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Happy New Year! I look forward to this being a great year for all you pickers. If this seems familiar, it is because I'm shamelessly plagiarizing from mikeinri's opening post from 2025. Welcome to the 15th annual edition of the Garage Journal Garage Sale Thread! Huge thanks to @mikeinri for...

I picked up a pump oiler at an estate sale that has a very different nozzle than the standard Golden Rod one. It appears to be for a specific fitting similar to a zerk. The fellow was an avid woodworker, which may give a clue.

I am stuck with a DSL connection that has 10MB download speed. Sometimes GJ loads slowly, and it appears that it is photos that cause this. Some load faster than others. I wonder if the photo files vary in size. I always resize photos I post to the old maximum of 1000 pixels high. I don't...

I have a Reznor RA140 waste oil heater in my shop. It has been very reliable for the 15 years I've used it. It has a system that preheats the oil before sending through the nozzle to be burned. This involves three electrical heating elements, two temperature sensors, a solenoid fuel valve, and a...

I picked up this old 1/2" line wrench off a dollar table Sunday. Other than "1/2" on one open end face, there are no markings. The design reminds me of A. Plomb and California Tool Company products. It is pretty massive, which makes me suspect it is older than 1930, or not much later than...

I found this 11/16" combo at the local flea marked today. The markings were too interesting to pass up! I see that Herbrand called their early combo's "Multitype" but the shape of the beam is totally different, and who (or what) is M.R.S.? I can see this being supplied by Herbrand, but only...

I found this set of removable pipe jaws in a shed on my wife's family property. They appear to be from an open screw bench vise. The only identification on them is the number 5 and a c in a circle. Based on the dimensions, the screw would have been 3/4" diameter and the beam below it would...

I found this tire iron in a shed on my wife's family farm. At first, I was convinced it was shop-made, or home-made, but the more I investigate, the more I believe it was factory-made. It is made from 1/4" thick steel, 7/8" wide, which is not a common size for flat bar. Not only that, but it...

I found this pair of pliers/cutter/crimper/???? on the dollar table at a swap meet Friday. They are marked "D.G.M." on one leg and "CHROM VANADIUM" on the other. The jaws have a circular cutout behind the mating surfaces, and the mating surfaces appear to be a cutter and an anvil for the sharp...

Someone posted a crowfoot wrench recently with an AN- number stamped on it. I identified it as US military. These are very distinctive crowfoots, because they have 3/8" square drives in two directions. Here are photos of some that I have. Ignore the steel rod. It is just there to keep the...

This old cold chisel turned up today. The markings seem very straightforward, but I can't come up with any reference on the internet. The double dot under the small "o" of the company abbreviation seems distinctive.

This tool was in a group buy from the Flea Market. The outside diameter of the working end is 5/16" diameter, and the lugs are about 1/16" wide. It looks like some carburetor jet tools, but maybe for something else. Perhaps for bezels on dash controls? I can't find any markings on it.

Artisan was a brand used by Gamble's and SK supplied the ratchets, drive tools, extensions, and sockets. The question is, who supplied the rest of the product line? I've seen hammers and pliers mentioned, and I recently ran into a feeler gauge set and now a double open end wrench. Almost all...

This was posted on a forum that has nothing to do with tools: I replied: His response: And: I'll probably PM him and tell him about this site. Maybe he can share photos of this great heirloom that he treasures!

I was given a Jet PT2748 pallet jack. The prior owner's crew was using it when it would not release (lower) so they removed the cap on the left (when standing behind the handle) end of the release mechanism. It lowered, but would not raise after that. The owner said to throw it out, so one of...

Copied from the Garage Sale Thread: Things have been rather hectic for me lately, and I haven't had time to check out estate and garage sales. One item turned up that I had to jump on. A friend keeps in touch with a machine shop his family used to own. He has a Bridgeport Type 1 mill, and...

I came across this home-made gauge at an estate sale. It is quite unusual, and must have been made to adjust something that rotated. The center ring rotates a limited amount in the outer ring, with stops against one of the Allen head bolts. The bolts lock the two rings in place. The "wings"...

I found both these tools in a garage cleanout this summer. The hand vise is of typical design, except that the jaws seem to have a special purpose. The tips of the jaws are grooved, probably for holding wire, and the shape of the cutout in the jaws appears to be shaped for a square object...

It is a wrench of the style popular in the 1920's, except that one end of the handle has a slotted tube welded to it. The "socket" end is 12 point, 13/16" and is about 2-1/8" tall overall. The handle is 1/2" diameter and the tool is about 10-1/2" long overall. The slotted tube end is 17/32"...

Found in the Restore yesterday: A cold chisel marked "C.P.R.R." which appears to refer to the Central Pacific Railroad. I found a photo of a key from the Central Pacific on the internet, and it has the same font and pattern as these markings. The Central Pacific was formed in 1861 to build...