2021 Garage Sale Thread

[ForrestT]

My small haul at Sunday’s flea market $12 total minus one casualty. Leather firewood carrier $4, Craftsman V nut drivers $4, Sparta spinner with female end in handle and 8mm socket $1, and my favorite find of the day Channellock little champ 43 pliers in great shape also $1. The not pictured casualty was a Victorinox Swiss Army knife for $2 that was in nice shape except that the blades were sticky and hard to open. Tried to fix that with some brake parts cleaner only to be holding a bunch of red goo in my hands as the red plastic handles melted away in my hands. Lesson learned. Live and learn.

 

[RTM]

EDIT to say that I started looking through the catalog and you have sent me down quite the rabbit hole! Browsing the old catalogs may be a between hunts hobby now! I have looked up items many times in old catalogs, but I just started at the beginning this morning and ... wow!

glad I could ruin your spare time too. I’ve spent plenty of time just flipping pages.

I really enjoy looking thru them as well. Great for recall of what it’s efound at the flea or GS, or here. Even better if you can recall where you saw it, at what exactly it is.

 

[d42jeep]

Don, did barcalo make their own wrenches? They look just like lectrolites to me.

Not only did they make their own wrenches, they made wrenches for countless others as well. Here are some they made for Montgomery Wards.
-Don

 

[txlonghorn1989]

I usually think 720 or 750 for most chisels I see. Check dimensions against the catalog.

Stanley Tools : Catalogue No. 34 : August 1941 Edition : Stanley Tools Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

236 p., illus., 17.7 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

here is a 440 450 set, they seem to have a flare at the top of the socket.

Stanley Tools : Catalogue No. 34 : April 1934 Edition : The Stanley Rule & Level Plant : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

218 p., illus., 16.9 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

Based on the catalog info it appears to be a 720. The blade is just shy of 6". I didn't know how different the length of the different 7x0 models were. To be expected as I have only come across my first three vintage Stanley chisels this year. Sure would be nice to come across these regularly but I'm thankful to have come across these three. Good stuff. Thanks as always RTM!

 

[ForrestT]

Not only did they make their own wrenches, they made wrenches for countless others as well. Here are some they made for Montgomery Wards.
-Don

Yes. I see the difference. Thanks for the lesson, Don!

 

[WNYflyer]

Not only did they make their own wrenches, they made wrenches for countless others as well. Here are some they made for Montgomery Wards.
-Don

I have a few stamped as "Blue Grass" as in Belknap Hardware though I have never seen full sets.

 

[toolmiser]

My small haul at Sunday’s flea market $12 total minus one casualty. Leather firewood carrier $4, Craftsman V nut drivers $4, Sparta spinner with female end in handle and 8mm socket $1, and my favorite find of the day Channellock little champ 43 pliers in great shape also $1. The not pictured casualty was a Victorinox Swiss Army knife for $2 that was in nice shape except that the blades were sticky and hard to open. Tried to fix that with some brake parts cleaner only to be holding a bunch of red goo in my hands as the red plastic handles melted away in my hands. Lesson learned. Live and learn.

You could sent the pocket knife into Victorinox and get new "scales"

 

[Outlawmws]

LOL @ S&A

2-27/32” OAL, beating my previous claimants by more than an inch. However, real Disston “Electric” screwdrivers have six ribs and this guy has only five.

That seems very adamant.

Here is mine, (and a couple of similar):





I believe its a Tie? But none of mine have any makers marks I could find...

 

[Old Radar]

Wow! I leave you guys alone for a couple of days and everyone had some great finds!

I meant to ask OR - is the threading box for standard broom sticks?

Yes, about 7/8" diameter.

Duddly, I wasn't sure about your breast drill find, but I can't argue with RTM's catalog knowledge. I guess what was bothering me about it is the clip on pad isn't centered properly on the standard pad--it looked like someone cobbled it together from something they found.

 

[Old Radar]

On Sunday I went back to the laughably overpriced sale that I ran away from on Friday for their 50% off day. Unsurprisingly there was still a lot of good stuff left. The two $100 Disston and Sons saws were still there.

I dove right in and started picking out all the Vacuum Grip pliers and cutters. All but one was made by the Forged Steel Products Co. prior to their involvement with Snap-on. All are from the late '20s while the sole SO (60-R) is from 1938.
3 No. 17 end nippers
No. 49 Slip Joint
No. 86 Diagonal Cutter
No. 87 Diagonal Cutter--this is a best guess as there are no markings whatsoever on the tool.
No. 497 Bent Needle Nose
No. 696 Specialty Pliers/Cutter--I cannot find this number in any online catalog
Hose Grip Pliers with no markings. Thought it might be a modified No.597 but it is too long.
Snap-on 60-R--Precursor to the Duckbill?



Snapped up the two half-inch wood threading boxes from the table where I found their big brother. I'm glad I didn't see these on Friday.
One is by Imhoff & Lange the other by IB Hasenclever & Sons
The L.S. Starrett No. 530 50' steel tape measure was under a bunch of ****
Blue Point Supreme S-714 Punch
Proto Challenger case--empty
When I told the agent the orphan plane iron belonged to a plow plane I had seen the other day, he said it had already sold and I could have it.



After I had my fill at the tool tables and was about to check out I made one last sweep of the garage and on a low shelf I saw peeking from behind one of those tubular steel two-handed post drivers a long thin black metal case. I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened it up--a nearly complete S-K 1/2" drive set from the late 20s/early 30s. It is very similar to the set they have on AA. Sadly, the decal is almost completely obliterated. The set is missing the slide for the sliding T and possibly an 8pt or two and maybe a valve grinder attachment. Since neither I nor AA can find an S-K catalog from that era, it's hard to tell. BTW, the Duro Hex socket set was also in there. After all the discounts I got out of there for $35!



At the end of the day I went back to see what deals were to be had on what was left, but I'm too tired to post that now. I'll leave you with a teaser pic. Good night!

 

[LesserSon]

OR! You obviously made the right call waiting for 50% day, but seems like you made out even better than that. Those early FSP Vacuum Grips are a fantastic find. Are any of them NewarkNJ, or all NewportPA?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'll leave you with a teaser pic

Who made the rim tool?!

And I am super curious about the FAK with my born-and-raised state name on it. Can't make out anything else on that label from here.

Those early FSP Vacuum Grips are a fantastic find.

I have several, but they were not one-fell-swooped!

Also, a great example of a mfgr deserving its own thread that does not have one. They always get posted on the Snap-on thread, which obliterates the fact that THEY took over Snap-on, not the other way around.

 

[bmwrd0]

That SK set sure is purty.

 

[seber]

Also, a great example of a mfgr deserving its own thread that does not have one. They always get posted on the Snap-on thread, which obliterates the fact that THEY took over Snap-on, not the other way around.

From Alloy Atifacts
"The close relationship between the two companies was formalized in 1945 when Snap-on acquired Forged Steel Products, which subsequently operated as a division of Snap-on. The 1945 acquisition date is noted on page 49 of The Snap-on Story, an account of the company's development published by Snap-on in 1960. (Readers should note that at least one online report incorrectly lists 1937 as the year in which Forged Steel Products was acquired by Snap-on.) "

 

[duddly]

...

Duddly, I wasn't sure about your breast drill find, but I can't argue with RTM's catalog knowledge. I guess what was bothering me about it is the clip on pad isn't centered properly on the standard pad--it looked like someone cobbled it together from something they found.

Ha! - the picture was as I bought it, but my OCD couldn't handle that either. It is now properly centered!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Hi @seber. I am familiar with the way it has been largely recorded in Snap-on's face-saving favor, but my understanding is that it was a merger, at best. I'll have to ferret out the details and references again, or ask Snapmom (who often calls it a "hostile take-over") if she has them handy, but the gist is that Snap-on was in very deep debt doo-doo to banks and to suppliers, especially FSP (they weren't only making their pliers, they were making wrenches, punches, and chisels, too). FSP bailed them out by forgiving the debt and accepting stock in trade instead, and FSP's CEO and president, Bill Myers, was suddenly installed as Snap-on's CEO and president. That all happened in 1931 - at the beginning of the Great Depression. Think about that. Snap-on's founders, who start the company from scratch and hustle with a good idea, a small shop, and the trunk of their car in 1920, just step aside and give up the chair at the head of the controlling table to one of their suppliers 10 years later? Myers was probably the largest stock holder. The "close relationship between the two companies that was formalized in 1945" was indeed, just a formality, happening long after FSP's Bill Myers was in charge, and, in the books, the Snap-on business entity did buy the FSP entity that Myers had left behind and was still operating from Kenosha. AA covers none of that, which does readers and collectors - and FSP!, a disservice. If anything, Bill Myers expanded his company, acquiring Snap-on, and keeping the name.

EDIT: Not making a big deal out of it. Just saying. The idea that this big behemoth finally bought out one of its many little suppliers, of course cemented in everyone's minds over the years by Snap-on actually becoming the biggest bonafide behemoth there is, obscures the actual history, in which Snap-on was close to bankruptcy.

 

[Old Radar]

^^^

AA alludes to that by saying "By 1931 Forged Steel Products had become one of Snap-on's biggest creditors..."

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Okay I'll give them some slack. Some.

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Today's haul (Lugz 2021_64)...



...is being posted from phone, so I'll be briefer than normal...

- another Tool-Champ, believe it or not! This one less its original box, with different bits.
- West German boxwood rule
- Lowentraut and Wakefield bike wrenches
- leatherette pouch with vintage protractor, pencils, and the funniest, coolest 6-inch rule I have even found, a bonus, because I really only wanted the pouch
- Bell Tel. Co. wooden box
- Williams wrench with a customer or function name I had no prior knowledge of
- Bendix brake wrench
- Mexican machete with stacked leather washer handle and some amazing inscriptions that I bought to whack my ivy back in shape, but causing me a dilemma with a better look at it
- BeCu AMPCO pliers the seller was ignorant of
- Partial hex key set I bought purely for the coolass vintage OD canvas holder, only happier to discover they're all UNBRAKO.

Lugz I'm not a machete guy but I'd have been all over that one with the stacked leather handle. Very cool! Just reading the updates to the thread from over the weekend and hope there's more to read on it downthread.

 

[Provincial]

To put it in simple terms:
Snap-On and Forged Steel Products were both smaller companies when they started doing business with each other. Snap-On grew quickly, and relied on FSP for a significant part of its production. Snap-On's rapid growth left it with a large debt when the Depression hit, with FSP (which remained financially solvent) being the major creditor. This debt resulted in FSP converting the debt into shares of SO, and its owner becoming the CEO of SO, giving FSP operational control.

Snap-On survived, and grew to be the strongest manufacturer/retailer of professional hand tools, and a major power in the automotive repair industry, while FSP remained in the shadows. In 1945, it made sense to merge the two companies, and since SO was much larger and had a famous brand name, it "acquired" the company that had saved it 14 years earlier. Such is corporate finance!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'm not a machete guy but I'd have been all over that one with the stacked leather handle.

Me neither, but it might be a very lucky find. It might end up being my coolest find of the year. And what's ironic about that is, sometimes you do all this research, and you know what something is, and you go actively looking for it, and sometimes it's just blind luck.

There was a pickup truck parked with the lift gate down, and a crowd standing inside and all around that seller's U-shaped tables. I couldn't even edge in sideways but I could see that it was all good stuff. Antiques, artwork, lots of paper, lots of WWI stuff, and weird, astute collectibles, like very early glass and tube era telecommunications equipment and all kinds of little geared things I didn't even know what they were. But also lots of junk, too. And the seller did not look or talk like a dealer, to be kind. It looked like he himself lucked into a load he didn't know much about, which may have contributed to the prices and the frenzy. Anyway, I asked some guy who was looking at a set of silverware in a plush pouch to please hand me the machete. He did. I took one look and got the seller's attention. 'How much?' I said. '$10' says he. Sold! Whos next?

I tend to forget that not everyone follows things as religiously as I do from here down to the Vintage Board and should follow up here more often, but if you want to see and read more go to page 4 of the Vintage Knife thread.

One side of the blade is etched with lions and mountains, and the inscription on the other side translates to "When you see me shine, prepare to die well.' The pommel and guard are made of silver. Best of all, though, there's one just like it in on exhibit at Museo Toma de la Zacatecas in Mexico, and, according to them, these were used by General Pancho Villa's cuadillos during the Mexican Revolution.

 

[Old Radar]

I'll quickly answer the early questions before laying out my final haul from Sunday's sale.

LS--No, they're all from Newport; none from the company's first two years in Newark.

Lugz--From what I have found, the rim or tire tool may have been made by the FH Ayers Manufacturing Company, Chicago. I gave almost no credence to the many ebay listings using the FH Ayers name because it looked to me like someone had made an unsubstantiated claim and others had blindly copied it. I may have been wrong. AA indicates a large circled 'A' is the logo used by Ayers and the tool I have does have a cast-in circled 'A'. The other castings include "AF 310" and on the other side a "3" between the socket and hammer head. Other photos I've seen have had other single digit numbers in this spot. Down from the 3 is the circled A and finally there is a stamped '4'. Google turned up various posts claiming the tool is from the Ford Model A, Model T and I even saw one that said it was from "Chevy". BTW, the Ayers company closed their doors just last year.



The First Aid Kit is from the Pennsylvania Department of Highways. No remnants of contents remain. It's a sturdy unabused steel box, 7.5x5x3, with remnants of original OD paint. The decal is almost as hard to read in person as in the photo. I gave it a gentle wash with diluted Simple Green that didn't really help the readability much, but I'm afraid to do more since old decals and I have a rocky history.



So on with the rest of the haul. As I said, I decided to go back in the last hour of the sale (75% off). I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that I had to wait for about 10 minutes to get in. Having gone over the wrenching tables fairly thoroughly (I thought) my main objective was to see what was left on the wood working table. Both the leather wrapped carver's mallet and the double headed mashie were still there (because they both had $26 price tags!) and of course the $100 Disston & Sons saws were untouched. About this time the estate sale operator came in the garage and said "Start making piles!" Music to my ears...



Into my sack went the two mallets along with:
-- Mortise Gage with a patent date of October 22, 1872. (by Justus Traut. Mfg by Stanley Rule & Level, but strangely, not branded)
-- Group of miscellaneous dies and die stocks. The one of the round dies is from Wiley & Russell Mfg Co., the rest are labeled B&CO but I can find nothing definitive about B&CO. Only one of the square dies is branded--W.L. Brubaker and Bros., Millersburg, PA. The die stock to the far right is unmarked and looks kind of cheap, but I'm no expert. I don't know what to call the little item sticking up out of that die stock. It's a 1/4" die with a tap screwed into one end and a screw extractor screwed in the other. The latter is marked with Sexauer Made in USA. I don't know if it was made that way or was cobbled together by the PO. The real reason I picked this group up was the last die stock--on the right handle it's stamped "No. 1" and "Patented August 31, 1875" and on the left handle "The Pratt & Whitney Co. Hartford, Conn U.S.A." Yes, that P&W, before, of course, a division broke off and started making aircraft engines.



-- The surface gage is, sadly, completely unmarked. I haven't been able to find any photos with a stationary base that looks like it. Any help identifying it would be greatly appreciated.
-- The screw starter is marked only with Patent 2,150,184. Research shows it was granted March 14, 1939 and mfd by New Britain Machine Co. I have two others with other brand names, I presume made after the patent expired.
-- Williams 8735A Superwrench DBE 1-1/8 & 1-1/16"
-- CM =v= 3" ext
-- Four Lectrolite DBEs. The first is marked Tru Fit 3002 the others are Lectrolite Corp. Defiance, O.
-- Unbranded USA 3/8 square to Hex drive adapter
-- Thorsen 80M spinner and XCelite R3324 screwdriver. Both look brand new.
-- The Ayers tire tool was discussed above.
-- Couple of nail sets
-- My first Blue Points wrench, No. 1214 and a little OXI-9 dated 1952.



-- A cute little 4" adjustable from Diamond Caulk and Horseshoe Co.
-- The first aid kit from the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, I picked up just before checking out.
Total cost: $20.

 

[d42jeep]

On Sunday I went back to the laughably overpriced sale that I ran away from on Friday for their 50% off day. Unsurprisingly there was still a lot of good stuff left. The two $100 Disston and Sons saws were still there.

I dove right in and started picking out all the Vacuum Grip pliers and cutters. All but one was made by the Forged Steel Products Co. prior to their involvement with Snap-on. All are from the late '20s while the sole SO (60-R) is from 1938.
3 No. 17 end nippers
No. 49 Slip Joint
No. 86 Diagonal Cutter
No. 87 Diagonal Cutter--this is a best guess as there are no markings whatsoever on the tool.
No. 497 Bent Needle Nose
No. 696 Specialty Pliers/Cutter--I cannot find this number in any online catalog
Hose Grip Pliers with no markings. Thought it might be a modified No.597 but it is too long.
Snap-on 60-R--Precursor to the Duckbill?



Snapped up the two half-inch wood threading boxes from the table where I found their big brother. I'm glad I didn't see these on Friday.
One is by Imhoff & Lange the other by IB Hasenclever & Sons
The L.S. Starrett No. 530 50' steel tape measure was under a bunch of ****
Blue Point Supreme S-714 Punch
Proto Challenger case--empty
When I told the agent the orphan plane iron belonged to a plow plane I had seen the other day, he said it had already sold and I could have it.



After I had my fill at the tool tables and was about to check out I made one last sweep of the garage and on a low shelf I saw peeking from behind one of those tubular steel two-handed post drivers a long thin black metal case. I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened it up--a nearly complete S-K 1/2" drive set from the late 20s/early 30s. It is very similar to the set they have on AA. Sadly, the decal is almost completely obliterated. The set is missing the slide for the sliding T and possibly an 8pt or two and maybe a valve grinder attachment. Since neither I nor AA can find an S-K catalog from that era, it's hard to tell. BTW, the Duro Hex socket set was also in there. After all the discounts I got out of there for $35!



At the end of the day I went back to see what deals were to be had on what was left, but I'm too tired to post that now. I'll leave you with a teaser pic. Good night!

I have that S-K set but I’m looking for the speeder. Now I know exactly what it looks like.
-Don

 

[Old Radar]

What a great decal!! I wonder how my box, which is great shape--baring a little rust--could have lost 99% of the decal.

 

[LesserSon]

I find a parallel between Bill Myers and James Charles Stuart, aka James VI, aka James I.
Consequently, I consider the Myers years the Personal Union. No Myers, no Snap-on.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

To put it in simple terms:

That is more succinct. Maybe not as colorful, but definitely more succinct. I've been through it lamentably before on the SO thread, but I'm going to bookmark your post for easy linking next time.

I find a parallel between Bill Myers and James Charles Stuart, aka James VI, aka James I.
Consequently, I consider the Myers years the Personal Union. No Myers, no Snap-on.

That is a very apt analogy!

Such is corporate finance

True, but saying something like, "Snap-on acquired FSP in 1945," and leaving it at that, is a little like giving a synopsis of the history of franchising in a corporate finance class, using McDonald's as your example, talking about **** and Mac McDonald, without ever mentioning Ray Kroc. I did re-read the FSP page on AA and it does give some credit to FSP, but it still leaves way too much between the lines, never directly discussing the stock in a way that makes it clear that Snap-on in essence already belonged to Bill Myers, and Bill Myers was FSP.

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Some LEFT-BEHINDs...

Tumbler, rustic smoking pipe made in France, a jeweler's anvil, and an Equiptp cabinet.

Lugz Gonna send you a PM about the jeweler's vise.

 

[RTM]

The die stock to the far right is unmarked and looks kind of cheap, but I'm no expert. I don't know what to call the little item sticking up out of that die stock. It's a 1/4" die with a tap screwed into one end and a screw extractor screwed in the other. The latter is marked with Sexauer Made in USA. I don't know if it was made that way or was cobbled together by the PO.

Lugz found one of those last year, and I turned it up in another catalog of plumbing supplies. Refill tube tool, so guessing toilet lines?

Look here (lots of guesses above)

Anyone collect vintage Taps and dies?

Beautiful! Great sets and well tended!

www.garagejournal.com

 

[bmwrd0]

Like many of us, I often peruse the ads on Craigslist, and today while doing this, I spotted something interesting, and on my way back from that I stopped at one of my favorite Restores. Here is what I found:

A Lufkin depth gauge in box, a Lufkin set of contour gauges seemingly unused, MT1 drill bit size 17/32", broken Stanley level that I wanted for the remaining bubble, four drill points, and a Hinsdale 11/32" socket. I had to spend a little money, but at $42 I am happy. Especially after the mornings' pickup:

An Arts and Crafts fireplace screen. The handles aren't original, and it needs a little repair to the filigree, but for $50 I am smiling.

Looks pretty good in the house, too:

 

[WNYflyer]

Well at initial glance sales were not looking very hopeful last weekend but the weekend ended up surprisingly fruitful.

Pro estate sale clearing out the basement of a long closed hardware store in a little town not far away. A lot of nice old signs for paints, gas & oil, boats and outboards along with real hardware. Not much in the way of tools but I did spy and grab the following, Plomb pebble finish DBE wrenches in excellent condition.

Next sale was a pro estate sale at house where a dad and adult son supposedly lived together for what must have been quite awhile. Upstairs all kinds of video games and more action figures than I have ever seen in my life. Basement was close to a hoarders situation chock full of tools and basically "man" stuff. Williams, Snap-On, Proto, Craftsman, etc., looking at some of the stuff it looked like the dad was some type of maintenance mechanic at a local chemical plant. Also all kinds of boxes and house brand tools & stuff from Grainger, MSC, etc. Sale started Thursday at 3:00 pm but I didn't go until late on Friday and even then I had to really convince myself to go because I knew there would be big crowds and the prices would be high given the company running the sale. Marked stuff ended up being priced high, such as good size Snap-On wrenches with owners marks for $50 and a like new Williams 24" adjustable for $200 . Given that there was just so much in the basement I searched for un-priced stuff and looked for a realistic guy to give me prices which ended up being very reasonable. I like those pro sales where they have so much stuff they can't realistically price it all.

Anyways Vise Grip set and Williams ratcheting wrench set all unused.


Mayhew pry bar set, Cook Hammer Co. hammer & Proto 1/2" drive metric impact socket set. All unused.


Saturday hit a one day sale that started at 8:00 am and ended up being the only one there interested in tools for quite a bit of time. Guy cleaning out his dads house which had sold, dad had run his own car repair shop so good amount of tools though surprisingly quite the mishmash. So picked up....
Snap-On, MAC, Vulcan and Gray wrenches

Snap-On & MAC sockets with everything pretty much metric, Vulcan refrigeration? ratchet and S-K thumbwheel.

 

[Provincial]

Monday I ran parts in the local larger city. I stopped by the Restore, and found these items:
Vlchek WBE 26 combo 13/16
Westcraft 1/2 dr. 12-pt. socket 1-1/8 (Indestro sourced)
Indestro Super 1/2 dr. 12-pt. socket 1"
Proto 9686 #3 Phillips
Proto 9684 #2 Phillips
Proto 9633 cabinet, modified to a square drive
Barcalo Buffalo DOE 19/32 x 11/16

They charged me a dollar apiece for the screwdrivers, but only a quarter apiece for the rest.

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Wheels on the road at 0438 this morning loaded up with trade bait in the back, arrived at Jake's Flea Market in Barto, PA., at 0632, just as dawn was threatening to crack. First thing I saw was a hot air balloon being inflated and flashlights winking on and off in the distance beyond the two lighted pavilions. Rendezvoused with Lesser Son, Mrs. LesserSon, and Chris (Longtime Lurker), and off we went with our flashlights at the ready, with me in uncharted territory happy to follow their local leads.

First thing I picked up, not half a minute later, a Mathews' NEVER-STALL adjustable multi-tool contraption, Chris says, "I knew you were going to pick that up!" Yeah, he had gotten there early, way before us, and had done a cursory recon! LS doesn't get off easy in this report either. At one point, shortly after the sun had come up, Chris and I had lost him in the maze, somehow getting ahead of him, and after dutifully waiting a minute or two, we figured he was going through some books somewhere, so we went around the next turn and down the next aisle only to find him picking at one of the best tool tables we had seen so far! Yeah, he had take a shortcut without telling us! Home turf advantage!

Just joshing, of course. They were perfect hosts.

We spent some time inspecting and looking at this very early Long C 3/8-drive C-series set before passing. It seemed as if only the extension and six sockets were present, and the box, although it had a Long C embossing, was spray bombed.



I passed up this TOOL-MATE. (Hey, if it's not a TOOL-CHAMP, I don't want it!)



And we all talked about Outlaw when we saw this...



Ran into Rickster, who has one of the best organized tables I have ever seen at any flea market, with tools pinned and labeled like insects in an entomology lab to cardboard backing, making it really easy to quickly shuffle through his offerings with your fingers like LPs, alas, most of which is a little later than my tastes.



The coffee was terrible, but the picking was so good, the banter was better, we didn't even notice the hot air balloon until it was almost too high and far away to see, and we were being serenaded the whole time by two guys playing guitar and singing acoustic classics from the 60's and 70's.

All in all, I have to give not 1 but 2 to Jake's. You guys know I don't praise too easily, and you know I take a lot of pride in New Jersey flea markets. Jake's is top notch, right up there with Collingswood, Columbus, and Englishtown, and much bigger than Lambertville. It is classic old school picking with a wide variety and good prices. If it was closer, I would be a regular, and that is the highest recommendation I can give.

Here's a shot of we Three Fleamigos taken by Mrs. LesserSon just before we said our fair-thee-wells.



I pulled in back at the Lugzsonian with a trunk full of finds and trades (Lugz 2021_66) at 1154.



Everything to the left is the FLEA FINDS

TOP to BOTTOM

Some of you know I already have a Service Engineering socket set (Newton and King male drive tang clones), but it is missing half its pieces, and this one had either a twisted screwdriver attachment or some kind of extractor. Either way, it was peanuts.

That Flex-Socket is a Herbrand. In 15 years I have never seen one in the wild. Only in catalogs. Picked up that and the Hinsdale tubular DBE's at the same spot.

The 10-pin carbon scraper is WWII, GMTK spec. Unbranded but someone will need one.

That little universal joint is a 3/8-drive Plomb WF- and the hinge handle is Duro, of course.

Straddling all those on the left is a U.S.M.C. MK2 1943 machete.

The tool with the adjustable pipe wrench, gas and burner plier jaws, another set of burner jaws and two little tap opening (more apparent when the handles are closed) with a nail puller and a punch on the end is the aforementioned Mathews' NEVER-STALL tool.

NASH wrench in between the handles.

Floating fish knife (for that WWII Navy survivor fishing kit I found earlier this year!)

And my fourth pair of Neverslip Mfg Co linesman pliers with replaceable jaws

On the right is the TRADE BOUNTY

Flanking the Ronson auto kit wrench (very attentive and thoughtful of LS!) are PLVMB adjustables and stubby and Vlchek Phillips drives with Flying V ferrule logos. Below that group are some fancy Kraeuter K-Diamond wrenches.

Sounds like great fun Lugz! I'm guessing the three Fleamigos is LS, you and Chris from left to right. Correct?

Now I see you picked up ANOTHER machete and find myself thinking I also would have bought that had I come across it. Maybe I am a machete guy!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

LS, you and Chris from left to right. Correct?

 

[txlonghorn1989]

3Bay, you can probably get the swivel base for that if you are interested. A guy on the vise thread has or had some new ones, (tying to remember his username...)

Outlaw Are you thinking autopts who sells on ebay?

 

[Magnum440d100]

I don’t recall sharing this one?

Picked this one up before it hit the yard sale table. 3/4” Bonney! Works great. I only have ONE 3/4” drive socket with me, for the hubs on my Cummins truck. So, I NEEDED it lol.

Best of all, I got it for $free.50!

 

[Outlawmws]

Outlaw Are you thinking autopts who sells on ebay?

Yes!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I was getting ready for tomorrow, picking out a hat (I leave when it's dark, and if there's anything that ruins my day, it's grabbing the wrong hat!), and thought I'd circle back on the topic of the NOS Trooper/DI/Smokie "Piedmont" I left behind. I DO have one. (Username has an ever nicer one. Maybe he'll see this and post.) A flea market find, of course. I've got a few dozen hats, not counting ball caps, and most of them are flea market finds or hats I got in trade when I was on active duty. I like hats.

 

[bmwrd0]

 

[3baygarage]

Yes!

Outlaw Are you thinking autopts who sells on ebay?

thank you, I think he and I have spoken in the past.


Flyer- nice reefer rat. You find all the cool Vulcan stuff.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Love the ads, Beemer! "The Boss." Haha.

But now you put me 15 minutes behind by awakening my inner haberdasher!

Here are my fedoras. All vintage Stetsons. All flea market finds. You've seen Pic 1 before! Pic 2 is a "Country Gentleman". Pic 3 is a "Mallory." All worn brim up, "Rocky" style, never brim down, like the treasure-hunter with the whip in that other piddly movie franchise.