2015 Garage SaleThread

Nice Cabinet Joe. looks like one of those dental cabinets. Is that a baby vise? What is the jaw width, 2 inches?

Beat, how do you ship anything without a scale?!?!?!

Joe, that cabinet is F'n AWESOME!!!! and some more !!!

Beat, I have that same model anvil!

Joe, like 9 said that register cab is effing AWESOME!

I suspect its wood; is it? either way, cool find!

dngrmse said:

Nice Cabinet Joe. looks like one of those dental cabinets. Is that a baby vise? What is the jaw width, 2 inches?

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Sorry, 4" Yost vise. Really pristine.

Here's other junk I bought this week. 7" Parker vise ($100), custom Diehl fan (pd too much), cast iron table legs (10), OC White Cieling light (10), Wilton 930 1946 vintage (125), OC White base (check out the patent dates ), 4" Athol vise (60). Not pictured is a working 40 gallon Speedaire compressor that I got for 80 but had to spend $50 to make perfect.

It has been a very good week.

Outlawmws said:

Beat, I have that same model anvil!

Joe, like 9 said that register cab is effing AWESOME!

I suspect its wood; is it? either way, cool find!

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Yes solid oak, no veneer. Weighs 120-150 lbs. Really gorgeous.

martin666 said:

Picked this stuff up today. ..loooonnnng 10/3 extension cord, older Makita Hypoid saw, small torch set and two 18" .003 - .060 feeler gauges... $30

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Those makita saws rock! I use mine all the time

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Blue Frog:

That furniture repair box with contents is great and glad it "found" you. BTW, liked that old roofing nail puller as well.


Joe.Striper:

Agree with everyone else, that the vintage NCR cabinet is a great find!!!


beatcad:

The Columbian Vise Co Anvil is unusual and also a great find.


Thanks guys for sharing info/pics, as keeps us all motivated.


Mike

After a long drought I finally found some decent yard sale finds yesterday. I hit these at the end of the day after work and I wish I had been there first thing in the morning because at both places the guy selling said he had a lot of stuff that was snapped up early.

The first place was mostly old junky furniture but there was a coffee can of wrenches without a price tag and he let me have the bunch for $4. Its a real mish mash with S-K, Popular Mechanics, Fuller, Dunlap, Gedore, PowerKraft, PowerMaster, Industro and a couple of indeterminate origin but I figure for 4 bucks what the heck.



The second place would have been awesome if I had been there earlier and I don't want to even know what I missed but I picked up this working fan for my shop (LAU "niteair" I need to do some reasearch on it) and a Kennedy 1018 cantilever tool box for $5 each.

I am thinking of hitting the outside of the box with some new paint and using it for my "electrics" box.

Another 2 stops this morning. Once again, the first stop was a total waste of time in the wrong direction. The second stop wasn't too bad (around the corner from my house), I wonder what I missed. I ended up with -

a B&D table top Workmate(ish) stand. (composite top, composite base) $10
a 50'(?) sewer snake (you never need one, until the sh!+ hits the ......... well you get the idea) $5

MoparTrucks said:

After a long drought I finally found some decent yard sale finds yesterday. I hit these at the end of the day after work and I wish I had been there first thing in the morning because at both places the guy selling said he had a lot of stuff that was snapped up early.

The first place was mostly old junky furniture but there was a coffee can of wrenches without a price tag and he let me have the bunch for $4. Its a real mish mash with S-K, Popular Mechanics, Fuller, Dunlap, Gedore, PowerKraft, PowerMaster, Industro and a couple of indeterminate origin but I figure for 4 bucks what the heck.

The second place would have been awesome if I had been there earlier and I don't want to even know what I missed but I picked up this working fan for my shop (LAU "niteair" I need to do some reasearch on it) and a Kennedy 1018 cantilever tool box for $5 each.

I am thinking of hitting the outside of the box with some new paint and using it for my "electrics" box.

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I have a kennedy box just like that it was dads he used it for a tackle box for fishing. His is in almost mint condition was thinkin of selling it but with all ive heard on GJ thnk I will keep it.

Paid $10 for all this.

Some nice Stanley screwdrivers
Craftsman pliers, saw, and drill bits.
Athol measuring tape
Small Oxwall wrenches
1 Williams wrench and the other wrenches are unknown.
Wooden screwdrivers.
wooden ratcheting screwdriver
Nail puller
2 monkey wrenches
Eklind folding Allen key set
All American hex key set. Might be missing 1 or 2.
These 2 really cool brass screwdrivers that unscrew and have smaller screwdrivers inside.


Then I bought a bunch of these old Kennedy assassination newspapers for $10. 2 boxes full. Probably worth some cash.


Approximately 150 craftsman sockets, 8 craftsman wrenches, 1 proto adjustable, and an oil can all for $40.

dodge610 said:

I have a kennedy box just like that it was dads he used it for a tackle box for fishing. His is in almost mint condition was thinkin of selling it but with all ive heard on GJ thnk I will keep it.

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I'd keep it if I were you. I wasn't really looking for a box like that but I couldn't pass it up for the price and its definitely cool IMO. I haven't done any research on it but it seems like it would be from the 1950s.

MoparTrucks said:

I'd keep it if I were you. I wasn't really looking for a box like that but I couldn't pass it up for the price and its definitely cool IMO. I haven't done any research on it but it seems like it would be from the 1950s.

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Sounds about right that would be the time frame he would of probably bought his.

So my dad tells me he went to an estate sale down the street from my house yesterday while I was on vacation and missed and there was an old workbench/toolbox and vise. I went first thing today but I missed it all. Ahhhhh. Oh well.

Craigslist and flea market finds this morning. Nicholson files have never been used.Matco cart came with a Mac side shelf and a Snap On creeper holder...All for $100

Not a whole lot today. Found a mint condition toddler bike with training wheels for my daughter for $10. Also found this brand new Ridgid Fuego jig saw for $20. Not a scratch on it.



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Only a few sales today but I found some decent stuff.


Old but unused door lock. $1


Mac 1/4x6 extension $1


SK metric wrenches, missing a few but I think I have them in my spare wrench box. $8


A couple Japanese wrenches. .25 each.


Unknown Starrett thingamajigs. Pin vises? .25 each.

Some greate finds guys! Slow day for me...

Dodge, I'd keep your Dad's box. even if you don't see any value now, later you probably will and any kids may too. My daughter insisted on keeping a couple of pieces from my dad's place I'd have tossed, and SWMBO sided with her, so they came home... If I'd had ANY memories of them - different story...


9 planned stops, and way too many stories like "Tools? not yet, I'm still sorting those out..." - So WHY did they list "tools"?


Mini Simon for a buck, and a free SandVik 10' mini tape measure from the first stop (and one of the "I'm still bringing the tools out... gang; it was an early stop so I waited... for junk...). The Deep socket is a Long C Craftsman 7/8, and the only thing to come out of the most promising place; Who opened late and had no effing clue how to setup nor what half the stuff was or was worth...




As for this Safety Can, it was $4, and is a Protectoseal out of Chicago. I'm pretty sure its a 1/2 gallon. I can't tell quite what was in it. Not gas or I think a petroleum product. It almost smells like car wax? Green tinge on the screen.

GP -Yes, pin vises.

Outlawmws said:

Some greate finds guys! Slow day for me...

Dodge, I'd keep your Dad's box. even if you don't see any value now, later you probably will and any kids may too. My daughter insisted on keeping a couple of pieces from my dad's place I'd have tossed, and SWMBO sided with her, so they came home... If I'd had ANY memories of them - different story...


9 planned stops, and way too many stories like "Tools? not yet, I'm still sorting those out..." - So WHY did they list "tools"?


Mini Simon for a buck, and a free SandVik 10' mini tape measure from the first stop (and one of the "I'm still bringing the tools out... gang; it was an early stop so I waited... for junk...). The Deep socket is a Long C Craftsman 7/8, and the only thing to come out of the most promising place; Who opened late and had no effing clue how to setup nor what half the stuff was or was worth...

As for this Safety Can, it was $4, and is a Protectoseal out of Chicago. I'm pretty sure its a 1/2 gallon. I can't tell quite what was in it. Not gas or I think a petroleum product. It almost smells like car wax? Green tinge on the screen.

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Thanks outlawwms I have that and half his tools also tools are staying. But the kennedy box in a weak moment I almost sold it but your right brings back a lot of memories so its staying in the fold.

Last weekend was a total bust but this weekend was better. A bunch of weird stuff is what makes it fun.

Some precision/machinist tools ($.50 -$2/ea):



A pair of like new Tripletts ($5/ea) and a Fluke 75 ($.50):



A Weller solder station and a desolder station with built in vacuum pump ($5/ea). Also a tray fill of tips.



An assortment of Shun kitchen knives. The 4 pc steak knife set was $5 and the large knife set was $30. $35 total.





A NOS 75th anniversary Milwaukee Magnum from 1999 ($30):



Old style Dremel kit $3:



A huge commercial blender. (this thing is much bigger and heavier then it looks) $40:



Two machinist's pin gauge standards sets. They go from .0380" to .1095" in increments of .0005". $1/set.



Misc:



Gast vacuum pump $.50:



Drill press vise. (no jaws, no base) - thrown in as part of a bundle



Get started kit for a Meth lab??? Free pile

Any markings on the broadaxe, dave?

Finally a couple of sales worth going to. Picked 5 vise's 17 American scale 5". Red seal American scale 54 4 1/2".
Trimo 43 pipe vise.... monster size
all steel Columbian 4"
lil Stanley handy man
Miller Falls gentlemen's hand carving set w/ all 15 bit's pat. date 1865
hand dolly... metal working
# 34 Stanley catalog... I think it's 1920 issue
wooden bar clamp. Maker unknown so far
Craftsman block plane # 3732 still in the box, never used
KCP&L red light lantern. KCP&l is Kansas city power and light.
Double edge axe, HOME STEAD
Lufkin folding rule w/6" brass pullout
24" Genuine Stillson pipe wrench
12" Trimo wooden handle pipe wrench dated 6/20/16
5 brace's and 2 bits 1 Stanley sweetheart, 2 Stanley and 2 unknown
1 egg beater drill. can't make out the maker yet... some one in Greenfield ,mass that starts with a CD?
12" proto adjustable wrench... Has Los Angeles on it???
lil tack hammer, Can't make out the maker yet..."Acme Drive Well maybe"???
RICH-CON folding draw knife... this thing is razor sharp!
A pair of old first aid metal boxes- They had a few odds and ends in them including 2 pocket knives, one's made in Sheffield, the other a kutmaster. Also a badge from the door keeper of the state senate...and no box of stuff is complete without a skeleton key and a corn cob pipe
Also a very cool copper bucket with an amazing iron handle. It's maybe a 6 quart capacity. The patina on that thing drew me to it in an instant.
old style 5 gal gas can with the vent cap. The new ones just ****!
then a bunch of odd and end tools, in the bottom of the sigle tray true value tool box. I have to buy one of these every so often to keep this stuff in... running out of space

It was a pricey venture but I think I'll come out in the end ok. 340.00

A few more pictures and of course a "whatsit"

Here's is the vise I picked up while on vacation from who turned out to be a GJ member.




A really nice 85lb 5" Parker 955. $125

shanny19 said:

Any markings on the broadaxe, dave?

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Queen City

nine4gmc said:

What's with the grenade 3Bay?

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Well, it's for coating lock mechanisms I believe. I was thinking Jeff Moss would know something about it. Rather than graphite paste, you squeeze it and it lets out a plume of graphite powder from the "wick", actually a tiny copper? tube. Never seen one before.

Hahaha! I thought that was a real fuse, and would be used to make an area with a big graphite spot! (and I'll bet I'm not the only one!)

I was thinking Jeff was special ops and that was some kind of stun grenade.

Only a few things today, and only a couple tools.

Pair of license plates, WV and VA, $1 each
Craftsman 3/8 extension, $1
Hammer, large head but no markings, $1
Warner razor blade scraping tool and blades, $2 new in the boxes
Bag of corks for wine bottles, for a craft project for the wife, $1
Pair of shoe shining brushes, FREE
"Canned Food Manual", printed for the Army in WWII, 1942 dated, FREE
1990s style military canteen with cover and stainless cup, $4 for all
Punch card holder, about 3 feet high, $3

Second and last weekend of my Southern Fried Picking Adventure. I'm in Montgomery, Alabama for two weeks of training and am passing the weekends looking for old tools and bargains.

This weekend there was nothing going on in Montgomery that I could find, so I headed up I-65 to the Birmingham suburbs. I rolled through two yard sales that started at 7 AM with no luck. "The tools all sold yesterday." Thanks. One had a lonely Delta saw table in the garage, but it's kinda hard to get one of those into a airline checked bag.

The main show was a country estate sale that said "TOOLS, TOOLS, AND MORE TOOLS!" in the C-list ad. The old guy had been in the surveying and general contracting trade and had been in the same property since the late '60s. He had a huge open shed out back piled with whatever he brought back from jobs - both materials and tools would be in the same bucket. I began to wonder if he just bought more tools for every job!

For $20, I filled a 5-gallon bucket with the following:
2 crusty 11R Petersen ViceGrips
1 crusty 11SP Petersen ViceGrips
1 Craftsman-made vicegrips (don't have one of these in my tool collection!)

1 Diamalloy HL116P "Groove-Joint" pliers, 16 inches long
1 Klein 63035 wire cutter, 17 inches long (for those really, really big cables)


1 J.H Williamson S-50 1/2" female-drive ratchet (frozen up, won't ratchet) - this puppy may be from the 1930s!!
1 Wilton #404 forged steel C-clamp

1 Klein #3238 1/2" spud ratchet (seems I'm on a spud run lately)
1 11" long lineman's pliers, too crusty to see a maker's mark
1 end cutter, no maker's mark, peculiar jaw - looks like it was made to nip something flush to a surface and in a corner
1 needle nose pliers, too crusty to see a maker's mark



1 USA-made torpedo level, missing spirits from one of three tubes
1 11/16 - 3/4 S-K Wayne DOE (I was excited to add this to my growing SK collection until I saw the "hanging hole" drilled in one end )

1 Klein 600-4 screwdriver
1 Craftsman 1/4" socket driver -H- w/ a -V- 1/4" socket & flatblade bit
1 Craftsman 1/4" x 6" extension -G- with a 10MM MAC socket
1 Thorsen #53 1/2" x 4" extension
1 P-F 1/2" x 4" extension (Taiwan-made, didn't realize 'til I got it home)
2 Craftsman 1/4" deep sockets, 1/4" & 3/16", -EE-

1 S-K 3/8" x 7/16" flare wrench
1 Snap-On 3/8" x 7/16" flare wrench
1 Snap-On 11MM wrench
2 Craftsman combo wrenches, 1/2" & 7/16"

3 Wilcox-Crittendon 2 1/2" vintage galvanized pulley blocks (WC went out of manuf in the '60s - they made a lot of stuff for boats and ships)

1 no-name battery cleaner (note to self - always open/unscrew/look at all parts of a tool before putting it in your pile - D'oh!)

1 Eagle 4" diam oiling can with a 15" nozzle (it had still had the cool Eagle screen printed logo under the grime and dirt...until I tried to wash off the grime and dirt - D'oh! part 2)
1 Lufkin 12" tape measure


I left a lot of cool stuff that was just too heavy to bring back in checked baggage, like this big Craftsman vise (!), an anvil, a big box of NIB foot-long hammer drill bits, heavy duty load securing shackles, etc etc.


The next stop was another family-run estate sale. I passed on a Proto roller chest with a "Selling all together - $50" label. Sigh. I did find a 12-volt power supply for $5 that I will use to power an electrolysis bath I've been wanting to build. This one looks pretty heavy duty - 15 amps output!


The next estate sale stop was even cheaper - $1 for my picks. Also not much here, but I found the old guy's workbench and this case of Wizard-brand metric sockets. I found the ratchet in another tool box (thank goodness!) but could not find the other missing sockets. I may part this one out.
1 Lufkin 6-ft tape measure w/ Buick Electro-Cruise advertising (My favorite pick of the weekend!)
1 Lisle reversing snap ring pliers (much better design than what I have in my tool box - this is a keeper!



The last stop I had seen on-line but forgot about. As I was driving to stop #3 above, I saw the company sign and ducked in. Man, was it swamped with people!! The company had two cops directing traffic, and there must have been at least 50 cars lined up along the road. The house was full of exquisite things - the garage not so much. This neat pedal car was in there, but fortunately I don't have that particular collecting bug.


Here's what I took away for a ten spot:
1 GE mechanical time switch
1 brass wire brush
1 headlamp, with batteries


Now, the next challenge: how to pack all this into my luggage for a trip through the airline baggage system. I brought a big duffle bag for this eventuality, but I didn't think about packing material. I think I'll wrap them in newspaper and then just tape every together and surrounding it with dirty laundry. The stuff that can get crushed/damaged I'll probably pack separate from the steel tools.


Cheers, gents!

got an old 10" Delta table saw today, serial #6-7272. I am not sure of the age or even a model number on this one. I though it was newer because of the good condition but the motor makes me think much older. I has a new 1hp Sears motor and all new wiring and switch. But the best part is I got the old original motor with it and it still works perfectly. Seller said he replaced it with the new one because the old one was too loud and bothered the neighbors. No one will believe me but I got it all for $20 at an estate liquidation. Had to load it by myself and it was much heavier than it looked!

topop101 said:

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The whatsit in pic 7 is an old style saw set.

Outlawmws said:

Hahaha! I thought that was a real fuse, and would be used to make an area with a big graphite spot! (and I'll bet I'm not the only one!)

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nine4gmc said:

I was thinking Jeff was special ops and that was some kind of stun grenade.

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You guys.

Picked these up at a warehouse sale at the local army surplus store.

The wrench has not seen the light day in over 50 years. Found a label on the crate that dated 1953. Same with the speeder wrench. All told 14.92 dollars and that included a 50 cal. Ammo can.

PWRstroke_smoke said:

got an old 10" Delta table saw today, serial #6-7272.

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Does the blade stay fixed and the whole table moves up/down/tilts?

If so.... Still, a nice old piece, and at a ****-worthy price with two motors thrown in.

spike99250 said:

The whatsit in pic 7 is an old style saw set.

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Thanks, kinda what I thought. How about this one? Dato chisel?

Nope, Eggbeater drill!

BlueBomber said:

Does the blade stay fixed and the whole table moves up/down/tilts?

If so.... Still, a nice old piece, and at a ****-worthy price with two motors thrown in.

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99% sure its a tilting table.

3baygarage said:

You guys.

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Hey some time back I found a MK1 WWl grenade in the bottom of a tool box I bought. it was inert but had massive cool factor