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For eight straight years, the Garage Journal forum has maintained an annual Garage Sale thread for members to post their finds, bargains, hauls and side-of-the-road pickups. And for the last seven years, a new member has kicked off the new thread around midnight on the eve of the New Year. For...

Once again, the annual Garage Journal Garage Sale thread generated more than 6,000 posts of fine treasures and regular junk found at garage sales, estate sales, flea markets, second hand shops, and sometimes just free on the side of the road. Some of the finds generated a congratulatory "You...

Happy 2019, fellow pickers, garage sale scroungers, 2nd hand shop hounds, Craigslist chasers, Ebay hunters, boot sale wanglers and free-cyclers! Welcome to the 8th annual Garage Journal Garage Sale thread. It is here that we share our finds and the stories about the finds with a group of folks...

There's an old joke that a hotrodder ends every discussion about a car with the phrase "... but it could use a little more horsepower." I suspect the same is true with respect to many of us on GJ when it comes to the space in our garages: "...but I could use a few more square feet". It...

I found this clamp in an old farm workshop at an estate sale in New Hampshire. I think it might for working with tires. The patent dates are from 1907 and 1910, but my patent search "kung fu" isn't very good. Can anyone help with some info or ideas?

I found one of these Eifel-jawed PlieRenches at an estate sale this weekend and paid a ridiculous $10 for it. Only after getting home and doing research did I learn more about this tool. The jaws are parallel and geared to bear down on a six-sided nut, either on the flats or on the points...

Edit: this thread started out as a simple posting of my double box end wrench collection, but has taken off due to postings by other fans of these round-tipped beauties. So, feel free to browse and review the DBE pictures and info in this thread, but all are also welcome to post pictures of...

Today's YAMT: found these at an estate sale and Google doesn't seem to know anything about them. They are marked "Product of Ohio Metal Fibers Corp Toledo Ohio", "Resin-flow trademark" & "Pat Pend No R-1". They have pneumatic hose connectors and a trigger, with an adjusting screw on the back...

Check out this cool spiral screwdriver I found at an estate sale this weekend. When I got it home, I thought that it only spiralled one direction - clockwise - and thought it odd. It was only after researching it on http://oldtoolheaven.com that I discovered its secret: it has two separate...

Folks, I'd appreciate any help with this yard sale find. First, what is it? I think is a metal working device, maybe for working with an anvil. I spent a little time with Google and on Alloy Artifacts, but they focus mostly on wrenches and ratchets. Second, who made it? The logo looks like...

Here's the Father's Day card my kids got for me: [emoji4] They know me well! Happy Father's Day to my fellow Dads!

Well, in honor of crossing the 100 posts mark on Garage Journal, I thought I'd celebrate with a new thread on Craftsman table saws. I did some searching and couldn't find an existing one, so if I missed it, consider this an echo. Yesterday I found a 103.20000 buried in a basement in Acton, MA...

Fellow GJers: I recently got the radiant heat system up and running in my garage and thought I'd share the following imagery. A good friend of the family is in the high-end thermal camera business, and in exchange for clearing her driveway of the three feet of snow we got last week here in New...

I've been planning a sand blasting cabinet for a while now, and got a wild hair to start on the last day of the long holiday weekend a week ago. I've had several projects and salvage operations that have accumulated plywood, 2x scraps, and glass windows that served as the basis for the build...

Hello, all. I've been a fan of this site ever since I found it while researching ways to improve my garage after a fire in July 2013 caused me to gut it and start over. I wanted to share some of my experience and rebuilding process with the GJ crowd one: because you all like garages, and two...

Hi, all. I'm a lurker on the GJ and have gotten some great ideas for my three-car garage, which I am renovating after a fire last summer. Its mostly back together now, and I am slowly replacing tools. There's an old auto garage in a nearby town that's advertising a retiring-after-38-years...