3bay found one in a lot of several other Schollhorns a couple years ago and that was the first one I had ever seen. 'Seek and Ye Shall (Maybe, Eventually...) Find'!
Yes, and best of all, it had (has! they still make them!) adjustable and replaceable jaws. There's been one found this year (can't remember who...) and a few found and reported here over the years. They have near-legendsry status and the current models are very expensive. Like, $300.
I feel for you.
Geez, the suffering. If you weren't so far away, I'd offer to fill in for you.
Thanks 3Bay, in the probably 10 years I have been doing the garage/estate sale thing quite unusual this year finding so many privately run garage sales with truck tools. I'm usually good for stumbling on one such sale per year and usually they are poorly advertised sales tool wise and thus more often than not next to no/little competition and as noted this year as been unusual.
Thanks guys, been an unusually good summer so far with lots of luck involved.
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Sounds like it! Please post the Edgecomb Steel sign in the "Machinists' Signage" thread. Vintage Discussion Board. You can find a link to it in the Index of Threads in the Sticky.
I'd like to see a shot of the labels.
I was geeking out on the Edgecomb Decimal chart ,wondering if it would clean up a bit with sos pad/simple green,wd-40/etc. and you had to throw the drill index in there. Very nice find.
Man I have not been since I was little but was going to go this year and didn’t. I’ll be there next year you can guarantee lol. I’ll probably be broke when I leave. I didn’t know if their would be any tools or not looks like I missed out.Went to the Hillsville VA fleamarket over the weekend. The local VFW puts it on. It's a fleamarket with a gun show with fair food mixed in. It's a good time.
Came away with this haul. Wasn't looking for metal stamps but somehow I came home with three sets. The Swiss Army Pioneer was made in 96 and looks brand new.
The find of the weekend came from a vendor that had the largest collection of old Stanley hand planes I have ever seen. He was big on woodworking and is why I was able purchase it.
It's one of my coolest finds yet. Haven't gotten into age but to have survived with the box is awesome. The vendor could tell I was geeking out over it and I feel he went easy on me.
This strap is used to roll the edge of a fender or a quarter panel back in towards the hood/deck lid. Very useful tool. I'd be interested in it if you wanted to let it go.
Looks to be a Frontier, Imperial Stainless.
This was also in the box, I have never seen one of these:
couldn't do my job without several sets of stamps!Went to the Hillsville VA fleamarket over the weekend. The local VFW puts it on. It's a fleamarket with a gun show with fair food mixed in. It's a good time.
Came away with this haul. Wasn't looking for metal stamps but somehow I came home with three sets. The Swiss Army Pioneer was made in 96 and looks brand new.
Picked up these three old guys today:
I put the Craftsman under my lathe, it fits perfectly in the space below, the machinist's chest will either get restored and it will replace one of my Gerstners, or it will get flipped quickly. The topmost box, well, I kind of had to take it for the deal to work:
$80 for all of them. Sadly the Crafty and machinist chests don't have front panels, but that is ok at the price.
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I like the Craftsman chain wrench, although it looks like a lot of potential chain diameter for a shaft that short.Sunday I attended the same flea market bmw reported on earlier. It was well-attended, but the sellers were somewhat different. Several of my favorite sellers were not there, and a new group of sellers was flogging crafts and nick-knacks. Fortunately, the operators have been recruiting people selling old car parts, so a new group of them is showing up. This group tends to price their wares higher than my favorite sellers, but they are still much lower than the Antique Store crowd.
The first photo is the Plomb Empire stuff:
P&C 6040 1/2 dr. 12-pt. socket 1-1/4 Registered Trade Mark Era
P&C 6028 1/2 dr. 12-pt. socket 7/8 (2) Registered Trade Mark Era
P&C 6040 1/2 dr. 12-pt. socket 1-1/4 Unplated, WWii or older
P&C 6028 1/2 dr. 12-pt. socket 7/8 Unplated, WWii or older
P&C 033-1/2 I Offset Caulker (In) Looks unused!
Proto USA 3328 Midget Electrical DOE 7/16
Proto LA 3026 DOE 1/2 x 9/16
Proto LA 9712 Screwdriver (Huge, and a beauty!)
Amflo long nose air blow gun (as a separator between Proto and Plomb)
Plomb 2130 Rolling Head Pry Bar 18"
Plomb 3030 DOE 9/16 x 5/8
Plomb 3426 Tappet DOE 1/2 x 9/16
Plomb 1120 DBE 5/16 x 3/8
The second photo is various wrenches that turned up. I had to buy the Craftsman chain wrench to get the Plomb pry bar, but the deal was affordable. The Crescent (Barcalo made) scoop combinations were offered by an elderly woman who decided to bring her deceased husband's tools to sell with her crafts. I got some of the Plomb from her in this bundle.
Craftsman =V= 2944462 chain wrench
Vlchek WBC 1618 Shorty DBE 1/2 x 9/16
Vlchek WBH 2428 DBE 3/4 x 7/8
Billings Vitalloy 1735 DOE 1" x 1-1/8
Fairmont 732 DOE 13/16 x 1"
Crescent combo LC 32 1"
Crescent combo LC 30 15/16
Crescent combo LC 26 13/16
Crescent combo LC 24 3/4
The third photo is stuff from the old car vendors:
Tillotson carburetor for a Model A Ford
Williams "S" DOE 679, 9/16 x 5/8(?) Oval Logo
Enderes G3. I think this is a blacksmithing tool, because of the "G" prefix.
Paramount drain plug wrench
K-D #307 valve spring compressor for Ford A and B
Truth crowfoot specialty wrench. It is so interesting, I couldn't pass it up! I think the square drive is a user modification.
Cornwell BW69 8-pt. 7/16 x 1/2 wrench for Flathead-era Ford brakes
Mac "S 14" 8-pt. 7/16 x 1/2 wrench for Flathead-era Ford brakes
It is interesting to compare the two brake wrenches. Different lengths and offsets. I believe that there was some discussion of this on a thread about KRW tools.
