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Hey Bull, and all of you other "Tool Display Board" aficianados on Garage Journal... I paid careful attention to Bull's recent GJ advice to not "...drink the Tool Board Kool Aid", and presumably pay too much for a tool display board. Well, last Saturday I went to the Auburn auto auction and...

Last Friday I went to the R&M Auctions Classic Automotive Auction and swap meet event in Auburn, Indiana, to promote my own swap meet coming up this weekend in Ohio. Here is a link, in case you are wondering...www.ohioswapmeet.com Anyway, I have already posted pix of some of the tools I...

I’ve made a living over the last many years producing swap meets and flea markets in the Midwest. Thus, in the time period just before each event, I must travel all over the region nearly every day, visiting flea markets, auctions, yard sales, estate sales, etc, etc, passing out flyers for my...

Not much time today, only went to 3-4 yard sales. Not as rich as the pickings in Massachusetts, when I was there, but still managed to get a VERY few pieces. Anyone recognize the tool box below? Below is another shot of it, with lid closed: Six drawers and a flap in front of the lid. Check...

Okay, that's it. I'm staying off of Craig's List. It seems like nearly every time I get on CL, I FIND stuff that I cannot live without. At this rate, I'll be broke for life...in just a few hours from now. Sigh. :dunno: This time I found a Snap On cabinet listed, with no pic, in an ad saying it...

At an auction this past Saturday, I bought an older plastic FORD tool pouch, marked as, "Ford Owner's Tool Kit". It was FILTHY, and I noted that the tools in it seemed to match...but did not look like any "Ford" tools I had ever seen before. The stiff old plastic pouch held several tools, and...

I've lived around Southwestern/South Central Ohio for all my life...not more than 40 miles from the International Harvester plant in Springfield, Ohio at any time. I have often found OLD rusty IHC tractor wrenches, usually of cast or rough forged steel. But I have not ever before found...

I'm trying really hard to NOT go to tool auctions and estate sales for a few weeks, until I can get my current stash better organized and all cleaned. But this past Saturday there was an auction listing "upright tool boxes" and "old mechanics' tools"...and it was right up the street from me, out...

When I was a young kid I had a small Craftsman tool box full of Cman tools, which I carried around in the trunk of my daily driver. My hot rod was hidden from my parents at an old neighbor-lady's house, so I couldn't rely on my Dad's tools at home (I wasn't allowed to have a V8, cause Dad knew I...

Well, I really had to laugh at myself on this one... :spit: I stopped at a garage sale last week which did not look too promising, but there around the side of the garage I spied a red tool cart. It was sitting full of water, and badly neglected, but when I looked closer, I spied a Mac Tools...

Went to an odd auction, and got some odd stuff. This Wilton vise box is the first one I've seen. It's pretty rough, but I didn't have to pay for it. It came filled with some tools that I bought. Are these things collectible to anyone...or is it on its way to the dumpster? Another view: Here...

I said I would quit buying tools for a few weeks, until I got the others all sorted out, cleaned, etc. Said that to wife, but she just rolled her eyes and grinned at me, saying something like, "Yeah RIGHT!" Then she asked if I had seen the upcoming estate sale for today, listing tools...

I've GOT to get back to work...but for now here is one photo of MOST of the stuff I bought over three days. Keep in mind that my policy this year was to ONLY buy real bargains...in my own opinion of a "bargain", of course! :thumbup: Okay....one more photo...The boxes are full, mostly, as every...

I'm leaving tomorrow late afternoon/early evening for the world famous 127 Yard Sale. It is a loosely organized string of yard sales stretching from Hudson, Michigan to Gadsden, Alabama. You might have seen some television special feature shows about it, on Home and Garden TV (HGTV). This...

My other post was too long, so here is the second half of the auction story: Several guys kept shaking their heads when I outbid them for trays of tools. But there were little surprises in some trays...like this little guy. Can you see it better now? Close up image. Some folks won't...

If you don’t like pix of vintage tools in various stages of condition, now would be a good time to click away. :o In the past two weeks, there have WAY too many opportunities to find bargains on tools around here... I have been to a ½ day flea market filled with tools (last Wed), two garage...

At the farm & tool auction Saturday, everything was going cheap. So I quickly checked out this electric motor, cause I need one for my nice heavy older Craftsman drill press. It is 3/4 HP, but has a double shaft (not necessary, I know, but it would work, right?). Anyway, I only paid $5 for it...

CALLING BULL! :bounce: Everyone's ol' tool-buddy and Super GJ Moderator BULL is avidly working right now filling all the slots on his Blackhawk TOOL DISPLAY BOARDS. Well, it just so happens that the auction I hit this past Saturday had some boxes filled with old catalogs...including Tool...

Went to the hottest, most humid auction of my entire life yesterday. :eyecrazy: I nearly died in the heat and sweat, as did everyone else standing there. Thankfully, this kept most prices WAY down. Late in the day I spotted a cool old anvil in the barn, and figured with prices being so low all...

As is my habit during the summer, I took off half a day today to go to yard sales. But everything seemed to go wrong today, and I found only JUNK at most of my stops. But I did manage to keep the day from being a TOTAL disaster, when I got some Kennedy boxes at one yard sale, and some cool...