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Weekend pickups From Pro estate sale, Duro Chrome body dollies, Vulcan long ratchet S-53 From local garage sale, Craftsman SAE & Metric T&D set, looks unused. From recently retired mechanic at Kodak lightening his load for his move to Florida, I was the only one there so had lots of time to...

B-I or B-L probably Bausch & Lomb. My current prescription "grandpa" :LOL: safety glasses are just like those. Mine are AO 3M with the mesh "Breeze Catcher" side shields. Looks like 3M has sold off the safety glass thing to Pentax at least what comes up for my model number.

Additional stuff from a private estate sale a few weeks ago. Mac 3/8" metric deep socket set, Snap-On 3/8 shallow metric socket set From a pro estate sale that opened this past Wednesday due to the amount of stuff. Hoarder house but everything in decent condition and even stored stuff at his...

Outlawmws, The ratchet is a S-K 43175. 3/8 drive but the head is only 1 1/8” diameter and overall length is 10 1/8”. Strange looking with such a small head on it for a 3/8” drive and can’t seem to find much information on it online.

Been awhile posting but things are picking up with the weather. Pro sale about 3 weeks ago, Bonney metric swivel impact set, Vulcan and Williams hammers, Easco 3/8 flex head ratchet, Cornwell drivers. Sale last weekend, no luck until I was in the area so I took a flyer on the afternoon of the...

I had a PowerMite Worksop tool set by Ideal Toys, no idea why my parents trusted me with them 😯. Good thing my sister was 4 years older than me and stronger and faster at the time 😆…just kidding…. Google them…….boy times have changed as you noted.

3bay, I think you are correct that those wrenches were made for IBM. Funny this weekend I picked up small carboard box with some screwdrivers in it that looked exactly like Snap-On black smooth hard handles. No Snap-On name on them but code numbers go back to IBM. Also in the box their ended up...

Current Cleveland Cliffs Indiana Harbor West is a former YS&T facility. Worked on it when it was LTV and all the drawings I had to pull as reference where YS&T drawings.

Here you go, one of my Vulcan catalogs with the latest copyright date of 1977 stamped at the bottom of the inside cover. Only date I could find. Hope it helps (y)

Was at one sale and was bummed I forgot my flashlight so I must have bitched out load 😆, lady overheard me and said how about the light on your cellphone ?? ding ding ding, I thanked her and it was good enough light at that particular time.

Been pretty quiet so spits an dribbles around here tool wise and given the weather pretty much only pro sales except one last weekend. From some pros estate sales as of the first of the year. Max 1/4 torque wrench, Wizard 1/4 ratchet, Blackhawk dual regular/refrigeration ratchet, Snap-On line...

Wind uplift can cause that thus code requirements of either collar ties within the upper third or metal straps over top tying rafters to each other.

Waffle Slab, named such because well looks like a waffle !

Same here 👍 Quality sets more often than not are way more than cheap me is willing to spend thus spend time searching for cheap stragglers. Of course occasionally run into great deals on a set.