2020 Garage Sale Thread

[wrenchguy]

That's what I thought it was, Don, or some kind of knockout, or possible bushing related, before I picked and played with it.


Mike gets a DING DING DING on the greaser part. Don't know if it's for springs, per se. Duro called it a "Grease Ram". I have seen them called grease punches. Smallest push-type grease gun I have ever seen. I plan to post more photos in the Duro thread.

Any clues to its age? Chainsaws are mostly war/postwar. I hope it is chainsaw, really unique/uncommon. Neat find 4sure!

Nevermind seen other thread, Ford "A".

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Up early this morning to hit an estate sale across town where I saw one bad pic of what I hoped would be two Stanley hand planes. I was first in line by a mile. Turned out to be worth it. Ended up bringing home a Stanley No 8 & a No 6, both type 11 (1910-1918), Stanley No 3 type 16 (1933-1941) and a Stanley Bedrock No 604 type 5 (1911). Lots of patina and very very little rust. Not perfect but will clean up to be good users. Cons: No 8 iron is getting short, 3 of 4 totes are/have been cracked but all look tight (may need to be epoxied though), No 604 has a chipped Stanley lever cap that I'll need to replace. Pros: 4 great Stanley planes for $90! Feeling giddy after that so I gave them $10 for the 7-pc vintage Craftsman nut driver set, General 6" contour gauge and a grinding wheel dresser. FYI, the 604 type 5 will now keep my 605 type 5 company. :0)

After that I picked up a Grizzly T10010 10" wet grinder (30th anniversary edition) with accessory kit #2 off CL. Grinder and acc kit had very little use and the stropping wheel has not been used. This accessory kit is for woodturners. I'm not a woodturner but the price was right. Paid $110. Right now the 35th anniversary edition with kit #2 is available from Grizzly for right at $400 with tax and shipping. I've been wanting to try out a slow speed grinder. 110 RPM on this one.

 

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[Private Lugnutz]

Here's that Brooks Brothers flask. Heavy pewter. 8 ozs capacity. I don't know what that "U" is, but I am hoping the "48" is 1948. I like it. After disinfecting, I am going to test it this weekend.

I posted photos of the Duro grease gun, Bonney ratchet, Wells Brothers ratchet, and other things on various Vintage Board threads.

 

[damon18]

I've really got to stop buying dirty old carry boxes. Latest two caught my eye on FB Marketplace because they were different than the typical grey Craftsman I see.

Seller was asking $45 each and the pictures didn't show the contents very well. I offered $25 apiece as that is my self-imposed max.

After a week they accepted but I think I still overpaid. Only a couple of interesting items inside.

Anyone know anything about the Simmonds box on the left? Haven't seen that brand before, it is in very good shape although a little nasty, especially after a bottle of red string marker powder broke all over everything.

The one on the right is an unusual hip top Kennedy box that is missing its tray and leather handle and is pretty banged up. I do like the industrial looking latches though.

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These are Ford wrenches. I was expecting someone to ID these and fill in some information. I'm assuming the Ford wrenches were part of a set provided for Model-T's. But I could be making the whole thing up.

I'm believing the other thing is a dimple die. Isn't there a dimple die guy who could set me straight on the this?

Thanks for your support.

 

[Provincial]

Sunday I stopped back a Friday's estate sale, since it was 1/2-off day. I picked up the following items in Photo #1:

Craftsman =V= 9/16" wobbly socket
" " 11/16 wobbly socket
" " 10" 3/8 dr. extension
Crescent LTB 1618 1/2 x 9/16 DBE (Barcalo scoop pattern)

Also on Sunday, I attended the local monthly flea market. Photo #2 shows a lot I bought for $2.00:

Billings No. 2816 1/2" single offset DBE. My first single offset.
XceLite P-11 11/32 nut driver
Bernard 4-5/8" parallel-jaw pliers. I bought them because they are so cute!
Proto 5/16 Allen socket
Thorsen "V" 2014 7/16" combo
Tektron hex bit set
"Screw Chek'r" SAE thread checker, in original packaging. This is a mate to the Metric version I bought from the same vendor last month.

The other items were bought from different vendors at the flea. Total cost was $13.00, of which $8.00 was for the fan. Photo #3:

12V defroster fan for my forklift cab
Craftsman -G- 3/4" deep 6-point 3/8d. socket as a filler until I find a =V= 12-point to complete a set.
Plomb USA 1125 7/16 x 1/2 DBE
Boker 5382-7-1/2 Plated short needle nose pliers

 

[Provincial]

dfa, the Ford wrenches are 1940 Flathead. The 01A prefix is the tell.

The Osborn set is for grommets, like in tarps. That is a very high quality tool.

 

[TailGunner3000]

These are Ford wrenches. I was expecting someone to ID these and fill in some information. I'm assuming the Ford wrenches were part of a set provided for Model-T's. But I could be making the whole thing up.

I'm believing the other thing is a dimple die. Isn't there a dimple die guy who could set me straight on the this?

Thanks for your support.

Not a dimple die. It's a grommet setter.

 

[Old Radar]

My haul from several estate sales today:


Duplex #1243 No earlier than 1966 $50



Wright 3412 12" 3/8" extension
Snap-On 3/8" Universal
Walsco 6' Mechanics Pal steel tape
4-3/4" scissors or snips
$1.50 each.

I need help identifying the snips. They are stamped on both sides. One side is five characters--first character is unidentifiable--possibly a 4 or remotely possibly an H. Remaining characters are PFAR.

Second side stamp is very very faint. I can make out an S then possibly a P. It looks like there are maybe two more characters but they are so faint that they are completely unreadable.



That info turns up nothing on the web. I have seen this type of scissors/snips before but never examined them closely. Does anyone have any clue about their origin?

 

[Old Radar]

not a dimple die. It's a grommet setter.

This kind of a tailgunner??

 

[Outlawmws]

Most probably snips for bonsai.

 

[d42jeep]

One of the odd Craftsman tools I found at the estate sale yesterday was this tool. I hadn’t seen one before. Anybody familiar with it?
-Don

 

[Old Radar]

One of the odd Craftsman tools I found at the estate sale yesterday was this tool. I hadn’t seen one before. Anybody familiar with it?
-Don

Haven't run across that particular model, but it's a push drill. Many companies used to make them--Millers Falls and North Brothers are who I'm most familiar with--the red topped one in the center of the photo is a Craftsman. They're really great for drilling small holes or a quick pilot hole--just select the bit and plunge the tool into the workpiece a few times and you're done. Most came with 6-10 cruciform bits in the handle.

 

[RTM]

Just a push drill, but with bits! There are many many different versions out there. Never seen that Craftsman one tho. Would guess late 40s as the earliest. I would look for Yankee to go plastic handled, then start looking at Craftsman versions after that. Less Yankee catalogs to search.

Looks like 1949 Yankee had plastic handles available, but not 1931.

 

[madison069]

So I was cruising the net and looking for places to go this weekend for a sale or two. Awhile back someone told me about a website that has estate sale in pa listing from professional resales. So i decided to check it out and look at some pictures when i spotted one of my whale of tools. The craftsman tool chest........

So I started looking for more info and turns out it was an online auction estate sales. Something I've never done was bid on an auction estate sale! So I learned the ins and out quickly and created me an account. Once everything was set up, it became a game of bidding to win the tool chest. I put my max bid in the system and it basically acted like Ebay and would bid for you if someone started bidding. So all day yesterday I was checking the site, seeing if my bid was still good. Eventually the clock started getting closer to the end and i noticed someone else started bidding. At this point i was anxious cause i was worried my max bid was not going to hold. As the second started counting down last night i watched and refreshed my page til it finally said "Won" bidding closed.

Yes! I got the tool chest for $140.00!!!

Then i proceeded to bid on a set of popular mechanic wrenches to just fill my tool collection hole as i started collecting PM due to it being my first brand of tools i owned as a kid. Got it for $12!!

Then i nodded on the gear pullers since i could use them working on small equipment motors and got them for $14.

So for $166.00 I got my whale of a tool chest, PM wrenches and small gear pullers. I will be picking them all up tomorrow but for now here is the pic from the website!

 

[TOTO]

Nice score Madison. I get a lot of things from this type of auction. I am actually getting ready to go pick up something now.

 

[madison069]

Nice score Madison. I get a lot of things from this type of auction. I am actually getting ready to go pick up something now.

I've never done it before. Hard to judge if it's something I want or not from the pictures. But the toolbox was something I couldn't find in the wild without an asking price that was out of my budget or just didn't exist. I've found the lower like this one but it was rusted out and beaten. The upper chest same story and the owner asking $300 for it. Just can't justify paying that price for something that's rusted out.

Also in the pictures of the tool chests it shows the keys in the locks, paper works, and the upper chest has the removable tray! I just hope it's in good conditions as it is shown in the pictures!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Picked up three (3) things at today's flea market stop (Lugz 2020_16):
- a Fairmount Tool & Forge ball-pein hammer (guessing 32 oz) with a toolbox type handle and the cool triangle-shaped FTF logo,
- a pre-HD Hinsdale DBE wrench that I needed for a collection of those I have going,
- and a near-complete "DELUXE TOOL KIT".

 

[Gidge]

I am struggling a bit to parse this. Is it “nothing more-desirable than clothes, toys, tools may be offered to others, and those items must always be donated freely at no cost”? Thus fine art, quality furniture, etc is sold privately?

My experience here in eastern USA is that there is a very broad diversity of intention among sellers, ranging from a distastefully greedy desire to profit (even by deception) to those who really are “giving away” or charging only a nominal fee. The latter often do so only to discourage the observable phenomenon of recipients of free goods dumping, without compunction, and littering the ground with still-useable, but for them, regrettably burdensome items. The USA is largely a disposable commodity culture, and the low-cost resale element is a reactionary subculture (if which I am proud to be a part).

Very astute observation.

BTW, you're doing an excellent job as forum moderator this year, LesserSon .

 

[Crabman]

Damon,

Anyone know anything about the Simmonds box on the left? Haven't seen that brand before,

I don't know anything about them, but my dad got me one as my first tool box in the early/mid '70's. It looks like yours except has a flat top, not hipped, and it also has the red name tag. I still have it and it has held up well to many floggings during moves, car and truck trunk duty, etc. It is at our place down in the country, I will try to remember to take a picture and post it when I go down next week. It has been real stout, and obviously has sentimental value to me.

We lived in Northern Virginia at the time. He usually shopped for tools at Sears and I would guess he bought it there.

Good to see a Memphis guy, my wife is from there, went to White Station HS,

Bruce

 

[OMMP]

Interesting... Doubtfully honest complimenting made sort of avalanche...

 

[Jack84]

Hickok tree lopper. Made in the USA. Needs some TLC but it’ll be a fine tool.


Made in USA means SAE so needed to buy some of that too.


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[Private Lugnutz]

Interesting... Doubtfully honest complimenting made sort of avalanche...

What is this in reply to? And can you re-phrase? Because I'm not sure what you're trying to say, either.

 

[Jack84]

What is this in reply to? And can you re-phrase? Because I'm not sure what you're trying to say, either.

I think what OMMP meant is that we had an exchange of thoughts after his comment on my sockets.

Thanks for the compliment OMMP, completely forgot to thank you and others that commented.


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[damon18]

Anyone know anything about the Simmonds box on the left? Haven't seen that brand before

I don't know anything about them, but my dad got me one as my first tool box in the early/mid '70's. It looks like yours except has a flat top, not hipped, and it also has the red name tag. I still have it and it has held up well to many floggings during moves, car and truck trunk duty, etc. It is at our place down in the country, I will try to remember to take a picture and post it when I go down next week. It has been real stout, and obviously has sentimental value to me.

We lived in Northern Virginia at the time. He usually shopped for tools at Sears and I would guess he bought it there.

Good to see a Memphis guy, my wife is from there, went to White Station HS,

Bruce

WSHS is pretty close to me and still considered a good school to get into, fairly unusual for a Memphis Public School.

The Simmonds box is still a mystery to me, I did find one Model 50057 on OfferUp in TX but no other information on the brand, probably someone here knows the history. Seems like a quality box.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

It's the "doubtfully honest complimenting" I am not understanding. Perhaps OMMP can clarify.

 

[madison069]

WSHS is pretty close to me and still considered a good school to get into, fairly unusual for a Memphis Public School.

The Simmonds box is still a mystery to me, I did find one Model 50057 on OfferUp in TX but no other information on the brand, probably someone here knows the history. Seems like a quality box.

I knew someone last name Simmonds but that's not really helpful with the toolbox.

 

[LesserSon]

Not a dimple die. It's a grommet setter.

Most probably snips for bonsai.

I concur.
After studying OR’s pics, I think both sides are stamped “SPEAR”.

 

[BFBOB]

Very nice deal, Madison, especially the tool chest.
I've seen a few of this type auction, but so far everything I was interested in had already been bid up past what I was willing to pay. In person or online, I seldom do well at auctions, though they're great for entertainment!

 

[spike99250]

One of the odd Craftsman tools I found at the estate sale yesterday was this tool. I hadn’t seen one before. Anybody familiar with it?
-Don

That would be a later version, late 80's to 90's. I have the exact one and was purchased in that time period

 

[d42jeep]

Due to the fact that my copilot was unavailable today, I had to rely on the nice lady in my phone that tells me where to go. The first sale was pricey but I found some cool stuff. The second sale didn’t have a lot of what I was looking for but there was free entertainment watching a really heavy Clausing Milling machine being loaded in the back of a pickup. The third sale was a bit picked over by the time I arrived but there were a few items left. The first three pictures are the items from each sale. The fourth picture is of all the S-K. The big Xcelite box is empty but I liked the 4” adjustable. Next is a picture of the Powr-Kraft tools. Last is the nice Craftsman Heritage carry box.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

BTW, you're doing an excellent job as forum moderator this year, LesserSon.

I especially like the monthly updates!

The big Xcelite box is empty but I liked the 4” adjustable.

Um, heck yeah! I have never seen one before.

 

[Old Radar]

Most probably snips for bonsai.

I concur.

For the win! I just asked my neighbor (who happens to occasionally do bonsai) and he identified the style immediately. He has a larger pair but not this size so I gave them to him.

Thank you, gentlemen!

 

[Old Radar]

Don--Very nice Heritage box!!

 

[LesserSon]

I think this might be my first post in this section; as most of you know by now, any tool I show in the vintage tool section is a tool that I have found at a garage sale...

Anyhow I picked up 4 American made pliers at 50 cents each for a total of $2.00 dollars and a Weller soldering gun for $4.00 dollars.

Woody, I think those similar slipjoints from four different brands are dandy at $.50ea! Nice clean condition, too. Thanks for sharing them here.

 

[bmwrd0]

Don, that Heritage box is real clean!

Nice find.

 

[madison069]

Very nice deal, Madison, especially the tool chest.
I've seen a few of this type auction, but so far everything I was interested in had already been bid up past what I was willing to pay. In person or online, I seldom do well at auctions, though they're great for entertainment!

I agree, it's good entertainment for sure! I was watching another lot with vise grips, I wanted them too but not at $90. Probably worth that much for retail! But it was interesting to watch the bidding, hence why I was nervous!

 

[bmwrd0]

Here is a teaser of what I found today:

 

[madison069]

Due to the fact that my copilot was unavailable today, I had to rely on the nice lady in my phone that tells me where to go. The first sale was pricey but I found some cool stuff. The second sale didn’t have a lot of what I was looking for but there was free entertainment watching a really heavy Clausing Milling machine being loaded in the back of a pickup. The third sale was a bit picked over by the time I arrived but there were a few items left. The first three pictures are the items from each sale. The fourth picture is of all the S-K. The big Xcelite box is empty but I liked the 4” adjustable. Next is a picture of the Powr-Kraft tools. Last is the nice Craftsman Heritage carry box.
-Don

That has to be the cleanest heritage box I've ever seen! Sure it's not one of those resent heritage badge boxes I used to see at Kmart?

I need to go through my sk tools and identify what I have cause I haven't bought any due to fear of duplicates