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    Advice for selling on GJ

    Pics yeah I uploaded a few in my album in they showed up upside down . Define rly a GJ problem
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    Sad and tiny 3.5" Wilton Vise - is there hope?

    Oh man e-bay and alcohol.never drink at a bar and bid on a tiny cell phone with banana fingers or you will end up bidding $1600 for a set of old wrenches. Just saying. That cured me of the evil e-bay habit
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    My "Should I buy a vise" post

    Take your time . A good deal can be found if you are patient and the more you look and research the better you will know the market and when to snap up a good deal. I got a Parker 955 for a buck and a half
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    Reed 3C vise

    I am gonna buy a holland 26 on the nineteenth. Paying a lot but it's six inch jaws a 185 lbs
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    Reed 3C vise

    I got a bead on one for $100 but it's a long drive
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    Vintage screw driver indentification

    Hello tool guys . I have a lot of tools some of which date to the 1860's. this tool as pictured !I assume to be an old screw driver. Pardon my ignorance if wrong. I would like help identifying it ,no makers mark or patents . I have lots of wood handled screwdrivers and research shows some...
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    Air gun setting

    Mine is a734 thank you for the advice . Paid $10 for it!
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    Air gun setting

    So open the adjuster ? To the right?
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    Air gun setting

    Ok trying to post pix
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    Air gun setting

    I have a vintage CP air gun I bought used. I know it works cause I asked a the seller fired up his compressor and ran the gun. So how do I set and or adjust the gun for initial use ? I will use it to change tires mostlybas Imam to old to turn a lug wrench. I do not want to over tighten . Should...
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    Some people just think their stuff is gold

    Pickers??? Yeah I watch that . They buy what they know they can resell. How about estate sales? Here in ny the resellers rule and plain folks are left to fight over scraps . Yet people still grab and run with the most useless stuff. My wife and I argue cause I don't like waiting in line to fight...
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    Some people just think their stuff is gold

    Haha so true it all looked like curb treasures to me . I like vintage but vintage power tools are suspect at best and thusly deeply discounted . I just saw a feller here in cny relist his vintage tools I tried to buy a few at his asking price and he refused wanting to bundle old screwdrivers and...
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    Colombian vise restoration

    Thx upon further prodding I found this barn vise to be a beat up version of the nice Colombian 504 m I already have . He declined my offer of $20 and I won't pay more to disassemble ,clean,repair,reassemble and paint a vise I already have . Gonna pick up my holland 26 on the 19 th will post pics...
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    Vintage Holland vise help please

    40 lbs .... $50 tops unless you are in love with it
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    Colombian vise restoration

    Found an ad on craps list and a fella is cleaning out his barn of unwanted tools. Yea that's what I said . Any who I am picking up an old Colombian vise that looks like it needs tightening up . I looked at my 504 m and see an inside collar and a outside washer . My question to all who know more...
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    Chas Parker 955

    I bought my 955 for a buck and a half but had to drive 4 hrs to get it . Well worth it though
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    Herbrand MultiDuty Plier No. 178

    I have a huge herbrand box wrench like 17 inches . So cool
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