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Private Lugnutz
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Drives: That ship hatch coffee table is just gorgeous.
Swing: Nice Shell Oil wall. Haha. Sheesh that thing is big. Have you ever seen what the original logo looked like? It's eye-opening to see how much it has evolved from a rather crude and realistic rendering of a seashell. I used its evolution, and yet unmistakable appearance, as an example in a screed I once wrote challenging a weird conventional wisdom in the military Jeep world that gives credit for the iconic grille design to Ford instead of Willys.
Swing: Nice Shell Oil wall. Haha. Sheesh that thing is big. Have you ever seen what the original logo looked like? It's eye-opening to see how much it has evolved from a rather crude and realistic rendering of a seashell. I used its evolution, and yet unmistakable appearance, as an example in a screed I once wrote challenging a weird conventional wisdom in the military Jeep world that gives credit for the iconic grille design to Ford instead of Willys.
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Spent $27 today. Very happy.
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Hi, First posting of something I’ve got. Weather here in the UK cold, icy with a little snow, just a tad over freezing.
Here’s what I bought from someone advertising on Shpock - similar site to Craigslist. 4 new old stock Peli Products / Pelican VersaBrite II Flashlights. For the grand sum of £2, approx. 65 cents each in $.
Here’s what I bought from someone advertising on Shpock - similar site to Craigslist. 4 new old stock Peli Products / Pelican VersaBrite II Flashlights. For the grand sum of £2, approx. 65 cents each in $.
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I haven't posted here in over a year. Went to an auction yesterday where they were selling the real estate and contents of a motorcycle shop that closed. Had mostly motorcycle parts and some tools and equipment. I thought prices were high but was able to purchase a set of heavy duty metal shelves for $20. I was by myself and asked one of the other attendees for help loaded the shelves in my truck. Turns out they were too heavy for us to carry. Ended up taking them apart. When I got home determined that the unit weighed about 200lbs. Eight feet high with five 48" X 18" shelves. Will need to remove a little surface rust and paint before reassembling.
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Twertsy, you should be happy, 'cause usuck
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Nice find twertsy
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Private Lugnutz
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No sh|t! Snappy hip roof drop front with an intact decal!
Welcome, gatsometer. Good deal.
Welcome back. Nice find. Post photos when it's back together again.
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twertsy, you ****.
All ya all have been keeping my spirits up, anticipating buying season. And awesome finds, damn guys.
Bill
All ya all have been keeping my spirits up, anticipating buying season. And awesome finds, damn guys.
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Ya think? Dang that's cool. A little modern for my taste, but cool is cool. Made for Grumman by SK, obviously, but for what purpose is a good question. For mechanical work on an aircraft is an obvious answer, but why a pocket size kit? My guess would be gift box for Grumman employees. Looks like a little extension came with it originally.
Edit: You may get an answer here. But I'd post that on the SK thread. I bet a ********* SK guy will know what it is. We get a lot of traffic here, but believe it or not, there are a lot of guys who don't know we're here (because the thread is not on the Vintage Tools board) and a lot of guys who do know we're here but just don't follow.
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Things are starting to pick up for me too...
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- Prentiss Bulldog 524 swivel base vise
- tiny WISS shears (marked 623-1/2 and PAT APLD FOR)
- PEXTO 270-6 dykes with a cadmium finish
- Blue Point PT-27 magnetic pickerupper (extends to 27”) – I haven’t dated it yet, guessing 40’s
- Snap-On 6-point socket with a 3/4” service opening, no date code, double-strike “S/O” logo
- No-name 3/8” dia. tommy bar (because you can never have enough tommy bars to complete socket sets)
- 1943-1945 US Army Signal Corps TL-29 electrician's knife, ULSTER, never been sharpened
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- Prentiss Bulldog 524 swivel base vise
- tiny WISS shears (marked 623-1/2 and PAT APLD FOR)
- PEXTO 270-6 dykes with a cadmium finish
- Blue Point PT-27 magnetic pickerupper (extends to 27”) – I haven’t dated it yet, guessing 40’s
- Snap-On 6-point socket with a 3/4” service opening, no date code, double-strike “S/O” logo
- No-name 3/8” dia. tommy bar (because you can never have enough tommy bars to complete socket sets)
- 1943-1945 US Army Signal Corps TL-29 electrician's knife, ULSTER, never been sharpened
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Outlawmws
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Lugz, Great scores! The cabinet and the Bulldog are cool!
Can you post better pics of the Wiss and Pexto? I collect both, and I'm not sure I've
seen either.
Can you post better pics of the Wiss and Pexto? I collect both, and I'm not sure I've
seen either.
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I was just on the phone with horse planning a raid on your flea.......[emoji28]
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Thanks, Outlaw. I posted several more photos of the cabinet (P&D Manufacturing Co, Long Island City, NY, guessing 30's or 40's) on Drives' "Vintage Cabinet" thread here.
Sure thing. See thumbnails. I am always on the lookout for WISS V-17 tin snips (6" combination cut duckbills), a verified GMTK tool, and find a lot of them up here in NJ. Picked up the little shears because of the shape of the blades, the robustness, and the maker.Outlaw said:
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Just as a reminder..., I do have a concealed carry permit.
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TWERTSY & LUG: yep in one town around here they have a sign on the wall saying NO GUNS ALLOWED, but of course we are the WILD WILD WEST.
GEESH you have to be tough back east to go to a FLEA MARKET don't you or is it to protect all that green in your pockets?
Twertsy: i'm keeping count so does that little Snappy make 86 toolboxes or when you said 85 was that only the ones with casters on them. nice find and looks like you scored a few nice tools too.
GEESH you have to be tough back east to go to a FLEA MARKET don't you or is it to protect all that green in your pockets?
Twertsy: i'm keeping count so does that little Snappy make 86 toolboxes or when you said 85 was that only the ones with casters on them. nice find and looks like you scored a few nice tools too.
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There are three things you don't do: take another man's tree stand, wade upstream into another man's fishing hole, and go to another man's flea market.
Of course we're just teasing each other, but that really is the rule. I see GJ'ers in overlapping areas (e.g., you Pacific NW'erners), and I really don't know how you do it. EDIT: Maybe I'm just not congenial enough.
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LOL, with all the stuff you buy, I am curious what your garage looks like!
Crowded lol. Most stuff goes to my basement restoration shop/ man cave. And then to the tool boxes or on a display.
1800 sf basement, but it's been getting crowded which is why I am on a sign and shelf/display kick right now. The warden just told me I couldn't laminate the shell sign onto the garage door so that I faces the driveway because I was going to cut it so it could hinge with the door segments. So back to the drawing board with that one!
I'm genuinely ADHD and while that means that my mind will constantly jumps from project to project I have found that picking and auctions are almost a form of therapy for me where I can let my mind race as fast as it wants. At auctions it's like a constant stream of math problems and condition evaluations for each item up for sale. Calculating margins, repair costs, time, etc. and I LOVE IT! Even though its rare that I sell anything I still like a good deal as much as the next guy.
If only I could find good paying corporate job that used a skill set like that.... I would be a much richer man lol.
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I returned to the estate sale I hit yesterday to try and find the 12mm missing from the set of Williams/Vulcan sockets I bought yesterday. Found it mixed in with a set of cheap Chinese tools. Love it when that happens. Also found another long c DBE I missed. Guy gave them to me for free.99!
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No Honor Among thieves (or treasure hunters...) 
around here its first come, first served...
And today I was first!
You know that saying that ends with: Good things will come? This is more like what I was waiting for!
ONE Semi Estate/Moving Sale (Mom moving into an apartment, Dad is apparently gone...), and that was ALL today, but it was enough! I heard later that she had lived in the house since new (50's? Early 60's?)
I pull up and it looks decent from the street. Ammo box, some camping the ad mentioned tools -Hope that's not the barrel of yard tools..
Ammo Box:
So I scoop the Ammo box and look over the camp gear. there is a 12" dutch oven with legs and brimmed lid. Nice "I'll Be back"... (And I was) There was a green Coleman 220 dual mantle lantern (By far the most common lantern out there) but I have more than enough and it didn't have anything extra like a mantle safe, or reflector to bother with it.
I wander into the garage, and ask if the stuff on the small work bench is for sale. "Mom" starts telling me the bench is for sale, and I clarify, and she says something about "I haven been through the tools yet..." my heart drops; then she starts talking about the organised box and she wanted the picture hanger hooks out of that at least, and I feel relief! The son comes over and I assure them both if I pick anything they still want to keep, that won't be an issue, and I'm given free rein!
I find pouches of Craftsman tools (everything was -V-) , a Craftsman 3/8 swivel head ratchet with the Star Trek" switch... It was good pickings!
METRIC DBE and DOE sets! an SAE set of DBE's, that Ratchet:
SAE WARDS Master Quality DOE tool role, and that small Craftsman box marked "Metric"...
I'm thinking Its got to be like Allen wrenches...
I open it an my jaw nearly dropped! It is a complete pristine 1/4" Metric drive set! A second Husky ratchet, and the oddball wrench was in there. The Crewline combo came out of the DOE SAE pouch. That was the ONLY combo in the garage! I guess he wasn't a believer...
More odds and ends:
3" Aluminum clamps! (I love aluminum clamps almost better than the heavy forged, as I often can't have extra weight on many clamp up jobs..)
An awl; not sure of brand, No. H1202
Half full tin of cotter pins, (cool lid! see second pic)
A NICE smaller hand drill with rosewood handles - NOT A MAKERS MARK TO BE SEEN! But I'm sure its good quality, so maybe made for a hardware store chain?
Not Done! Wait for it!
around here its first come, first served...
And today I was first!
You know that saying that ends with: Good things will come? This is more like what I was waiting for!
ONE Semi Estate/Moving Sale (Mom moving into an apartment, Dad is apparently gone...), and that was ALL today, but it was enough! I heard later that she had lived in the house since new (50's? Early 60's?)
I pull up and it looks decent from the street. Ammo box, some camping the ad mentioned tools -Hope that's not the barrel of yard tools..
Ammo Box:
So I scoop the Ammo box and look over the camp gear. there is a 12" dutch oven with legs and brimmed lid. Nice "I'll Be back"... (And I was) There was a green Coleman 220 dual mantle lantern (By far the most common lantern out there) but I have more than enough and it didn't have anything extra like a mantle safe, or reflector to bother with it.
I wander into the garage, and ask if the stuff on the small work bench is for sale. "Mom" starts telling me the bench is for sale, and I clarify, and she says something about "I haven been through the tools yet..." my heart drops; then she starts talking about the organised box and she wanted the picture hanger hooks out of that at least, and I feel relief! The son comes over and I assure them both if I pick anything they still want to keep, that won't be an issue, and I'm given free rein!
I find pouches of Craftsman tools (everything was -V-) , a Craftsman 3/8 swivel head ratchet with the Star Trek" switch... It was good pickings!
METRIC DBE and DOE sets! an SAE set of DBE's, that Ratchet:
SAE WARDS Master Quality DOE tool role, and that small Craftsman box marked "Metric"...
I'm thinking Its got to be like Allen wrenches...
I open it an my jaw nearly dropped! It is a complete pristine 1/4" Metric drive set! A second Husky ratchet, and the oddball wrench was in there. The Crewline combo came out of the DOE SAE pouch. That was the ONLY combo in the garage! I guess he wasn't a believer...
More odds and ends:
3" Aluminum clamps! (I love aluminum clamps almost better than the heavy forged, as I often can't have extra weight on many clamp up jobs..)
An awl; not sure of brand, No. H1202
Half full tin of cotter pins, (cool lid! see second pic)
A NICE smaller hand drill with rosewood handles - NOT A MAKERS MARK TO BE SEEN! But I'm sure its good quality, so maybe made for a hardware store chain?
Not Done! Wait for it!
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And the final piece! I have a double handful and I'm looking for the son to get prices, and see an anvil on the ground.
I missed it??
SERIOUSLY! I walked PAST it! (It was that kind of sale enough good stuff to keep you distracted, even if you were not really interested....)
So I get the son's attention and tell him this stuff in my hands, (Yes, I had ALL of the "loose stuff" somehow...) plus I point to the anvil and the Dutch oven.
He starts with the stuff in my hands/Arms and starts with the Ammo box and I'm bracing myself... He says $2 for the box, mumble 5 for something mumbles some more and says "How about $15 for all this stuff in your hands, and, Oh, $20 for the anvil? and Mmmm ten for the Dutch oven? So $45?
I Gulp, I try to remain Calm. I DO NOT EVEN TRY TO NEGOTIATE!
i said "sure, as long as you are OK with a fifty?" He was I dug that out of the back of my wallet, and paid up!
i carry the loose stuff to the rig, and open the back up, and go back for the anvil, and he even helps by bringing the dutch oven commenting "you must like old stuff..."
When I pick up the anvil I look over the top and my heart pounds!
I see this:
Flipped over and enhanced for those that cant stand to read upside down!
It'a a Peter Wright, and its 44 lbs, and its not in bad shape at all! Twenty bucks!
This one may motivate me to setup the new, larger, E-tank! I'm thinking BLO after the rust is gone...
All in all A GREAT day!
I practically had the shakes coming home, Not sure if it was excitement, or lack of breakfast, but it HAS been a while for a good score!
I missed it??
SERIOUSLY! I walked PAST it! (It was that kind of sale enough good stuff to keep you distracted, even if you were not really interested....)So I get the son's attention and tell him this stuff in my hands, (Yes, I had ALL of the "loose stuff" somehow...) plus I point to the anvil and the Dutch oven.
He starts with the stuff in my hands/Arms and starts with the Ammo box and I'm bracing myself... He says $2 for the box, mumble 5 for something mumbles some more and says "How about $15 for all this stuff in your hands, and, Oh, $20 for the anvil? and Mmmm ten for the Dutch oven? So $45?
I Gulp, I try to remain Calm. I DO NOT EVEN TRY TO NEGOTIATE!
i said "sure, as long as you are OK with a fifty?" He was I dug that out of the back of my wallet, and paid up!
i carry the loose stuff to the rig, and open the back up, and go back for the anvil, and he even helps by bringing the dutch oven commenting "you must like old stuff..."
When I pick up the anvil I look over the top and my heart pounds!
I see this:
Flipped over and enhanced for those that cant stand to read upside down!
It'a a Peter Wright, and its 44 lbs, and its not in bad shape at all! Twenty bucks!
This one may motivate me to setup the new, larger, E-tank! I'm thinking BLO after the rust is gone...
All in all A GREAT day!
I practically had the shakes coming home, Not sure if it was excitement, or lack of breakfast, but it HAS been a while for a good score!
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twertsy
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Wow, nice scores outlaw!And the final piece! I have a double handful and I'm looking for the son to get prices, and see an anvil on the ground.
I missed it??
So I get the son's attention and tell him this stuff in my hands, (Yes, I had ALL of the "loose stuff" somehow...) plus I point to the anvil and the Dutch oven.
He starts with the stuff in my hands/Arms and starts with the Ammo box and I'm bracing myself... He says $2 for the box, mumble 5 for something mumbles some more and says "How about $15 for all this stuff in your hands, and, Oh, $20 for the anvil? and Mmmm ten for the Dutch oven? So $45?
I Gulp, I try to remain Calm. I DO NOT EVEN TRY TO NEGOTIATE!
i said "sure, as long as you are OK with a fifty?" He was I dug that out of the back of my wallet, and paid up!
i carry the loose stuff to the rig, and open the back up, and go back for the anvil, and he even helps by bringing the dutch oven commenting "you must like old stuff..."
When I pick up the anvil I look over the top and my heart pounds!
I see this:
Flipped over and enhanced for those that cant stand to read upside down!
It'a a Peter Wright, and its 44 lbs, and its not in bad shape at all! Twenty bucks!
This one may motivate me to setup the new, larger, E-tank! I'm thinking BLO after the rust is gone...
All in all A GREAT day!
I practically had the shakes coming home, Not sure if it was excitement, or lack of breakfast, but it HAS been a while for a good score!
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jdbilodeau
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Outlaw- What a day!
Catfishdan
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Outlaw- That metric 1/4 drive set is super terrific. I have a hard time finding vintage metric stuff.
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Outlaw- YOU ****!!!
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Well Outlaw, you'll just have to make one of those certificates for yourself!
YOU ****!
Great finds
YOU ****!
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Nice haul Outlaw. You too Lugz. I'd like an anvil for my shop but around here I think they're all made of gold. At least I'm basing that on what people are asking for them.
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Thanks Guys!
I know its hard to find metric period, much less vintage!
I don't even care if I find metric. All my OWWM (Old woodworking machines) are SAE so there isn't a metric bolt or nut on them. That's the way I like it. If I find metric amongst stuff I buy it's get shoved to the side like a red-headed stepchild. Apologies to all red-headed stepchildren!
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Around my area prices seem to hover around $5/lb. if it's a church window then $10/lb.
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