Sunday Funday if ever there was one.
Flea market was A-OK. I did the unthinkable and held off on impulse buying, even though there was no shortage of cool things.
Proto ⅞ combo and Wright ½ combo from a buck bin.
Bonney ⅝ - 11/16 double box end from a buck puddle.
And with too much character to ignore, Oxwall pliers from Germany - British Zone for a much steeper $2. I've seen identical models stamped "Occupied Germany British Zone", I understand both varieties are from the immediate postwar era, but is the difference in phrasing indicative of anything? Specific batches?
Last minute estate sale popped up on our radar on the drive home, a family clearing out their late relatives' home. Very cool house, coziest basement I'd seen in years with an office/lounge, dedicated aquarium room, bar, and mini workshop. Took a lot of rooting around to find things in a room where there's a drawer or cigar box for everything.
Cracked open a hidden toolbox with two sets of ACDelco ½" drive sockets, SAE and Metric and some very sturdy socket rails going unused. I pulled the metric for a price check, expecting them to not be too cheap given their immaculate condition and lack of skips. 17-27mm, with not so much as a scratch. I think they went into storage the day they left the store.
On a workbench I found the Craftsman socket organizers that I certainly didn't need but I mean, come on, they're rock solid and still in the original box, seemingly unopened. Up to 195 sockets! I probably own 195 sockets, that makes it a good idea. Made in México for Sears.
Quoted $10 for the pair, so far.
Another hallway, another toolbox. Bouncing around in some loose items, Proto 230 pliers! Just a little rusty. Knockoff wintergreen Life Saver for scale.
Unbeknownst to me, my mother, who enjoys estate sales as much as I do, had been on a scavenger hunt upstairs to collect Moosehead bottle opener cards that seem to be everywhere in the house, as well as a thematically appropriate key hanger plaque. It jogs my memory and I head back to the basement bar to fetch 5 out of a potential 12 square pieces from another set. I guess we collect Moosehead stuff now? Bonus Dale Jr guitar opener and a very cute bottlelephant with corkscrew tail. The crate earned its place to help haul our goods. Somewhere in the mix we added an unpictured window fan.
I went back for the SAE sockets but another shopper had scooped up the toolbox they were in, along with the hoard of rails. Bummer, but by the divine right of dibs they were his and I hope he likes them!
Out the door with everything for a flat $25, with the family not too interested in tallying up a thick invoice for all this stuff. Very nice people that just want the place emptied out. Seems they had a very slow morning when their ad was only listed on Facebook, everyone that stopped in (including us) was alerted by the much later Craigslist ad that someone suggested they post around noon.
Shopping is fun but sometimes you need to put on your little bandit mask and walk the path of the raccoon. Two lovely pieces were in a curbside trash heap from a recently demo'd house, they definitely need a wash but with no chips or cracks it's too sad to see them in the landfill. Went in for round two about half an hour later on a cool wooden table with legs made of pipes, presumably ditched because it was heavy and beginning to rust. No good photos of that one yet. Might use it as a work table.
Pretty good weekend, I think.
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so took I quick look and decided I'm' not digging my way through especially since she said she is having more sales as she cleans up the place.
