2015 Garage SaleThread

[jakemac]

After spending so much yesterday, I was a little loath to run around to YS's today. So I only went to the Flea Market instead.

As usual, most of what I was interested in was overpriced. I spotted these Craftsman motor mount brackets in a pile of rusty doorknobs and drawer pulls. I knew that most people wouldn't know what they were, and didn't want them to get scrapped, so I HAD to rescue them. I just had to, didn't I ?

I paid the $3 just to keep them safe.

(the second picture shows a pair of them in use)

 

[BlueBomber]

I lined up four yard/estate sales this morning. The first and last were two Saturday/Sunday yard sales that the owners apparently decided to bag the Sunday half, which I only discovered after a long drive out of my way. [emoji34]

The second stop was an ES of an old dairy farm homestead. They were in clearance mode and I was able to make a small pile.

Three rolls of plastic fencing to keep critters out of the gardens
One Crown top Craftsman hand plane
One small cast aluminum pulley
One 12" Jescraft steel and cast aluminum pulley
One Black & Decker 24v cordless drill, a twin of one I've had for the last dozen years
One brass house nozzle
One vintage 50' metal tape reel
One Jorgensen wood clamp
One 18" mondo turnbuckle

Total price: $30

The second ES was hard to find. It was a condo in an industrial part of Lowell, Mass and you had to follow the signs around to the back garages. Most of the stuff was priced pretty high, but I found this unpriced Milwaukee hammer drill, four masonry bits, and the metal box. I offered $20 and they took it. I also picked out two heavy duty ratchet straps for $5 each.

I was also treated to the sight of a gentleman in dress clothes cutting a bunch of 12' 2x6s in half by stabbing at them with a borrowed circular saw so that he could make them fit into his ridiculously short half bed pickup truck. Don't know why on God's green earth anyone would buy a full-size truck with a five foot bed...

 

[jakemac]

BB - I was at that farmhouse yesterday afternoon and was waffling over picking up that large steel pulley. I wasn't in much of a spending mood at that point and left it behind. Glad you grabbed it.

 

[BlueBomber]

Thanks, Jake. I don't know what I'll use it for, but for two bucks on closing day, I couldn't leave it. BTW, nice score on the yard vacuum!

 

[Outlawmws]

OK, here is a link to a blog page on making my shower/washing tanks:

http://outlawscampingblog.blogspot.com/

And a YouTube vid on one in use: (I can't remember how to embed the vid so all I got is a link

An update on the Hudson: I went and got some 5/16" copper tubing, and a couple of fittings and combined that with a shower head, valve and some fittings I already had, and got to this: the head assy is a bit heavy, so I may need a bitty C clamp arrangement to keep the copper tube in the handle, but still be able to pop it out to fill and pump it up. tested and works great. I'll want to make another "fine spray" plate for the sprayer Head.

While I was making the "parts Run" (and making my Sunday AM gas fill) I stopped at one yard sale and got these For $9:

 

[zyx5432]

Craigslist score. Listed at $45 for this Equipto 18 drawer bin, show up on Global Industrial for $276 and when I checked Ebay, they seem to be listed at $125+.

 

[Outlawmws]

Shanny nice find on the swage block. what did yo have to give for it if you don't mind saying?

T4 I'l add to the Suckage vote tally...

 

[rmalkow2]

Craigslist score. Listed at $45 for this Equipto 18 drawer bin, show up on Global Industrial for $276 and when I checked Ebay, they seem to be listed at $125+.

In my area that's a YOU **** price especially for one in that nice of condition. I've seen ones with missing handles, dirty, rusty and beat up go at auction for way over $100. Nice CL score.

 

[t4runner]

Outlawmws now thats a cool shower set up.

 

[zyx5432]

Yeah, Houston is full of stuff, but nothing ever seems to be nice or last long enough to jump on it. Last time I saw something similar, it was already gone when I contacted the seller. I only wish I could find a vise deal around here as they seem nonexistent.

 

[Outlawmws]

Thanks T4, Those things get 10 X the use as just washing water and for washing utensils and pots and pans (paper plates keep a lot of messing cleaning down...) so just having easily running water is a huge thing. Tanks like that and Dobie scrubbing pads eliminate a LOT of hassle.

ZYX, That Equipto is about as nice as I've see found in the wild!


And I FINALLY got something I've been looking for and had a permanent search on Eprey for probably a decade... they come up maybe once or twice a year, and go for silly money. Tha last one a few months ago went for over $100! One popped up again and I sniped a bid on it. Somehow, this one went under the radar! Not a single bid, except mine!

So this is coming home soon!

Why would I want such a patently useless hatchet? Well I've had a 4" skinning knife with that hilt for probably over 30 years now. Nine years ago I got it's big brother for a song under similar circumstances. here they are.

I carry that 4" clipped into the underside of the top cover of my hunting fanny pack all the time and it has cleaned and skinned a lot of deer and other game and fish now.

 

[BlueBomber]

While I was making the "parts Run" (and making my Sunday AM gas fill) I stopped at one yard sale and got these For $9:

Nine dollars for a Milwaukee Sawzall AND and electric outboard?!? You ****! Heck even at $9 each, you still ****.

 

[Outlawmws]

An update on the Hudson: I went and got some 5/16" copper tubing, and a couple of fittings and combined that with a shower head, valve and some fittings I already had, and got to this: the head assy is a bit heavy, so I may need a bitty C clamp arrangement to keep the copper tube in the handle, but still be able to pop it out to fill and pump it up. tested and works great. I'll want to make another "fine spray" plate for the sprayer Head.

And the final piece: I have some Lab claps for lab rubber tubing, and used this one to not only clamp the copper tube in place, but it also captivates itself so it won't get dropped and lost!:

 

[Outlawmws]

Thanks BB! the Sawzal was $4 and the motor $5

 

[jakemac]

A $4 Sawsall ? View media item 48651You sir, put us all to shame.

 

[shanny19]

Shanny nice find on the swage block. what did yo have to give for it if you don't mind saying?
...

I value it at 300-400.
Asking price was 175, I reverse haggled to 180 since all I had was 20s.

 

[Outlawmws]

I value it at 300-400.
Asking price was 175, I reverse haggled to 180 since all I had was 20s.

 

[Outlawmws]

A $4 Sawsall ? View media item 48651You sir, put us all to shame.

Yeah, but I screwed it all up by missing the $5 Bosch 4X24 belt sander...

 

[Davefr]

Lots of G-sales, a flea market and a swap meet but it was all the SOS. I only snagged two items:

I see guys buying old Coleman stuff all the time at G-sales but have resisted the urge until now. I just couldn't pass up this old girl for $5. It looks like it's nearly NOS. (I never new they had a "professional" series).

Other then that, a free pile yielded a large spool of wire:

 

[86turbodsl]

You stole that coleman. You ****.

 

[whyNick?]

Wow, that lantern's a beaut! I love that nickel plated fount!

 

[jeffmoss26]

Great stuff guys!

 

[Outlawmws]

Wow, that lantern makes Dave a double sucking...

 

[brandonmoore223]

Today I picked up this S-K wrench set box for a dollar. It was full of rusted sockets and a ratchet that all said "Indonesia" or "Taiwan" on them. Threw the sockets in the scrap pile but kept the box and this craftsman combo wrench.

Does anyone know where to get then type of paint the tool companies used on the older boxes? The previous owner rattlecanned it a semigloss black but I prefer that hammers type paint that came stock.

 

[Outlawmws]

http://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalog/consumer-brands/stops-rust/hammered-spray

They have Deep green and Verde green. I'm guessing either too dark or too light...

 

[Indexmill]

Lots of G-sales, a flea market and a swap meet but it was all the SOS. I only snagged two items:

I see guys buying old Coleman stuff all the time at G-sales but have resisted the urge until now. I just couldn't pass up this old girl for $5. It looks like it's nearly NOS. (I never new they had a "professional" series).

There are two of those Nickle/Chrome Model 202s on the auction site for $500 freakin dollars...EACH.

 

[eighthd]

I went to the Pomona swap meet today and found this proto tool box. It dirty but in real nice shape. I couldn't pass it up.

 

[njride]

I went to the Pomona swap meet today and found this proto tool box. It dirty but in real nice shape. I couldn't pass it up.

Thats a nice box.

 

[eighthd]

If I get a chance tomorrow I am going clean it up. The paint looks like it's in good shape.

 

[chopper1]

Today I picked up this S-K wrench set box for a dollar. It was full of rusted sockets and a ratchet that all said "Indonesia" or "Taiwan" on them. Threw the sockets in the scrap pile but kept the box and this craftsman combo wrench.

Does anyone know where to get then type of paint the tool companies used on the older boxes? The previous owner rattlecanned it a semigloss black but I prefer that hammers type paint that came stock.

That box would have been painted a green hammertone like the inside of the lip shows.

 

[3baygarage]

3Bay,
Nice pick-up on the Vulcan torx. I have not seen those around before. A little clean up and those will be ready to be put to work.

Yep they should clean up good. Probably would've had the complete torx set but I sold a bunch of Vulcan a couple years back and some drivers were in there. Had to be before I joined the forum and got the tool bug again.

I almost went out to Lockport Friday for the town wide sale, there was an ad on CL for a tool sale there. It's a trek so I nearly flipped a coin over that and a Tonawanda sale but I said nah, Lockport's WNYflyer's turf

 

[3baygarage]

Today was a late start for me but I hit a flea market with the girlfriend and found a couple things.

Vintage Craftsman 1/4 socket set with an S-K diamond logo ratchet for $7

also
Brand new Craftsman 1/2" drive torx sockets T-55 & T-60 FOR $2 each. Don't need 'em but for that price and being USA couldn't resist.

 

[uGotF-ckedUp]

So far all I got is a cheapo Clarke drill press for $135

 

[JMLangford]

While I was making the "parts Run" (and making my Sunday AM gas fill) I stopped at one yard sale and got these For $9:

Outlaw ***** big time. That is all...










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[twertsy]

From the Flea yesterday. I was able to quietly slip into the flea while with the fam looking at houses yesterday.........

Williams 1/4" drive set
3x Williams S-52s
New Britain NS-65 1/2" drive
NB made NAPA NB-46 3/8" drive
Long handle Blackhawk 1/2" drive
S-K flex head
Wright & NB 3/8 breakers

 

[Lobo74]

Nice!

 

[littleponderosa]

Bluebomber - thought I did well when I bought a hammer drill for $20 - you just ran by me with your buy.

Outlaw - that style troller makes a great duck hole opener, small frame that will hold a deep cycle battery and you can keep water open till nearly 10F. At least over in the west that is. I'm insanely jealous of your $9 buy.
Bill

 

[bubinga]

50 cnts for all the stuff shown with the blue chisel.
That was truthfully all I had left one me, (end of day) and she said what ever i wanted to pay. Real nice ladies at church rummage sale.
Other church sale, two harley shirts, a dollar for both.LOL
they wanted to give me a piano too, free, Nice old up right, but no one to help haul it, and l live in an garage apartment, so i would have to go in the "Basement side" garage and is not climate controlled.
I might still try to get it.
bathroom cabinet was $15.00, magizine holder, $2.00, but turns out I had to glue it better. 20 minuets work only. I got a million wood working mags, need to organize them.
I got a pair of regular pliers, (gas pliers) Craftsman, the ones that rust for a dollar, but they are in the car, C lamp for a Dollar, 2 files, for a dollar and a quarter,(Not shown) and this funky pair of pliers that I don't know what they are, I was thinking maybe GM side post battery pliers, and another guy said that too, but don't see any online. I will post a picture of them later. the 2 water bottles were free.
2 hack saws not shown, one was a dollar, one was two dollars, makes about # 6 now, don't know how many l think I need.
Oh yeah, and one of those 2 foot high wood step ladders for $3.00. (Not shown) we have all seen them.
Then I got this wood gun rack for a dollar, but l am going to modify it for fishing rods. Will show it later, after modifying it too.

 

[3baygarage]

From the Flea yesterday. I was able to quietly slip into the flea while with the fam looking at houses yesterday.........

Williams 1/4" drive set
3x Williams S-52s
New Britain NS-65 1/2" drive
NB made NAPA NB-46 3/8" drive
Long handle Blackhawk 1/2" drive
S-K flex head
Wright & NB 3/8 breakers

Nice ratchet haul!

 

[bluebolt]

Lots of G-sales, a flea market and a swap meet but it was all the SOS. I only snagged two items:

I see guys buying old Coleman stuff all the time at G-sales but have resisted the urge until now. I just couldn't pass up this old girl for $5. It looks like it's nearly NOS. (I never new they had a "professional" series).

There are two of those Nickle/Chrome Model 202s on the auction site for $500 freakin dollars...EACH.

Yea but asking price is not selling price. Looking at SOLD prices on Ebay this one would probably bring $200-300.

It's a nice piece and a definite YOU ****!