2021 Garage Sale Thread

[steaks&anvils]

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

I think you are correct on special drift. Like this Mercedes Benz crankcase drift punch (example picture attached).

It's a big tool (4lbs), but I suppose the military does always go BIG on their toys.

 

[mikeinri]

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.

Thanks for coming clean there, OR... After calling out @Magnum440d100 for his Vice Grip ID-ing skills while flying down the highway, I didn't want to totally be a Doubting Thomas / Debbie Downer about that "1400 year old" Germania wrench claim, but it sure smelled fishy from here!

Sadly, I have no info to help you ID it. It does oddly have a familiar sound to it, though.

Mike

 

[LesserSon]

Could the Germania wrench be connected to the Germania Cutlery Works of Solingen? Looks like the Kastor family business shifted into Camillus.

 

[RagTopTA]

Exciting weekend around here! started off Friday at noon after work. Cleaning out my TOOL room. Decided to get rid of 80% of my over flow stuff I dont really need or want. Sorted all day and made a ton of headway. Celebrated by going to town for some Wingstop...and a slight case of food poisoning! weeeee! Rough last two days! But, Loaded up this morning and took my haul to the little flea in town. Third person to look at it bought the entire pickup bed load of stuff. Got a good deal on it! I also found a few items to take home to try to rebuild what I had just sold already! When I was done with the flea... I hit up one of my older friends from the flea thats been at this a really long time. I sold him my Gerstner box with some other planes and levels. He was so excited to get them. He invited me to his "wharehouse" I should have known then hes pretty serious collector. Man whata place.... 4400 SQ Ft of nothing but wall to wall good stuff! He has tons of wood working stuff, old oil cans collection, scissors collection on a Duro tool board, shelves filled with axes, vises, planes out the wazzoo. The first xray machine in Tx he says, and SO..Much..MORE!! OH and a few drums. He had no clue I drum also. I sat down and showed him a thing or two, including my Tommy Lee stick twirling abilities! : } I"ll post my load I sold, and my finds of the day. Then post some of his shop it was crazy! While I was there I spotted an old vise and traded him some off what he owed me. matches my little vise pretty much.. its a Phoenix vise in great shape!

 

[RagTopTA]

The "WhareHouse" this is maybe a 1/4 of what was in there....

 

[saukit]

Hi all, new to old tools and this board. I've recently caught the tool picking bug and thought I'd start posting some of my finds. Today I lucked across what I thought was a pretty good deal at the thrift store. 10 bucks for a box of screwdrivers and a few nut drivers.

Pics are:

1. Box from goodwill
2. Weird set of proto , not sure what heads these are. Also a couple other drivers
3. Random nut drivers including Xcelite, S-K. Socket extension is Snap On
4. Wire strippers are Ideal, Klein screwdriver, buncha random little stuff.
5. See below
6. Whole box
7. Old stuff that I have no idea...most of it says Made in USA but nothing else.

Pic 5 is a strange tool I found in an estate sale...anyone know what it is? Disston handle, when I looked up the patent it's just the handle and spring. The bottom part is made by Turner Brassworks in Sycamore, IL. No idea what this is for.

Hope to be posting new stuff soon, in the meantime I appreciate any knowledge you care to impart!

 

[Old Radar]

RagTop--Talk about Tool ****!! And Congratulations on unloading your tools in one shot!

Saukit--Welcome to the forum! Your strange tool is an old soldering iron. It was heated by an open flame/blow torch.

 

[Old Radar]

Could the Germania wrench be connected to the Germania Cutlery Works of Solingen? Looks like the Kastor family business shifted into Camillus.

I guess anything is possible. After the Nazis seized the factory in 1938, they could have easily changed the output focus to tools for the war effort, but I'm not so sure they would have continued using a name reminiscent of a barbaric past when their propaganda message was all about dominating the future.

 

[saukit]

Saukit--Welcome to the forum! Your strange tool is an old soldering iron. It was heated by an open flame/blow torch.

Ah, makes sense! When I looked up Turner they made old blowtorches. Much appreciated!

 

[Provincial]

Thursday I hit a sale in the nearby larger city. I thought I saw a couple of interesting items in the CL ad photos, and I was right. There was much more than that, though, and it is shown here, although I didn't get the two new Blitz 2-1/2 gallon gas cans and a narrow "clam" rake. Total was $30.00, half of which was the gas cans and clam rake.

three hammer handles
Thorsen 62J 3/8 dr. spinner
Proto 1209 9/32 combo
Herbrand 6923 DBE 3/8 x 7/16
Barcalo "scoop" DBE 38/ x 7/16
T over W 67-9026 12 MM x 13 MM
Craftsman "pointy A" shorty DBE 1/2 x 9/16
Craftsman "pointy A" DBE 1/2 x 9/16
Craftsman Combo 14 MM =VA=
Craftsman Combo 10 MM =VA=
Williams 9/16 Combo with 6-point box end
Fleet 5519M Combo 19 MM (I rarely see Fleet, and a metric, to boot!)
SK 1" drive 6-pt. impact socket 1-3/4 hex. (NEW)



I hit a couple of more sales that were duds, then found a rural sale that had a few things that cost a total of $2.50. These are shown at the top of the next photo, above the DOE wrenches.

Duro Chrome 4416 3/8 dr. 12-pt. 1/2
Ray 1/2 dr. 6-pt. 1/2
10 3/8" Red Head Concrete Anchors
Ford Model T and TT tire iron TT4069


I then hit the Restore and it was Fairmount and Tru-Fit day! $2.00 for all this rust.

DOE's:
Fairmount 3/4 x 7/8
Fairmount 11/16 x 13/16
Fairmount 9/16 x 3/4
Fairmount Cleve 3/8 x 7/16
Riverside Thin (short tappet?) DOE 5/8 x 11/16

Tru-Fit Combo 3/4
Tru-Fit Combo 5/8

 

[Provincial]

Saturday morning I hit a sale that happens each year in a nearby community. The neighborhood has 15-20 garage sales on the same day. I just missed a free 24-ft. extension ladder at one sale!

The first photo has a Montgomery Wards belt drive buffing setup. This was a charity sale sponsoring tuition for young women. There was not price, so I donated $10.00. The next couple of sales produced the following items for another $22.00.

Extension Cord
Blue Point inspection mirror (needs the mirror, but I'll be ordering another for one I have just like it)
Proto Professional 1/2 combo
DOE's, obstruction and ignition wrenches:
Giller 7/32 x 1/4
Giller 13/64 x 7/32
Meteor 5/16 x 11/32
Williams 3/16 x 7/32
S-W 1/4 x 9/32 (Stevens-Walden) Cadmium plated. WWII?
NAPA 10 MM
Proto 3225 11/32 x 3/8
Proto 3320 5/16
Proto 3220 9/32 x 5/16
Proto 3210 13/64 x 15/64
Duro G62 15/64

Nice scraper made from a Nicolson file
Snap-On SSD-4
Quick-Wedge 1834 screw starter

The second photo is items mostly from one sale where I spent $20.00.
3/8 drive bits:
Apex clutch
Cornwell flat
Craftsman flat
Proto Phillips
Proto Metric Allen in 4MM, 6MM (2), 8MM, and 10MM)
Proto in in 5/16 and 3/8
Unmarked in 3/8

1/2 drive sockets:
Indestro Super 1218 9/16 12-pt.
Indestro Super 1220 5/8 12-pt.
Craftsman =V= 13/16 12-pt.
Alloy Made in USA R-1216 1/2 12-pt.
Plomb 5432 1" 12-pt.
Penens 1619 19/32 12-pt.
Unmarked 1/2 8-pt. (looks like Bog)
Unmarked 3/4 6-pt.
Husky H2706 3/4 12-pt.
Husky H2846 1" 12-pt.
Husky CB20 3/8 dr. extension
Blackhawk 42030M 30MM 12-pt.
Blackhawk 3/8 dr. 3/8 deep 6-pt.
SK-Wayne 3/8 dr. extension
Giant Tire valve tool (Unmarked)
Williams 3/4 dr. 1-5/16 12-pt.
Williams 1/2 dr. S1218 9/16 12-pt.
Williams S20A Sliding T-bar
Williams S40 Hinge Handle
Williams S15 Speeder

 

[XxToolAholicxX]

Wife wanted me to take her to the flea market and I gladly agreed.. First picture was $5 seven ranches.. Then S-K deep sockets Thorsen USA ratchet .50 cents each total $7 with the snappy S-K drivers $1 each the weird Facom tool $1 and the Air Tool $1

what is this Facom tool used for?

 

[XxToolAholicxX]

Then S-K deep sockets Thorsen USA ratchet .50 cents each total $7 with the Snap-on socket..

 

[d42jeep]

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.

Those Channellocks you found are very early with the handle pattern. They have the 1933 patent and the handle pattern can be made out in the 1944 wartime catalog.
-Don

 

[LesserSon]

1. I see no physical indication the wrench was made after 1938. Cutlery manufactures do make things other than knives, scissors and razors, though this does not prove the wrench is connected to that particular company.
2. Nazi idealogy was extremely conservative and puritanical; the promised glorious future was to be accomplished through a return to the presumed traditional values of the past. Nazis romanticized the Germanic barbarian as the ideal human, simple, forthright, honest, unencumbered and uncorrupted by the social and political compromises of modern civilization. They destroyed modern art and literature, suppressed modern music because they equated modernism with degeneracy. Every part of the Nazi movement was calculated to remove influences of non-germanic origin, and spread Germania across Europe. No Nazi would view primitive teutonic barbarism with disdain, but rather admire it.
What WOULD have been problematic with “Germania” is, it is NOT a German word, and reflects the Anglo-Anerican export market of the products.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Decided to get rid of 80% of my over flow stuff I dont really need or want. Sorted all day and made a ton of headway. Loaded up this morning and took my haul to the little flea in town. Third person to look at it bought the entire pickup bed load of stuff. He was so excited to get them. He invited me to his "wharehouse" I should have known then hes pretty serious collector. Man whata place.... 4400 SQ Ft of nothing but wall to wall good stuff!

Stories of us Pickers literally turning the tables on ourselves to become "Vendors" is a Garage Sale tradition and yours does NOT disappoint, Rags! Getting rid of your whole load in one fell swoop so early in the day would've been quite the story, but following the buyer to his 4400 sq ft man cave is quite the epilogue!

While I was there I spotted an old vise and traded him some off what he owed me. matches my little vise pretty much.. its a Phoenix vise in great shape!

But this is the best part of the story. Only a true picker would purge 80% of his horde, follow the buyer to his horde, and buy something back from him!

I see no physical indication the wrench was made after 1938...[ ]...What WOULD have been problematic with “Germania” is, it is NOT a German word, and reflects the Anglo-American export market of the products.

OR
For what it's worth, this matches my take on your wrench. That style bicycle or pocket wrench was first patented by Billings in the 1880's. A few years later, it was appropriated by Abingdon-King **** in England and soon copied by others in England and the US and apparently, elsewhere. In that same time period a protectionist England passed a seminal law requiring German imports to be marked. Usually 'GERMANY' or 'MADE IN GERMANY'. I think that's when your wrench was made, almost certainly in Germany, and perhaps why it was marked like that. Whether the motivation was pride, whimsy, or just a quirk, or a little of all three, I don't know. But I do believe the fancified 'GERMANIA' could be an early COO marking. I think I may have an example. I'd have to dig.

(Note: The law backfired, by the way. To British citizens, the special marking denoted, well, something special, and soon, it was seen as a mark of quality, helping to propel the German empire.)

EDIT: I could be wrong. It could be the name of the company, as LS suggests. But then the problem is that it has no COO.

 

[seber]

ToolAholic you get a huge **** for that Dotco. I recently sold the same model for $145. The buyer was thrilled to get it so cheap.

 

[bmwrd0]

1. Weird set of proto , not sure what heads these are.

First of all, welcome to our humble abode! Please stick around, as you are definitely of the proper character to enjoy your time here.

Second, those are clutch drivers. They were an alternate type of fastener found mostly on Chevrolets of a certain age and RVs.

 

[RTM]

The Facom T195 is a Renault specific hubcap remover. Chrome translated this to English

Par prix > Articles à 80 > Outil Spécifique Renault pince dépose bouchon de moyeu de roue 50mm Facom T195 ROUL 441 (outillage atelier)

cle facom t195 roul 441 pour moyeux renault

www.coyote-auto.com

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

After missing almost all of 2020 sales I finally managed to get out and snag a couple items this weekend. It felt good get back out there. The grinder is almost new. Only used for one cut and came with all 5 of the original unused wheels. The 24" Rigid pipe wrench is in great condition. The tilting Wilton was a freebie that got thrown in with another deal.

 

[Old Radar]

1. I see no physical indication the wrench was made after 1938. Cutlery manufactures do make things other than knives, scissors and razors, though this does not prove the wrench is connected to that particular company.
2. Nazi idealogy was extremely conservative and puritanical; the promised glorious future was to be accomplished through a return to the presumed traditional values of the past. Nazis romanticized the Germanic barbarian as the ideal human, simple, forthright, honest, unencumbered and uncorrupted by the social and political compromises of modern civilization. They destroyed modern art and literature, suppressed modern music because they equated modernism with degeneracy. Every part of the Nazi movement was calculated to remove influences of non-germanic origin, and spread Germania across Europe. No Nazi would view primitive teutonic barbarism with disdain, but rather admire it.
What WOULD have been problematic with “Germania” is, it is NOT a German word, and reflects the Anglo-Anerican export market of the products.

Convincing argument--and after re-reading my post, I think I'll have to stop posting so late at night. I think my sluggish brain may have latched on to the New Soviet Man concept and misconstrued that with Nazism.

OR
For what it's worth, this matches my take on your wrench. That style bicycle or pocket wrench was first patented by Billings in the 1880's. A few years later, it was appropriated by Abingdon-King **** in England and soon copied by others in England and the US and apparently, elsewhere. In that same time period a protectionist England passed a seminal law requiring German imports to be marked. Usually 'GERMANY' or 'MADE IN GERMANY'. I think that's when your wrench was made, almost certainly in Germany, and perhaps why it was marked like that. Whether the motivation was pride, whimsy, or just a quirk, or a little of all three, I don't know. But I do believe the fancified 'GERMANIA' could be an early COO marking. I think I may have an example. I'd have to dig.

(Note: The law backfired, by the way. To British citizens, the special marking denoted, well, something special, and soon, it was seen as a mark of quality, helping to propel the German empire.)

EDIT: I could be wrong. It could be the name of the company, as LS suggests. But then the problem is that it has no COO.

Thanks gents! Anyone want a wrench?

 

[saukit]

First of all, welcome to our humble abode! Please stick around, as you are definitely of the proper character to enjoy your time here.

Second, those are clutch drivers. They were an alternate type of fastener found mostly on Chevrolets of a certain age and RVs.

Thank you bmwrd0, appreciate the information and the welcome!

 

[LesserSon]

OR & Lugz:
I just thought of an alternative: “Germania” is the Italian word for Germany! So possibly an Italian bicycle mechanic brought it to America while fleeing Mussolini, or perhaps by more prosaic circumstance it came to America from Germania via Italia.

 

[Old Radar]

I may have to go back to my Fall of the Roman Empire hypothesis...

 

[LesserSon]

Cleaned up two pairs of slipjoints last weekend. The New Britain was clearly made by Utica Drop Forge & Tool Co, while the other was made by Utica Cutlery Co.
I had them apart, and lost the nut from the New Britain, which is interchangeable with one from a UDF&T pliers. I have replaced the the nut and pin with the non-Utica parts (which happen to resemble the ones on the UCC pair) shown in these photos. The head of the original pin is much broader, and the nut has two flats instead of six.
I see UCC slipjoints on eBay, but do not find much about their timeframe. The company website does not mention them.

EDIT - here’s a closeup of the UCC U-hex forge mark.

 

[ozaudio]

just missed out on a record vise for £5 and a selection of long hex sockets all snap on / hazet and stahlwille for £8. pretty annoyed

 

[WNYflyer]

Saw a poorly written/cryptic ad in one of our local media sources for an estate sale with tools both mechanic and wood working. Strange in that the sale was a one day sale on Sunday at a strange starting time. My spidey senses where telling me to go to the sale and since it wasn't far from home and I had nothing pressing to do at that time. Hit the sale and was one of only 4 guys there for say the first hour or a little better. Talk to the guy running the sale and he said nothing was priced but will work out prices. Two guys seemed to be looking for wood working stuff which I didn't see too much of but up against the garage wall were some old well used beat up tool box stacks and top boxes overflowing with tools in a decidedly dis-organized condition. So I start digging through the tool boxes pulling stuff out of the boxes and making my first pile and ask the guy for a price which is very good so now I am really digging now that I know the prices we are looking at. 3rd guy I know from sales and we also keep in keep in contact about possible note worthy sales and he wasn't interested in the mechanics tools since he has all his late pro mechanics brother's tools so he proceeds to help me start digging out the good stuff also. Like I said some stuff was organized but much was just thrown in the boxes haphazardly and since it was a one day sale with no going back I had to really pick through the best I could to see if any sets were present. Come to find out from the gentlemen running the sale that the house and tools were his late father's who was a professional autobody repair guy, I should have be able tell about the body work what with all the dust and dirt in and on the well used tools and boxes. Gentlemen said much of the body tools were still in the basement and will be for sale later. Anyways after much cleaning and organizing a bunch of primarily Snap-On and Vulcan stuff with some Mac mixed in for the sum of $80.



Snap-On sockets, 3/8 & 1/4 drive metric six points in shallow and deep



Mixed Snap-On & Vulcan deep SAE set, Mac Metric set and partial Vulcan SAE sets



3/8" Snap-On, Vulcan & 1/4 " S-K flex-heads and Williams and Mac ratchets



Snap-On 3/8" & 1/4" extensions



Miscellaneous Snap-On and Vulcan stuff

 

[Provincial]

Nice haul! Perhaps the body tools will have some gems!

 

[3jakes]

just missed out on a record vise for £5 and a selection of long hex sockets all snap on / hazet and stahlwille for £8. pretty annoyed

I know the feeling.
If only I had been there a little earlier. If only I had seen the advertisement yesterday.
But tomorrow's another day.

 

[Provincial]

Then there are the times you get there first!

 

[Old Radar]

Then there are the times you get there first!

You're one of those glass-half-full kind of guys, aren't you?

 

[Provincial]

If I am pouring, it is half full!

 

[gearhead1960]

WNYflyer, you deserve the business end of a vacuum hose for that haul!

 

[Technologyteacher]

got the side shelf for free. It was very crusty but some time in a blast cabinet and a quick spray paint and it’s useable. I know the red is the wrong shade but it will do for now

 

[Shiftless]

A single item from the free pile at a moving sale today. Is this a high tension insulator from WAY back in the day? Check what I assume is a weight or load or tension rating on the corroded metal portion. 15,000 pounds !! It‘s quite heavy. The brown part is porcelain.
The hole in the bottom lug is 5/8 inch diameter.

Does anybody collect these? I sure don’t intend to!

 

[bmwrd0]

That is how much I paid for mine, and it still is in need of a bit of TLC.

 

[Shiftless]

I see an opportunity to fabricate a steam punk light fixture. A few pipe *******, a couple of elbows and tees... get the picture?

 

[3jakes]

Thursday's yard sale run from 2 stops both of which advertised tools:
At a dollar each,
Three Craftsman body hammers
A Blue-point hammer & one of those Blue-Point adjustables that has Snap-on on the reverse.
A nice shape SK Box, & this Oil port =V= 1/2 ratchet. (I like how a hint of brass is showing on the selector.
Then at 5 bucks each,
Ridgid No 138 ratcheting tubing cutter.
And a No 36122 tubing bender (stamped made in Ireland)

 

[seber]

Techteacher, I believe the shelf color is correct. the box is wrong. On the other hand, that is the color I painted mine as I prefer the darker red. Sorry, I havn't figured out how to work the quote on this new setup.

 

[Shelbylex]

Great deal, 3Jakes. Can not beat those prices! Body hammers can come really useful - I am keeping an eye out for a good deal for a while (do not need them as of now, but want as a part of my collection in the future)