2022 Garage Sale Thread

[MisterEd]

She done good. Best wishes on recovery.

Yeah, she has an eye for rust! And as to the recovery, it's my second and 2 weeks out I'm moving about 85% normal.

Thanks for "best wishes."

 

[four.cycle]

oh... not questioning the accuracy on your statement about the military nomenclature at all - just thought it an interesting coincidence.

seriously: "hi POWA"? as in: from south Boston? that is too funny.

 

[83VillageRepair]

Some keepers (1945 Snappy 1/2F-to-3/8M adaptor, NB/Crafty 3/8-drive uni joint, and LIQUID CARBOLIC tank wrench) and trade fodder (I'm no carpenter!) in this morning's frozen flea finds (Lugz 2022_57). The bolt cutters were a throw in for me recommending a seller remove a valuable item from a $1 table. The blades are chewed to hell, but it's really early with some cool markings I have never seen before.

Lugs I have a 4ft long pair of cutters of the same brand. Good find

 

[d42jeep]

Yesterday’s estate sale promised a lot of old hand and power tools and it did not disappoint. Unfortunately, I didn’t make the first wave inside and by the time I got into the garage, it was already a feeding frenzy. I had a short list of things I had seen in the photos, but most were gone or had Sold signs on them already—including a nice leg vise, some interesting hatchets and an odd adjustable wrench worthy of inclusion in Lugz’s Order of Oddfellows thread. I put them all out of my mind as I started bagging cool things that were not pictured in the ad.



Starting with the tools on the left:

• Long C Craftsman (BE) extension
• Mossberg made Ford 5-Z-829 ratcheting wrench
• Ford DOE with Forged M—Mossberg?
• Frank Mossberg 623 5/8” Socket Wrench
• Tappet wrench stamped Chrome Vanadium Steel 17/32 x 7/16
• No Name Hex Ratchet
• No Name ½” non-reversing ratchet with “Raise” and “Lower” stamped on opposite sides instead of On/Off. I had hoped it was part of the Hinsdale set below, but it’s too long to fit in the box.
• Couple of finger planes

Right Side:

• Very nice unmarked wood auger handle with a Greenlee auger bit No. 62-.
• Collection of mini screwdrivers and turn screws. My fav is the middle one from Goodell-Pratt. The others are unmarked.
• Hose nozzle marked only “Boston”
• Double “Callipers” from P. Lowentraut, Manufacturer of Mechanic Tools & Skates, Newark, N.J
• L.S. Starrett 4” Outside Calipers
• Mossberg 490 Alligator Wrench w/screwdriver point
• L.S. Starrett No. 530 100’ tape
• Keuffel & Esser Favorite Wyteface 100’ tape
• Lufkin 6’ advertising tape from Allied American Bank of San Antonio

Finally:

• S-K Chrome 4097 Socket Set—Complete

• Hinsdale 13B ½” Socket Set—missing non-reversing ratchet, drive plug and “Long Extension”

• I forgot to put the Clayton-Lambert blow torch in the group shot. Pat date Jan 4th, 1921.

Out the door for $20. I’m heading back this morning to see if I can find the missing Hinsdale parts while keeping my eye out for any more treasures!

You ****! My guess on the S-K Chrome 1/4” drive set is 1939. I’m a little jealous.
i traveled 5 minutes this morning to bring home these few things. The DeWalt is for driving sheet rock screws.
-Don

 

[Outlawmws]

Wishes for a quick recovery Mr. Ed!

I found one sale with primarily tools , but only got an original MAPP(R) gas yellow bottle for 2 bucks - I'm up to at least 11 now.

 

[MisterEd]

Wishes for a quick recovery Mr. Ed!

Appreciate that. Have some damn fine alloys in my knees!

 

[Outlawmws]

Keep documentation for when you fly!

 

[ctuai]

Lugs I have a 4ft long pair of cutters of the same brand. Good find

I've also got the same bolt cutter. You can still buy the blades and between the various adjusting bolts you can grind down quite a bit of the blade and still get them relatively flush. They're also featured in the movie, "O' Brother Where Art Thou."

 

[Private Lugnutz]

oh... not questioning the accuracy on your statement about the military nomenclature at all - just thought it an interesting coincidence.

Sorry. I mistook your head scratch emoji.

seriously: "hi POWA"? as in: from south Boston? that is too funny.

Right? And HKP was in Boston, so, makes sense.

Lugs I have a 4ft long pair of cutters of the same brand.

Dang! What size bolts does it say they'll cut?

Good find

Thanks! I had a 2-footer at home already. These 14-inchers are cute. Interestingly, they have different trademarks and patents. Check it out on the HKP thread here.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

you can grind down quite a bit of the blade and still get them relatively flush.

Good point. That's true. I do have some modern cutters for users, but I might do that just for the sake of cleaning them up right and proudly.

They're also featured in the movie, "O' Brother Where Art Thou."

Thanks. Now I'll be walking around the house singing "Big Rock Candy Mountain" for the rest of the day!

 

[Outlawmws]

Not "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow"?

I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow

 

[ctuai]

Good point. That's true. I do have some modern cutters for users, but I might do that just for the sake of cleaning them up right and proudly.

Thanks. Now I'll be walking around the house singing "Big Rock Candy Mountain" for the rest of the day!

Ahhh the Big Rock Candy Mountain. Whiskey streams, lakes of stew, no short handle shovels and the place where they hung the jerk that invented work... Utopia.

 

[ctuai]

Last estate sale of the year ($60): Wiss A9 - straight pattern snips; Channellock no. 447 - curved diagonal cutters; Dexter Mini Mat Cutter; Master #77 Lionshead padlock; No name profile tool (Germany). Sears Craftsman 18" scroll saw (model # 113.207600); consumables. Not shown; 3M Coated Abrasive Sheets - Tri-M-ite Fre-Cut finishing paper (220A grit, 1961-1978 ca.) -- Cuisinart 8 setting flatware set; some 80's vinyl (Police, Marvin Gaye, Canned Heat).

I dig the 3M sandpaper design. It looks like it should feed into some sort of magnetic tape drive.

 

[Old Radar]

What was the brand?

MDF.

Indestro.

Jack? Crank?

Thanks @Lugz and @RTM for the info! The brand of the odd adjustable is unknown to me. It was gone when I got into the garage. All I have is a blurry pic from the ad:


I went back to the sale this morning hoping to find the drive tools for the Hinsdale 13B set. No joy.
The vultures had done a good job of picking clean most of what I was interested in. This is all I came away with for $5:

- Three 1/2" S-K pieces from the same vintage as yesterday's 1/4" set.
- A 2-3/8" boring bit. I can't make out the maker or identify the logo. This is an approximation of what I see:
ROCK_____LL Looks like about five letters missing.
The logos could have more going on above my depictions but they're obscured.

- A Shaler Five Minute Vulcanizer clamp for innertube repair
- Half a tube of BBs
- An Irwin square tang screwdriver bit
- What I briefly thought might be a saw vise to be secured in a wood vise, but then realized the ridiculous redundancy.



So now it's time to play a quick game of What The Heck Is It??

It is a heavy (probably tropical) hardwood measuring 9-3/4" x 2-1/2" x 1" The 2-1/2" width includes the 1/2" tab.
Brass is inset for the screws, but also note the two points along the rounded edge, 1/2" off center-line of each screw.
Small springs open the two halves approx 1/16" to 3/32" when the screws are loosened.
There are strips of man-made material, two of which meet at the rounded edge, but only a single one opposite the "tab". When the screws are tightened, this material creates a gap which is interrupted by both the screw posts and the dowel rod.
Note the "tab" shows evidence of having been clamped.
I don't know what the heck it is.

 

[RTM]

At first glance, the form factor looks like a Joiner planer blade sharpener. But with such a small gap when open, what could you put in there? Those credit card thin diamond abrasive sheets?
Also has the general shape to be a handsaw jointer, but again, too skinny of a gap for a file.

Does the dark strip of man made material look like sharpening swarf on the strip?

 

[seber]

I believe that is a cabinet scraper with a missing blade.

 

[Outlawmws]

I believe that is a cabinet scraper with a missing blade.

 

[RTM]

That'd be the right thickness. But seems to not have enough vertical beef to hold it. Plus the dowel in the middle fouls the big scraper blade up.

 

[Outlawmws]

Dowel in the middle may be a pin so the scraper blade does not shift...

 

[ForrestT]

I’m guessing HyPowr, to short to be hypoallergenic.

My guess is h. k. Porter.

 

[bmwrd0]

I hit two garage sales and two estate sales. Nothing special, but I did find a few things:

The two garage sales netted a Wiss sheet metal straighteners and a Snap-on 1/2" breaker bar with a slight bend. Also, a Mitutoyo fishtail, which seems to have been left in my truck.


The first of the estate sales had a ton of ****, but I was able to find a few things: Marshall Wells level, unopened pack of Chamois', Reed and Prince 1/4"-20 screws, chain repair kit, Craftsman pin punch set (missing the smallest size), Luntz file handle, Lenox hole saw, 100 rnds of .22, Thor tools #2 Phillips, P&C caulking iron, sockets (Proto, Snap-on, Plomb), Plierwrench manual (find of the day), and some hacksaw blades (I probably have a lifetime supply now).


The second estate sale was the one I hit yesterday with poor parking. I only hit it as I was in the general area, and it had been picked pretty clean by that point. All I found were two sockets (Wright and Proto impact) and the box for an Iver Johnson #55.

It would have been another $20 day, but I bought the .22 ammo, so it was a $34 day.

 

[seber]

That'd be the right thickness. But seems to not have enough vertical beef to hold it. Plus the dowel in the middle fouls the big scraper blade up.

The dowel is to give the blade a slight bend. Without that you get grooves cut into the work at the ends of the blade.

 

[Outlawmws]

Seber, that dowel goes through. and the scraper would need a hole; Hence my "anti-shift" comment

 

[RTM]

The dowel is to give the blade a slight bend. Without that you get grooves cut into the work at the ends of the blade.

Seber, that dowel goes through. and the scraper would need a hole; Hence my "anti-shift" comment

My freehand scraper holders have a screw to adjust the amount of bend. That dowel would give a huge bend. I usually use less than one screw turn on mine.

And as outlaw says, it goes thru.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

This is my haul (Lugz 2022_58) from the flea this morning, delayed reporting by the World Cup 2022 final and a nap.

A No. 14 Barber's Improved Bit Brace by Millers Falls that should spiff up nicely, some safety glasses that are going to need some work, and what just might be my favorite find of the entire year, a Colonial "Ranger" pocket knife.

 

[Outlawmws]

My freehand scraper holders have a screw to adjust the amount of bend. That dowel would give a huge bend. I usually use less than one screw turn on mine.

And as outlaw says, it goes thru.

I noted s couple of "Spacers" on the dissassmbled pics, Maybe a thin center washer, on thr dowel on the opposite side, and as you tighten the screws you adjust the bow?

 

[LesserSon]

Got up before dawn today, headed south on a solo trip to Jake’s Flea Market. I hadn’t expected to make another pilgrimage after last week, but for whatever reason, there I was at the locked gates, one sign reading “Open Sat & Sun April Till Christmas,” and another “Closed For Season - Merry Christmas!” Full of coffee and disappointment, I drove a couple miles further and killed some time at a Walmart. Then heading back the way I came, stopped at Fensty’s Indoor Flea Market, which did very little to alter my funk - nothing there for me.
Back home I sulked over a ham and cheese on rye, took the dogs for a walk (we disturbed a 4pt buck dozing where the sidewalk ends), then started looking around my hoard. Yeah, probably best to focus on that for a while, at least to point that turning around doesn’t knock something over. On the up side, I did find the bin I had my FSP pliers in when they attended the homecoming at Newport.

 

[bmwrd0]

"...then started looking around my hoard. Yeah, probably best to focus on that for a while, at least to point that turning around doesn’t knock something over."

Yeah, that is big on my to-do list:

 

[Private Lugnutz]

...that is big on my to-do list:

+ 3! But I've been saying that all year. I may have to do a major slow down in 2023.

Until then, though, some cleaned-up teaser shots (see Knife, MF, and Safety Glasses threads for more) from this morning's finds...

 

[Old Radar]

+4! That's 26 square feet of "Me First! Me First! No, Me First!"



And speaking of procrastinating, the voting for Picker and new Host has stalled.
Only six days until the polls close, so get at it!
For those of you on your phone, turn it to landscape to see the links in my sig block. Happy Voting!
Do it now.

 

[Old Radar]

I noted s couple of "Spacers" on the dissassmbled pics, Maybe a thin center washer, on thr dowel on the opposite side, and as you tighten the screws you adjust the bow?

If you mean the two objects between the halves below, they are the small springs that push the halves slightly apart as you loosen the screws. The dowel seats deeply into the hole and there's no chance the screws engage their nuts if the hole is blocked.

 

[genog]

Found a few things today
Wrenches, nut drivers and a dive bomber

Craftsman Saltus wrenches
Hey! There's a 3/4, but missing of course, the 11/16
W Moore marked his 3/4" er


Almost two complete Xcelite 99 sets
I noticed that there was a couple of missing drivers from the second set, but there are a few xtra -duplicates to make up for them


and a Curtis SB2C Helldiver
I think it's missing the sliding part of the rear canopy

 

[bmwrd0]

If I remembrer right, Proto saltus wrench sets don't come with an 11/16", so it might be normal.

 

[Smokeshow69]

Found a few things today
Wrenches, nut drivers and a dive bomber

Craftsman Saltus wrenches
Hey! There's a 3/4, but missing of course, the 11/16
W Moore marked his 3/4" er


Almost two complete Xcelite 99 sets
I noticed that there was a couple of missing drivers from the second set, but there are a few xtra -duplicates to make up for them


and a Curtis SB2C Helldiver
I think it's missing the sliding part of the rear canopy

If I remembrer right, Proto saltus wrench sets don't come with an 11/16", so it might be normal.

The craftsman 11/16 was sold separately in the catalogs, but not a part of the set. That and the 1” are somewhat uncommon

 

[LesserSon]

OR -
You haven’t given us a pic of the exterior side of the wider half of your whatzit. I don’t know if it will make whatever it is to hold more obvious, but it looks like it has a rebate, so whatever it holds could potentially have a trough-like recess that fits around it.
I also notice the small divots clustered near the middle third of the length, so whatever it is isn’t perfectly flat, but has at least one round metal fastener-like head, which if repositioned several times would make as many divots.
The much-discussed dowel seems to me to simply register the two haves while the screws are tightened, but obviously it also creates a depth limit so whatever is held does not rest against the screws. The only reason I can think there aren’t two dowels is that whatever is held may have its precise angle subtly adjusted.
My first thought was a tool for checkering gunstocks, then I thought of the brushes for picking up gold leaf. I don’t think it is either, but whatever it is seems like it can’t be for very vigorous lateral use (like a cabinet scraper) or it would have broken radially through the wood fibers, so I think it is used longitudinally (like a knife or saw).

 

[wtn1271]

.......delayed reporting by the World Cup 2022 final and a nap.

LOL

 

[Old Radar]

OR -
You haven’t given us a pic of the exterior side of the wider half of your whatzit. I don’t know if it will make whatever it is to hold more obvious, but it looks like it has a rebate, so whatever it holds could potentially have a trough-like recess that fits around it.
I also notice the small divots clustered near the middle third of the length, so whatever it is isn’t perfectly flat, but has at least one round metal fastener-like head, which if repositioned several times would make as many divots.
The much-discussed dowel seems to me to simply register the two haves while the screws are tightened, but obviously it also creates a depth limit so whatever is held does not rest against the screws. The only reason I can think there aren’t two dowels is that whatever is held may have its precise angle subtly adjusted.
My first thought was a tool for checkering gunstocks, then I thought of the brushes for picking up gold leaf. I don’t think it is either, but whatever it is seems like it can’t be for very vigorous lateral use (like a cabinet scraper) or it would have broken radially through the wood fibers, so I think it is used longitudinally (like a knife or saw).

LS—
I believe this is the shot you requested. The ½” rebate or end rabbet (tomAto/tomahto) is visible. When the two pieces are joined, it becomes a tenon, the other side of which has the indentations that appear to have been caused by some clamping force. I agree with your observation that this should fit into or be held by something.

The dowel is actually below the level of the screws so if something is inserted into the “jaws” it would rest on the little springs or the screw threads--neither of which show signs of wear. This negates the dowel being used as an aid to adjust the angle of an insert.

I also agree with your assessment that whatever the intended use, it would not hold up well to excessive force in any direction.

I don’t know if it will help matters but I will point out another brass pin is inset into the right end (in this photo) of the rebate/rabbet/tenon. Only the one—nothing on the other end. I have to assume the three brass pins are meant to reduce wear on the wood from some lateral back & forth motion.

 

[d42jeep]

No sales for us today. We attended a 3 year pandemic delayed friend’s Christmas party. My old buddy had found a couple of items that he thought would be perfect for my Gerstner box. I think he was right.
-Don

 

[RTM]

That Arto gauge is sweet!

 

[LesserSon]

The dowel is actually below the level of the screws so if something is inserted into the “jaws” it would rest on the little springs or the screw threads--neither of which show signs of wear. This negates the dowel being used as an aid to adjust the angle of an insert.

I think the rounded-over side is what fits in the hand, and the tenon is the working side, so the dowel is a stop to an insert. Is there any visible wear on the side of the dowel that faces the tenon?