2020 Garage Sale Thread

[Old Radar]

Nice sucking haul!!

 

[Motorman55]

Hit a family run estate sale on Sunday morning. Came home with 2 tool boxes with contents. Pricing was very favorable.... $20 total. A few guys picked through the Huot box ahead of me but left some goodies behind.

They may have picked thru the Hoyt box, but they ended up leaving the best behind...the box itself! Nice box.

 

[Shelbylex]

Around 2 weeks ago I picked up the following lot for 19$

SK 3896
SK 42470 diamond logo
SK 45170 diamond logo
SK 45170
SK 45170
Craftsman 43797

T bar: long underline C craftsman BE

Cleaned up and lubed majority - work like new!

Click on pictures to enlarge...

 

[Lotusnut]

This was in my fourth haul of the year (Lugz 2020_04, post #381) and soaking since then, which game me some time to do some research.

Lugz,

Between the fire box and the ash bin there were usually 3 triangular grates with fingers to allow the air to rise through the fire and out the chimney. These grates could be turned to get the ash down in the box below. Your handle is what you turned the grates with.





The efm WCB-24 hand fired wood/coal boiler

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Thank you, sir! I figured if I mentioned enough parts (grates, flues, etc) I'd get lucky.

 

[BlueBomber]

I'm not really an antique stove guy, but apparently Rathbone, Sard, & Co and their Acorn Stoves and Ranges were famous. They were located in Albany as early as the mid 1800's and by the turn of the century they had offices in Chicago and San Francisco and they were the largest maker of stoves and ranges on the planet. In 1887 they were melting 9 tons of iron a day, they made 750,000 units, raked in $1,500,000 and had 950 employees. An early puff piece in a trade rag made it sound like their stoves were on the Great Lakes or a railroad or going around the Horn at all times toward the Territories.

I'm not even sure what it is exactly. Some kind of handle for a grate or flue or ash basin or something. Square opening.

They're not rare, but it's neat to have found one. It will make a nice wall hanger. I may do something with some of the advertising I downloaded from eBay.

Holy 1880s, Lugzman, that stove picture is steampunk perfect!

Slightly off topic, but I'm down in Va again helping Mom sort through Dad's Treasury of Tools, Parts, Fluids and Other Fine Things. That's my name for it all. My Mom calls it junk. Yesterday, we went through his one-car garage/shop.

A lot of it what was inside was junk. I retained actual tools, but threw out three truckloads of old parts catalogs (not really old--'90s-2000s), lots and lots of old car parts in new part boxes (when Dad would R&R a part, he keep the old one as a spare), and coffee cans full of hopelessly co-mingled screws, bolts and brackets. There were many old repair projects and NIB parts for them. The most fun find was a set of piston rings for a 235 straight six, bought for a '57 Chevy pickup rebuild my Dad was doing in '77. I kept those. We saved some of the more reusable parts (intake manifolds, Holley 4-bl carbs, etc for a swap meet in the spring.

I found a cabinet full of old Digital VT240 equipment from the 80s. It was dusty, moldy and not worth trying to convert to cash, so into the dumpster it went. I even pitched one of my Dad's Crowntop carry boxes. It was his junk box--battered to hell and full of unwanted leftovers from a decade's worth of projects. I had already saved one of his other boxes, so I let this one go.

Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of my Dad's Treasury of Fine Things. He could fix just about anything out of his stash, because he usually knew where to find everything. Nothing in my Dad's stash was hoarder level disfunction. We had a few eye rolls, but most of it made sense. I said off topic at the start of the post because this one is more about letting stuff go vice bringing stuff home. Kinda the other side of estate sales. Think of this as a PSA for us pickers as we build our own Treasuries of Fine Things, that someone will do the same thing one day to our junk. And I'm okay with that.

 

[bmwrd0]

BB, I once dated a girl who's father was a actual hoarder. You can quickly tell the difference between someone who has a lot of old junk verses the real thing. It is wall to wall weird with just little pathways between to get to places. They often know and will not let people over to see how bad it has gotten. The girl had not been to her fathers place in years and only found out once he passed away.

 

[damon18]

The pic on the clock looks like the flying bridge on a sub?

My next trip to Ft Huachuca is in a couple weeks. A good friend of mine has the real thing. I will snap a photo for you.

Yes, in the bad Marketplace pic I could only make out the anchor and thought the center could be a ship. When I picked it up I was surprised it was real stainless steel. It still didn't register that it was designed as Russian until I started googling the ship name under the sub icon.


The name Kauchqupckue didn't make sense as a USS and Google kept wanting to change the search name to Kauchapak which evidently was a Russian Submarine, although can't find specific reference.

There is an earlier version that may be what Lugnutz friend has, wind up clock with opening front like a port hole. A lot of those have sold on eBay also, so I wouldn't be surprised if both clocks were built as souvenirs (just different price levels) since a sub probably wouldn't have dozens of these clocks on board and the graphics are so close a match.

Would be interested if there is any info about Kauchqupckue / Kauchapak I'm assuming it's hard to search for both because of the secret nature of Soviet Cold War Subs and the Russian alphabet.

 

[BillMoney]

$4 lot

Elora wrench is west Germany
Craftsman wrenches
A Sears mini wrench
Gedore wrench Germany. Not the ****** India ones.
Wiha screwdriver
Cornwall screwdriver
T handle #2 never seen one before



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[cbacres]

As I was traveling across the state today for work, I picked up a couple more things from the guy I bought from last week.




A Metabo grinder and a 1/2” swivel head Proto rat.


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[Smokeshow69]

The box was neither cheap ($100), nor close by (~275 miles away) but I really wanted it. So yesterday I drove there and back again, taking 9.5 hours and making an extra stop that yielded only a couple misc hand tools.



Craftsman 8d rolling cabinet, dated 1955.



Plomb 3420 single open end tappet wrench ($2).



Brian

I should be given that plomb wrench for a deal brokerage fee [emoji41][emoji38]


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[Private Lugnutz]

Holy 1880s, Lugzman, that stove picture is steampunk perfect!

HAHA. It is. It would look terrific in my Vic, which was built in 1883. (We sleep in what used to be the maids quarters, and I can see her creeping down the backsteps to the kitchen to rattle that grate and fire that thing up...) Alas, an Acorn stove would exceed my wife's tolerance for my regressiveness!

 

[seber]

My aunt's father heated his farmhouse with one of those. Any time he was not working the farm he could be found in the kitchen with his feet in the warming oven.

 

[GalaxyRat]

Here's my flea market haul from yesterday. $4 total.

Duro Chrome 1/2" Drive 1622 11/16" Socket

Craftsman Circle H 1/2" Drive 5/8" Socket

Plomb 10" 1/2" Drive Extension WF-35

Craftsman 10" No. 2 Philips 41853 WF

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[Mslund1]

Todays marketplace find

G.T.D Greenfield No. 7 tap handle

It will be a great replacement to the previous one I had that decided to grow legs and go live in another toolbox. This one’s in better shape too.





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[txlonghorn1989]

I picked up a couple of Japanese waterstones for sharpening plane irons & chisels off CL this afternoon. The PO said she sold knives (of the kitchen variety) professionally once upon a time. She said the stones have never been used and I can find nothing to make me think otherwise. Looks like both were purchased from Shelter Tools out of Woolwich, Maine. The #1000/#4000 stone doesn't appear to have any indication as to maker. The #220/#1000 stone is a King. It also came with The Complete Guide to Sharpening by Leonard Lee which is a sharpening book that comes highly recommended and was on my book list. I thought it was a good deal at $55.

 

[bmwrd0]

My son had been visiting, limiting my hunting time, but I was able to sneak out to one estate sale that had some antiques I was interested in, and hit a small swap meet that Rileysan was at. It is always fun hunting with another enthusiast. So, without further ado, here are the finds:

The estate sale netted a few things, an almost complete Marbles cleaning kit, some Duro 1/4 sockets, an Allen impact, B&D electric impact, IBM hex and star key set, Pexto perfect handle, and this bad boy:

Makita 1100 power planer - $20, and $17 for the rest. I had gone to look at a quarter sawn oak display case, but someone snapped that up before I got there. I did pick up this lamp though:

Anyway, here is what I found at the swap:

A '50s Thorsen 1/2 deep set, Proto driver, Proto LA scraper, Plomb puller, Thorsen 1/4 ratchet and a P&C 1/4 extension. No bargains, but good finds.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Extremely slim pickens from the flea market (Lugz 2020_05) today, and in this case, ice pickens. Yes, that is some stubborn ice still clinging to the lid. This late 40's or 50's SK swivel set was in the bottom of a bucket frozen solid in several inches of it. Broke a claw hammer loose, then used the hammer to break everything else loose.

 

[Smokeshow69]

My son had been visiting, limiting my hunting time, but I was able to sneak out to one estate sale that had some antiques I was interested in, and hit a small swap meet that Rileysan was at. It is always fun hunting with another enthusiast. So, without further ado, here are the finds:



The estate sale netted a few things, an almost complete Marbles cleaning kit, some Duro 1/4 sockets, an Allen impact, B&D electric impact, IBM hex and star key set, Pexto perfect handle, and this bad boy:



Makita 1100 power planer - $20, and $17 for the rest. I had gone to look at a quarter sawn oak display case, but someone snapped that up before I got there. I did pick up this lamp though:



Anyway, here is what I found at the swap:



A '50s Thorsen 1/2 deep set, Proto driver, Proto LA scraper, Plomb puller, Thorsen 1/4 ratchet and a P&C 1/4 extension. No bargains, but good finds.

Really nice puller and scraper! I know that lamp is a really doozy as well!


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[RTM]

:

The estate sale netted a few things, .... Pexto perfect handle,

Aren't those beefy PH tools the best? I always think, if you can get it in the slot, are you man enough to be able to turn it? If not, add a wrench, or a bigger wrench... I forgot about mine when I took the pivot screw out of my Reed Vise.

 

[bluebolt]

Miss you guys! Between work and lack of good sales to go to I haven't found much in months. Hope that changes soon! Read through page 9 so far, some good finds this year already!

 

[dkroth]

I have a creepy floor lamp light that. Mom gave it to me for my first apartment after college. She got it from her Aunt when she died back in the '70's.

The aunt was kind of a hermit so I expect the lamp is as old as dirt.





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[Old Radar]

I wasn’t expecting too much at this sale today but when I got there I found that most of the tools didn’t make the estate company’s photo line-up. What they did show were some spoke shaves, saws, a drawknife and the plane/chisel sharpener. I grabbed the sharpener ($6) but none of the others were much to look at up close.



The gentleman was a more of a woodworker than a mechanic so beyond a few pipe wrenches, nada. He was pretty meticulous about keeping his tools in the original boxes, hence the sharpener, the expansive bits (Irwin#2& CM) and the CM dowel former ($3 each)—all virtually unused. I always pick up wire cup brushes—this box of three (two CM and a no-name) included a de-burring bit from Germany, all for $2.



I kept bringing things out and going back in to root for more! I’ve been looking for some paint pyramids for some time ($1) and the peg hooks were $1. I found the little green Bell System first aid kit with some small wrench tools that the PO had depicted on paper and glued to the top for $1—I didn’t realize what the box really was until I got it home.

The pipe vise was sitting on a window sill behind some other things but marked at $15 so I scooped that up. The name Henderer along with Wil(mington) Del(aware) is cast into the base. All I could find out about them was the A.L. Henderer Co. moved to Wilmington in 1872 from NY and as of 1989 (21years ago) they were still in business—although their phone no longer rings. If anyone knows any more about them, I’d love to hear it.



At one point I commented to one of the workers that the gentleman didn’t appear to travel with his tools because I hadn’t seen any tool boxes. Despite her agreement, on my final foray into the shop, I found two on the floor under some shelves. The Kennedy K20 is in great shape except for a hardened spill in the tote that took up some paint and a little rust and paint loss in the bottom—tagged at $8. The smaller one looks like a Kennedy but has no markings. It seems more like a tackle box to me since the upper tray is not very sturdy. The inside was paint bombed green--$6. Everything left of the expansive bits were in the tool boxes. $49 all in.

 

[BlueBomber]

Extremely slim pickens from the flea market (Lugz 2020_05) today, and in this case, ice pickens. Yes, that is some stubborn ice still clinging to the lid. This late 40's or 50's SK swivel set was in the bottom of a bucket frozen solid in several inches of it. Broke a claw hammer loose, then used the hammer to break everything else loose. [emoji38]

Boy, talk about digging out a good find! Now that's persistence!

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[Outlawmws]

BMW, that scraper sis cool! do you think its original or made up?

Lugz, that's some serious Die Hard picking!

OR, more detail on the First aid kit? I have two that are from PG&E about that size! (Jeff Alert on that one!)

 

[Smokeshow69]

BMW, that scraper sis cool! do you think its original or made up?

Lugz, that's some serious Die Hard picking!

OR, more detail on the First aid kit? I have two that are from PG&E about that size! (Jeff Alert on that one!)

Not to speak for beamer but the scrapers appear in the catalogs. It doesn’t appear made up but a part number would confirm its identity for sure.


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[Private Lugnutz]

Boy, talk about digging out a good find! Now that's persistence!

Lugz, that's some serious Die Hard picking!

Right? It was a claw hammer and only the handle was sticking out. I dropped the bucket from a few inches off the ground a few times to break it up a little, and then I just yanked the handle back and forth. The sockets were literally frozen in place inside the box! When I took it to the seller he said he wouldn't charge me for the ice!

The sockets were also full of stubborn grime, but everything melted and cleaned up nicely. I posted photos in the SK thread here.

 

[d42jeep]

Maybe I shouldn’t mention that it got up to 66 degrees here today. Oops, I just did. The two sales I saw listed didn’t look promising, in fact the second one didn’t mention tools at all. Still, we found a few goodies to bring home. The first sale had a complete Fleet 3/8” drive set, some Lectrolite made Dunlap wrenches and some Powr-Kraft items, two with price tags. The second sale was near where we were picking up barbecue lunch so we checked it out and found the tools in the last three pictures.
-Don

 

[r_olson_06]

Maybe I shouldn’t mention that it got up to 66 degrees here today. Oops, I just did. The two sales I saw listed didn’t look promising, in fact the second one didn’t mention tools at all. Still, we found a few goodies to bring home. The first sale had a complete Fleet 3/8” drive set, some Lectrolite made Dunlap wrenches and some Powr-Kraft items, two with price tags. The second sale was near where we were picking up barbecue lunch so we checked it out and found the tools in the last three pictures.
-Don

It was warm here today. High was 33. We are expect close to 50 on Saturday which will be shorts and tee shirt weather.

Looking for the following Plomb Pebbles Wrench 3061

 

[d42jeep]

I wasn’t expecting too much at this sale today but when I got there I found that most of the tools didn’t make the estate company’s photo line-up. What they did show were some spoke shaves, saws, a drawknife and the plane/chisel sharpener. I grabbed the sharpener ($6) but none of the others were much to look at up close.



The gentleman was a more of a woodworker than a mechanic so beyond a few pipe wrenches, nada. He was pretty meticulous about keeping his tools in the original boxes, hence the sharpener, the expansive bits (Irwin#2& CM) and the CM dowel former ($3 each)—all virtually unused. I always pick up wire cup brushes—this box of three (two CM and a no-name) included a de-burring bit from Germany, all for $2.



I kept bringing things out and going back in to root for more! I’ve been looking for some paint pyramids for some time ($1) and the peg hooks were $1. I found the little green Bell System first aid kit with some small wrench tools that the PO had depicted on paper and glued to the top for $1—I didn’t realize what the box really was until I got it home.

The pipe vise was sitting on a window sill behind some other things but marked at $15 so I scooped that up. The name Henderer along with Wil(mington) Del(aware) is cast into the base. All I could find out about them was the A.L. Henderer Co. moved to Wilmington in 1872 from NY and as of 1989 (21years ago) they were still in business—although their phone no longer rings. If anyone knows any more about them, I’d love to hear it.



At one point I commented to one of the workers that the gentleman didn’t appear to travel with his tools because I hadn’t seen any tool boxes. Despite her agreement, on my final foray into the shop, I found two on the floor under some shelves. The Kennedy K20 is in great shape except for a hardened spill in the tote that took up some paint and a little rust and paint loss in the bottom—tagged at $8. The smaller one looks like a Kennedy but has no markings. It seems more like a tackle box to me since the upper tray is not very sturdy. The inside was paint bombed green--$6. Everything left of the expansive bits were in the tool boxes. $49 all in.

The second box is definitely a Kennedy made before 1950 due to it having a leather handle. A very similar box is still shown in the 1979 catalog.
-Don

 

[bmwrd0]

BMW, that scraper sis cool! do you think its original or made up?

Lugz, that's some serious Die Hard picking!

OR, more detail on the First aid kit? I have two that are from PG&E about that size! (Jeff Alert on that one!)

Outlaw, the scraper is authentic. Funnily enough, I had looked over that table and completely missed it. Rileysan was kind enough to both not buy it, and poin it out to me. I repaid him by pointing out a long C plane with intact sticker.

 

[Old Radar]

The second box is definitely a Kennedy made before 1950 due to it having a leather handle. A very similar box is still shown in the 1979 catalog.
-Don

You're right, Don. Your post clued me in to checking archive.org and there I found a 1941 Clark & Barlow Hardware catalog with the CS-16 (same model number) depiction with the center spring latch that is on mine. Thanks!

https://archive.org/details/KennedyManufacturingCo1941/page/n1/mode/2up

 

[Old Radar]

OR, more detail on the First aid kit? I have two that are from PG&E about that size! (Jeff Alert on that one!)

I posted it up on the Bell Systems thread:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8320397#post8320397

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Today's flea market haul (Lugz 2020_06) had some wartime treasure in it...

...including, from left to right, partial/misc New Britain and Walden-Worcester cosmo-caked midget sets (which also had some postwar pieces mixed in, including a Plomb 4712L (3/8") deep 6-pointer...)...

...the jerry can donkey ****, the Barcalo DOE wrenches (3 of the 5 wrenches that make up a jeep set), and all the paperwork - which is Ordnance School notes, worksheets, TM's, specs, lube orders, electrical wiring diagrams, mfgr's handouts (Wagner brakes, etc), and other miscellaneous stuff for Scout Cars and Half-Tracks, all dated 1942 or 1943. There were also a few negatives and personal memorabilia, which I kept just enough to aid in identifying and dating it.

Oh, and that little combo wrench, which is a Plomb 1212, and a Snap-on "G" (1945) 1/2-inch drive socket inside the larger 3/4-inch drive 5-groove socket (which I have not yet definitively ID'd).

The machine is a Long C Craftsman Model 28318580 Oilless Sprayer, with a few different Long C data plates or decals on it, including the one in the pic above, and this more fragile one...

I don't know zip about it. Never seen one before in the wild or in a catalog, so I'll need to do some reading - unless someone is knowledgeable, then please inform me. Guessing 40's, not 30's, but that's just a hunch based on the other stuff, all of which came out of the same garage.

The XL tappet wrench is a script Herbrand LT-14 (5/8"), probably prewar.

 

[Catfishdan]

Nice stuff Lugz. I bet those notebooks are gonna be fun to look through.

 

[Ton ton]

Lugnutz, you ****.

 

[wrenchguy]

A red 1 i just sold on CL. 2-54 date on motor tag. AKA table top compressors, i think theres a thread in V-T for them

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Lugnutz, you ****.

Nice stuff Lugz. I bet those notebooks are gonna be fun to look through.

Thanks, guys.

Yeah, Dan, I just lost the whole morning in the most pleasurable way. This is when the hobby makes you feel like an archeologist, historian, detective, and obituary writer all in one.

Between the Ordnance School folders and documents, the negatives, an anniversary card, a drawing, and some savings bonds allotment receipts, I figured out the prior owner (Tech 5 Harold Leasure) was from Calumet City, Illinois, that he graduated from the Lubrication Specialist course at Camp White, Oregon on April 10, 1943, and went from there to the basic White Scout Car and Half-Track M-2 and M-3 mechanics course and the Master Mechanics 201 course back-to-back at the Ordnance School, Automotive Section, APG, MD, until August 1943. If I wanted to dig further, I am guessing I would find that he ended up at Ft Monmouth, NJ at some point and stayed here.

The contents are incredible. Job Sheets for everything from Disconnecting the battery and draining the water and oil (Job Sheet #1) to Valve Reconditioning (Job Sheet #47) and everything in between for White Scout Cars and Half-Tracks, including special job sheets for Carter W-1, Zenith IN167SJ, and Stromberg AAV-2 carbs. Mfgrs Handbooks from AC, Carter, Wagner, Delco-Remy, Ramsey, Hercules, G6 and XG6 radios. Pages and pages of handwritten notes and a hand-drawn "Trouble Shooting Procedures" chart. Clearance sheets for camshaft and main bearing journals, pistons, rings, etc. "Tension Wrench Readings" sheets for all torqued fasteners on those vehicles. War Dept Training Circulars for improved lubricants. Everything early war (1941, 1942, or 1943) dated.

The flipper in me knows that there are MVPA greasemonkeys out there with White Scout Cars who would covet this, but the other side of me is thinking 'Living History Display' first, with the wrenches and midget sets and some of the personal memorabilia, respectfully included.

A red 1 i just sold on CL. 2-54 date on motor tag. AKA table top compressors, i think theres a thread in V-T for them

Thanks. This one is D4-50. Which makes sense I guess because the ball-bearing logo is different and this is blue.

 

[Smokeshow69]

Today's flea market haul (Lugz 2020_06) had some wartime treasure in it...

...including, from left to right, partial/misc New Britain and Walden-Worcester cosmo-caked midget sets (which also had some postwar pieces mixed in, including a Plomb 4712L (3/8") deep 6-pointer...)...

...the jerry can donkey ****, the Barcalo DOE wrenches (3 of the 5 wrenches that make up a jeep set), and all the paperwork - which is Ordnance School notes, worksheets, TM's, specs, lube orders, electrical wiring diagrams, mfgr's handouts (Wagner brakes, etc), and other miscellaneous stuff for Scout Cars and Half-Tracks, all dated 1942 or 1943. There were also a few negatives and personal memorabilia, which I kept just enough to aid in identifying and dating it.

Oh, and that little combo wrench, which is a Plomb 1212, and a Snap-on "G" (1945) 1/2-inch drive socket inside the larger 3/4-inch drive 5-groove socket (which I have not yet definitively ID'd).

The machine is a Long C Craftsman Model 28318580 Oilless Sprayer, with a few different Long C data plates or decals on it, including the one in the pic above, and this more fragile one...

I don't know zip about it. Never seen one before in the wild or in a catalog, so I'll need to do some reading - unless someone is knowledgeable, then please inform me. Guessing 40's, not 30's, but that's just a hunch based on the other stuff, all of which came out of the same garage.



The XL tappet wrench is a script Herbrand LT-14 (5/8"), probably prewar.

The paint sprayer is 40’s and they do appear in the catalogs! The 5 band 3/4 drive socket is plomb. You **** big time!


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[Private Lugnutz]

The 5 band 3/4 drive socket is plomb. You **** big time!

I was thinking that, Smoke, but there's a strange faint marking that resembles an "S-K" on it and no other markings. I was eventually going to look through the Plomb cats and thread to learn more, because I know Roy and you and others were just discussing them (I don't have any).