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While passing out flyers at the Auburn, IN swap meet, I saw a cool old Vise Grip display board. It was in great shape: (Below) It's interesting to note the prices which were handwritten onto sticky tags, a LONG time ago! (Below) Another close-up image of handwritten prices from WAY back in...

If you saw my recent post about what all I saw at the Fall 2011 Auburn Auto Auction and Swap Meet, I mentioned that I had seen a really cool, really old air compressor. It was a Champion brand compressor. I took some photos for you. This unit was sold before I got there. The seller told me...

When you run automotive swap meet events, you are forced :dunno: to go to other automotive events to promote your own upcoming show. So instead of being at my regular office duties yesterday, Friday Sept the 2nd, I had to go with my best buddy to Auburn, Indiana to the classic auto auction and...

I'm back home now from today's auction, which I had mentioned in my other post yesterday. :thumbup: The online auction-listing photos made it look like the old gentleman owner of this estate must have been a hoarder, who also liked tools. Well that turned out to be an understatement! I heard...

Years ago I introduced my brother-in-law to the hobby of junk yard "treasure hunting." Today I no longer have time to do it, but he is retired, and goes about once a week. Now every so often I am the lucky beneficiary of something cool that he has found. :thumbup: One of our favorite places is...

During my recent trip to KY to pick up my bargain-priced Baldor grinder, I stopped at a little roadside flea market. There were lots of tools, to my surprise, and quite a few Snap On and Mac tools. But no bargains, from my perspective. One gentleman had a couple of sets of Snap On sockets for...

Yesterday I drove to southeastern KY to pick up a Baldor grinder which I had won on eBay back in June. (Thanks to ninetytwofifty for the tip, which he had posted on Garage Journal!) :beer: Along the way, I stopped at a few yard sales and flea markets. I spotted a really cool old electric drill...

Ok, ok...some of you guys have been razzing me each time I mention that 675-mile-long yard sale, since I have not yet posted photos of the tools I actually purchased along the road. I currently have them still unpacked, in two different places. I wanted to take the time to try and reconstruct...

I promised photos of some of the bench vises I saw along the St Rt 127 Yard Sale last week. Here is a separate thread about that. Keep in mind that this is only a fraction of what I saw. The pouch that I usually have on my shoulder with camera, magnifying glass, wire brush, gloves, etc, was too...

Last week my wife and I set out on the St Rt 127 Yard Sale. We live in Ohio, so Tuesday we drove all the way to the southern terminus of the event, in Gadsden, Alabama, and then started Wed morning hitting yard sales on our way back north. From the time we left our driveway starting out, until...

I bought a bunch of tools at my swap meet back on Memorial Day weekend, but I haven't had time to post photos. (Still don't, in fact). But I thought that those of you who like older USA-made Vise Grips might like to see this uncommon "find" I made at the show. Other photos of tools I bought...

For Father's Day, my sons and their families showed up at the house with gifts and love, which are deeply appreciated, of course. But I was surprised that my oldest son was carrying in a brand new plastic tool box. :headscrat Since joining Garage Journal, I've been buying a lot of tools (DUH!)...

This post is about some antique tools. If that is not your thing, you may want to ignore it. Thanks! :bounce: A new GJ member recently posted a wanted ad in the classifieds, looking for really old socket sets in their original wooden boxes. Tonight I stumbled onto this APCO Mossberg Spark Plug...

I need your wisdom again, folks. Who makes this Coleman drill? My son was apparently given a Coleman brand 19.2 volt cordless hammer drill a year ago for Christmas. I saw it today sitting on his workbench, and asked him about it. He said that it was "no good," 'cause he doesn't have the...

Hey Johnny...haven't seen you on Garage Journal lately, so I hope you're still on here. Last year you were searching pretty hard for a 1/2" combo wrench of a certain style by Indestro, to fill out a set you had. Well, it took me a while, but look what I found this past weekend! I believe...

Some Garage Journal members have mentioned to me that they plan to visit my upcoming big swap meet in Springfield, Ohio, to shop some of the same tool sellers that I bought so many used USA tools from last year. Well this year there is a major construction project going on on I-70 eastbound, and...

I have lost track of whom I was discussing my bunch of large 3/4" and 1" drive sockets that I have from last year's tool-buying spree. Sorry about that! But now at last I have an Excel file of most of the sockets I do have, with good descriptions. So, if you read this and would like to receive...

At my aunt's estate auction a week ago, I bought lots of items for nostalgic reasons, including some old tools. One item which came in a cardboard box of hardware and tools is different than anything I have ever seen, and so I'm turning to the experts of Garage Journal for enlightenment. What...

Last summer I found a Snap On orange handle Harley Davidson screwdriver, in phillips head. Are these common? This one is used. Don't know whether to put it in my screwdriver drawer for personal use, or put it on eBay or something. The other old black handle has been awol for years. I just...

The other day I saw a post about someone who had bought a used green-painted floor jack, and wondered if it might be made in Japan. Seems they had heard that a bunch of floor jacks were made in Japan years ago, and painted green. But I thought I recognized his jack, and went out to the garage...