2017 Garage Sale Thread

[EOC_Jason]

This morning my neighbor and I went to "big tool sale"... no pictures should have been our first clue... It was in a mobile home park... that should have been our second clue... in a real rough area... Waaaaaay on the other side of town. Guy had just a few ryobi cordless tools, a couple old lawn mowers and chainsaw, and a shed full of old riding mower tires... Felt sorry for the guy, but nothing there worth buying, or even hauling away as a favor...

As we were driving home from that bust we saw a garage sale sign and went there. It was some hispanic ladies that go around town and setup a "garage sale" with a bunch of clothes mostly. Kind of smart actually, bringing the garage sale to different areas. But nothing there for me...

Dropped my neighbor off, and I had to run some errands. Karma repaid me with some penny deals @ Home Depot, and some $5 clearance 8' tandem lights at Lowes.

Get home any my neighbor texts me about another big "sale" that's kind of far away but the guy has tons and tons of stuff, selling by the box... $4 a box... Sure, why not. We drive out there and this guy was a serious hoarder. I'm sure a lot of it wasn't junk at one time, but when you leave things out in the weather and they rust over (especially if they are electrical in nature), they kind of become junk...

Found a couple Craftsman ratchets and a Thorsen... $4 each for those... A CMan drill index with a few junky bits... $2.. I bought a $4 "box" of stuff but in there was a mint NOS CMan crowntop grinding wheel. Neighbor bought a bucket of stuff with a bunch of clamps and things. He gave me the wood vise and the columbian machinist vise.

On the way home we stopped by the Little Debbie outlet story just down the street from the bakery.... That cost me $10... lmao... Most things were like $1 or $1.50... The 6pk of cheese danishes were $3.


Tomorrow looks more promising, there's a big sale with lots of tools and from the prices I can see from the pics are cheap! Going to try and get there when they open at 7am or earlier so as to not miss out on anything.

 

[madison069]

With the house moves and so on im just enjoying y'all sales. I did pick up a disston saw, suspect it's an early D8. But really nothing else to write home about.

 

[bluebolt]

Got my package from Ebay a few days ago, full of old catalogs and owners manuals. I mainly wanted the Craftsman stuff, the 1981 Craftsman Catalog is the latest year I have. Paid $32 with shipping.

I also like the blueprint book in pic 3, it has several fold out blueprints in it.

By coincidence or karma, amongst the Foley Belsaw stuff in pic 5 is the owners manual for MercLSU's recently acquired Belsaw.

 

[RagTopTA]

This morning my neighbor and I went to "big tool sale"... no pictures should have been our first clue... It was in a mobile home park... that should have been our second clue... in a real rough area... Waaaaaay on the other side of town. Guy had just a few ryobi cordless tools, a couple old lawn mowers and chainsaw, and a shed full of old riding mower tires... Felt sorry for the guy, but nothing there worth buying, or even hauling away as a favor...

As we were driving home from that bust we saw a garage sale sign and went there. It was some hispanic ladies that go around town and setup a "garage sale" with a bunch of clothes mostly. Kind of smart actually, bringing the garage sale to different areas. But nothing there for me...

Dropped my neighbor off, and I had to run some errands. Karma repaid me with some penny deals @ Home Depot, and some $5 clearance 8' tandem lights at Lowes.

Get home any my neighbor texts me about another big "sale" that's kind of far away but the guy has tons and tons of stuff, selling by the box... $4 a box... Sure, why not. We drive out there and this guy was a serious hoarder. I'm sure a lot of it wasn't junk at one time, but when you leave things out in the weather and they rust over (especially if they are electrical in nature), they kind of become junk...

Found a couple Craftsman ratchets and a Thorsen... $4 each for those... A CMan drill index with a few junky bits... $2.. I bought a $4 "box" of stuff but in there was a mint NOS CMan crowntop grinding wheel. Neighbor bought a bucket of stuff with a bunch of clamps and things. He gave me the wood vise and the columbian machinist vise.

On the way home we stopped by the Little Debbie outlet story just down the street from the bakery.... That cost me $10... lmao... Most things were like $1 or $1.50... The 6pk of cheese danishes were $3.


Tomorrow looks more promising, there's a big sale with lots of tools and from the prices I can see from the pics are cheap! Going to try and get there when they open at 7am or earlier so as to not miss out on anything.

those vises and thorsen ratchet !! nice! If I find one good thing its a score I always say!

 

[nine4gmc]

I think it's Karma!

 

[bareass172]

I did pretty good last weekend. Hit a sale from a hoarder house where they were hustling to get rid of things. I got a Columbian 503 bench vise, a Craftsman (made by Columbian) 10" woodworkers vise with quick release, a 1/2 HP block grinder, a tool grinder attachment for the grinder, an old Cman doweling jig, a mortise attachment for a drill press, a rotary planer for a radial arm saw (possibly one of the most dangerous things I've ever seen!), some old work lights on adjustable arms, and a lot of small stuff like a Stanley #36 folding ruler, a General #17 protractor, some old oil cans, a spare grinder wheel, a small carpenters square, some wire brushes, and probably some other little stuff I can't recall - it was a heckuva haul. All told I wasn't sure what to offer when I hit the cashier, but when she said $15 for EVERYTHING I couldn't pay and leave fast enough...

Days like that make me smile just thinking about them.

 

[Bill Ramsey]

All told I wasn't sure what to offer when I hit the cashier, but when she said $15 for EVERYTHING I couldn't pay and leave fast enough...

ARE YOU F***ING KIDDING ME?

 

[bluebolt]

Some more things from the Canton TX auto swap meet last Friday.

Transmission jack brackets (which I needed) $5, Craftsman ratchet bit driver $2, 5 Mac and Snap On 3/8" drive wobble sockets $10, vintage Tyron NOS tire repair gun, 3 socket boxes $8 and a vintage brass auto horn, missing the rubber bulb $5.

 

[bluebolt]

Bareass172 you ****!

 

[RagTopTA]

Some more things from the Canton TX auto swap meet last Friday.

Transmission jack brackets (which I needed) $5, Craftsman ratchet bit driver $2, 5 Mac and Snap On 3/8" drive wobble sockets $10, vintage Tyron NOS tire repair gun, 3 socket boxes $8 and a vintage brass auto horn, missing the rubber bulb $5.

man I wanna goto Canton.. is it every week end ? Are there a lot of old tools? Went to Trader Village and Second Monday last week end... scored pretty good there.

 

[EOC_Jason]

Bareass172 you ****!

+1

That is a heck of a haul... a heck of a haul...

 

[rmalkow2]

Bareass172 you ****!

x2

 

[Harley94]

Up this way we call them a "bear cinch". Carried whenever picking blueberries/raspberries.
What you do is tie one end to a tree with a strong rope and shove the spiked end up the bears ****.
It's a "cinch" he's not gonna chase you.

 

[bluebolt]

man I wanna goto Canton.. is it every week end ? Are there a lot of old tools? Went to Trader Village and Second Monday last week end... scored pretty good there.

Canton TX flea market is the weekend before the First Monday of the month and is known as First Monday Trade Days. . Sometimes there are 2 of them in one month if the First Monday falls on the first day of the month. Here is this year's schedule.

January December 29, 2016
- January 1, 2017
February February 2 - 5, 2017
March March 2 - 5, 2017
April March 30 - April 2, 2017
May April 27 - 30, 2017
June June 1 - 4, 2017
July June 29 - July 2, 2017
August August 3 - 6, 2017
September August 31 - September 3, 2017
October September 28 - October 1, 2017
November November 2 - 5, 2017
December November 30 - December 3, 2017

The auto swap meet is Lewis Auto Swap and is four times a year, here is the schedule.

March 9-12, 2017
May 11-14, 2017
August 10-13, 2017
October 12-15, 2017

 

[Smokeshow69]

I have been scouring craigslist twice a day in search of a large plvmb tool box... no luck but I did score these plvmbs for $25 shipped. I think I did pretty well

 

[3baygarage]

Looking good guys!

I went to three sales today. Got to the first one just as the doors opened and people were let in. It was a trucker's estate. Not many tools at all, but just about every odd little truck accessory was there, like a window arm rest for example.

I asked about the ratchets and was told $2 each, "no make that $5 total because one isn't Craftsman" the sales guy said. Okay, cool!

Everything in the picture was $9

Craftsman 1/2 & 3/8 ratchet, Husky 3/8 ratchet and adapter, vintage Craftsman knife sharpener mounted to a paddle, an antique screwdriver, an old nipper multi tool with screwdriver and tack puller, a scale, and an old light fixture. Sorry, not by them now but can check names later if anyone wants.

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Sale 2, no great tools but picked up the 4" Wilton for somewhat less than sticker after a bit of negotiating. This may just be the one to suit my friend who has been looking for a vise. If not, it may be for sale. Have to get with him first.


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Third sale, picked over but got a Plomb Tool Co/ Proto dual stamp wrench and a chisel handle for $2.50.

View media item 69080

 

[nine4gmc]

Pallet racking from sears, got a deal on some Chinese craftsman swivel sockets too, be sure to ask what they have that's not put out yet but on clearance!

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[DonglordActual]

I had the most amazing sequence of amazing finds the past 2 weeks for me in a long while. I drove into the 1950s-era suburbs of the trendy city to the east and searched through bins full of paint brushes and rollers. I sorted them all out and found a Heyco BMW wrench and a 1/4" Snap-on ratchet in it. I also got the 3/8 S-K ratchet there. It was surrounded by Taiwanese and no name sockets.

Another sale had a quite common Craftsman toolbox, but it was full of Snap-on, Mac, and Cornwell. I got sockets, a bleeder wrench, some DBE ratcheting wrenches, prybars, and chisels. I looked in the box next to it and it had Kraeuter and Diamond pliers. The Snap-on Whitworth socket was a real shock. There were even custom tools welded and machined by the owner like the 6" Kraeuter adjustable wrench. The person just asked me if they were from Taiwan or America when I laid them out for them to price and I answered. I think I may have gotten a better price because I found a car title for a '90s Mustang inside of a yellow packet buried under power tool manuals. It was with a bunch of correspondence between the owner and the state about getting it titled after it had been written off as salvage.

I later went east out of the suburbs and into the land of cows and grass where I found the set of Mac screwdrivers.

The northeast suburbs yielded a Thorsen 1/4" socket and spinner handle set in a thick metal case with padding sitting among a pile of Stanley screwdrivers and Taiwanese sockets. I removed all the non-Thorsen sockets and put them in 1/4 + 3/8 Taiwanese socket set which was missing those specific sizes. I went down into massive finished basement and found some Superrenches below a rotary saw. The pegboard had a lone Craftsman Professional screwdriver. I searched for the rest but could not find them. I walked around the corner into a room filled with plumbing hardware and equipment. This is where I found a neat PowrKraft steel tape measure in which you wind a lever to retract the tape. After I bought it all and got to my car I noticed that the Thorsen set had some kind of screw starting tool made by Pearson which I had mistaken for part of the set because of the son/sen ending.

In the northern suburbs off of 400 there was a single Challenger socket in a box of gardening supplies. There was a small Ridgid pipe wrench inside of a box 3 feet above my head labeled "Pipe Wrenches". I always forget things can be high above your head. A cupboard door had a pegboard full of screwdrivers behind it which I made a set of Stanley black and yellows from. They were the most questionable purchase I made of anything. Inside of a end table was a set of Craftsman wooden wood carving tools in evidently never used condition.

Another stop in the north revealed a complete Indestro socket set in its case and sporting the insert describing it. This was a good find. At another house was a set of Pittsburgh Snap-on look-alike screwdrivers in the packaging but opened. Something very strange was with them. I turned all the handles and one of them was a Snap-on... Guess the owner missed that since this was the first day of the sale and I was the first one in the garage. One final stop in the north revealed a mostly all there Blackhawk USA set of regular and deep drive sockets along with a single Snap-on 12mm I found in a jar of screws.

The best of all was an hour north of the city. I went up an incredibly narrow two-way road that became a one-lane dirt road that wasn't even shown on my GPS. It had told me to stop a mile ago. I passed multiple houses and saw a mass of large pick-up trucks parked in the dirt. There were close to 30 cars here. I parked on the house side and walked a ways to the 5 or so outbuildings on the property. In the first one was boxes and boxes of used motorcycle parts. In one was a S-K spinner handle. That was a good sign. I went further and saw a stinking pile of trash next to a large burn pile. Past it was a small wooden shipping container full of beige computer peripherals, microwaves in boxes, and gardening things. I had past a room full of garage chemicals and picked up a Spearpoint DOE stamped Made in England.

I could not figure out where the other tools were until I walked into the house and saw a glorious sight. A garage entirely full of tools multiple days into the sale. There was everything a shade tree mechanic could want. Welders, compressors, ramps, jacks, and a massive variety of hand tools. They spanned the eras from Japan-made bargain socket sets to Taiwan. There were S-K sockets in at least 20 boxes throughout the garage mixed in with Stanley Taiwan, TrueCraft Japan, no-name Taiwan, a well-finished no-name socket set marked "Chrome Vanadium" even on the impacts (?), Wright, and Proto. The wrenches were all over the place as well. I sorted through Fuller and no-name Chinese wrenches to find a quite complete and quite large Indestro wrench set. Surrounded by Craftsman pliers was a Proto groove-joint. Sitting on a shelf full of stinky green screwdrivers was a S-K speeder handle. I also found a hopeless giant (2-3/16 in. / 55mm) Bonney stamped wrench that I can only guess is for.

I wrote all this up because I read some posts expressing interest in the journey to the tools more so than a list of <things bought>.

 

[Rory Bellows]

Went to a tag sale today. Got a Makita shear for $40. I went straight to it when the sale opened. I didn't even test it out and picked it up when I saw the price. Only one mark on the case and found the original instructions, warranty card, Makita product line pamphlet in the case when I got home. It was missing the hex key for adjustments.

I don't know if anyone else does this but I was looking at their online pics and thought I spotted the shear on a table. The pic wasn't great but I went to google images trying to compare it to other Makita shears. You can only really see a blue case with a brush holder and some black parts. I thought it might be a generic jigsaw but convinced myself it was a shear and it turned out I was right. I knew it was in a garage and even went so far to visualize where it was so I could get right to it. Turned out the sale entered from the garage and they opened it a few minutes early to bring some bikes and furniture outside. I still couldn't confirm what it was but it was a clean shot right to it when they opened the garage for the start of the sale.

I remember a few years ago I spotted a piece of a Cole drill in pic and I ended up getting that for $10 the Cole vise was $30 though.

First pic is the estate sale pic. The rest are of the shear itself. Makita JS3200 1/8" capacity.

 

[RagTopTA]

So when back and hit the same sale I hot yesterday then some antique stores today. Then on the way home hit another G Sale. Got a 3 ton Craftsman floorjack for $25 at the last stop. Here's a list of the loot!


3 Plomb Offset dbl boxend wrenches,
wf20 3/8 breaker
1/4 drv 6" extension
1/4" drv 11/32 socket
2 Proto and 1 P&C chisels
1/2 Drv Fleet ratchet in great shape
Tiny philips driver that matches another I got last year
A huge Johnson C clamp
Small Cross peen hammer
Craftsman 3 ton floor jack.


Too bad I have to go back to work sat and sun! I might miss something!

 

[RagTopTA]

I had the most amazing sequence of amazing finds the past 2 weeks for me in a long while. I drove into the 1950s-era suburbs of the trendy city to the east and searched through bins full of paint brushes and rollers. I sorted them all out and found a Heyco BMW wrench and a 1/4" Snap-on ratchet in it. I also got the 3/8 S-K ratchet there. It was surrounded by Taiwanese and no name sockets.

Another sale had a quite common Craftsman toolbox, but it was full of Snap-on, Mac, and Cornwell. I got sockets, a bleeder wrench, some DBE ratcheting wrenches, prybars, and chisels. I looked in the box next to it and it had Kraeuter and Diamond pliers. The Snap-on Whitworth socket was a real shock. There were even custom tools welded and machined by the owner like the 6" Kraeuter adjustable wrench. The person just asked me if they were from Taiwan or America when I laid them out for them to price and I answered. I think I may have gotten a better price because I found a car title for a '90s Mustang inside of a yellow packet buried under power tool manuals. It was with a bunch of correspondence between the owner and the state about getting it titled after it had been written off as salvage.

I later went east out of the suburbs and into the land of cows and grass where I found the set of Mac screwdrivers.

The northeast suburbs yielded a Thorsen 1/4" socket and spinner handle set in a thick metal case with padding sitting among a pile of Stanley screwdrivers and Taiwanese sockets. I removed all the non-Thorsen sockets and put them in 1/4 + 3/8 Taiwanese socket set which was missing those specific sizes. I went down into massive finished basement and found some Superrenches below a rotary saw. The pegboard had a lone Craftsman Professional screwdriver. I searched for the rest but could not find them. I walked around the corner into a room filled with plumbing hardware and equipment. This is where I found a neat PowrKraft steel tape measure in which you wind a lever to retract the tape. After I bought it all and got to my car I noticed that the Thorsen set had some kind of screw starting tool made by Pearson which I had mistaken for part of the set because of the son/sen ending.

In the northern suburbs off of 400 there was a single Challenger socket in a box of gardening supplies. There was a small Ridgid pipe wrench inside of a box 3 feet above my head labeled "Pipe Wrenches". I always forget things can be high above your head. A cupboard door had a pegboard full of screwdrivers behind it which I made a set of Stanley black and yellows from. They were the most questionable purchase I made of anything. Inside of a end table was a set of Craftsman wooden wood carving tools in evidently never used condition.

Another stop in the north revealed a complete Indestro socket set in its case and sporting the insert describing it. This was a good find. At another house was a set of Pittsburgh Snap-on look-alike screwdrivers in the packaging but opened. Something very strange was with them. I turned all the handles and one of them was a Snap-on... Guess the owner missed that since this was the first day of the sale and I was the first one in the garage. One final stop in the north revealed a mostly all there Blackhawk USA set of regular and deep drive sockets along with a single Snap-on 12mm I found in a jar of screws.

The best of all was an hour north of the city. I went up an incredibly narrow two-way road that became a one-lane dirt road that wasn't even shown on my GPS. It had told me to stop a mile ago. I passed multiple houses and saw a mass of large pick-up trucks parked in the dirt. There were close to 30 cars here. I parked on the house side and walked a ways to the 5 or so outbuildings on the property. In the first one was boxes and boxes of used motorcycle parts. In one was a S-K spinner handle. That was a good sign. I went further and saw a stinking pile of trash next to a large burn pile. Past it was a small wooden shipping container full of beige computer peripherals, microwaves in boxes, and gardening things. I had past a room full of garage chemicals and picked up a Spearpoint DOE stamped Made in England.

I could not figure out where the other tools were until I walked into the house and saw a glorious sight. A garage entirely full of tools multiple days into the sale. There was everything a shade tree mechanic could want. Welders, compressors, ramps, jacks, and a massive variety of hand tools. They spanned the eras from Japan-made bargain socket sets to Taiwan. There were S-K sockets in at least 20 boxes throughout the garage mixed in with Stanley Taiwan, TrueCraft Japan, no-name Taiwan, a well-finished no-name socket set marked "Chrome Vanadium" even on the impacts (?), Wright, and Proto. The wrenches were all over the place as well. I sorted through Fuller and no-name Chinese wrenches to find a quite complete and quite large Indestro wrench set. Surrounded by Craftsman pliers was a Proto groove-joint. Sitting on a shelf full of stinky green screwdrivers was a S-K speeder handle. I also found a hopeless giant (2-3/16 in. / 55mm) Bonney stamped wrench that I can only guess is for.

I wrote all this up because I read some posts expressing interest in the journey to the tools more so than a list of <things bought>.

thats a pretty great haul! Nice job!

 

[MercLSU]

Pallet racking from sears, got a deal on some Chinese craftsman swivel sockets too, be sure to ask what they have that's not put out yet but on clearance!

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Nine, my lady parts are sore after moving all of that...and we still have more tomorrow.

 

[EOC_Jason]

Went to a shop sale out in the country that looked promising in the pictures, got there at 7am and it looked like all the good stuff was already gone!

He was still opening up and setting stuff out so I'm guessing either someone got in & out quick, or came the day before to buy some of the big stuff and grabbed a bunch of the good little things too while he was there...

Got a router box that I think was HF, only 50 cents, which is okay as I needed something to put my bits in that wasn't a ziplock bag.. lol.

All but one of those clamps are USA. The Hanson drill index is actually full of bits, but I didn't look to see what brand or COO they are.

$7... big spender today... lol...

 

[drivesitfar]

BA: OMG was she flirting with you? WELL DONE!!

Nines: i might own 20-30 of those big racks now. very handy and make sure they are not bent or a B(*CH to put together. good luck

ALL: so i had arranged to pick up this cabinet the weekend and it's suppose to keep raining, but last night it was dry so called and seller says come on over. she says she has her bookclub ladies group over and they'd be happy to help carry the drawers up the long driveway to where i could park my trailer. so 8 or so ladies carry up a drawer each and the seller and i push up the cabinet and load it on my trailer. it wasn't free, but a fair price even though a bit of damage at the base i can fix later. for now though it will fit nicely in my storage unit and 2 more metal flat files are now sitting on top of it and forgot to take pictures.

also set up this huge rotobin today in my storage unit and i'd suggest having a friend or your wife help if you can cause OMG lifting these 4.5 foot wide bins that weigh about 80+ pounds each over my head onto a pole is something not recommended.

hope you all have a great weekend.

cheers

 

[nine4gmc]

They're all straight, we had to remove the **** from them, then disassemble them and carry/load them ourselves. Price is worth it though, it's $349 per section at Uline and I scored three sections for $200, with a few extra beams and possibly an upright.

Merc got one bent upright in a section he bought for his brother so we will swap that out for the good one. I think he got four sections for $260. It all came with at least two shelves, 3 support bars per shelf and 3/4" plywood shelving, plus my three sections and one of Merc's came with 3/4" plywood backing that was used as stiffeners, room dividers and is the same size as the shelves.

There are some awesome deals to be had there, you just gotta be there at the right time.

 

[Outlawmws]

BA it's been a while right? great score! Def. USUCK territory!

DLA great story and score.

Man you guys are all knocking it!

I scored 2 40's Coleman lanterns and two stoves, One a 40's Coleman the other an Optimus No. 100, and a BIG tank @x @ 1/2 Gallon) for a stove last Sunday night, but pics got to wait till I get my personal Ltop talking to the network again...

 

[ducksface]

Fifty bucks at a retail shop.
36 inch craftsman.
Nice cross slide on it.
I haven't a use in the world for it.
Straight ways, an indexed head I've never seen before.
Well lubed and cared for, but the head is trying glue itself together.

It's bound to be a lamp or somesuch.

The anime/game artwork just lives on that table. Just landed in the picture.

 

[nine4gmc]

This is the half I'm selling, the other half I'm keeping!

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[jakemac]

DLA - sounds like you had a busy day. Great haul and even better story. Loved reading about your adventure.

 

[Outlawmws]

Duck, I think someone added the carriage to the wood lathe. Without the long feed screw, it's limited in use...

 

[bareass172]

BA it's been a while right?

Yep! Been real busy so I kinda got out of the routine of checking in. Of course I still lurked from time to time when I needed some info.
Had shoulder surgery and was laid up a bit too. Finally cleared and back working and sorting through all the projects I didn't get to finish before I was laid up. Thanks for the suckage - I enjoy reading about the stuff we're all saving from the junk pile!

 

[BlueBomber]

This great thread had gotten so much better once we re-emphasized the value of telling the story along with posting the finds.

Also, well dones to bareass and dla!

 

[BlueBomber]

3 Generation Farmhouse Estate Sale -
http://worcester.craigslist.org/gms/6043507555.html

Procrastination giveth (my son put off his Eagle Scout project to next weekend) and procrastination taketh away (I need to complete a report for work that I've been putting off for six weeks).

Sigh...happy hunting to all the rest of you!

 

[EOC_Jason]

Trying to get motivated to go to an estate sale kind of far away... Looks to have a nice cabinet saw, CMan band saw, drill press, planer.... All pristine shape... But I know too prices will reflect that...

But you never know if you don't go...

 

[RagTopTA]

I get to work sat and sun 7a-7p.... no finds for me! go get that loot!

 

[Bobcat753]

Finally made myself get up early before work to hit a small basement workshop sale. Mostly very nicely cared for wood working machines. I was able to pick up this nice Craftsman 1/4 HP Block Grinder for $75 and the 4" Simplex vise for another $25. I paid a little much for the grinder but I liked the paint job and it has the original glass eye shields. Now I need to find some original end guards for it! Also met Jake there and he helped me carry my goods to my truck, Thanks Again!

 

[duddly]

had to post because I found nearly the same craftsman toolbox as bluebolt in this post http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6381737&postcount=1478

mine is 10 drawer but it still has the original hang tag just like his! It has a lot of overspray on it and I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations on how to clean it without harming the original finish.



I found this at an estate sale on Sunday - essentially the 6th day because they had done fri/sat/sun 2 weekends in a row. I bundled a lot but would estimate $50 - I paid up because I had been really lucky in January on a free house cleanup - which I need to sort through and take pics.

and finally a pic of my barrister bookcase which I store/display the old tools in. My son and I had taken over a shelf in my wife's china cabinet, which then led to two shelves.... Finally she bought me my own rustic oak china cabinet.. only a week later (it was late 2016) we got word of an apartment cleanout and got this globe-wernicke barrister bookcase free. ( Sold the one the wife had bought me for a tidy profit as well! ) It was in several pieces in different rooms but once re-assembled it looked great with just being cleaned. I just moved it and am in the process of putting tools in it. I am trying to figure out how to install LED tape lighting without drilling for wires. I really hate to damage this as similar ones are selling for around $1000


I really do need to take some more pictures - I have gone to several cleanouts this year and got some amazing free stuff.

 

[Itinerant]

I was able to pick up this nice Craftsman 1/4 HP Block Grinder for $75 and the 4" Simplex vise for another $25.

Now I need to find some original end guards for it!

Hey Bobcat, that grinder did not come with wheel covers. Love the vise.

 

[dngrmse]

Great Pickups! Have to work today, but man, I sure do wish I could make it to this one, they show everything from a baby bullet to old map cabinets. Glad it's 2hrs away, it lessens the pain a bit.

https://newyork.craigslist.org/fct/tls/6018322509.html

https://newyork.craigslist.org/fct/gms/6018332745.html

 

[ducksface]

Duck, I think someone added the carriage to the wood lathe. Without the long feed screw, it's limited in use...

It's about to become a really nice fifty dollar book rack with an adjustable center and end.
The tool rest for wood is missing, but the holder is there. I haven't the slightest use for turned wood.
I do need a book rack, and it's a nondestructive project in case someone here may one day need the ways or head.