craftsman Flying V Spinner Ratchet

Nice find.

Irwin Perfect Handle Screwdriver with "Gov. Stock #41-S-1076" (calling Dr. Lugz!)

Hahaha. A big old ugly can of worms. It's from a jeep toolkit. But not the jeep most people think.

This is always a strange, twisted, two-part answer for me to have to make, and probably a lot longer than you want or need.

Factually? No earlier than 1950. Without any shred of doubt. Original period Willys Overland factory documentation from NARA is incontrovertibly clear and precise about the marking being added to screwdrivers in the toolkit for the M38 (their designation was MC, after the prewar MA and wartime MB) in 1950. How clear and precise? The syntax of the marking (the abbreviation period, the "#" instead of perhaps "No.", etc) is verbatim identical to the 1950 instructions from the Ordnance Dept and the change note, made in 1950, in the engineering drawing. One of several such findings that Fred Coldwell, my co-author, and I were proud to put into Chapter 40 ("Factory Toolkits, Spare Parts, and Accessories for the Willys MB Jeep") in Volume 5 of Lloyd White's series, The Evolution of the Willys-Overland MB Jeep.

Popularly and financially? Many oldtimers in the jeep community still consider it to be wartime, and still put them in their WWII jeeps. Due I think in no small part to the expense of the White series books, and to how hard it is to reverse years and years of conventional wisdom, no matter how wrong, Fred and I could not overcome the monstrous prevalence of the "first wave" of jeep collecting and its references, Nabholtz (The Military Jeep) and Farley (The Standardized Wartime Jeep). It pains me to say that the Military Vehicle Preservation Association has not even updated their judging standards in shows. The fact is your screwdriver still has value with wartime jeep guys and you'd be wise to play dumb (or at least vague) in your sales ad, if that's where it ends up.

 

[3baygarage]

Old Radar YOU ****! Heck of a haul between the Snap On, the spinner rat, the 4x6 adjustable, and a cool Winchester piece. Then you hit us with an old wrench on top of it.

Flyer- can’t see your pics on previous page, is it an issue on my end?

 

[3baygarage]

I decided not to buy tools for a while for a number of reasons. Going out I saw a GS sign on the corner so I loop around the block. Turns out 3 houses from me there was a driveway loaded with box after box of hardware and tools. Grrrreat!

Ran into a friend there who was about to make off with his haul as I walked up. I feared the prices were high but quickly learned otherwise. Seller offered him an additional whole tub of tools for $10 but he declined. Mostly rusty pipe wrenches and bulky stuff.
I tried to be selective as I looked through every box while they packed up the sale. A number of Craftsman and other tools I normally like but everything was rusted up. Figured I didn’t need any more of it.

Was about to leave empty handed and got to the last table. Finally an interesting bin. Glass door knobs, antique keys, and more. Grabbed some items and seller says $1 each. Pulled out this buried vise. $1 .Needless to say I was thrilled. Bought 5 bucks more worth of stuff.

Hard to find the markings but found them today on the slide. It’s a 2” Stanley Rule and Level #673 jeweler’s vise. Looks like a part of the Stanley “Jersey“ vise line, a higher end line to the Victor Jersey line they offered at the same time. Found it in the 1914 catalog at Archive.org. Interesting the Stanley were offered in nickel as well. Two pages below showing the Stanley line and corresponding Victor line.




you can see the 673 near the bottom under Swivel Base

 

[RTM]

Flyer- can’t see your pics on previous page, is it an issue on my end?

Yup, nothing here either

 

[txlonghorn1989]

There is so much suckage in San Antonio that the low pressure has changed the weather up here in Austin! Nice finds OR!!

bmw As an amateur woodworker and plane collector, I'm envious of the Winchester jack plane! That and the free Blackhawk tool chest for free? You ****! Also, I fully expect you'll come across the (a) Winchester iron soon enough in a cross-town estate sale!

 

[bmwrd0]

3Bay, that little vise is dead ****!

 

[txlonghorn1989]

3bay You **** on the Stanley Jersey jewelers vise! And you got it for 50% off the 1914 price!

 

[jeffmoss26]

any pics of the keys, 3bay?

 

[Provincial]

***** for bmw, OR, and 3bay!

 

[Raineman]

You mean the key?

 

[Raineman]

Couple little vises, spark tester, some Craftsman, SK, Snap On, and a Bonney piece.

 

[3baygarage]

Thanks guys!

Jeff- didn’t get pics. Also brought home a Kmart branded (of all brands) spotting scope that was made in Japan and works well, and an old leather tape measure that unfortunately has oil on the leather because there was a spill in the bin.

If I post the dollar’s worth of keys I’m afraid I might be accused of SSS. You guys know what that stands for around here.

 

[misterbill]

My first trip to the flea in a year. I found a few nice vintage bits. Bonney PWA 1396 16” long 3/8” drive extension. Plomb WF-26 socket (very shiny chrome). 1940 Blackhawk 25/32 1/2” drive socket.

 

[clutchee]

Scored this while on couch recovering from surgery…. I mean $75.00
Text buddy, to pick up for me, guy was 1/4 mile from his house. Funny part was, pics he showed made it look small like a cooler, buddy was like bring help picking it up.

 

[Smokeshow69]

The Kennedy key was certainly a welcomed bonus, but not the gem I was referring to. If you look close, set on the stem of the wire bottle brush is a little cube-like instrument I found in one of the Kennedy drawers. Here's a much better picture:

I almost pitched it but decided to run it past Google just in case. Glad I did. It's a terminal board time totalizing meter. It is going for between $150 & $395 on eBay. WooHoo!

On with the show. Thursday was a Snap-on day--and much more!
For the S.O., I scored:
F-720 Ratchet - 1985
F-670 Flex Head - 1962
F-4-L Speeder - 1956
FX-11 12" Extension - 1960
AT-55 1/4" Hex Bit - 1956
FP-42A Phillips #4 - 1960
FS-18 Swivel Socket - 1966
FS-14 Swivel Socket - 1963
PS-12 10" Extension - 1956
F281 thru F081 12pt sockets w/patent number - no date code. This is their "Flank Drive" patent issued in 1966. There is an additional F281 that has a 1950 date.

Next was a box of Thorsen 3/8 drive swivel sockets--missing the 3/4" 424J--followed by an even smaller box of 3/8 drive Wright Hex bits. The two smallest, 3/16 & 5/32 have both been over torqued and sheared from their bases.

The last four items are all first-time-in-the-wild finds for me.
Craftsman Flying V Spinner Ratchet
Crescent Double Adjustable Wrench 4" & 6" heads
New Britain 374 Offset Screwdriver
and finally, a Winchester 7102 3-inch Screwdriver from the late 50s.

$44 for the lot.

Major Vacuum draw for that spinner! Those sell really well on ebay!

 

[WNYflyer]

Flyer- can’t see your pics on previous page, is it an issue on my end?

Yup, nothing here either

Thanks for the heads-up 3bay & RTM. Hopefully they are now visible. Still getting the hang of the new system and I had my photo album privacy set to me only in anticipation of only myself being able to see the entire album but because the individual pictures were links from that album it looks like that album privacy setting wouldn't let individual pictures show up. Let me know if they are now showing up correctly.
Thnx guys

 

[WNYflyer]

I decided not to buy tools for a while for a number of reasons. Going out I saw a GS sign on the corner so I loop around the block. Turns out 3 houses from me there was a driveway loaded with box after box of hardware and tools. Grrrreat!

Ran into a friend there who was about to make off with his haul as I walked up. I feared the prices were high but quickly learned otherwise. Seller offered him an additional whole tub of tools for $10 but he declined. Mostly rusty pipe wrenches and bulky stuff.
I tried to be selective as I looked through every box while they packed up the sale. A number of Craftsman and other tools I normally like but everything was rusted up. Figured I didn’t need any more of it.

Was about to leave empty handed and got to the last table. Finally an interesting bin. Glass door knobs, antique keys, and more. Grabbed some items and seller says $1 each. Pulled out this buried vise. $1 .Needless to say I was thrilled. Bought 5 bucks more worth of stuff.

Hard to find the markings but found them today on the slide. It’s a 2” Stanley Rule and Level #673 jeweler’s vise. Looks like a part of the Stanley “Jersey“ vise line, a higher end line to the Victor Jersey line they offered at the same time. Found it in the 1914 catalog at Archive.org. Interesting the Stanley were offered in nickel as well. Two pages below showing the Stanley line and corresponding Victor line.

Was wondering where you have been.........can be awfully easy to get carried away buying stuff that is "a deal".........don't I know!
Nice score on a better than 100 year old vise plus very nice shape for that age

 

[steaks&anvils]

I am always on the lookout for old tools and random shaped pieces of metal to use for jewelry making. I picked up this piece to make a forming stake. I paid $0.98 for it at the "Surplus Tools & Commodities" store here in Denver, they have been around for 72 yrs!

I figured that since it was still wrapped in the original paper/cosmoline it wouldn't be rusty. After cleaning it up, it wasn't rusty and only has a few dings, appears never used.

Before I customize it, does anyone know what it is?

Details: 8 inches long, 4lbs, knurled handle. Has "AA17" hand engraved, MTM-298882 and 41-D-1540-920 stamped on it.

I couldn't find Lugnutz's thread on how to read government codes....

Thanks!

 

[Old Radar]

You mean the key?

If that was your answer to my question Raineman, good guess, but see post #2329 above.

Thanks for all the comments and info, gentlemen!

I'm not the only one that had a good week--You **** goes out to Beemer for the Blackhawk chest and to 3bay for the Jersey vise!

My description was tongue-in-cheek for the little adjustable wrench, but I would like to know if anyone has seen a tool stamped "Germania" before.

 

[Davefr]

A pile of misc. for $20 but a couple oddballs in the lot. The first is a bakelite hammer. I've seen plastic and rawhide but never a head made out of bakelite. Perhaps for leather work? The two smallest Jacobs chucks are stainless steel. Could they be for medical?? The two Mit. Digimatics work but one is missing the battery cover which appears to be unobtainium. There are battery cover replacements but can't find one for this model caliper.

 

[Provincial]

S&A, that looks like a seal driver to me. It could also be for driving bushings.

 

[bmwrd0]

I wouldn't be surprised if someone wasn't taking the battery out every time they finished using it, and it was lost that way. Doesn't help you find one, but it got me thinking about some of the old meters I find.

 

[Provincial]

I bought a bakelite (Micarta, with fabric reinforcing) hammer at Boeing Surplus many years ago. It had a large-radius cross-pein on one end, and was obviously used for hand-forming aluminum sheet metal parts.

Nice picks! That carburetor syncronizer was a must-have for the multiple-carburetor sports car crowd back in the day!

 

[Provincial]

I wouldn't be surprised if someone wasn't taking the battery out every time they finished using it, and it was lost that way. Doesn't help you find one, but it got me thinking about some of the old meters I find.

Some measuring tools and meters use battery for "keep-alive" functions, so they eat batteries when left unused. I have some cheap digital calipers like that, and leave the batteries out when not in use.

If the spring tension on the battery terminals is fairly strong, the battery will stay put unless dropped or smacked against something.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

...does anyone know what it is?

Details: 8 inches long, 4lbs, knurled handle. Has "AA17" hand engraved, MTM-298882 and 41-D-1540-920 stamped on it.

I couldn't find Lugnutz's thread on how to read government codes....

"41" is hand tools. "D" is a phonetic classifier. Making Jock's seal or bushing Driver guess a pretty good one. You would then look up the precise part number (1540-920) in the Standard Nomenclature List for drivers, drifts, etc.

I don't have an SNL that contains seal or bushing drivers.

Drifts are in ORD 5 SNL J-4, which I happen to have. 41-D-1540 is listed as, "DRIFT, brass, rd., tapered, diam. of point 5/8 in., diam. 3/4 in., length 12 in." There is no 41-D-1540-920, but typically those suffixes were used to add parts when the next number in sequence (e.g., 41-D-1541) was taken. Typically, it would be some variation, but with a slightly different spec, say a different diameter. Or perhaps they added numbers for drivers.

MTM- is the Ordnance Dept Mfgr's code for Miller Mfg Co. in Detroit. MTM-298882 is their part number. It's just the kind of specialty tool that Miller would make and supply to the Ordnance Dept.

What does the business end look like? Is it flat?

That store is very popular with WWII guys. GJ member tin medic raided it quite a few times when he was at Ft Carson.

 

[steaks&anvils]

S&A, that looks like a seal driver to me. It could also be for driving bushings.

Thanks, that sounds like it would work. The working end is mostly finished smooth, but has a nub in the middle from where it was machined. Would a seal/bushing driver still have that? Seals/bushings are doughnut shaped, right? I don't do mechanical stuff so I have no frame of reference for one.

 

[steaks&anvils]

I bought a bakelite (Micarta, with fabric reinforcing) hammer at Boeing Surplus many years ago. It had a large-radius cross-pein on one end, and was obviously used for hand-forming aluminum sheet metal parts.

Nice picks! That carburetor syncronizer was a must-have for the multiple-carburetor sports car crowd back in the day!

I have an older silver smithing book that shows making a custom hammer out of micarta, with the fabric. The book is from before plastics were readily available.

 

[steaks&anvils]

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What does the business end look like? Is it flat?

That store is very popular with WWII guys. GJ member tin medic raided it quite a few times when he was at Ft Carson.

Thanks Lug!

The business end is flat with a nub from where it was machined. I think you guys are correct and it is seal/bushing driver. It is about an 1.75in across.

Unfortunately, the store may close. In the last few years they have cleaned out and sold two off-site buildings/properties. Over the last year, they have done a great job cleaning up and organizing the store. It is way easier to shop there now. Being a destination store, they don't get many customers who don't already know they are there. I try to steer people to them when I can (they have lots of hardware for old houses).

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Seals/bushings are doughnut shaped, right?

Yes. Except the ones with attachments. That's why I asked. I'm back on special drift, maybe. ?

 

[Bryan Burns]

Was at the Wilmot flea market early today (6:00 AM) and went home happy after spending $1 each for these vintage Peterson, Fleet by Proto, Channelock, Pexto, SK, Herbrand, etc. tools.
I've always like Fleet for user tools and my combo wrench set is Fleet. I have some very old vintage Husky sockets sets but for $1 for the sockets and case, I couldn't pass up the Fleet.
All these should clean up nicely.