2022 Garage Sale Thread

[mikeinri]

@cmccuist1 That's a You ****!

Mike

 

[Outlawmws]

Dave (and others) new "rule" for brass hoes nozzles: You have to say whether you have dupes or not!

and Nice find on the "golden age of stereo" finds! That would be a red letter day for me these days!

I found a few things today - Minimal tools but not bad:


These plates were first up: $10 (they were asking 20) but Ya gotta try to dicker, and he accepted quickly. I want them as I have a 1947 Ford PU project (scattered all over but includes NOS hood and fenders...) and whats not to like having period correct plates for it? I believe these are even commercial plates (CA treats PU's as commercial vehicles...)



Something for my youngest daughter (We are all LOTR fans but she's a Fanatic..) 3 bucks




Estate sale: Some Prop bottles and another Hose nozzle -(still no dupes...)




And a Leroy Lettering set: these were big $$ "Back in the day"... Left $5 at the Estate sale






3 for the Cannon, (I think I could put together a historical artillery park from these miniatures by now!)
and $5 for the rest at another Yardsale -Ridgid Tubing cutter and Flareing tool, Mitutoyo SAE thread gauge, Klein Dykes, and the wood dowels and plugs,




I saw this at another YS adn it was "Automatic Aqqisiiton" mode.



Guillotine Lantern case, with a beat 228, but the glass (amazingly) is original and it has the funnel (Top left you can see it peaking out) and an open pack of silk light mantles. (the two on the lanterns are unbroken...)



I would bet this with a bit of fuel added would light right up...


$5 for a wrought iron folding table:






To be continued:

 

[Provincial]

Here I will move is along- wait, did someone just purchase a Jerry can usmc marked? Look over there

What gauge is the steel of that can?

 

[Outlawmws]

Continued:

Silverplate Spoon and a box for dies:

We are thinking about making the spoon into a hook?




Top of the box:




I can get "Tools" on the bottom, but no clue what the MFG was not Greenfield..




and from a late run for a buck - this oine surpised me when I got home - I expected What atr you going to do with that - Instead I got "do you have anyting planned for that?" from 2 of three, (and the youngest is at work, so has a shot at making it unanimous! They were not happy I do have an intent, if not a specific plan yet... (it's only about 14 X 13) My oldest offered to buy it at a profit or trade it for a smaller one she has... I'll have to start bringing these home when I see them, I only grabbed this one because it was only a buck..

 

[Outlawmws]

I don’t understand what these are and what they do? I googled “rivet sets” but didn’t see anything like these?

Never mind, I found a video. I didn’t realize these were for copper rivets used on leather.

Not just copper, and not just leather. Any rivets used on anything, including sheet metal, prior to compound riveters with handles and, later, rivet guns, as long as you had a hammer and backing. And even after the advent of more proficient riveters, hand rivet sets were still used in some applications, such as the kits used by upholsterers and body and radiator mechanics in WWII.

I made a dustpan in shop class, bent loop flat bar for the handle, and galvanized sheet metal for the pan. My mom still had (and used) the pan long after the handle had vanished. it had been riveted on with iron rivets and thoe were set adn finished with a set like those. The sheet metal eventually wallowed out and the handle came off. I brought it home, and an old metal Fuller Brush dust mop handle and put that on, so its a vertical handle and you don't have to stoop to use it.

Here I will move is along- wait, did someone just purchase a Jerry can usmc marked? Look over there

What gauge is the steel of that can?

 

[bmwrd0]

I remember spoons folded like that, my mother would always say that it was for a little child to use.

 

[Outlawmws]

I remember spoons folded like that, my mother would always say that it was for a little child to use.

I've seen those also; not in this case, as it's the big soup spoon.

 

[bmwrd0]

Maybe for a kid with a big mouth?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

GreenFwild

If that's a die stock box, almost assuredly Greenfield, Mass.

I remember spoons folded like that, my mother would always say that it was for a little child to use.

I thought it was uncles playing Mr. Universe. Typically found with half of a phone book.

 

[freudianfloyd]

My dad and I went out today for a few hours. It was a very slow day for the first couple of hours so I got on Marketplace to see if any interesting sales popped up. Found a tool sale about 15 minutes from us, and when we got near, we noticed there were no Yard Sale signs, none all the way to her house in fact. Perfect!

I wound up spending $10 for all the following items...
Mapp Torch with three tanks, a carpet kicker, a decal eraser, some staples, a full can of starter fluid, an assortment of U-clips, an assortment of nylon lock nuts, and a trigger style tire inflator.

The tire inflator works good, no leaks anywhere, and has the locking end, which is handy. Does anybody recognize the manufacturer?

Edit....looking around online, it looks exactly like the Milton Exelair but in blue. So that is what I am going to claim it is.


A few yardsales later I picked up this OEM tools locking lug master key set for $25, never used. I was looking around online and this set and case looks identical to the one offered by Matco at $175.


I then stopped at a yardsale by my house and picked up this Craftsman plunge router with digital depth gauge and bit in the box for $5. Works great and looks like it has very little use.



And at the same yardsale picked up this incubator and heat lamp for $2.


All in all, not a bad few hours. Haven't been to a yard sale in a month or more so this was just what I needed.

 

[Outlawmws]

If that's a die stock box, almost assuredly Greenfield, Mass.

My first pass didn't come close to finding it adn I was thinking GTD initially as well but I changed up my search and came up with it. I'm surprised as I would not have expected blue:


Mine:

 

[Madjik Man]

Killer deal on this Fluke. Community wide yard sale in the little town of Clute. It’s the 787 Process Meter model which has functions I’ll never use. Paid $10. Needed a new battery and some leads, which I had a spare set laying about.

Wow. I'm thinking of another word that rhymes with "****" as in, "holy -----!"

 

[gpw_42]

Jim gets another **** for that double barrister!

Outlaw had a nice score on that Coleman, and Floyd had a STRONG day.

 

[Indexmill]

^^^ You **** on that Fluke!!

 

[d42jeep]

Although my finds were minimal, this Tahoe moving sale stopped me from being totally shut out. Proto Mfd 6” adjustable, S-K 3/8” drive extension, =v= 1/2” deep socket and a couple more Craftsman tools.
A few items of interest I gathered for a picture.
-Don

 

[BlueBomber]

freudianfloyd draws a hard vacuum for that series of low-priced grabs! And since I'm the former thread host who started the whole suckage count thing as an expeditious way to comb through thousands of posts to nominate PotY candidates, here's a "You ****" for the search engine to find.

Well done!

 

[Old Radar]

for Floyd! Those are my kind of prices!

 

[RTM]

Here is my haul from yesterday, couple of our routine vendors. The roller stand is by Record Sheffield. The dykes are PowrKraft and Utica, the needle nose are Utica. The close quarter saw is by Chicago Specialty. The wrench is a Craftsman -v- 3/8” ignition wrench.

The plastic roller ends on my HD stands have deteriorated, so this will get my bandsaw rolling again. (Bad pun not intended, but the dad in me thinks it should stay)

 

[mikeinri]

for Floyd! Those are my kind of prices!

Plus another You **** for @freudianfloyd!

And, @Outlawmws ***** for that lantern case (the contents are a bonus)!

Mike

 

[Old Radar]

Time for me to do a little catching up from this week.
Wednesday, I went to a sale a little north of town that showed a eight-stall horse barn. My eye was drawn to a tall Craftsman stack and tables laden with hand tools. The sale was run by a group of ladies whose sales I've been to many times. I'm perennially disappointed by their high prices, but continue to go because they frequently undervalue some of the things that interest me. This day was a perfect example. They had a small red Kennedy tool box with a couple of pliers and a few other forgettable tools in the top tote. Lifting that off revealed the bottom stuffed with rat's nest of used 16 gauge wire--price $45! After gathering a double fistful of unpriced sockets, a Snap-on 'G' dated 9/32 Midget ratchet with 9/32 to 1/4 adapter and an interesting looking squeeze ratchet called a Crick-It I went to ask the cost. After being told the sockets were $2 each but the Snap-on was only $1 and $2 for the Crick-It, I tossed the $4 worth of sockets--priced at $16--back in the bin and happily paid $3 for the two ratchets.


I know a few of you have examples of the Crick-It and GJ has a dedicated thread here.

On Friday it was a digger's paradise--a good sized shed packed to the rafters that the estate company said they hadn't been able to clear out due to the Texas heat and a lack of manpower. "Make a pile and make a price." The shed was hot and more than head deep with the rat-holed hoarding of decades. There was a tablesaw in the middle of the shed that literally no one could get to because of everything else piled around and on top of it. It didn't occur to me until just now that I should have taken a picture... Anyway, I grabbed a CM Crown tool box that looked like it had some worthy things in it, but also to hold other finds. I made it to the work bench and started shifting things around and sifting through the chaff of ages. Thirty minutes later I took the box out to the hold table and went back in to make sure I hadn't left anything. I had. It was a very large leg vise securely bolted to another bench and try I might, I couldn't find any markings at all. That combined with the fact it was thickly painted in a mottled teal led me to believe it was not of US origin--and they wanted $400!
When I got back to the hold table, I found they had put a $50 price on it. Surprised, I said I wasn't interested in the box and needed to cull the contents now that I had sufficient light to properly see what was what. Good thing I did. There were a lot of off-shore tools that were tossed in after a quick glance under a flashlight beam and more stuff that was US made but I don't really collect. What was left cost me $18.

The socket box color is reminiscent of Challenger, but there are no markings. Sockets are Thorsen.
The little vise is unmarked except for Made in USA across the base.
Roe 50' Measur-It tape and a NOS Craftsman 39002 100' tape.
Offset DBEs are Dunlap, the next is a Williams Superrench
The two Cad sockets are SO 'G' and a Plomb WF-25.
Combos are Fleet Metric. Larger DOE is Toyota. Smaller is CM Metric.
4" plier (pointed up) is a Lloyd 4S US. Made in England. Other is too pitted to see info.

The surprising find was the Sterling Silver O-6 collar insignia perched on the CM tape. It should pick up the tab for everything else!

 

[bmwrd0]

A bit of a recap. On Friday, I had actual things to do, so not to much rust hunting. That said, I went to a barn estate sale, as the pictures showed quite a bit of interesting furniture to be restored. But, unsurprisingly, much of this was priced too high for project status. So, I decided to look around at the shop portion and come back the next day for half off. Here is what I found:

Stanley sweetheart level, Winchester driver, Craftsman metric thread gauge (West Germany), Union inside calipers, and Browning USA knife. On a side note, tool/shop sales run by people who have no idea about those subjects are a bad idea. Prices were all over, such as a plastic top tray of rusty sockets and one ratchet for $80. This has nothing to do with pro vs. family, but a general familiarity with what is being sold. I then went to an "off-site" estate sale run by a company I don't really like, but it was near my barber. Nothing of interest there, but I go to their sales as they have no idea about tools, and I have found incredible deals with them.

On Sat, I made the rounds. Of course, the first three sales I hit were either non-existent or had nothing of interest. The next stop was far enough out in the country that I was starting to get a little nervous, it was feeling a little "meth-y" on the way out there. But it happened to be an older couple who needed to clear out as they were moving to a rest home. Not much of interest, but I found these:

A pair of low-end Japanese flyrods, one with the hand tag still on it. They were cheap enough, so they came home with me.

After that, spent far too much time in a "city" wide sale, city is a funny term for a census-designated area of trailer homes. Found nothing of interest, except maybe a case of depression. After that, headed over to the estate sale from the day before.
And, as I had delayed with dead ends, all of the interesting furniture was gone. But, I did find a few things that I had missed the day before:

Patches, a jeweler's anvil, and an unused set of stamping numbers. Also this:

A doctor's bag. It's a little dried out and missing a key, but should work perfectly for keeping tools in behind the seat of my truck.

After that I hit one more sale in that area, yielding the following:

Two Plomb wrenches, a spinner I can't quite place, Irwin speed bore wrench, Starrett fillet gauge, and a string of sockets which I picked up for the three Indestro Select.

And to round out the day, I swung by the sale that had the machinist tools on Thursday:

Here I picked up an odd set of dividers/compass, two sets of calipers (one with a sheath, one hermaphrodite) an unused endmill, Starrett thread gauge, and a snippet of a six-inch rule.

 

[3baygarage]

Looking good there. Some fine finds posted this week gentlemen.

Did some antiquing and found a half priced sale, leaving with this big Craftsman box for $17.50+tax. It was hard to resist.


I was undecided as I examined the inside, thinking the badge had been removed. Then I spun it around!


Needs some tlc and a new cylinder with keys. Anyone had luck replacing this cylinder before?

 

[seber]

Looking good there. Some fine finds posted this week gentlemen.

Did some antiquing and found a half priced sale, leaving with this big Craftsman box for $17.50+tax. It was hard to resist.


I was undecided as I examined the inside, thinking the badge had been removed. Then I spun it around!

Needs some tlc and a new cylinder with keys. Anyone had luck replacing this cylinder before?

It looks like a standard toolbox lock cylinder but hard to tell with just that photo. I keep several in my box for replacements. They work in 90% of the boxes I encounter.

 

[3baygarage]

I’ll have to get a better look Seber.


Last Saturday’s flea yielded this haul, except for the little knife which came from a moving sale.

k-d hose pliers
wrenches-Walden,Blue-Point, Indestro, Gearwrench, Herbrand
small gouge, brand unknown, says GENEVE
Vise-Grip- never had this model before
Mac and Snap-On Octo Grip screwdrivers
small knife, brand unknown
Craftsman ratchet bit driver
Scholler 6” adjustable wrench- an old reminder of Buffalo, to go with my 4”.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

And since I'm the former thread host who started the whole suckage count thing as an expeditious way to comb through thousands of posts to nominate PotY candidates, here's a "You ****" for the search engine to find.

A search engine which would need to include terms like "hard vacuum" along with "low pressure system" and so many other words of praise. And since I'm the former host who started the whole concept of a Picker of the Year to begin with, I suppose I only have myself to blame! Honestly, BB, as much fun as it was, and as much excitement as I'd like to conceitedly think it pumped into the thread that year, lately I've been bemoaning to myself how much it may have changed the thread in ways I find myself disliking.

and an interesting looking squeeze ratchet called a Crick-It

Very interesting.

Vise-Grip- never had this model before

I've never seen that before. I have some welding models that have wide jaws but they are not solid like that. I wonder what it's for. Glass maybe?

 

[LesserSon]

3bay, I like the kukri influence on that cute little knife!

 

[Outlawmws]

If the cylinder has a number, I'd have a good locksmith punch a new key out -

that's a Usuck find on that box 3Bay pretty rare, and its complete..

 

[LesserSon]

lately I've been bemoaning to myself how much it may have changed the thread in ways I find myself disliking.

I was at a college reunion years ago, and some of us started spontaneously knocking a volleyball around a court. People were watching, playfully joining, and then rotating out when they got tired or just wanted to go do something else. It so happened that the AD came by, and grabbing a pad of paper, took down names and worked out a roundrobin tournament to formalize, codify and systematize the play. About ten minutes later the court was empty, and it stayed that way except for the ball and net.

 

[Outlawmws]

and an interesting looking squeeze ratchet called a Crick-It

I have one of those. Cool ratchet for tight quarters, but you will wear out your hand squeezing...

Winchester driver

Nice!

Vise-Grip- never had this model before

I've never seen that before. I have some welding models that have wide jaws but they are not solid like that. I wonder what it's for. Glass maybe?

Lugz, that was VG's pass at sheet metal tongs.

 

[Outlawmws]

3bay, I like the kukri influence on that cute little knife!

 

[3baygarage]

Thanks Outlaw. I’ll see if there’s anything under the paint.
LS, I was thinking Kukri as well. Maybe from one of those mini knife sets.
Lugz, Vise-Grip for clamping sheet metal, or whatever fits. The stamp Patent Applied For caught my attention.

 

[WNYflyer]

Nothing was looking good this weekend until I checked CL real early Friday morning and a sale had popped up at the last minute so I hustled to get there for a 8:00 opening. Gentlemen from out of town cleaning out his late jack-of-all trades dad's garage in preparation for moving his mom. Stuff all over, electrical, plumbing, woodworking, some mechanic stuff. Was the only one there for quite a bit so after much digging through piles of "stuff" strewn all over I came away with the following.

Blue-Point/Snap-On adjustable
Snap-On driver
Mac Sabina gasket scraper
Mac SAE wrench
Snap-On socket set looking to be missing one socket plus misc.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Lugz, that was VG's pass at sheet metal tongs.

Lugz, Vise-Grip for clamping sheet metal, or whatever fits.

I could've sworn mine were hollowed out in the middle, to save material. I must be wrong.

 

[Old Radar]

lately I've been bemoaning to myself how much it may have changed the thread in ways I find myself disliking.

the AD came by, and grabbing a pad of paper, took down names and worked out a roundrobin tournament to formalize, codify and systematize the play.

That's what happens when you free-flowing right-brained thinkers let us anally retentive lefties play!!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That's what happens when you free-flowing right-brained thinkers let us anally retentive lefties play!!

Snerk.

 

[bmwrd0]

Kukri knives come with two little knives, such as that one, to cut up fruit and perform other minor tasks.

 

[ForrestT]

Good sale for me yesterday. $20 for the Coleman 1850 powermate generator and $5 for the barely used Dewalt 18v Hammer Drill. Already used a converter and 4ah 20v battery. The drill hardly has a scratch on it.

 

[Outlawmws]

An odd day and too many miles for what was found, but...

First planned stop was a No show, adn the ad had been deleted after I got home... Too much to drink the night before I guess.

On the way home I spotted a free pile adn puled up close, the n got out. after seeing a Proto ratchet and a vise I recognized, I grabbed the whole box, then sifted the two plastic trays for some of the non China stuff.

I half expected the box content to be half MIC, but I was wrong:

Vise and clamp were separated but both present; Proto Ratchet and Angle Driver, Corwell Extension Thorsen 14MM Socket, The Klein Strippers handles were all gunked up, but SG resolved that. No name Taiwan stubby ratchet



All Indestro:



Punches - P&C, Williams, Hargrave Dasco, Xacto Fat handle, mag stick, Files are Nicholson




Ace adn Bunz Torch tips, Ace extractor, Wiss Sissors,




Drivers CM , Toyota (Yellow) ; and Ball (Creative), Dunlap and Makita Ratcheting, adn a spark tester



Herbrand Spud, Ridgid Snips, adn a Coleman funnel (no felt filter inside)





Brushes and consumables:


The Dregs in the box:




Not pictured was an Aluminum Level - 24" and a scale/blade for a Combination square:

Later I did the long drive and got these from an Estate sale:

Craftsman Magnet, adn a BPT Hdwr, driver-$1 :




And an much larger cabinet like yesterday: 20X20X7" working space - $10:

 

[HPRifleman]

Apparently the other tool thread is only for new tools so I think this acquisition is appropriate to this thread.

I was picking up some stuff from my dad's place and noticed this grinder next to his other grinder. He told me I could have it if I hauled it away.

 

[Smokeshow69]

What gauge is the steel of that can?

I don’t know but it’s a picture from a local add to us so you can find out . Also, I didn’t understand the level of intricacies of Jerry can collecting but on g503, it’s pretty serious! There is a whole sub forum for discussion