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Smokeshow69
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Scored these 2 original handle proto body hammers and this transitional marked plomb wrench from an antique store!
Also scored this box for $5! Brands include craftsman, snap on, proto, plomb and others. I am most excited about the proto pebble flare wrenches and the plomb feeler gauge!
Also bought this pile from my brother for $10
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Also scored this box for $5! Brands include craftsman, snap on, proto, plomb and others. I am most excited about the proto pebble flare wrenches and the plomb feeler gauge!
Also bought this pile from my brother for $10
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Gidge
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Picked these up recently:
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Picked these up recently:
Looks like you'll have to take out the "s" in "https" for those images hosted on imgbox to display, same as with imgur.
cbacres
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I’m way behind, here’s the latest finds for me. First saw ad on FB, sat only sale, pics looked promising. Turned out to be a good little sale. Lady was selling off the last of her husbands stuff, they were telling me the grandson received most of the hand tools and I was telling them that’s the way it should be.
I helped them price a handful of items as one of the friends boyfriend had a late night and couldn’t get up in time. They treated me well for helping them. It’s was a great time!
In this bunch, bessey clamp, USA made crow bar,SO chisels, SO lineman pliers, small proto side cutter, what I think is a bead breaker, a SO threaded shaft for a puller, OTC thread chaser, washers, clamps.
Didn’t really need any pipe wrenches, but at $2 each......, walker bottle jack, tire spoons, a brass and 2 lb hammer, Ridgid basin wrench, Ridgid spud wrench, SO & Proto easy outs,otc slide puller, SO, blue point and Mac replacement stones for brake cylinder hone, SO thread chaser,
A partial set of SO metric impact sockets, box of mostly brand new drill bits.
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I helped them price a handful of items as one of the friends boyfriend had a late night and couldn’t get up in time. They treated me well for helping them. It’s was a great time!
In this bunch, bessey clamp, USA made crow bar,SO chisels, SO lineman pliers, small proto side cutter, what I think is a bead breaker, a SO threaded shaft for a puller, OTC thread chaser, washers, clamps.
Didn’t really need any pipe wrenches, but at $2 each......, walker bottle jack, tire spoons, a brass and 2 lb hammer, Ridgid basin wrench, Ridgid spud wrench, SO & Proto easy outs,otc slide puller, SO, blue point and Mac replacement stones for brake cylinder hone, SO thread chaser,
A partial set of SO metric impact sockets, box of mostly brand new drill bits.
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Billythekid1
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Dang good score CB if u feel like making a drive up to Springhill I got a guy selling 40 years worth of storage unit finds for good prices he owned the storage unit and when people didn't pay he through away the junk and kept the good stuff huge building with all kinds of good stuff behave to b out in 2 weeks and I ran out of money already haha
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I posted my Saturday finds a few pages back. Here's balance of the hand tools from Sunday as well.
Some good stuff there.
Combos - Wright, Thorsen, SK with some metric ones int here too, Herbrand
DBEs - Thorsen and SuperQuality (X)
Sockets - Snap-on, Stromberg, C-man BE, New Britain, Blackhawk,Cman Cseries, SK, Wright
Midget Duro Chrome set and Cornwell driver
Couple of Plomb pieces
Proto soft face hammer, missing the faces
Lufkin metal tape measure
super long Cornwell 1/2" drive extension and large 3/4" drive MTF extension
Ratchets - Thorsen, Snapon, Fleet, Bonney
Lufkin punch, Duro and Herbrand ignition wrenches
Some good stuff there.
Combos - Wright, Thorsen, SK with some metric ones int here too, Herbrand
DBEs - Thorsen and SuperQuality (X)
Sockets - Snap-on, Stromberg, C-man BE, New Britain, Blackhawk,Cman Cseries, SK, Wright
Midget Duro Chrome set and Cornwell driver
Couple of Plomb pieces
Proto soft face hammer, missing the faces
Lufkin metal tape measure
super long Cornwell 1/2" drive extension and large 3/4" drive MTF extension
Ratchets - Thorsen, Snapon, Fleet, Bonney
Lufkin punch, Duro and Herbrand ignition wrenches
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d42jeep
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That is a really nice haul. I especially like the Duro 1/4” box with the label in such good shape.
I made my first visit to the Tahoe flea this year and found a few interesting tools.
The first picture is everything. The next two are Bell System marked Klein diagonals. Next is a Brazil (S-K) socket, unfortunately not 1/4” drive! The next socket is an unusually marked Circle U Craftsman, followed by an unmarked S-K flex handle. Last is a Dunlap 10” adjustable wrench made in Japan.
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Private Lugnutz
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A vendor, seeing me pick up and inspect a pair of vintage Klein dykes last weekend, said, "$15." I must've looked at him cross-eyed, because he followed that up with, "They're old Bell System." So I looked at them again, thinking I missed the marking, and said, "No they're not." So he comes over and points to the lineman trademark. "Right there," he said all proud of himself. "That's Bell System." I tried explaining, but gave up.
Did he take 30% off? Because only 70% of the logo is showing.
They must've made a mess of those. I have at least five of them.d42jeep said:
Gidge
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Picked this up last week:
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Private Lugnutz
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Dang. Where was that - a hermetically sealed vault? The paint on that is still in great shape, as is the label!
d42jeep
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Picked this up last week:
That would be a nice addition to the vintage Dunlap thread.
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RagTopTA
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man what a great haul!! Lots of killer stuff!! Look out I am actually off Fri Sat Sun this coming week end!!! And got some OT cash burning a hole in my pocket!
LandofRath
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Stopped by a swap meet on the way home from a weekend Baseball tourney and found these for $35.. Both work perfectly. Also happened to be the only nail gun I didn't own.
Gidge
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I got it from a 75 year old lady who said it belonged to a gentleman who liked to putter around in his workshop, I can't figure out if it was her husband or father she was speaking of, could have been either, I suppose. I'm thinking 1950s - 1960s for this piece ?
Where is this vintage Dunlap thread that you speak of (I did a search, but came up empty handed) ?
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d42jeep
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It can be found here in the vintage tool discussion.
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=289645&highlight=Dunlap&page=7
-Don
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=289645&highlight=Dunlap&page=7
-Don
Stopped by a swap meet on the way home from a weekend Baseball tourney and found these for $35.. Both work perfectly. Also happened to be the only nail gun I didn't own.
Could you elaborate on that last sentence?
BlueBomber
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I'm guessing he meant he didn't yet own a roofing nail gun...and now he has two!
Which actually hurts me, as I looked for mine this past weekend and was unable to find it.
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Which actually hurts me, as I looked for mine this past weekend and was unable to find it.
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OK, lol, it had sounded to me like he was implying he had such a massive collection of nail guns (like, could open a museum on the history of nail guns) that these were the last two he needed.
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BlueBomber
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I've thought about that scenario and am racking my brain trying to think who that might be....
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dkroth
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Picked this up last week:
Timely:
https://rochester.craigslist.org/tls/d/three-vintage-metal-organizers/6594839925.html
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MercLSU
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Sunday I went to the last minute "fire sale" at the end of last week's estate sale and picked up some more neat things for $20.
Yesterday I bought a Rockwell 15" drill press for $40 off of Facebook Marketplace...a first for me. Missing the top cover, has some motor / pulley alignment issues, but it actually runs well and is in decent shape underneath a foot of sawdust and paint splatters. I mostly bought it for the foot operated quill feed setup, which works well and appears to be complete minus the foot pedal. Apparently it had been removed years ago when they added a wooden extension (pictured) so it could be used with a larger plywood top attached to the table.
Yesterday I bought a Rockwell 15" drill press for $40 off of Facebook Marketplace...a first for me. Missing the top cover, has some motor / pulley alignment issues, but it actually runs well and is in decent shape underneath a foot of sawdust and paint splatters. I mostly bought it for the foot operated quill feed setup, which works well and appears to be complete minus the foot pedal. Apparently it had been removed years ago when they added a wooden extension (pictured) so it could be used with a larger plywood top attached to the table.
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Outlawmws
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My usual move is "I moved it so I was better organized and forgot where the new place was"... :tard:
Outlawmws
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Merc, How much NOS of Coleman, not to mention other stuff, did these people have? 
Did the have a hardware store? I also notice some reloading tools? Old school Forrest case trimmer?
Did the have a hardware store? I also notice some reloading tools? Old school Forrest case trimmer?MercLSU
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Outlaw, for reference the link to the sale is: https://www.estatesales.net/LA/Baton-Rouge/70808/1889148
I'm not sure how long it will be up but the pictures show less than half of what was outside. This gentleman was apparently a Wildlife and Fisheries agent and owned everything you needed to catch, kill, clean, cook, etc. just about anything that moved. Probably a pretty cool guy. I'm not sure if the family took the firearms or the estate sale company doesn't deal in them, however there was little to nothing in that area...which I found odd given what else was for sale there.
I was there a few hours early and was #35 in line. Most seemed to be there for knickknacks inside or the fishing stuff, but unfortunately there was one couple that were huge Coleman / camp item collectors in front of me. That was the guy that grabbed the Optimus 8R in picture #270 while I was trying to sneak around him. I swear I've never seen a man that was probably 5'7ish expand his wingspan like an African condor like that...probably had six or seven lanterns hung from his arms, stoves under his arms, and then managed to reach out and snag that Optimus... That was the main thing I was after, but I was happy enough to snag the NOS Svea 123 and even happier at getting the Sievert 925 at a healthy discount on day 3.
Seems that this may have just been the tip of the iceberg. When I was in line I was chatting with another guy who lived two houses down. I told him I'd passed by and picked up a number of nice things they'd thrown out the previous weekend. He told me I missed the "good pile" where he pulled out 10+ NIB electric heaters, reloading stuff, fishing stuff, etc. etc...that the man's grandkids were just tossing things out left and right a while back.
I'm not sure how long it will be up but the pictures show less than half of what was outside. This gentleman was apparently a Wildlife and Fisheries agent and owned everything you needed to catch, kill, clean, cook, etc. just about anything that moved. Probably a pretty cool guy. I'm not sure if the family took the firearms or the estate sale company doesn't deal in them, however there was little to nothing in that area...which I found odd given what else was for sale there.
I was there a few hours early and was #35 in line. Most seemed to be there for knickknacks inside or the fishing stuff, but unfortunately there was one couple that were huge Coleman / camp item collectors in front of me. That was the guy that grabbed the Optimus 8R in picture #270 while I was trying to sneak around him. I swear I've never seen a man that was probably 5'7ish expand his wingspan like an African condor like that...probably had six or seven lanterns hung from his arms, stoves under his arms, and then managed to reach out and snag that Optimus...
That was the main thing I was after, but I was happy enough to snag the NOS Svea 123 and even happier at getting the Sievert 925 at a healthy discount on day 3.Seems that this may have just been the tip of the iceberg. When I was in line I was chatting with another guy who lived two houses down. I told him I'd passed by and picked up a number of nice things they'd thrown out the previous weekend. He told me I missed the "good pile" where he pulled out 10+ NIB electric heaters, reloading stuff, fishing stuff, etc. etc...that the man's grandkids were just tossing things out left and right a while back.
454ragtop
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Had a good day buying at the swap meet weekend before last, selling not so much. It was definitely a vise tastic weekend, found my first Hollands, real nice shape under that Krylon rebuild. The little Dunlap is kind of a funny story. A guy in front of me picked it up just as I spotted it, asked the seller how much, $10. Now besides the nice condition, pipe jaws, perfect emblem, it had a set of magnetic soft jaws to a 5" or so vise in its jaws, which I had removed prior to the pics. Guy looks at it, thinks about it for a few seconds, AND PUTS IT DOWN! I couldn't pick it up fast enough, handed the guy the $10.00.
The little Parker is pretty rusted stuck everywhere, but I do have the collar and a somewhat mangled screw though. First #1 Parker wrench I've seen in the flesh. The Snap On/Wilton vise "kit" (that's how it came to me, milk crate and all) came with parts and a receipt for more than I paid for the vise, Need to find a new Snap On decal/plate. Found the gaggle of Palmgren drill press vises, must have been used in some sort of real specialized manufacturing, they had rubber and tape over all the jaws. The box of parts in the last pic are a small part of a 10" Logan lathe, got pretty much the whole lathe, less the bed. Not shown is a bunch of other stuff including a 5-1/2" Wilton Tradesman, have to get some more pics.
The little Parker is pretty rusted stuck everywhere, but I do have the collar and a somewhat mangled screw though. First #1 Parker wrench I've seen in the flesh. The Snap On/Wilton vise "kit" (that's how it came to me, milk crate and all) came with parts and a receipt for more than I paid for the vise, Need to find a new Snap On decal/plate. Found the gaggle of Palmgren drill press vises, must have been used in some sort of real specialized manufacturing, they had rubber and tape over all the jaws. The box of parts in the last pic are a small part of a 10" Logan lathe, got pretty much the whole lathe, less the bed. Not shown is a bunch of other stuff including a 5-1/2" Wilton Tradesman, have to get some more pics.
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MercLSU
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You ****! Look at all those vises...I can't complain much about the things I'm able to find down here but vises never seem to be one of them. Great haul.
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Hit the first day of an estate sale in the Hill Country today. The ad said tools. The pics didn't show much interesting beyond some files with file handles of which I was more interested in the latter than the former. Started at 10am and I arrived about 9:45 with a few other people to find out the garage opened at 9:30. Grrr! Luckily not many folks were there yet but I could see one fella already building a pile of tractor seats (dangit!). There were 5 rooms to the garage/workshed as it turns out. I found those files/handles and they weren't anything worth buying. Found a couple of little metal parts storage boxes and a Stihl 025 chainsaw. Really nothing interesting until I go in the big garage and across the room on a bench is a vise. I rush over to see a Reed 214 R. Not priced. Take it out front and ask, the guy says $50. I get it for $45.
I'd wager the chainsaw isn't running but if I can figure out how to get it running it'll make a nice first ever chainsaw for me. Really like the parts boxes. They'll clean up nicely. For now my plan is to keep the Reed. Cost me $120 for everything today.
The pic #5 was picked up last weekend when I was back home. Hit a one estate sale late with my sister and BIL. Spent $1 on the sockets, Blackhawk, Plomb (2), SO (2) and Lone Star & Falstaff beer openers.
PS There was a 1/2" drive Craftsman -V- ratchet with a 3/4" socket in the Stihl case. Just about the only socket related tool I saw. Nice bonus!
Mike
I'd wager the chainsaw isn't running but if I can figure out how to get it running it'll make a nice first ever chainsaw for me. Really like the parts boxes. They'll clean up nicely. For now my plan is to keep the Reed. Cost me $120 for everything today.
The pic #5 was picked up last weekend when I was back home. Hit a one estate sale late with my sister and BIL. Spent $1 on the sockets, Blackhawk, Plomb (2), SO (2) and Lone Star & Falstaff beer openers.
PS There was a 1/2" drive Craftsman -V- ratchet with a 3/4" socket in the Stihl case. Just about the only socket related tool I saw. Nice bonus!
Mike
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Ole Slewfoot
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I recently picked up those same 'drop forged' except they are number 27
454ragtop
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I'm parting it out, have started to list some parts on Ebay. Let me know what you need.
raddksn
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I need a handle for quick change gearbox. Not sure witch one I’m away from home now, and also the part that the tool post mounts to.
454ragtop
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Can't help with the quick change handle, this one didn't have any, it's a change gear lathe. The compound that the tool post mounts to is listed on Ebay and I've been working with a guy from South Africa who needs it, he's hoping a coworker in US will send it to him, since Ebay won't. Can't really sell it out from him, he's buying some other parts as well, but if it doesn't happen by next week I'll get back to you.
MercLSU
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What about the eBay global shipping program? From what I understand, you ship it to their hub and then they'll ship it internationally? Or is South Africa and / or the weight / size of the package an issue?
Estate sale today with a tonne (long tonne, because it was a LOT) of Craftsman. Turns out he had a fair amount of Snap-on too. Got there later than I wanted and got #22. Luckily they let in the first 25. Spoke with one of the workers ahead of time and asked her if the tools were still in all the toolbox drawers. She told me no, they had moved them all to a shed out back. Everyone else headed to the two garages and I went right over the shed!
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https://www.ebay.com/help/global-shipping-program/default/global-shipping-program?id=4646 says South Africa is eligible, up to 150 lbs, 108in long, and 130in dimensions sum.
454ragtop
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I actually signed up for the Global Shipping program just for this sale. For some reason, and after being on the phone for almost an hour with Ebay, lathe parts are a no go to South Africa, never did tell me why, really weird.
raddksn
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“I've been working with a guy from South Africa who needs it” 10-4 on that , how do I find you on e-Bay?
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