2019 Garage Sale Thread

[David99]

Last Weekends Moving/Estate Sale finds-

Craftsman 9_52185 Die Handle
K-D 4-3/8” Bearing Separator 2264
Snap-on CJ950 2-3/8” Bearing Separator
Craftsman 2 Jaw 5-1/2” Puller 4690
Craftsman 2 Jaw 8” Puller 9_46911
Kent Moore J-22888 2 Jaw Puller
Craftsman Bolt out Set w/Case
Hanson Whitney Taps 3pk. 7/8-14

Performance Tech Tools-
W89500 Electronic Fuel Injection Test Light Kit (Noid Light set)
W89330 Fuel & Transmission Line Disconnect Set

$20 for Pullers/Bearing Separators, $10 for the rest.

 

[jeffmoss26]

BB - awesome trophy!!

 

[Old Radar]

BB--

bmwrd0's link is associated with Private Lugnutz's posts.

 

[BlueBomber]

BB--

bmwrd0's link is associated with Private Lugnutz's posts.

Thanks, OR. I fixed it.

 

[JMLangford]

Only picked up two items today....


Found a nice, made in USA (mint) little 1/4" dr. Blue Grass brand (BG2400) ratchet for $2......I wasn't aware that Blue Grass made a hardline of tools?
Belknap maybe??????
I thought they just made hammers and axes.....


This other item (Made in W. Germany) is what appears to be a well made table clamp that swivels to mount a camera???
No name on it, just a "K" logo.......does anyone recognize the logo/brand or know what/how this item is used?
Gave a $1 for it





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[Outlawmws]

IIR Bluegrass was a hardware store chain, sort of like Ace. so like Ace got companies to brand stuff for them.

 

[tomalophicon]

Yes it's a table-top clamp for a camera. Looks nicely made.
A list of possible culprits:
Kerman
King
Kochmann
Kodak AG
KW

 

[JMLangford]

Thanks for the info guys.....

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Private Lugnutz
Total Posts: 590
Total You *****: 2

Dang! It's a good thing this is a subjective matter of opinion and not baseball! I am not liking the looks of that batting average!

 

[Ton ton]

Hit up a different pawn shop. There were a few bolted down junk bins of well picked over tools. First thing I spotted was a Vanadium Tool Co. offset screwdriver.
I wedged my big head under the shelf where very few probably dare to go. The digging paid off as I turned up the Snap On. A deal for 5 bucks.

-Snap On 3/8 combo
-Snap On short offset 3/8 combo
-pair of Snap On sockets, one is an 8 pointer
-Vanadium Tool Co. screwdriver
-Barcalo offset 5/8 x 11/16 box wrench in pretty good shape
-Armstrong Whitworth open end wrench

Also, a Goodwill find. “Small Fry” square skillet. Research is saying this is a BSR. Couldn’t pass it up for less than 5 bucks after discount.

You ****.

 

[Ton ton]

Was checking Marketplace this afternoon and saw an ad with some items on a bench which included a vise and what I thought was a rail shaped anvil.

Vise turned out to be a Wilton 9145 Cadet, while the anvil turned out to have a name on side which I think reads "Handy $2-1/2 Anvil".

Cleaned them both up and attached is pics of what they look like now.

Mike

You ****.

 

[BlueBomber]

Lugz, dont sell yourself short. What you lacked in home runs you made up for in base hits. I didn't collect metrics on everyone, but you averaged two finds/hauls per weekend. Per. Weekend. Homeruns may sell tickets, but base hits win ball games.

I could talk up any of the nominees similarly. They all had a noteworthy year, from both ends of the spectrum. This will be a tough decision based on all the varied finds.

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[Private Lugnutz]

Yeah, just goofing around on myself, BB, seeing those numbers. It was another good fun year in general all around for everyone, I thought. And, as always, everyone has different ideas about a "good" find! One man's trash, etc. Impossible to characterize. Just good fun this time of year. Hey, why should professional musicians and actors have all the fun!? Pickers have awards too! :Lol:

 

[d42jeep]

I suspect that Lugz would get plenty more “You ****” comments, but he mostly chooses not to talk about purchase prices which I totally understand and respect.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Some guys do care about the deal more than the actual item, but I still think it mainly comes down to different tastes. I'm more than okay with that. Heck, I don't go crazy for everything that everyone else finds suckworthy, either! Again, it's all good fun and I was just self-deprecating. I'm angry at myself for passing Outlaw in total post count. His hunting trip screwed me up. I can usually count on him to have more posts than me!

 

[gpw_42]

I suspect that Lugz would get plenty more “You ****” comments, but he mostly chooses not to talk about purchase prices which I totally understand and respect.
-Don

Ding ding! Don provided the winning reason for Lugz' low awarding of suckage, IMO. My vote has been filed for PoY and duly recorded since this morning.

Currently waiting on USPS to deliver 4 boxes of "goodies" I shipped myself from out of state on Monday. Some of that will boil down to "one man's trash..." but there's some stuff in it which I'm anxious to get my hands on. Pics on Friday, I hope - USPS has gone quite non-specific on delivery date, since they were due today by 8, and currenty state "delivery delayed." Yeah, b/c they sat in a large facility for 24 hours w/o moving, but you charged me full rate for Priority shipping. I suppose that my delivery time qualifies as a "quality problem," so I'll climb down off my soapbox.

Best of luck to all the PoY contestants!

 

[Downwindtracker 2]

I heard a good one " 50 pounds of cat food for $5 isn't much of great deal if you don't have cat." Since I don't resell, what I find special is that replacement socket for the one you lost that is both the correct size, brand, and pattern. I've had a few walk-off homeruns this year. A 15/16 Gray socket was one of them.

 

[jeffmoss26]

IIR Bluegrass was a hardware store chain, sort of like Ace. so like Ace got companies to brand stuff for them.

close - Bluegrass was the house brand of Belknap, a hardware wholesaler.

 

[JUNK-MAN]

Picked up these two sockets today, $0.50 each today one is an sk and the other a wright. 1 5/8 and 1 7/16 both 3/4 drive.

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[Ton ton]

close - Bluegrass was the house brand of Belknap, a hardware wholesaler.

Thanks, Jeff Moss.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

To add to Jeff's info (I missed the original question...., sorry...), note that they didn't make their own hand tools on the premises. Early on they did (meaning, 1890's to 1920's), but it was confined to edged tools, farming type tools (shovels, axes, striking tools), etc. The mechanics hand tools were contracted. If you search on Bluegrass and/or Belknap on the Vintage Board you will find a few discussions. I don't collect them, so I don't know the breakout off the type of my head, but you will find threads with the original OEMs cited.

 

[damon18]

Hello GJ

Was able to swing by the flea market today and got a few nice items.

Nice haul, that wrench set is pretty!

 

[damon18]

Aaaaaand its done! The 2019 How much do you ****?-o-meter!

Sweet!

 

[WNYflyer]

close - Bluegrass was the house brand of Belknap, a hardware wholesaler.

Yep,
I have family that still runs a mom and pop hardware store and I remember seeing the catalogs around in the store and assumed most of their stock at the time came from them. They still have some Bluegrass signs and displays in the store. I don't remember when Belknap went out but I know the relatives used to pass through Louisville once in awhile and would take the opportunity to check out among other things, Belknap Hardware which had a huge complex from what I have read. I think Bostwick-Braun ? supplies most of their stuff these days.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.................

 

[Old Radar]

Hit three estates sales today.
First one had a lot of nice old tools and tool sets but they were asking crazy money for them. ($150 for a Cleveland Twist box set of 11 adjustable reamers; $100 for a Brown&Sharp dial caliper--and $500 for a antique GE 12" fan!) I tucked tail and ran.

Second place was a waste.

Final one advertised two bench vises. Only one was still there when I arrived--a Craftsman 5181 w/5" jaws. I told one of the ladies I was having a hard time with the $50 price because I had picked up its little brother (a #5180) a few weeks ago for only $2. I did get her down to $5 from the initial $10 on the Stanley 700 Corner Vise. The Gearwrench 1/4 Gimbal Ratchet and the Craftsman bottle opener were $1 each. The wire brush was free.





Later in the afternoon while on a errand, I swung by the first place again to see how their pricing strategy was panning out. Someone had bought a Freud 10-piece chisel set for $150 but most of the other things I had been looking at were still there--including three $150 machinists boxes. A lot of things had been shuffled around and I found a beat up little SK box full of taps, dies and drill bits for $5 and it included the smallest drill index and the smallest micrometer I have ever seen. I honestly don't know what would hold a 0.0135" drill bit. The mic is a J.T. Slocomb Tube Micrometer #33 with a ball anvil and a flat spindle for measuring the thickness of tube walls. I'm sure it will come in pretty handy. If not, it'll be the little prince of my machinist box.



Finally, there was a shoe box chock-full of misc. wrenches for $1 each, but the owner had marked each one by grinding a deep 1/8" to 1/4" band around the center of the handles. You've got to be really afraid of people walking off with them to deface tools like that. Anyway, this 8-pack of Thorsen metric combos were the only ones in the box that weren't defaced. Since the pack didn't have a price on it, I asked, thinking at most it would be $8. For some reason the whole set was $2. After I got them home, I was glad they weren't more than $2 because these are not vintage Thorsen. They are very angular and just don't feel good in my hand. But other than them, I'm very happy with the day's finds--and I've already ops checked the bottle opener!

 

[JUNK-MAN]

Hit three estates sales today.

First one had a lot of nice old tools and tool sets but they were asking crazy money for them. ($150 for a Cleveland Twist box set of 11 adjustable reamers; $100 for a Brown&Sharp dial caliper--and $500 for a antique GE 12" fan!) I tucked tail and ran.



Second place was a waste.



Final one advertised two bench vises. Only one was still there when I arrived--a Craftsman 5181 w/5" jaws. I told one of the ladies I was having a hard time with the $50 price because I had picked up its little brother (a #5180) a few weeks ago for only $2. I did get her down to $5 from the initial $10 on the Stanley 700 Corner Vise. The Gearwrench 1/4 Gimbal Ratchet and the Craftsman bottle opener were $1 each. The wire brush was free.











Later in the afternoon while on a errand, I swung by the first place again to see how their pricing strategy was panning out. Someone had bought a Freud 10-piece chisel set for $150 but most of the other things I had been looking at were still there--including three $150 machinists boxes. A lot of things had been shuffled around and I found a beat up little SK box full of taps, dies and drill bits for $5 and it included the smallest drill index and the smallest micrometer I have ever seen. I honestly don't know what would hold a 0.0135" drill bit. The mic is a J.T. Slocomb Tube Micrometer #33 with a ball anvil and a flat spindle for measuring the thickness of tube walls. I'm sure it will come in pretty handy. If not, it'll be the little prince of my machinist box.







Finally, there was a shoe box chock-full of misc. wrenches for $1 each, but the owner had marked each one by grinding a deep 1/8" to 1/4" band around the center of the handles. You've got to be really afraid of people walking off with them to deface tools like that. Anyway, this 8-pack of Thorsen metric combos were the only ones in the box that weren't defaced. Since the pack didn't have a price on it, I asked, thinking at most it would be $8. For some reason the whole set was $2. After I got them home, I was glad they weren't more than $2 because these are not vintage Thorsen. They are very angular and just don't feel good in my hand. But other than them, I'm very happy with the day's finds--and I've already ops checked the bottle opener!

Nice find on the bit index that would be nice for building model trucks, drilling holes for wires and accesories. Nice mic as well someware i have a 1/2" starrett.


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[txlonghorn1989]

OR, I think I need to open my range a bit wider to include SA. ;0) Some nice stuff as usual.

 

[Jack84]

I bought a sewing machine. SWMBO wanted an older one because they are usually better. Came home with a Husqvarna from the seventies, this one looked good and had a bunch of accessoires.

 

[Downwindtracker 2]

My mother and my wife both sewed. A Husqvarna at the time were the best made ones in the world, better than the Swiss. But for working on cars, an old Singer Featherweight is a good pick-up.

 

[Provincial]

Hit three estates sales today.

Finally, there was a shoe box chock-full of misc. wrenches for $1 each, but the owner had marked each one by grinding a deep 1/8" to 1/4" band around the center of the handles. You've got to be really afraid of people walking off with them to deface tools like that. Anyway, this 8-pack of Thorsen metric combos were the only ones in the box that weren't defaced. Since the pack didn't have a price on it, I asked, thinking at most it would be $8. For some reason the whole set was $2. After I got them home, I was glad they weren't more than $2 because these are not vintage Thorsen. They are very angular and just don't feel good in my hand. But other than them, I'm very happy with the day's finds--and I've already ops checked the bottle opener!

Those Thorsen "V" wrenches will get you a "you ****" in some circles. I'll give you one here, and you'll get a few more if you post them in the Thorsen thread. https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=328024

 

[Rickster]

Estate sale in some garages about an hour away this morning. Old-School Craftsman USA; SAE double box wrench set, metric double open end wrench set, metric 1/2dr socket set like new, several 3/8dr ratchets and one 1/4dr. New Klein in a box linesman pliers, old-school niumber/letter stamper and a drill block. Nice Ace Tap & Die Set... with all the pieces!!! Milwaukee hole set like new, set of new caster wheels, one Matco wrench and one socket! Old Williams 1/2dr Ratchet, frozen, but I've got it soaking in trans fluid right now. It had a bit of movement so it'll free up in a week or two of soaking. AND they had a Dunkin Donuts right near them so I got to finish the sale off with a good cup of coffee for the ride home!

 

[Farleyfan]

Hey JUNK-MAN, is that a remote controlled truck ? Very nice detail !

 

[Old Radar]

Nice find on the bit index that would be nice for building model trucks, drilling holes for wires and accesories. Nice mic as well someware i have a 1/2" starrett.

Thanks J-Man, but what kind of itty-bitty drill uses these hair-fine bits?

 

[Old Radar]

OR, I think I need to open my range a bit wider to include SA. ;0) Some nice stuff as usual.

Come on over and we'll double-team them! Where R U?

 

[Old Radar]

Those Thorsen "V" wrenches will get you a "you ****" in some circles. I'll give you one here, and you'll get a few more if you post them in the Thorsen thread. https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=328024

Thanks Provincial. Admittedly, I know nothing about Thorsen beyond what I researched last night, but these seem to have too many angles and edges for my comfort. I'll check out the Thorsen thread to see what all the fuss is about.

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Come on over and we'll double-team them! Where R U?

South Austin

 

[bmwrd0]

My little dog wasn't feeling too well today, so while I wanted to keep an eye on him but still wanted to hit a couple of sales, I decided to have him ride co-pilot. And on our road trip we found the following:

Let's see, a Blackhawk speeder, Snap-on extension, P&C1" combo, cobblers spokeshave,
Snap-on TQ-150, New Britain, and King **** and SR sockets, a Proto pickle fork and an unmarked 3/8 socket box, which I shall fill with Thorsen, as it is green inside.

Heres the little blighter who came with me:

 

[Outlawmws]

That expression says "Lets go for another ride!"

 

[Private Lugnutz]

He brought you good luck, Beemer! That's a good haul. That square shank extension is old.

 

[Jack84]

My mother and my wife both sewed. A Husqvarna at the time were the best made ones in the world, better than the Swiss. But for working on cars, an old Singer Featherweight is a good pick-up.

I can see why, there’s hardly any plastic on it.