2016 Garage Sale Thread

timbitca · Jul 24, 2016

Outlawmws said:
Tim, I can't recall seeing a wood handle on one of those drills! Also the "Cross Peen Hammer" is actually a sheet metal workers hammer.

Interesting. It's actually the first push drill I've found in the wild. And also the first I remember seeing at all. According to what I've found online it dates from between 1925 and 1933. There are some remnants of the logo on the wood handle though unfortunately not enough to easily identify it.

I also figured I was wrong on the hammer, I just called it the closest thing I knew of

alinc100 · Jul 24, 2016

Bill Ramsey said:
Let's face it, Outlaw, "you ****" doesn't even come close to describing this find, and I think you and everyone else here knows it. If this is a "you ****" find, then the Mona Lisa was just a painting.

This find goes substantially beyond "you ****" - it's in a completely new category. You , my friend, have created a fundamental shift in the space-time continuum. You may have actually created a garage sale wormhole!

bulletpruf said:
Agreed.

Have to wonder if there was not a Jedi mind trick involved -- "There is nothing of value in this box. You should pay me to take it off your hands."

Yeah,you really ****. That was a great find and an inspiration to us all to leave no stone unturned!!

Fordriver6 · Jul 24, 2016

Picked up this Craftsman 25224 mandrel at the local flea market this morning for $2. Looks pretty wild with the saw blade on there. Probably put a buffing wheel on it and find a small electric motor to run it.

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Tool_Master · Jul 24, 2016

Good day at the flea market.

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JUNK-MAN · Jul 24, 2016

Awesome score outlaw!!!! YOU **** BIGTIME!!!!!!! Anyway, I've been out a little picked up some stuff but nothing worth posting.

Outlawmws · Jul 24, 2016

JUNK-MAN said:
Awesome score outlaw!!!! YOU **** BIGTIME!!!!!!! Anyway, I've been out a little picked up some stuff but nothing worth posting.

Post em up anyway; Its all good :thumbup:

jeffmoss26 · Jul 24, 2016

well I didn't do as well as Outlaw the other day, but...found a sale advertised in the local paper with 'tools and plumbing supplies' so I just had to stop by - there was quite a bit of stuff, mainly plumbing supplies, some power tools, etc.
I got all this for 30 bucks:

Outlawmws · Jul 24, 2016

Jeff, the Channelocks and nippers should clean up real well, SG works wonders on the black gunge on plastic handles.

Nice score!

jeffmoss26 · Jul 24, 2016

I wiped everything down with Tub o Towels wipes - not too worried about the grime, it shows that the tools were well used lol

NJ Marty · Jul 24, 2016

Outlawmws said:
And The "main Event" the contents of the tackle box. Its obvious why the Box was "built up" but it didn't help the trays last...

You can see the trays on the left side badly settled and one is broken. I'd guess some one gave the box a drop, and that was it with all the weight...

This is what I'd been seeing and why I bought the box complete:

Lots of wrenches, and all I'm seeing are Metric...

And what it all translated to:

Two complete sets of SO Metric from 10mm to 22, and short pattern from 10mm to 19. No skips in either set! SO lists these at $920 and $370 respectively!

Apparent;y this was someone's "Metric tools" as only a few sockets were not Metric:

Proto sockets from 8mm to 19mm - no skips

Long ratchet is Mac, short is Bonney as are near all of the chrome Extensions, with 3 swivel extensions in the set. Impact ext. are SO, Breaker is Proto, Hex drive are 1/2" drive and all SO, and the "long" one is 3/8 and 10MM. the shorty extension adn sparkplug socket are SO, The Impacts are MAC. Some Bonney adapters, three Indestro in SAE in back on the left and one 13/16 Craftsman.

Proto Adjustable, 2 Bonney drivers & Duckbills, Stubby's are Xcelite, Proto 1/4" flex driver, MAC solid 1/4" driver, the two Multi tips are Magna Driver Corp, one marked "Cleco", A magnetic extendable pick up tool and a Screw starter...

Everything, including the broken box, for $5!

Outlaw, I was away for the weekend and just saw your Suckage score, one of the best I have seen all year. And good for you for looking in that old cranky tackle box as all others passed it by with the minty SO wrenches in it.

Makattak81 · Jul 25, 2016

Picked up this Vlchek 1/2 set for 5 bucks.

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madison069 · Jul 25, 2016

Was wondering where the wind came from while I was camping this past week, I now know it was the suckage from Outlaw area that was creating the wind!

No sales for me, I was in Erie camping with the family so we were too busy for me to escape.

Sam'sAutoParts · Jul 25, 2016

Flea market for me was the only sale I went to all week. From 2 vendors I went home with all this plus a wood plane I didn't take a pic of.

Upper left sockets are Penens, upper right craftsman, and lower right misc. USA. Diamond pliers, Klien needle nose. Bonney brake tool, unmarked slate shingle puller. Stanley f clamp. Plumb SBE wrench. SK extension, Penens hinge handle, and crescent ratchet. Bell system bit for a hand brace. NYE tool co chain wrench & Unknown screwdriver.

bluebolt · Jul 25, 2016

Thecody59, you **** on that Craftsman Crown label wall cabinet!

Blue Frog, your Craftsman Crown finds make me drool!

Toolmiser, you are teaching your child the right values! And a nice haul!

Outlawmws, WOW at the $5 box full of Snap On!

RedVise · Jul 25, 2016

Posted these in the Vintage tool box thread, but they did come out of a garage sale, so here they are. The side box caught my eye.
Snap On KRA 380 roller and KR 288 side box.

Brian

Techmaven · Jul 25, 2016

How is this?

BlueBomber · Jul 25, 2016

Techmaven said:
How is this?

Well, depends on condition, price and story of purchase.

Outlawmws · Jul 25, 2016

Here is RedVise's box a bit brighter and bigger:

bluebolt · Jul 26, 2016

Some of my recent finds.

Wilton 744 vise, $30. Nice little workhorse, it has the pipe jaws held on with a bolt, not the cast in ones on the Chinese version I believe.

Safe door inside cover panel, kind of cool. Traded a cheap import floor jack for it.

After doing my own garage sale I went to an estate sale for their 1/2 off closeout Saturday afternoon. As I was getting ready to leave my place an antiques/junk dealer I know stopped by dragging his trailer with a blown out tire. Lucky for him I had a good tire and rim that worked, had him in and out in 10 minutes.

So get to the sale and spend $60 on the following:

Harmonic balancer puller for my buddy, it's Taiwan but was only missing 1 bolt and a few washers. WD40 and Zep citrus cleaner, Stewart Warner hand held tachometer, a bag of yellow handle screwdrivers including 3 Proto and a Harrold, Craftsman Handicut blade refill, Herbrand battery terminal pliers and an Armstrong 1-1/2" service wrench.

Foredom flexible shaft rotary tool, it was only marked $10 but the heads wee missing so no one bought it, I found the heads while searching the workbench drawers! 33/64's USA made drill bit that I actually was just getting ready to buy a new one, Herbrand screwdriver, vintage Xacto blades and knife, Craftsman right angle ratcheting screwdriver, feeler gauge and Craftsman Crown embossed toolbox keys, Heyco strain relief pliers and a drag link socket.

Craftsman clock, sign, playing cards and napkins

Car shop manuals, the 1966 Ford will replace one I loaned and never got back!

So the antique guy I mentioned earlier showed up to do a "clean out" of the stuff left. He said if I helped him load up he would let me keep some stuff and pay me!

So I picked up the working Ericson Mfg pre-1963 retractable cord reel light, Harrold pliers, 2 compasses, General Hardware double ended pin vise, Tumico mini slide caliper, Craftsman basin wrench, Quick Grip clamp and a Millers Falls Bell System hacksaw. PLUS the guy gave me $20 so I an only out $40 cash for the day!

Highlights for me were the SW tachometer, Foredom rotary tool and the 1966 and 1979 Ford service manuals.

RedVise · Jul 26, 2016

Outlawmws said:
Here is RedVise's box a bit brighter and bigger:

Thanks Outlaw ! It was pretty grungy before I started on it.

Funny that I see the pic this morning, as I scrubbed the heck of out of those two boxes Sunday with a car wash product (Simonise?), must of been a little heavy handed mixing it as I am losing the top layer of skin on my right hand this morning!

Brian

PS: what program did you use to lighten the pic ?

twertsy · Jul 26, 2016

3baygarage said:
Outlaw You reeled in a great haul there! Very nice!

Yes this ratchet is Penens production I believe, like Fleet. I see these C tools from time to time but I have seen different theories on what brand they are.

Penens and Fleet were the same thing...........same company / entity under Plomb/Pendleton.

:lol_hitti

Perhaps this lady has some insight into what brand they are: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Plomb-3-8-D...303948?hash=item46520d254c:g:BJAAAOSwKfVXHc0C

LesserSon · Jul 26, 2016

Outlawmws said:
And The "main Event"

Everything, including the broken box, for $5!

Jaw-dropping chutzpah. Caveat venditor, dude! :beer:

mike_paxton · Jul 26, 2016

Finally got all the tools cleaned and sorted, so thought I'd share the final report.

Most frequently found items were punches (pic 1) or wrenches (pic 2).

Couple of machinist boxes with pic 3 being R. H. Buhrke and pic 4 Kennedy

Reshot some add'l pic for twertsy of the Eastern Machine Screw Co New Haven Conn by H&G Pic 5 & 6

Pic 7 The Sattley Stacker Company Indianapolis Indiana along with the patent date and Roger's Belt Punch

Continued on next post

Mike

mike_paxton · Jul 26, 2016

Continued:

Pic 1 & 2-- Will B. Lane Unique Ratchet Wrench "Ford Set". This set was later renamed the "F" Set, probably due to Ford's copy protection. They used a wire system, that if moved above the fixed post, it ran one way, but if put below the post, it ran the other way.

Pic 3--I thought I'd run into more socket sets in a mechanics old tool box, This is one that has some Snap on's, some sockets show just an S and some show nothing. So, could be a mixed lot.

Pic 4--Thought this might be a homemade small square, but with rust off, found Bemis & Call name punched on it.

Pic 5--Written as "Nevrbrake" on wrench

Pic 6--No name found on this unique wrench

Pic 7-- R. Low....Newark NJ. No clue what it was used for.

Mike

1badbird · Jul 26, 2016

Picked up some good find from a auction a week ago.
Lights $1 each 14 total
Everything else for $40 unfortunately the longest snap on extension grew legs and walked off when had my back turned from my stuff, first time I had something taken from me at in auction in over 3 years.
Included:
3 snap on wobble extensions 4,6,11
Mac mr5k 1/4 ratchet, craftsman 1/4 ratchet
2 Mac 1/4 drive 6" extensions and 2 universals
9 misc Mac sockets and tray
29 and 32mm great neck sockets
Allen usa 1/2" drive ratchet
John Deere 1/2" breaker bar and 9 John Deere sockets
OTC 1/2" drive 10" extension
Variety of misc. Usa wrenches including a couple of blackhawk ignition wrenches

1badbird · Jul 26, 2016

Rest of the tools I won from the auction
Box of electrical terminals $7.50
Blackhawk ratchet wrench, channel lock needle nose, and Steven Walden sockets and box $6
Garland no.3 split head hammer, Vaughan 24 oz. Hammer, 12" crescent wrench usa made, small load binder, seroco pin striper kit, and grinder shield $3
Craftsman 47135 screwdriver, channel lock 906, money symbol printer block, very cool old wall mount pencil sharpener $6

ttpete · Jul 26, 2016

mike_paxton said:
Continued:

Pic 1 & 2-- Will B. Lane Unique Ratchet Wrench "Ford Set". This set was later renamed the "F" Set, probably due to Ford's copy protection. They used a wire system, that if moved above the fixed post, it ran one way, but if put below the post, it ran the other way.

Pic 3--I thought I'd run into more socket sets in a mechanics old tool box, This is one that has some Snap on's, some sockets show just an S and some show nothing. So, could be a mixed lot.

Pic 4--Thought this might be a homemade small square, but with rust off, found Bemis & Call name punched on it.

Pic 5--Written as "Nevrbrake" on wrench

Pic 6--No name found on this unique wrench

Pic 7-- R. Low....Newark NJ. No clue what it was used for.

Mike

I think that 7 is a tool for cutting out gaskets for piping flange joints. It's used in an auger brace, and if you flip the top blade over, the two blades will cut both the OD and ID in one operation.

mike_paxton · Jul 26, 2016

ttpete said:
I think that 7 is a tool for cutting out gaskets for piping flange joints. It's used in an auger brace, and if you flip the top blade over, the two blades will cut both the OD and ID in one operation.

TTpete:

Thks for solving the mystery!!!

I got my glasses and looked at mfg name on auger and is was P. LOWENTRAUT of Newark NJ. P stands for Peter and then Googled from there. Here is a pic (not mine) of it configured like you said, with info that it was washer cutter (i.e. but feel it could also be used like you said above as well)

Mike

seber · Jul 26, 2016

Bluebolt that Foredom shaft with heads is definitely a you **** deal. I've been looking for one I could afford for years.

rmalkow2 · Jul 26, 2016

Wow, lots of big scores this week!!!

bluebolt · Jul 26, 2016

seber said:
Bluebolt that Foredom shaft with heads is definitely a you **** deal. I've been looking for one I could afford for years.

Yeah I am still debating on keeping it or not.

LesserSon · Jul 26, 2016

mike_paxton said:
Pic 3--I thought I'd run into more socket sets in a mechanics old tool box, This is one that has some Snap on's, some sockets show just an S and some show nothing. So, could be a mixed lot.

I can't really see anything clearly in that pic, but I would not assume they're mixed brands. They all look like very early Snap-on, especially in the context of the primitive ratchet, which has to be pressed to engage and released to disengage. The very earliest Snap-on had no markings. Collecting Snap-on site states only 300 sets were manufactured with no markings. The next style would be SO overstrike. Could it be you are seeing the S but not the O?
Maybe post more pics on the Snap-on thread?

Take a look at this: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=782935&postcount=8

mike_paxton · Jul 27, 2016

LesserSon said:
I can't really see anything clearly in that pic, but I would not assume they're mixed brands. They all look like very early Snap-on, especially in the context of the primitive ratchet, which has to be pressed to engage and released to disengage. The very earliest Snap-on had no markings. Collecting Snap-on site states only 300 sets were manufactured with no markings. The next style would be SO overstrike. Could it be you are seeing the S but not the O?
Maybe post more pics on the Snap-on thread?

Take a look at this: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=782935&postcount=8

LesserSon:

Shot some add'l pics this morning of the sockets in question, but without much benefit from the sun!!!

Pic 1 is the full Snap On name with sizes to side

Pic 2 is the Snap On Overstrike and you were right, that I was missing the "O" when looking at it before.

Pic 3 is the same Snap On Overstrikes, just looking at the size markings on back.

Pic 4 is the one's with no Overstrikes or Snap On name, but only markings found on these are the sizes that look similar to the size markings on the Snap On Overstrikes.

Pic 5 is picture of adapter found on the primitive ratchet that you indicated you pressed to engage and released to disengage.

Hope this helps!!!

Mike

twertsy · Jul 27, 2016

mike_paxton said:
Continued:

Pic 1 & 2-- Will B. Lane Unique Ratchet Wrench "Ford Set". This set was later renamed the "F" Set, probably due to Ford's copy protection. They used a wire system, that if moved above the fixed post, it ran one way, but if put below the post, it ran the other way.

Pic 3--I thought I'd run into more socket sets in a mechanics old tool box, This is one that has some Snap on's, some sockets show just an S and some show nothing. So, could be a mixed lot.

Pic 4--Thought this might be a homemade small square, but with rust off, found Bemis & Call name punched on it.

Pic 5--Written as "Nevrbrake" on wrench

Pic 6--No name found on this unique wrench

Pic 7-- R. Low....Newark NJ. No clue what it was used for.

Mike

Pic 5, Nevrbrake Tool Company, Canton, OH. Started in 1927 and I couldn't find anything after 1929, where they are listed as a plier manufacturer. They look a lot like Eagle Claw brand pliers though.

mike_paxton · Jul 27, 2016

twertsy said:
Pic 5, Nevrbrake Tool Company, Canton, OH. Started in 1927 and I couldn't find anything after 1929, where they are listed as a plier manufacturer. They look a lot like Eagle Claw brand pliers though.

Twertsy:

You amaze me again, as Google wasn't giving me any info on the Nevrbrake Tool Company of Canton OH or the brand of pliers.

Mike

LesserSon · Jul 27, 2016

mike_paxton said:
LesserSon:

Shot some add'l pics this morning of the sockets in question, but without much benefit from the sun!!!

Pic 1 is the full Snap On name with sizes to side

Pic 2 is the Snap On Overstrike and you were right, that I was missing the "O" when looking at it before.

Pic 3 is the same Snap On Overstrikes, just looking at the size markings on back.

Pic 4 is the one's with no Overstrikes or Snap On name, but only markings found on these are the sizes that look similar to the size markings on the Snap On Overstrikes.

Pic 5 is picture of adapter found on the primitive ratchet that you indicated you pressed to engage and released to disengage.

Hope this helps!!!

Mike

Well, I think you struck gold there. I'd love to examine those with a magnifier for date codes. But I'm doubtful of finding them. The earliest date codes would be plain unstylized 7, 8, 9 ,0 for 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930. You might find those or other date codes on the spelled out logo, which began in 1924. The others all look Snappy to my eyes. The overstrikes are 1921-1923. The unbranded ones would be 1920. Alloy Artifacts refers to the unbranded sockets as "folklore," but I think you have physical proof. Never split them away from the others, or who will recognize them?
The ratchet is the No.6 Ratchet, introduced in 1921, I think.
Edit - No.6 was introduced in 1923.

snapmom · Jul 27, 2016

The sockets in the retro sets, that Snap on gave to some of the salesmen do not have the Snap on name, just the size like the one's above.

mike_paxton · Jul 28, 2016

LesserSon said:
Well, I think you struck gold there. I'd love to examine those with a magnifier for date codes. But I'm doubtful of finding them. The earliest date codes would be plain unstylized 7, 8, 9 ,0 for 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930. You might find those or other date codes on the spelled out logo, which began in 1924. The others all look Snappy to my eyes. The overstrikes are 1921-1923. The unbranded ones would be 1920. Alloy Artifacts refers to the unbranded sockets as "folklore," but I think you have physical proof. Never split them away from the others, or who will recognize them?
The ratchet is the No.6 Ratchet, introduced in 1921, I think.
Edit - No.6 was introduced in 1923.

LesserSon:

Your time frame lines up with a lot of the non-Snap ON tools, as many were also early 1920's or before.

I may grouse when taking time to clean a large amount of tools like I had in this bunch, but sometimes it pays dividends.

Thanks for all of the info and time in evaluating them.

Mike

mike_paxton · Jul 28, 2016

snapmom said:
The sockets in the retro sets, that Snap on gave to some of the salesmen do not have the Snap on name, just the size like the one's above.

Snapmom:

Thanks for info on why some of the sockets that had the socket size markings that appear to be the same as the Snap ON strike outs, but lacked any name, could come into existence in the market.

Mike

snapmom · Jul 28, 2016

The drivers did not have the Snap on name either.

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