Recent content by MerchantMarine

Last weekends' finds: Delta Shopmaster bench grinder (runs great!), new 10" Dewalt Blade gen purpose, used 10" dewalt finishing blade, and a cool Proto Chisel, Dewalt Recip Saw (terrible exterior shape but runs strong, probably a frankenstein meld of two different saws haha), Johnson torpedo...

These are a few sockets I picked up from an Army/Navy store in Fort Worth. I left the really bad ones on the shelf. Have no idea how these made it down to Texas. Bad press on some, chrome messed up others and of course the bad roll stamp for the names. Names on some are reversed, some...

Thanks man, ya I definitely want to see how they hold up under some torque. But on the flip side I'm wondering if I could claim warranty on any of these? (admittedly prob not the most honorable thing considering they were purchased on the cheap from a non-authorized dealer)

You said it man, most of those sockets were only good for scrap. I left those in the store took a few pics out of curiosity. The Wright sockets look flawless though, made me very happy!

Oops, image limit. I have to post all of these pics, took way too long cleaning them up not to show! Cheers

Hi guys, I'm a little behind on posting my GS finds. So this was an interesting one and I would love some opinions. Found a jackpot of name brand sockets at an Army/Navy store in Fort Worth. There were 3 trays full. 10 cents each. I dug in. Here's the catch, about 60% of the sockets had...

Last few weeks in Galveston have been very kind to me in terms of garage sale tool finds. Estate sales yielded these three vises for $12 total! I know they're tiny and have exposed screw designs but who cares. The Littco and Sears vises are solid little workers. Not sure about the one painted...

Thank you sir, ya I couldn't pass up those books. It's the engineering student in me....resources, resources, resources! I think a good thread could be done on garage libraries/archives. Most of the ships I've been on all have "tech libraries" as a solid back up of every manual, diagram etc for...

Well here is my first post on GJ. Just picked up a small Columbian vise and a c-clamp (plus some old radio/electrical textbooks for free). Think I overpaid at $17 for everything but I needed a vise. Oh well. I'll post again in the vise section but I didn't find much info on what I bought...