Lots of good scores guys! It seems to warming Up! in more ways than one! It's also warmed up here both ways! Not stellar, but Not bad!
I found two Estate sale and got there early for both and was let into the garage area, early on both!
What brought me to the first oe was a vintage MAC 8 drawer chest. 33-1/2 X 18 deep I was hoping for it to be 36" but that seems difficult Lots of 30-34" wide, designs out there but I'm not finding any at 36 (I want a 36 for holding a 36" Montezuma slant front box...)
In this case the wanted WAY more than I felt it was worth in the condition it was in - $500 with the tools.
if the tools were something decent, fine, but very few tools and not many truck tools.
I may swing back by tomorrow, and see if they are more realistic, but if its gone I won't be heartbroken.
What I did get there was still worth the time and stop:
A very small Norlund hatchet with the leather blade cap, Plvmb Combo, and a brass and steel power tool handle.
The vintage bait holder was buying my childhood back! we had 2 of theses and always had the jars of Pautzke's "Balls-O-Fire! on hand! they are still in business too! three tubs of vintage Daisy BB's and a bunch of targets with parts ordering info on the back! A Brass hose Nozzle.and a Camco fishing/bait knife, sort of a cheap thing but sort of cool and the guard is also an opener!.
Three Wagner Magnalight pots with lids.
A Small Copper Scuttle (needs some elbow grease...) A couple of bit of glass ware and a dark green insulator
It was twenty bucks for all!
the second stop was a bust but it was on the way to the second Estate sale that opened an hour later than the first, and again I was a bit early. Again I was allowed to peruse he outside areas before official opening.
What brought me to this one specifically was I saw the pic of the vise, and its distinctive profile, and there were other tools as well. I didn't see the vise and asked about it, and it was actually screwed down to a work bench else where, and I got first dibs but the guy had to verify that it could be sold separate from the bench
I had done all my shopping by the time he was given the green light to sell the vise separate, and he said it was $20. I put up all my other finds, and asked how much for all and he started to count item by item; stopped and sort of glassed over them all (quite a bit of smalls were in a wood box...) and he said "how about $30 for all? I quickly agreed!
So the versa vies (I found the pipe jaws elsewhere and the difference is stark! the poor vise lived outside a lot! A small rail typ clamp on jewelers/hobby vise, the wood box (coming) had the planes and parts, (the small one is complete, I'm hoping the loose blade will fit an orphan I have with an odd width blade..) theree is another hose nozzle above the small clamp on vise, and te odd part in the (rotted) foam lined box is I believe a filter regulator for modle airplane engines. (they had some of those floating around, and the wood box had several glow plugs for them loos in the bottom)
The Wood box. its marked Manila, and it appears pretty old!
Two large Clamps 7 and 8 inch the aluminum clamp is interesting as it can hold THREE things simultaneously, A Yankee Push drill, (I think this is my first Yankee Drill...) two small oil cans (there were more but I liked the small ones.) A SO Witworth 1/8 combo (Does it fit the Glow plugs? Hmmm -Nope!) and an aluminum Coping saw frame.
Lastly I hit TOO and got the SS "garbage can" which I will use on my inside workbench, I small model brass canon (non working but marked Penncraft and USA...) and what I THOUGH was a crystal snowman that trued out to be a dang Clown.. SWMBO got a laugh out of that. (she and the kids hate clowns and she collects snowmen...)
- all for $6
