2016 Garage Sale Thread

[jvlyons99205]

Small haul for me today. Paid $2.50 for this batch that includes a nice DBE Craftsman 3/4 & 7/8, Wards Master adjustable wrench, Stanley and Malco Mini Saw hacksaw blade holders, and a small Drilldex bit holder with about a third of the bits.


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[drivesitfar]

DD: your Circle B socket looks like Beryllium also. nice finds

Outlaw: always interesting looking to see what you grab.

Racin: i also like those old garbage cans and they do end up being useful if not a collector of odd size stuff.

CW: they are actually easier to bend when they are longer. i bent a 5 foot steel bar moving a 3 man rock into position in our back yard a few years ago. of course i bet a little patience and some Kroil on the bolt first might have helped.

Wrench: are you your son's best client for buying and selling?

 

[NoPressure]

These are my first contributions to this thread. Should be breaking ground on my shop in a week or two so that's given me the motivation over the last couple months to venture into the world of yard sales as well as craigslist.

I'll start with my most recent buys that I'm probably most excited about. These came from a sale that they were having for the second weekend so I was surprised to find anything to be excited about.

Blue Point tap and die set TD-2425 marked $75 got it for $60



Nice little metal case full of drill bits didn't look through them but the ones I could see from the top were in good shape and some never used. $12



Everything here was 50¢ a piece. There's 5 of these clamps. Not sure what they came from but figured I could cut them up to use on my welding table in the new shop.



At the same sale I also got one of those big drip pans like you put under an engine stand for $2

The kicker is when I woke up this morning the first thing that came to mind was that I had put a set of brass drifts and brass punches off to the side while I was still looking and forgot about them when I went to pay for everything and left them there.

Yard work does not fall into the list of things I enjoy so not really excited about this but I was about to go buy a new one at sears and just happened across this aerator/seed spreader combo when I was searching for something else on Craigslist. $60.



The rest of the stuff I don't have pics of but they all came from Craigslist.

A 2 ton engine lift $60. The cylinder has a slow leak but luckily a couple weeks later I saw an add for a 3 ton ram and a load leveler (both harbor freight brand) $50

An engine stand, never used. $20

Should have several more weeks of sales being down here in the south. The most important things I still hope to find are a drill press, bench grinder, and a 6" or bigger bench vise.

 

[Duct_Dummy]

DD: your Circle B socket looks like Beryllium also. nice finds

Thx drives! I had about 6 older sockets picked out but he wouldn't deal and stuck firm @ a buck a piece. I bought the one I knew the least about, strange as it is.

EDIT: I'm not so sure about the socket being Beryllium unfortunately. Definitely a ferrous metal alloy. And btw, why are folks going cuckoo for these diamond adjustables w/ the green handle?



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[rmalkow2]

No Pressure
Those aluminum clamps are for holding a truck bed cap to the sides of the truck bed.

 

[dngrmse]

Picked these up today- 1/2 inch drive Snap On flex sockets, seen very little use. $5 for all 5.

 

[Kayakranger76]

Thanks outlaw

 

[Duct_Dummy]

Picked these up today- 1/2 inch drive Snap On flex sockets, seen very little use. $5 for all 5.

You **** deal for sure...only because I didn't get 'em for $5 lol. Nice score!


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[jpickar]

A 50" ratchet and some animal has still managed to bend it!

My brother and I bent a 60" Ridgid iron pipe wrench. We did use a short cheater though! I still have that pipe wrench.
John

 

[Private Lugnutz]

... So the hydrometer could be from the factory or the garage.

Makes sense. Thanks.

 

[NoPressure]

No Pressure
Those aluminum clamps are for holding a truck bed cap to the sides of the truck bed.

Thanks! That's actually the only thing that came to mind but I wasn't sure.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

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CW: they are actually easier to bend when they are longer. i bent a 5 foot steel bar moving a 3 man rock into position in our back yard a few years ago. of course i bet a little patience and some Kroil on the bolt first might have helped.
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My brother and I bent a 60" Ridgid iron pipe wrench. We did use a short cheater though! I still have that pipe wrench.
John

Well I guess if nothing else it means the ratchet part is well made!

 

[Thumper]

5 snap-on sockets for bucks...! you ****..!!

 

[jakemac]

SnapOn 5for5 -
**** **** **** **** ****

5 You ***** awarded, one for each u-socket.

 

[mike_paxton]

Saw a metal tool box with couple of braces and auger bits. Struck up a conversation with seller, who said the tool box used to contain a tool which he purchased from H. L. Arts Jewelry Store in Newark OH and paid for it by taking a store loan and repaying it at .50 a week.

He also said that auger bits were a mixed bag of his, his dad's and grandfathers.

Love stories, so ended up buying it.

Later, checked with my Dad and found out he bought a drill with a smaller tool box in early 1950's from same H. L. Art's Jewelry Store.

Cleaned up the auger bits and it contained a mixed bag of Smith, OVB, Jennings, W&B, Cleveland T.D. Co, Irwin and Ohio.

One brace was mfg by Bleckmann, a German Ball Brace that started in 1798. Other brace had no mfg name found on it.

Last pic had two bits marked David Flather Cast Steel on one and next one was marked D. Flather & Sons Cast Steel. Company started in 1817 in Sheffield England (those bits are the 2nd and 3rd ones from left in last pic).

Mike

 

[mike_paxton]

At a couple more sales, picked up the following.

1st pic and tool at top is a mystery, with no markings. So, showed it by itself in pic 2 and 3 to hopefully find out from someone what it is used for.

Tool 2nd from top in pic 1 and made by Goldblatt Tool Co of Kansas City MO. Found it was a masonry tool.

Tool 3rd from top in pic 1 is a Bernard parallel jaw pliers by W. Schollhorn of New Haven Conn.

Tool 4 from top in pic 1 is also parallel jaw pliers but no name could be found on it.

Pic 4 has a D. R. Barton Draw Knife, a chisel that looks like not made in factory, Havens Grip for Messenger #1604-20 that may be an older Klein tool, Leather or gasket punch, small clamp with no name, hammer head only ball peen no name, auger bit no name and cut off stem, odd looking hammer head with pointed angled ends and no mfg name, lastly a odd style of scissors and again, no mfg name found.

Last pic, a Clev Indians pull over hoodie.


Mike

 

[wvrailroader]

The mystery tool appears to be a folding spanner wrench for fire hose couplings.

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[Outlawmws]

The scissors may be Bonsai pruners, possibly for trimming roots.

 

[Rileysan]

Today’s small haul…
The thing in the NOS box appears to be a hydrometer. Not the syringe type with the rubber squeeze ball at the end, obviously. This type would have to float upright in whatever it was testing. Marked "GOULD STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY, DEPEW, NY". Gould was one of the early companies that eventually became Exide. I am estimating 1930's, perhaps 1940's. Can anybody school me on this type of hydrometer?

Hydrometers are calibrated to measure the density of specific liquids. This type would be placed in a liquid and a measurement taken. That measurement is known as "Baumé".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumé_scale

The idea is to test to see if your mixture of chemicals - whether liquid, or soluble solids - is in the correct ratio.

Based on the company markings, my guess is that this was used to test the Baumé of battery acid.

Brian

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Hi Brian,

I should've been more specific. I'm familiar with vintage service station hydrometers. They were used to measure a battery's charge or the antifreeze in a radiator. And as I said, given the name and the fact that Gold Storage Battery Company was bought out by an early Exide forerunner, it was obvious this one was for batteries. But I've never seen one like this before. As I alluded to, you'd have to stick it in the battery itself to get a reading rather than sucking up some battery juice into the glass as with the syringe type. I was wondering if anyone knew if that's indeed how it was used.

Here is an image of the hydrometers used by mechanics at upper echelon maintenance depots during WWII. This is the kind I am casually looking for, probably made by Victor or Imperial Brass. EDIT: The bigger one with two float tubes (18-H-940) is for anti-freeze (one tube for ethyl alcohol, the other for ethylene-glycol). The smaller one (18-H-1240) is for batteries.

 

[Outlawmws]

Lug, My guess would be for testing bulk loads of acid before putting it into batteries.

 

[mudman63]

$20 yard sale. Park tool box, @32", some snap on, Mac, Vim, Cman, Mater mechanic and SK.

 

[mudman63]

Cman stack, top is almost as deep as the bottom. Couple of drawers for of mostly USA Cman and USA Husky. $150 at a flea market a few weeks ago.

 

[mudman63]

$10 at at a Flea Market. Taiwan dent puller, some sandpaper and a small amount of US hand tools.

 

[mudman63]

$65 yard sale. Bag of beefy ratchet straps and and unopened package of smaller ones. Some Klein, Channellock, wuss, fish tape, bottle Jack, nos Dewalt bit sets, Milwaukee Sawzalls blades, two complete rain gear sets and a few other things.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Outlaw,
That's what Craptain thought. That makes alot of sense, and I wasn't thinking about that, so thanks much to both of you.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I will admit to one head scratch on that theory. Why would the specific gravity of bulk acid change? It's not charging and discharging. Not losing electolytes.

If it was impractical to put this type of hydrometer into each cell of a battery, and it may not have been, but if it was, maybe they siphoned it off into a separate container, then put this hydrometer into that container. Before someone invented the self contained kind.

Just a thought. A first cup of coffee thought.

 

[mike_paxton]

The mystery tool appears to be a folding spanner wrench for fire hose couplings.

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WVrailroader:

Thks for help in identifying the tool.

BTW, my Dad worked and retired for B&O and later C&O in OH, so wondered what RR line you work for.

Mike

 

[mike_paxton]

The scissors may be Bonsai pruners, possibly for trimming roots.

Outlaw:

Thks for help in ID the scissors in bottom of the group of items pictured!!!

 

[rickhigginshtbr]

My "Power Bronze" work shop got another addition yesterday, a 113.29001 10" Radial Arm Saw with the original 4 drawer cabinet!

 

[BlueBomber]

Outlaw:

Thks for help in ID the scissors in bottom of the group of items pictured!!!

Mike: some of those Bonsai scissors can be valuable. Outlaw schooled me on a pair I found last year. Unfortunately, the ones without manufacturer marks (like the ones I found) are not the valuable ones.

 

[Craptain]

I will admit to one head scratch on that theory. Why would the specific gravity of bulk acid change? It's not charging and discharging. Not losing electolytes.

If it was impractical to put this type of hydrometer into each cell of a battery, and it may not have been, but if it was, maybe they siphoned it off into a separate container, then put this hydrometer into that container. Before someone invented the self contained kind.

Just a thought. A first cup of coffee thought.

The bulk acid would be delivered concentrated and would be diluted to the correct gravity before adding to the battery.
An aside here. Many years ago when I worked for a University, one of my duties was looking after the batteries that provided DC supply to the labs. 2 banks provided 110v and 220v at up to 200A. Open top glass cells about 18" x 18" x 36" deep. Lots of acid.

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[Private Lugnutz]

The bulk acid would be delivered concentrated and would be diluted to the correct gravity before adding to the battery.

Aha! Lightbulb just went on. Thanks.

 

[mike_paxton]

Mike: some of those Bonsai scissors can be valuable. Outlaw schooled me on a pair I found last year. Unfortunately, the ones without manufacturer marks (like the ones I found) are not the valuable ones.

BlueBomber:

Like you, my scissors didn't have any mfg marks either.

I tend to buy things in the rough, so usually don't know the mfg till get it cleaned up.

Mike

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Not much this morning...

- Williams B-series 3/8-inch drive sockets and uni joint
- Duro Chrome 651 D 1/2-inch drive speeder
- Plomb 5485 1/2-inch drive sliding tee bar
- Craftsman (made by Reed Mfg Co Erie Pa) drop-head pipe threader (1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, and 1" dies), complete, with carrier patented (1961450) in 1934. I am guessing late 40's. Dies are marked with geometric underline Craftsman logo, decals on the sides of the carrier is a little later.

 

[Brorex]

Not much this morning...

- Williams B-series 3/8-inch drive sockets and uni joint
- Duro Chrome 651 D 1/2-inch drive speeder
- Plomb 5485 1/2-inch drive sliding tee bar
- Craftsman (made by Reed Mfg Co Erie Pa) drop-head pipe threader (1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, and 1" dies), complete, with carrier patented (1961450) in 1934. I am guessing late 40's. Dies are marked with geometric underline Craftsman logo, decals on the sides of the carrier is a little later.

That pipe threader is awesome.

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[rmalkow2]

My treasures brought home this week from a local auction at a Broaching shop that was going out of business.
Got this big bin of files for $5. Mostly Nicholson and other USA brands. While a bit oily, otherwise they all look in great shape and very usable. Nobody else wanted this lot which surprised me.

Next is an item I've been chasing through various auctions and finally won. An abrasive cut off saw. This is a Makita #2414 and it came with a good blade on and 5 extra new blades. Mounted to a little angle iron table.

Last is this Stihl weed whacker to replace my old Toro that just recently died.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That pipe threader is awesome.

Thanks, Brorex! I thought so too!

Maybe I’m easily impressed, but I admire the design of the drop-head, with the little spring-loaded thumb-screw catches, as well as the design of the carrier, dual-using the handle of the threader as the handle for the carrier. I have an old Armstrong, the pipe threader pictured in the WWII automotive mechanics tools manuals, and I find it a little awkward, requiring a little wrench to tighten four different check nut head screws. I think this Reed design is superior. I’m happy it’s complete, and that at least one of the CRAFTSMAN decals is in fair to good condition. I’m going to have to ask someone with late 40’s and early 50’s Crafty catalogs to look it up. The head says it’s a model No. 81. PAT. PEND. The dies, all NPT, are 1/4-18, 3/8-18, 1/2-14, 3/4-14, and 1-11-1/2.

 

[dodge610]

Needed a sprayer to stain my new deck and privacy fence. Found this on offer up wanted $40.00 I offered $25.00 and he took it.


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[Outlawmws]

Nice finds guys! Nothing here; complete rain-out, or I was there yesterday, so doing "dry" chores..