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Yep, on Tuesday July 31 I will be driving to Gadsden, Alabama, to begin 4 long days of driving towards my home in Ohio, and stopping at literally hundreds and hundreds of yard sales, garage sales, estate sales, and flea markets. Wouldn't miss it for the world. :3gears: Last year I filled my...

Well, here I am again, asking for the wisdom of my Garage Journal friends. :o While shopping yard sales today, I stumbled onto one which was being set up, which is not really supposed to open until tomorrow. But since it is all "man junk" (as my wife calls it) I spent about an hour looking...

Folks, Several of you know long-time-member Ihredo4 (Steve S). He has become a good pal of mine during the time in which I have been a member of the Garage Journal forums. He has visited my home, and we have traded some tools back and forth. He is simply a nice guy...period. Today I got a...

I've bought a LOT of used tools lately, and among them are several die grinders. I want to find out more about die grinders in general, but this one that I recently got for $4 seemed to be of very good quality, yet I never heard of the company. Have you? The brand name is Gardner-Denver. It...

I'm going to try and get my tool collection down to a more enjoyable size, by keeping for myself only a few certain brands and styles (plus any special tools which interest me...especially). Anyway, I plan to do that by selling off certain brand collections. Then I can sort my other tools, and...

A week ago Friday, I went to a bunch of yard sales with my wife. It was a community-wide event, in a small but nice neighborhood here in Greene County, Ohio. NEARLY every yard sale in the area was packed with Avon, baby clothes, dishes, etc, etc, etc. Yawn. :Sleep: Yet I did make some...

Mindin' my own business last Thursday, on way to work, when I saw YARD-SALE sign. Stopped in & quickly bought a couple nice tools, then went on to work. But sittin at my desk I kept thinking back to those tools. I just couldn't help but take a "quick peek" at Craigslist in my area. ;) Found...

I recently found a vintage Craftsman 1/2" drive 12 pt socket set in the box. It is the old style with the underlined "C" in the logo, and includes a swivel head breaker bar and a round bar to fit through the breaker bar handle for extra turning power. The sockets, breaker, and handle are all...

I've tried searches, in vain. I distinctly recall a member asking me to post some photos of a couple of SK ratchets which I own, with variations of the SK logo that he said were uncommon. Right now one of our members is interested in some SK socket sets/ratchets which I have, and I want to...

Hi, guys. I've seen some nifty older Snap On hand-carry tool boxes with cantilever trays recently on Garage Journal. Then Sunday at a local flea mkt I found one that looks very similar to that style, but it seems to be unmarked. Do any of you recognize this box, and have any idea what brand it...

Merry Christmas to all the friends and acquaintances I have interacted with here on Garage Journal, and to all GJ members in general. Also, Happy Hannukah, Kwanzaa, or whatever holiday you may celebrate. All my best wishes to everyone for a safe, healthy, and prosperous new year.

I plan to give my brother the Craftsman bench grinder which had been our dad's. It was bought new in the 1970's, and looks like all those gray typical bench grinders sold for about 50-60 years by Sears. But before I give it to him I need to replace the plastic eye shields. One is missing, and...

Garage Journal is a great web forum, and a terrific place to correspond with other people who like tools, garages, automotive equipment, cool vehicles, etc, etc. But it is NOT an appropriate place for excessively ugly language, or verbal warfare. Let's all just try to share what we have in...

I went and looked at a vise today at an estate sale. It was huge---6" wide jaws, 27" overall length (with jaws closed), and 12" tall (from bench to top of jaws). By the way...(that's 15.2cm X 68.5 cm X 30.5, for our metric-system friends.) :) The vise was located in a dark and dingy barn, so it...

Last weekend I went with my sons and set up at a flea mkt in Southern Ohio. My display included about 6 or 8 old US vises that I had for sale. A guy was looking at them, and then asked me if I also BUY old vises. I said sure, if they are unbroken, not welded or repaired, and are USA made. He...

I went to an estate sale a couple weeks ago, and the guy had been some kind of tool salesman, I guess. I bought quite a bit of stuff, most of it older. But he had one modern floor jack that I just had to have, 'cause it was really different than anything I have ever seen! Now, when you take a...

Today (Saturday 9-24-11) I was a vendor at the Troy Swap Meet at the Miami Co Fairgrounds in Troy, Ohio. I usually spend at least 1/3 of any day during which I am supposed to be a "vendor" shopping for myself...especially during the blacksmith show. But today my own booth was really busy, and I...

So, I was out and about over the past 3 days, visiting LOTS of yard sales and one terrific estate sale. (More on that estate sale later). Anyway, at one yard sale, three women were selling off EVERYTHING in their garage. I later learned that their father had passed, and they needed to, "...get...

The Cars & Parts Swap Meet & Car Show event is finally over, and now I'm home (exhausted). Later this week I will post lots of photos of cool things I saw at the event, if you folks are interested. But for tonite I just wanted to post four photos of two small boxes of tool parts I bought there...

It sometimes seems that I go to a LOT of automotive events, and lately Garage Journal forums I have read have inspired me to take some photos when I am there, and share them with other tool-heads and garage-junkies like me. On Friday Sept 2nd, 2011, I went to the Auction America event in Auburn...