2015 Garage SaleThread

[Drake9]

Uh, A Wilton like that in great shape and a great story to boot plus the tool box and all for $80. I would say you got a very smoking hot deal. Add at least $100 to that vise around my area.
Given the history I'm envisioning a tribute paint job maybe? Painted some shade of blue with a purple heart medal painted on the side in memory of the original owner?
Just thinking out of the box but it's yours to enjoy. Shows some pics when restored. Great find!!!

That is a great idea. I was going to go the greenish hammered color everyone puts on but I likr this idea way better. Thanks

 

[Davefr]

Anyone familiar with these wrenches? They look like line wrenches that clamp and lock onto the flare nut instead of sliding on. They look military. (kind of a neat idea). Cost was $8:

Some Diamalloy, Klein, Indestro, Boker, Craftsman. Anyone know who made the spiral handle screwdriver? (the grip is pretty effective)

Misc.

 

[nine4gmc]

Ratcheting line wrench set Dave, looks like part of a military kit.

 

[Outlawmws]

Dave, while the ratcheting line wrenches were issued to the military, Imperial made those for anyone. I have I think 2 of them but finding a whole set... SCORE!

Those are top grade for working on line nuts.

Oak, go price that SK set! (Usuck...)

dbocha01, I like the leather stamps!

 

[PFSard]

Slim pickings today for $7.50. More than I would usually pay, but I'm posting these because I have not seen these in my travels before. Maybe someone searching will find this info useful....

Acme Combination Oil-Stone
G. I. Mix & Co. No. 1 EX 12-inch Blade Drawknife
S&H Co. 1950-8 8" Lineman's Pliers
Fulton "AD" 10 Inch Monkey Wrench

 

[msgtsmithret]

Anyone familiar with these wrenches? They look like line wrenches that clamp and lock onto the flare nut instead of sliding on. They look military. (kind of a neat idea). Cost was $8:

Nice finds! Those are 1980/1970 era ratcheting line wrenches. After early 1980's the military stopped using canvas bags in favor of plastic ones, so that helps to date yours. The National Stock number also tells you a lot about an item , for example, newer items will have a NSN with a 01 in the 5th and 6th position of the number and older items will have a 00 there. Even older ones have neither a 00 or a 01 in those positions. Here is a great website to learn more about any NSN

http://www.dlis.dla.mil/webflis/pub/pub_search.aspx

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Plomb carbon scraper

bluebolt,

How is it marked? Pre-1933 'PLOMB' Los Angeles? 1933-1938 'PLVMB' Los Angeles? or 1939-> 'PLVMB' USA?

 

[bluebolt]

Anyone familiar with these wrenches? They look like line wrenches that clamp and lock onto the flare nut instead of sliding on. They look military. (kind of a neat idea). Cost was $8:

Nice finds! Those are 1980/1970 era ratcheting line wrenches. After early 1980's the military stopped using canvas bags in favor of plastic ones, so that helps to date yours. The National Stock number also tells you a lot about an item , for example, newer items will have a NSN with a 01 in the 5th and 6th position of the number and older items will have a 00 there. Even older ones have neither a 00 or a 01 in those positions. Here is a great website to learn more about any NSN

http://www.dlis.dla.mil/webflis/pub/pub_search.aspx

From experience (former Air Force B-52 Custodian Authorization/Custody Receipt Listing equipment manager) I saw the 00, 01 and nothing in the 5th and 6th position all the time. We still were using some tools and equipment from the 1950's. And with the lifespan extension of the B-52 until the 2040's we will be flying 80 year old aircraft with a few tools even older!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Anyone recognize the date code on the Snap On speeder? Looks like 1942 to me, but I'm not sure.

It looks like 1942 to me. The finish (either cadmium or phosphate, from here) is correct for 1942 as well. If you don't need it, I do! (See my WANTED ad link.) I just picked up a K-4DG, but it's late 40's. Trade? I will PM you.

 

[mike_paxton]

1 week in evaporust for my Reed that was plucked from a welding table in the middle of the woods and it's still no joy.......gonna have to build an electrolysis tank this weekend

twertsy:

I had a Parker Vise that was outside, laying in dirt for two decades.

What was the problem area for me was that the lower housing in the static jaw was rusted shut, which kept what I was using (i.e. white vinegar and a little salt), from penetrating.

In end and what ended up freeing the sliding bar on the dynamic side, was that I'd periodically pull the vise out of the vinegar/salt mixture bath, try and score the rust on both sides of the perimeter of the sliding bar which enters/exits the lower housing. In addition, I'd try using just hack saw blades to attempt to deepen that score line. Eventually, one of the two sides finally allowed the white vinegar/salt to finally get inside the lower housing to work on the interior rust, so was then able to extract the sliding bar.

In my case, it was repeating this step over and over for a 2 month period, before finally succeeding in getting the vise apart. In addition, I'd use a ball peen hammer and tap the sides each time I pulled vise from the vinegar/salt bath.

Just passing it along as an FYI and that sometimes, it just takes a lot more time on certain vises which have been left too long in weather, before you are able to gain success.

Hope it helps.

Mike

 

[twertsy]

Thanks Mike. I too am in no hurry, I have 4 other functioning vises. I've been following basically the same routine you described, just different implements. Todd

 

[Davefr]

Thanks guys for the info on the line wrenches!!

 

[Smokeshow69]

Scored all these from a local pawn shop for $5. Includes 2 sk screwdrivers, snappy screw driver and pick, a bunch of 1/2 and 3/8 drive proto sockets, doe proto los angeles wrench. Think I did pretty well

 

[rmalkow2]

I went to a monthly local antique auction last night after work and found a few things I couldn't resist.
It was actually good for my parts hunting quest for the hot rod project. I got a pair of '29 License plates and a very nice "46 Ford steering wheel. Just about perfect of what you would expect to see in a fifties-sixties era hot rod.


And just to add to my air gun collection a decent example of the first Daisy air pistol. The Model 118 Targeteer. It was pretty low power but every kid wanted one. It shoots #6 size shot.

 

[whyNick?]

From experience (former Air Force B-52 Custodian Authorization/Custody Receipt Listing equipment manager) I saw the 00, 01 and nothing in the 5th and 6th position all the time. We still were using some tools and equipment from the 1950's. And with the lifespan extension of the B-52 until the 2040's we will be flying 80 year old aircraft with a few tools even older!

What an amazing machine, to think that a design born a year after the end of WWII and originally intended to have propellers could be not only airworthy but a mainstay of our defense nearly 70 years later is just incredible.

 

[nine4gmc]

Two stops this morning, no tools but I scored a case of cold galvanize and a case of 3M filters for $10.

 

[BFBOB]

First sale I've been to in a while- an estate sale. I came away with this little vise. Only 3" and no swivel base, but it's an American made Yost, and in very good shape. Not bad for 5 bux. One oddity is it appears to be also mountable by the old-time center bolt-through-the-workbench method, which then would allow it to swivel. It looks like it would take a 3/8 or perhaps 1/2 carriage bolt. My Yost No. 1 has this arrangement, but on it the stud is threaded into the bottom of the vise and there's a round iron base that the vise sits on.

 

[alinc100]

well I was finally able to brave the cold and hit a CL advertised sale.
Ad was light on pics and info but due to some good detective work by my buddy and fellow tool hunter Adam we were the only ones there for the after 9 am opening.
Adam scored very well on mechanic's tools as did I ,but being it was his find he went thru the main tool box first.
Here is what he left behind:














A complete metric SK shallow set in tray, Wixey digital height gauge (needed a battery),PEC fractional digital caliper,Proto,Challenger,MAC and Snap On wrenches,MAC,Proto,Snap On and Craftsman Screwdrivers ,Snap On swivel impacts,more Channellocks,a bunch of new/like new hole saws,a PLOMB breaker bar and DBE wrench,huge MAC extension 1/2" dr. All in all it was a good pic and worth getting out of bed early.

 

[Strouty]

Two stops this morning, no tools but I scored a case of cold galvanize and a case of 3M filters for $10.

That was a great deal!

 

[geojag]

Been on a drill bit spree lately. A couple weeks ago I picked up a Huot index with 1-43 (missing 4 bits) Morse bits with a short fluted section, all unused. $2 at an estate sale.

Today I picked up another Huot index, 1/16 to 1/2 by 1/64. The bits are Chicago-Latrobe. The bits seem to be sharp but there are some burrs on the shanks where they spun in the chuck. Damage on those was $5.

 

[jeffmoss26]

Geojag, you ****!!

 

[rmalkow2]

One CL purchase today and one I've been tracking for a couple weeks. Retired steel from a couple basketball supports. Two 4" square thick wall pieces 11.5 feet long, two 4" square thin wall pieces 7.5 feet long and multiple 7 foot long 1" round stock. All for $50. I think it was a great deal but no fun bringing it all home in a freezing, blowing blizzard of a day today.

 

[ShadowRuleZ]

I went to a monthly local antique auction last night after work and found a few things I couldn't resist.
It was actually good for my parts hunting quest for the hot rod project. I got a pair of '29 License plates and a very nice "46 Ford steering wheel. Just about perfect of what you would expect to see in a fifties-sixties era hot rod.

Right year plates for your car or is there a year you're looking for?

 

[Outlawmws]

Bob, that is an interesting vise for an exposed screw vise! I'm guessing at least 40's probably earlier and probably much earlier. It wouldn't surprise me if it was turn of the century... Great save!

Alinc and Geo, great scores!

RM, that is great useful material with lots of potential!

 

[Outlawmws]

Slow day, only 2 stops only one with pay-dirt, then spent 4 hours waiting my turn to get my old near dead commuter into the "buy back program", but it's finally done.

$8 - set of 1/2" Drive BOG sockets,. 7/16 to 7/8, two Proto 11/16; 1 impact, Craftsman obstruction driver, 2 small Swiss Eram - Needlenose & dykes, Old Craftsman /Danialson 6" adjustable (12 pt hole)

That is all.

 

[rmalkow2]

Right year plates for your car or is there a year you're looking for?

Yep they match to the '29 Model A I'm slowly building into a hot rod. It worked perfect for me. There was a whole tray of plates sold in the auction for bigger money so I approached the buyer right away and was able to purchase just the matching pair from him that I needed.

 

[geojag]

Geojag, you ****!!

Thanks. Now I really need a drill press.

 

[3baygarage]

Looking good guys!

Non tool purchase here, also one of my smartest purchases ever. A beautiful like new Yamaha full size electric piano from an estate sale. $200 + tax. I couldn't be happier right now! Valentine's gift to myself I suppose, plus I've needed a new piano for way too long.

Comes apart in 4 pieces and I was able to get it in the car quite easily. Previous owners an elderly couple who treated it right. Plays great. Bought new in 2002. Probably upwards of $1500 I would imagine.

Tool pictures to come.

 

[ShadowRuleZ]

Yep they match to the '29 Model A I'm slowly building into a hot rod. It worked perfect for me. There was a whole tray of plates sold in the auction for bigger money so I approached the buyer right away and was able to purchase just the matching pair from him that I needed.

Awesome! Wish I would have seen the auction, I'm still trying to fill in my 20s plates!

 

[cm_osu]

Made the rounds to some junk stores today. Only found one great deal on a Ridgid sharp shooter shovel for $4 but I didn't get a picture of that before I sold it to a family member. I don't need two of them. Found a Ford monkey wrench to add to the tool kit on the Ford 2000 tractor. Paid $17.

Finally found an entrenching tool to replace the one grandpa gave me as a kid. All the ones I've seen lately inoperable from rust. $15

And finally a wood handle Stanley screwdriver for $8. I wouldn't have given that much but the bit on it looks unused and it's longer than any others I have at 17".

 

[rmalkow2]

Awesome! Wish I would have seen the auction, I'm still trying to fill in my 20s plates!

The tray of 1920's plates probably had 11 plates and 2 sets. The winner paid about $15 per plate. I'm not sure if that is a good price or the going rate or not.

Check out Doug Dalton Auctions on the web. He has monthly Friday night auctions in Romulus. Tomorrow there is an extra one for this month that is all collectable guns, blades and militaria if you have any interest.

 

[ShadowRuleZ]

The tray of 1920's plates probably had 11 plates and 2 sets. The winner paid about $15 per plate. I'm not sure if that is a good price or the going rate or not.

Check out Doug Dalton Auctions on the web. He has monthly Friday night auctions in Romulus. Tomorrow there is an extra one for this month that is all collectable guns, blades and militaria if you have any interest.

Thanks for the tip, I'll keep an eye out. I just saw the pictures of the plates, I'd pay 15/plate all day long in that shape.

 

[sleepy127]

Found a few tools in a pawn shop all packed in a cheap little tool bag and thought I would take a look. Price was $55 and I almost didn't look in but I just had to see what could make it worth that much (small tool bag). Here is what was in there;
Bahco 9071c 8" adjustable
MAC 25-PC. SAE Tap and Hex Die Set TD25SAES (but without the case) ($399 on the site)
CMAN 8 in mill file 931263 Made in usa
Jacobson MFG CO set 56 screw extractors
CMAN 1/2 drive ratchet USA -VF- 44985
VIM min wrenches cw01m
companion needle nose 30399
proto bent needle nose j225g
Eklind 13222 Combo Pack Ball-Hex-L Key Set (this is missing one in each set)
Rotary file SE-5 Companion

So how did I do?

 

[KamiCrit]

Got this for $160, Beach bottom and Proto topper.

 

[Outlawmws]

OK I did some digging on the Bog Tool Co. Apparently for much of their run they were a tool supplier to Western Auto. (early 20's to late 30's or so) the owners of each Co. were brothers, so they kept it in the family...

later they changed names to Cragin Tool Co. and were bought/merged with Plvmb about 1940.

I sort of like these, as they are extra short, compared to a std 1/2 drive (more the length of a 3/8 drive...)

there was also numbers stamped in each, a couple at 10-36 and other with single digit prefix no's but always Dash 36.

So I'm assuming these were all made in 1936. Essentially 78, almost 79 years old!

And since I collected them scattered in among a lot of other loose sockets and tools, amazing they were all there!

 

[Outlawmws]

Found a few tools in a pawn shop all packed in a cheap little tool bag and thought I would take a look. Price was $55 and I almost didn't look in but I just had to see what could make it worth that much (small tool bag). Here is what was in there;
Bahco 9071c 8" adjustable
MAC 25-PC. SAE Tap and Hex Die Set TD25SAES (but without the case) ($399 on the site)
CMAN 8 in mill file 931263 Made in usa
Jacobson MFG CO set 56 screw extractors
CMAN 1/2 drive ratchet USA -VF- 44985
VIM min wrenches cw01m
companion needle nose 30399
proto bent needle nose j225g
Eklind 13222 Combo Pack Ball-Hex-L Key Set (this is missing one in each set)
Rotary file SE-5 Companion

So how did I do?

Sleepy, I think you did fine. Did you pay asking, or was their some wiggle room?

 

[sleepy127]

Sleepy, I think you did fine. Did you pay asking, or was their some wiggle room?

I paid asking, I had to put them on layaway late last month and they don't give when you ask for layaway but I wasn't going to pass it up either.

 

[whyNick?]

There were two garage sales in my area yesterday but it was so cold and nasty that turnout was low for both; bad news for the sellers but good news for me.

I picked up a 70s vintage Bushnell pocket spotting scope for $1.50, some hockey pucks (for compressor feet) for $.10 each, a car top carrier for $2.00 and an 80s vintage Craftsman "Sawmill" circular saw for $5.00. The saw is in great shape except for the fact that some knucklehead cut the cord and then fixed it with wire nuts, I'll fix it right before I use it. It's just a basic circular saw but I'm amazed at how sturdy it is. It'll go to my weekend cabin, I have a self-imposed rule about only leaving garage sale tools there so if/when it gets broken into I'm not out much. Pics in a bit.

 

[BFBOB]

Bob, that is an interesting vise for an exposed screw vise! I'm guessing at least 40's probably earlier and probably much earlier. It wouldn't surprise me if it was turn of the century... Great save!

Thanks, Outlaw. I thought it was a modern cheapie, but of course I should have realized it predates the move to Holland, MI. There's someone trying to get $90 for one on fleaBay... maybe I did better than I thought. No mention of this vise on Dayid's site. I haven't had much luck finding old Yost catalogs either. I'll email Yost to see if they know anything about it.

 

[JUNK-MAN]

Here are yesterdays finds a big Snap-On flathead, a =Craftsman= #3 Phillips and a Snap-On octo grip flat head which the previous owner beat to heck turning it with vise grips on the handle and covering it with paint but.... it's still a Snap-On.