2018 Garage Sale Thread

[bmwrd0]

Over the weekend, I hit various garage sale, auto swaps, finding the following:
Box of misc. drill bit, including two MT1 bits, some milling bits and a Plomb 12" extension, also a couple Stanley planes, one a 9 1/2 the other a rebranded Lakeside (want it for parts) $4 for all that. Also stopped at a sale listing all kinds of old thing, picking up the Williams box and the Craftsman brace bits. The sockets came from restore, a Snap-on, Plomb, and MAC. Also, a nice chuck for braces. The auto swap was great last year, but not so good this. Picked up a long C 2" pulley for a (no pic) other than that nothing really. But, on the plus side, a CL ad called me back on this K377 with Craftsman vice, saying the other guy didn't show. So picked that up for $80. That thing is hell for stout! So not a bad weekend.

 

[454ragtop]

My weekend finds. First pic is some stuff I found Sat. in a front yard with a big "FREE" sign, Lansky sharpening kit, Stanley square - broken level vial, but still has the scribe, and what I thought at first was a piece of scrap steel is actually a piece of solid brass about 3/8" thick.

Sunday went to a swap meet in CT, unopened shrink tube asst, Mayhew punch and a scribe, 1/2" Jacobs ball bearing Super Chuck - like new, and a neat little oiler, looks OD, maybe military? And then the 4 vises, Wilton turret type combo, Fulton 2-3/4", small hand vise, and the Craftsman 3-1/2".

 

[d42jeep]

excellent! I’ve got some spare items if you find yourself looking for something, let me know.

And if Username doesn’t have it, I may. I’ve done four WW2 GMTKs.
-Don

 

[Outlawmws]

454, that oilier is cool but you need to make a stand for it!

Usuck for the free lansky! I have the blade vise, but no stones.. (completely different geometry that my smith) free is always good!

 

[Cruzan80]

Just got this haul from a FB Marketplace Ad. Turns out the guy had gotten about 5 toolboxes from when a friend's father had passed away, and this was after the yard-sale she had. Missed out on a couple of very nice things (father of the guy was kind of interjecting and would occasionally grab something for his box) like a 1/4" click torque wrench, and some LARGE =V= and -V- combinations/DBE's. But got all of this for $50. The long set of impacts are American Forge (7/16-1_1/4) and the small box is Wright (with a Wright box) 7/16-13/16. The large 3/4 ratchet is Thorsen, the Craftsman RHFT is 1/2". The first set of DOE/DBE are all -V- Metrics, the last two sets are -V- Flare nuts and tappet wrenches. Haven't had to check out the air tools.

 

[Cruzan80]

And the initial reason I went was for this middle box. Asked about it (had various boxes listed on FB), and heard all the CM rollers were gone. Re-specificed what I was interested in, and he said sure. Wasn't sure anyone would be interested in it, so figured he was going to end up keeping it.... Still has the original keys (2 of them, Crowntop logos) so going to try and re-key top/bottom so one key works on all three.

My top box is 11/74, my bottom is 08/75, and the three drawer was only made from 72-75, so decent possibility my set is within a year of each other, total.

Price: $50 Couldn't get over there fast enough.

 

[Shelbylex]

WOW! Great deal!

 

[Outlawmws]

Nice find on the three drawer!

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

I've had a friend in Portland for several years who is a retired Dr and a hobby machinist. He's moving off to Georgia and needed help clearing out his basement shop as he's not taking any of it with him. He had an extremely nice and well tooled Southbend 9a, a universal cutter grinder, a verticle bandsaw, small horizontal bandsaw, and a few other things. Also a ton of tooling for everything and lot's of machinist tools to clear out. I took my son along and we managed to get it all out Satureday packing it up very steep narrow stairs. It was quite a challenge to get it all out but we had it loaded by noon. I think I paid a fair amount for a large tool lot but I'm pretty sure the South bend lathe alone could be worth what I paid for all. A good day. A few pics of some of the haul. Ed.

 

[3baygarage]

Solid buy on the boxes for 50 bucks. You ****!


I’ve got one for you guys that’s worthy of mentioning.
Very different experience here today. I went to a tool sale where I must have met the king dreamer of all dreamers. Nice old guy, maybe 75 yrs old . We talked a minute. He tells me it’s all for sale. He just had a yard sale couple weeks ago, etc.. Then he kindly brought me a step stool to look at a couple wrenches and stuff hanging up on the wall.

Picked out a pile of maybe 20+ older hand tools..Most everything had rust, well used and worn. Handful of little wrenches-some rusty and worn, a few sockets, adapters,ratchets- one nice SK -one poor shape not working Armstrong- one Napa with cheater pipe damage,a few old or well used screwdrivers, and a couple misc. tools. Over all, a few old pieces of Snap On, Proto, Craftsman, Blackhawk, Herbrand, Napa,a rusty old Fomoco lug wrench, a rusty old industrial hook.

Honestly I wanted to pay about 50 bucks.

Eventually the guy comes back outside and tells me sorry, he’s been on the phone with some computer tech support becuase his computer got hacked. wtf?

Without looking at a thing in my pile, tells me he doesn’t know what everything is worth, but whatever I want to pay is good for him because I must know how much I want to spend. I told him I don’t like making offers, so we did that dance for a minute and he says “that looks like $300 worth of stuff right there, I was going to tell you 4 or 5 but didn”t want to scare you off”.

Holy ****! Where’s that step stool so I can stand on it and fall a little harder as I’m fainting? That’s all I could think.

I told him that was a bit more than I wanted to spend.I’m thinking like $50. He just kinda shook his head no. No counter offer no nothing. I said let me look around a little more, thinking maybe he would come to his senses!

I think all of it, cleaned up and sold on Ebay for $100 would be wishful thinking.



So this guy gets goofy. Goes back in without his cell phone and leaves it on a shelf in the shop. It starts ringing and he comes back out. Tech support again.

Well, the I dug around a couple more mins., went outside the shop with my pile in a tray. This guy spends the next 15 minutes in and out the house on the phone fighting, swearing, hollering at this very foreign sounding tech support, hanging up, getting called back. Telling them he has no money to pay them, last time they caused him to overdraw his account, he doesn’t have a license, has no ride to Walmart to wire them money, he needs a magnifying glass to read them his checking account #(which he does over and over for 5 minutes with me standing outside his door).

So I’m tapping on his open house door like excuse me but I have to head out. He comes over and tells me he wants to “hold out for the money on the stuff”. Why don’t I come back tomorrow he says. I was like okay wtf? How about $60? He says no and goes back to his phone call.

Is that a no to my offer I ask? Yeah that’s a no to your offer. I go ok, thanks for your time! Even though he seemed to need some money and didn’t care I was standing there in his driveway.

Wow! It was a good way to waste an hour and a half and leave empty handed.

 

[Hexen]

...
Very different experience here today. I went to a tool sale where I must have met the king dreamer of all dreamers. Nice old guy, maybe 75 yrs old
...
Eventually the guy comes back outside and tells me sorry, he’s been on the phone with some computer tech support becuase his computer got hacked. wtf?
...
So this guy gets goofy. Goes back in without his cell phone and leaves it on a shelf in the shop. It starts ringing and he comes back out. Tech support again.

Well, the I dug around a couple more mins., went outside the shop with my pile in a tray. This guy spends the next 15 minutes in and out the house on the phone fighting, swearing, hollering at this very foreign sounding tech support, hanging up, getting called back. Telling them he has no money to pay them, last time they caused him to overdraw his account, he doesn’t have a license, has no ride to Walmart to wire them money, he needs a magnifying glass to read them his checking account #(which he does over and over for 5 minutes with me standing outside his door).
...

"Wire them money" sounds like he's been giving all his money to scammers, unfortunately. I've never heard of a legitimate tech support company accepting that method of payment.

 

[BlueBomber]

Yep, my thought too. I just watched a sitcom with that theme. Too bad for him.

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[EOC_Jason]

"Wire them money" sounds like he's been giving all his money to scammers, unfortunately. I've never heard of a legitimate tech support company accepting that method of payment.

LOL, that's exactly what I was thinking... He probably got that malware that locks / encrypts your computer and tells you to go to walmart to get a moneygram or something like that...

He doesn't seem like the sharpest tool in that shed...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

It's a wide spectrum between the exceedingly generous and the exceedingly unreasonable. I'd be more than happy to never see another guy practically giving his treasures away if it meant I wouldn't have to suffer another idiot asking a king's ransom for his junk.

 

[Corndoggeh]

Drove around Saturday looking for sales, nothing was coming up. Most of the estate sales were again on the other side of the city. On my way back I saw an estate sale that I saw online but had no pictures of anything I was interested in. I thought to myself "why not stop since ill be passing right by it?". Turns out that was the right place at the right time because it was noon by that time and the estate sale was starting to accept offers on all items.

Heres what I got:
Walker Turner "driver" mini wood lathe
Utica Pliers
Bayonet light bulbs, fits my Cman 12" bandsaw
A US made grease gun
Stanley USA crowbar
A set of long Williams allen keys
A NOS 9" table saw blade for my Delta 34-600 table saw
Craftsman Heritage emblem tool box
And the best item on the list... A FULLY complete Billings LS-29 1/2" socket set with a bunch of extras pieces in it. It looks like it was rarely used.

All for $60

 

[madison069]

And the initial reason I went was for this middle box. Asked about it (had various boxes listed on FB), and heard all the CM rollers were gone. Re-specificed what I was interested in, and he said sure. Wasn't sure anyone would be interested in it, so figured he was going to end up keeping it.... Still has the original keys (2 of them, Crowntop logos) so going to try and re-key top/bottom so one key works on all three.

My top box is 11/74, my bottom is 08/75, and the three drawer was only made from 72-75, so decent possibility my set is within a year of each other, total.

Price: $50 Couldn't get over there fast enough.

That is a better shape mid-drawer then mine, I gave $20 for mine though. Still need to clean it up and paint it some but it's currently in use.

 

[Cruzan80]

Two or three drawer?

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[madison069]

Two or three drawer?

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Three drawers, but it's rough

 

[3baygarage]

It's a wide spectrum between the exceedingly generous and the exceedingly unreasonable. I'd be more than happy to never see another guy practically giving his treasures away if it meant I wouldn't have to suffer another idiot asking a king's ransom for his junk.

Well put Lugz!

Corndoggeh- nice find on the Billings

 

[Mr_P]

Drove around Saturday looking for sales, nothing was coming up. Most of the estate sales were again on the other side of the city. On my way back I saw an estate sale that I saw online but had no pictures of anything I was interested in. I thought to myself "why not stop since ill be passing right by it?". Turns out that was the right place at the right time because it was noon by that time and the estate sale was starting to accept offers on all items.

Heres what I got:
Walker Turner "driver" mini wood lathe
Utica Pliers
Bayonet light bulbs, fits my Cman 12" bandsaw
A US made grease gun
Stanley USA crowbar
A set of long Williams allen keys
A NOS 9" table saw blade for my Delta 34-600 table saw
Craftsman Heritage emblem tool box
And the best item on the list... A FULLY complete Billings LS-29 1/2" socket set with a bunch of extras pieces in it. It looks like it was rarely used.

All for $60

I have the exact same lathe minus the pullies. Mine is a 36" model.

 

[Mr_P]

Hey Outlaw,

What do you think of my lunch time score for $10??

I think it's a Model 500 (A40)....

 

[Hexen]

It's a wide spectrum between the exceedingly generous and the exceedingly unreasonable. I'd be more than happy to never see another guy practically giving his treasures away if it meant I wouldn't have to suffer another idiot asking a king's ransom for his junk.

"I paid $5 for this wrench 50 years ago, and now that it's all filthy, scraped up, and rusty, by golly it must be worth twice as much!" right?

 

[Shelbylex]

"I paid $5 for this wrench 50 years ago, and now that it's all filthy, scraped up, and rusty, by golly it must be worth twice as much!" right?

Sure! As you know, once owned by celebrities, the things get more expensive. In addition due to inflation I am selling it for more. And on top of it, its not rust - I just added extra custom oxidation and scraping and filth just to make you feel it's more vintage. Hard work needs to be payed off!

 

[Outlawmws]

Hey Outlaw,

What do you think of my lunch time score for $10??

I think it's a Model 500 (A40)....

I think you ****!

The A 40 is Quarter (I think) /Year; so first Quarter of 1940.

the model SHOULD be on the collar (under all the soot. if you take the top off and get the collar off, it will probably cleanup with an SOS pad and water
- it should be SS)

 

[wrenchguy]

Picked at sale saturday, late 50's clinton /gescor battery charger & 700 watt ac genny. Nice original and complete. At 700 watts its a big 1 4 sure!

 

[Mr_P]

Finally some good weather for the flea. Lots of vendors out there today.
Thorsen SAE/Metric 3/8" drive set, SK drivers, combos, thread files, and sockets, WrightGrip combos, Master Mechanic metric combo and DOEs, Sparta 1/2" drive ratchet, Taiwan 1/4" thumb ratchet, Plomb socket and punch, Thumb screw from a Craftsman drill press, a '51 dated U.S. fuel can, and a Cromwell creeper

Your creeper looks a lot like one a friend let me have a couple of years ago. I fished it out this afternoon and finally fixed it with the help of my assistant....

her help was not cheap, I had to make one for her doll....

And finally the test.....

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Cute!

 

[Outlawmws]

Is there going to be a "Cutest post" award Lugz?

 

[tym]

Oh man, that's adorable!

 

[txlonghorn1989]

I think you ****!

The A 40 is Quarter (I think) /Year; so first Quarter of 1940.

the model SHOULD be on the collar (under all the soot. if you take the top off and get the collar off, it will probably cleanup with an SOS pad and water
- it should be SS)

Outlaw,
I'd been meaning to ask you about a lantern I saw recently at an estate sale. IIRC, it had a chrome base but a green top screen. They were asking $13 I think. It seemed like the green and the chrome didn't match. The stamping on the chrome appears to be very similar with the sun ray image. I sure hope it was worth about $13 cause I passed on it.

Mike

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Is there going to be a "Cutest post" award Lugz?

I might just have to add one after that! Although Pop's little helper and a beanie baby killer whale on a miniature creeper is going to be awfully hard to beat!

Wood: leftover
Casters: salvaged
Paint: a few cents worth
Time Spent in Garage with Daughter/Granddaughter: Priceless

 

[Mr_P]

Hahaha. You guys are funny. For the record, Lugz, it's not a killer whale. It's a skunk named Stinky, and in the picture where my daughter is wrenching, you could see how fitting the "Stinky" if you could find little stinky.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

It's a skunk named Stinky

And the cute just go cuter! (I see the legs and tail now!) Seriously, great project.

 

[Shelbylex]

Though it's impossible to get any better than "little mechanic and Stinky team", I will submit my last additions to the tools.
Delta GR350 8" grinder - modified, will clean up. Seems to work well, turns for a while after shut down, has minimal vibration, lamp works. Will clean up and thing what to do with it. Not all parts are available for those models...
Torque Wrench - needs some work, but will try to keep.
Lug Nut wrench - already on CL with hope of exchanging it for a tool or selling for minimal $ to keep buying Evaporust and wire brushes for my small restoration projects (got to love Evaporust for completely stuck tools which are piles of rust, but $20/gallon adds up fast...)

I am playing a new game: trying to get a free tool collection (not working as well as I like too many things and decide to keep them instead of selling after restoring) and slowly develop restoration skills starting from simple wrenches to stuck adjustable ones and pliers to vise to bench vise then grinders (I'd like to get an old Craftsman or Baldor eventually) to more complex machinery and by the time my kid is old enough get a project old car (have a lot of ideas... Manual Vette (C3 from 1980-81; yep, I know they are only 190hp but I love the shape), 1967 or 69 Mustang, 58 Buick Roadmaster, can keep going. From foreign ones I will consider 1993 M5, 1996 BMW 840 (big repair money though, too complex and probably too expensive to bring manual from Germany) or 1999-2000 4runner limited (with locker if I get lucky) (really like those, but never drove in one. Seem to be wrench friendly unlike a lot of modern cars)

 

[BFBOB]

I just ran across this ratchet today in a pawn shop. Indestro-made for Western Auto Wizard. The barrel-shaped handle fits the case I just got last week, but the head is round and the case is made to fit a pear-shaped head. (of course it's too long because it's a flex) So I'm still looking for a matching ratchet - and I've never even seen a picture of one with the pear head and barrel handle.

 

[EOC_Jason]

I just ran across this ratchet today in a pawn shop. Indestro-made for Western Auto Wizard. The barrel-shaped handle fits the case I just got last week, but the head is round and the case is made to fit a pear-shaped head. (of course it's too long because it's a flex) So I'm still looking for a matching ratchet - and I've never even seen a picture of one with the pear head and barrel handle.

Ooo... I have to make a note of this... I'm 99% sure I saw one at my neighbors house in a pile of tools his was cleaning up! I'll try to go over there tomorrow if it's not raining and look for ya.

 

[JMLangford]

Today's flea finds......Nothing spectacular (not like a cute shop helper and a skunk on a mini creeper )


A Duro-Chrome 3/4 wrench with a nice thin, flat beam....
A 10" Crestoloy adjustable in great shape (looks un-used)...
A 6" LUDELL adjustable made in Japan....
A small "mini" sledge hammer with a steel shank (partially shown)....


Other half of the "mini" sledge....
Craftsman tapered reamer....
Blackhawk 1" extension....
3 Kobalt small straight blade and 1 Kobalt small phillips screwdrivers....
And a small no-name pair of needlenose pliers....




.

 

[Outlawmws]

Outlaw,
I'd been meaning to ask you about a lantern I saw recently at an estate sale. IIRC, it had a chrome base but a green top screen. They were asking $13 I think. It seemed like the green and the chrome didn't match. The stamping on the chrome appears to be very similar with the sun ray image. I sure hope it was worth about $13 cause I passed on it.

Mike

Nickle plate, not chrome, and a nickle plated fount (Tank) was common through the 40's/50's other than the war years.

Was it single or dual mantle? And if complete, worth well over the $13 either way. depending on the exact model, possibly much more. The top vents were generally green or red. A few other colors popped in from 60's on.

The earliest model 200's had a red vent and green tank...

 

[RagTopTA]

I just ran across this ratchet today in a pawn shop. Indestro-made for Western Auto Wizard. The barrel-shaped handle fits the case I just got last week, but the head is round and the case is made to fit a pear-shaped head. (of course it's too long because it's a flex) So I'm still looking for a matching ratchet - and I've never even seen a picture of one with the pear head and barrel handle.

I wonder if it was a 3/8 version of this one...

 

[bluebolt]

I just ran across this ratchet today in a pawn shop. Indestro-made for Western Auto Wizard. The barrel-shaped handle fits the case I just got last week, but the head is round and the case is made to fit a pear-shaped head. (of course it's too long because it's a flex) So I'm still looking for a matching ratchet - and I've never even seen a picture of one with the pear head and barrel handle.

There's a Wizard 3/8"D pear head barrel handle ratchet on Ebay right now! https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wizard-3-8...902567?hash=item2aa5c6e7e7:g:Of0AAOSwCERayusC

I checked my Wizard jug and I have a 3/8"D Wizard pear head round handle.