2020 Garage Sale Thread

[misterbill]

Wow I really like that! I have one similar (in much worse shape) buried in my semi trailer from moving. Someday I will have a shop to unload into. Does yours have the owners plaque on top?

Wade

Nope, no plaque. Just body filler - and lots of it!

 

[misterbill]

Wow! That's a beauty.

Thanks!

 

[Smokeshow69]

File this one under "even a blind squirrel finds a nut"... Saw this lot on CL this morning and I just happened to be the first to call about this Plomb 9990 box with assorted contents. Seller said it had sat in an autobody shop from the 1950s. Mix of Plomb, Proto, Bonney, Williams, and some more recent Taiwan and Chinese made pieces. It's got a nice coating of filler dust over everything so it will take some time to sort.

Bill

You really ****! Under the paint splatters and the filler dust is a really straight box. It even has the original hinges on the front cover which are often damaged or replaced if the box saw a lot of use. Major suckage awarded! I can see good stuff inside!


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[Private Lugnutz]

Indestro.

Thanks. Neat. I have the same set.

 

[Rickster]

Weekend garage sale haul; some deep Craftsman metric sockets, Set of SK and a set of Easco/KD screwdrivers, large Diamond pliers and a smaller SK pliers, a Mac wrench and a big old clamp!

 

[misterbill]

You really ****! Under the paint splatters and the filler dust is a really straight box. It even has the original hinges on the front cover which are often damaged or replaced if the box saw a lot of use. Major suckage awarded! I can see good stuff inside!

Thanks, Smoke. I just started going through it and there are definitely some cool things inside. Some I don't even know what they are - yet. Mostly wrenches and 1/2" sockets. Plomb, Proto LA, Proto and a smattering of most major brands of the time.

 

[Smokeshow69]

Thanks, Smoke. I just started going through it and there are definitely some cool things inside. Some I don't even know what they are - yet. Mostly wrenches and 1/2" sockets. Plomb, Proto LA, Proto and a smattering of most major brands of the time.

I was looking at wrench shapes and socket design and seeing a lot of plomb/Proto in there! Very nice work. I picked up one of those top chests not too long ago but mine was $45 and was sprayed [emoji36][emoji849]



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[BlueBomber]

Thanks, Smoke. I just started going through it and there are definitely some cool things inside. Some I don't even know what they are - yet. Mostly wrenches and 1/2" sockets. Plomb, Proto LA, Proto and a smattering of most major brands of the time.

Kewl! Post the box end wrenches over on the DBE thread as you dig them out and dust them off, pls!

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[jonshonda]

Not from a garage sale but an antique store that lets people setup booths and sell stuff out of them. I might go back for a few more things, but these two came home with me today.

Never seen a pencil sharpener that had a spring loaded feeding mechanism to sharpen a pencil. And solid brass Schrader air nozzle. Both work great!

20201013_184516 by Jon S, on Flickr

 

[d42jeep]

Thanks, Smoke. I just started going through it and there are definitely some cool things inside. Some I don't even know what they are - yet. Mostly wrenches and 1/2" sockets. Plomb, Proto LA, Proto and a smattering of most major brands of the time.

You definitely **** on that find!
-Don

 

[RTM]

Never seen a pencil sharpener that had a spring loaded feeding mechanism to sharpen a pencil.

I’ve seen them with the ear thingies on top, but never extended out like that. I’ve also never tried to pull them out. Does it slide in to be almost flush? Keeps it under tension while sharpening?

Looks like at least 1941 vintage
https://books.google.com/books?id=J...hUKEwjm4dTFobPsAhUMHTQIHagVDtsQ6AEwBHoECAYQAg

Maybe 1932

https://books.google.com/books?id=6...KEwj4yfq4orPsAhUeJzQIHZjqAp84ChDoATAAegQIABAC

 

[jonshonda]

I’ve seen them with the ear thingies on top, but never extended out like that. I’ve also never tried to pull them out. Does it slide in to be almost flush? Keeps it under tension while sharpening?

Looks like at least 1941 vintage
https://books.google.com/books?id=J...hUKEwjm4dTFobPsAhUMHTQIHagVDtsQ6AEwBHoECAYQAg

Maybe 1932

https://books.google.com/books?id=6...KEwj4yfq4orPsAhUeJzQIHZjqAp84ChDoATAAegQIABAC

Thanks for the links!

Yeah the little levers are attached to little jaws that grip the pencil. So what you would do is open up the jaws and stick the pencil into the sharpener. Then with the jaws still spread apart pull the mechanism out as shown, and release the jaws. The jaws will clamp on the pencil and the spring tension will pull the pencil into the sharpener until it is sharp.

When not in use, the mechanism sits flush against the sharpener and looks just like every other sharpener you are used to using.

 

[mikeinri]

BB: Nice job saving what you could down there. Not an easy task, I've been through it this year (though nowhere near the scale you had to contend with). Fun fact: I have one of those purple coolers (in the pic with the peacoat and pool cue)...

Mike

 

[LesserSon]

40 minute drive to a co-worker’s FIL’s place, which they are clearing out for sale. MrsLS had been taunting me with Facebook images of late-model Craftsman tools, some NIB, which I had resisted, but today there was a vague C’man benchgrinder and a 3hp tablesaw.
The tablesaw is still on the table for me - it would serve my needs, but I would have to bid adieu to my Ryobi (I know, but IT has served me well too). It has a nice fence, and if it had metal blade adjustment wheels, it would have come home tonight. The ginder is a 5” model; cute, but I didn’t even bother looking for the hp.
Fortunately, we had a good chat while I looked around (haven’t met in person for months), and I left with a handful of handtools. If I collected Williams or actually needed any more handtools it would have been a lot larger. Fishing and hunting stuff I don’t need, too...kind of wish I’d known the man.
Well, this is it:
Bon-E-Con 1/2dr rat & 13/16 deep socket, 1950 3/8dr SO rat w Chapman’s patent D132891, Danielson-made 8” Dunlap Stillson, 1922 Bonney CV 722(?) DOE, 4” unbranded Danielson 4004 adj, Stanley SW No92 shoulder plane, C’man Vanadium punch.

 

[Maineiacmoose]

Found some tool boards a couple of days ago. Decided it was worth the drive and made them mine. She told me that most of them had tools on them but they had been picked up already.

 

[Maineiacmoose]

Rest

 

[Shelbylex]

I see a long journey for you, Maineiacmoose
Great start!

 

[Lesserstore]

Do any of those TRW boards say anything about their tools being made in USA? I have several sockets without a COO and I haven't been able to find a definite answer.

 

[bargainhuntingking]

That reminds me Maneiacmoose, of these Proto tool boards at a local antique mall:

Not cheap at $95 each:

 

[mikeinri]

Maybe they meant $95 for the set of three, LOL???

Mike

 

[LesserSon]

I don’t think $95ea is out-of-line for a brick&mortar store. The seller has overhead (rent, utilities, staff). The price structure is different from eBay, but the bottom line is similar.
Consider the cost you’d incur to fabricate them. 3/4” veneer plywood, specialty hooks, vinyl stickers...Unless you steal the materials and labor from work, it’d be in the same ballpark. And what you’d have in the end would not be a collectible advertising board, but a home/shop-made repro.
Of course you could find them for less at an estate or garage sale, but you’d have to be the one to find them. Those have already been found.

 

[bmwrd0]

In the used item trade, books and antiques definitely, and I am guessing clothes and records as well, pricing generally works by The Rule of Three. An example would be when the reseller buys something for $10, they need to price it around $30. So, I would guess that they bought the boards for around $30 each, and that is how they priced them.

The rule comes from 1) what they paid to get them, 2) what they pay in rent for them (overhead as you say, LS), and 3) profit. When I do tell myself that I am buying something to resell it, this is my basic calculation on if it is worth it. You do vary this by calculating if something would sell really quick (you have a buyer lined up already, it is something that is a known high demand, etc.) or if it is a slow seller, but good filler and might draw customers in to sell other things.

 

[Smokeshow69]

That reminds me Maneiacmoose, of these Proto tool boards at a local antique mall:

Not cheap at $95 each:

Ack, where is this at? That is not a bad price for those, especially when you consider that they were advertising and were often destroyed when new boards came out. I could really use that first board that is early Proto la. I have a Proto la dbe/ doe board that is stamped property of plomb tool company on the back. I would be all over that!




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[Smokeshow69]

Here is a shot of Proto la tool boards that I arraigned a deal on a few years back. They do include the rare metric tools and whitworth sizes. There is also a minty set of metric doe’s in the wrench roll as well. Everything but the plomb top chest now lives at rileysan’s house. At the time i didn’t have room for the tool boards but now regret selling them but at least I can visit them!



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[Private Lugnutz]

Lugz 2020_47. Herbie rat, PENENS wrenches, and Singer/SIMANCO wrenches.

 

[misterbill]

Kewl! Post the box end wrenches over on the DBE thread as you dig them out and dust them off, pls!

Here you go!

 

[bargainhuntingking]

Smokeshow, the Proto boards were at PennyLane antique mall in Bellingham, WA

 

[Smokeshow69]

Smokeshow, the Proto boards were at PennyLane antique mall in Bellingham, WA

Ok thanks. I can’t go that far but hopefully someone up there would grab them!


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[Old Radar]

Today I found an Indestro box filled with goodies for $6 and a few sockets for $2. Sadly the logo inside the box is shot.

The five sockets across the top and the battery terminal wrench on the right came wired together for $2. The dark rusty one on the left is SO with what looks like a 1930 date code. An Indestro then two more SO (with E (’44) date codes) and a no name 1” and 1-1/16” milled in the same 3/8dr socket.

Box Contents:

Plomb: WF-17 & WF-18 extensions

Indestro: The 2752 4.5” extension and 2781 Cub Chrome Vanadium Flex Handle along with the 2889 female reversible ratchet may have been original to the box.

Snap-on: Partial Bushing Driver set. Drivers are marked A-57-14 & A-57-15 but are not stamped SO. Five 9/32dr deep sockets: MC-13(2), MC-12, MC-10 & SM-11(6-pt). Five 9/32 specialty sockets: MC-38, MC-44, MC-45, M-25 & M-26—All but the first say Not Guar. Finally, an S-8164 5/8” cylinder head bolt wrench.

Proto Los Angeles 275 5-1/2” slip joint pliers

A Cornwell SD52 flat screwdriver bit, a couple of Apex clutch head bits, a 9/32 Hinsdale socket and a Wright MS-53 stamped AC.

 

[Maineiacmoose]

Do any of those TRW boards say anything about their tools being made in USA? I have several sockets without a COO and I haven't been able to find a definite answer.

Nothing saying made in USA. But the company address was Pleasant Valley road Cleveland OH if that helps at all.

 

[Lesserstore]

Nothing saying made in USA. But the company address was Pleasant Valley road Cleveland OH if that helps at all.

Thanks for looking. I had forgotten about how TRW acquired Williams in 1969 so I wonder if TRW was just slightly redesigned Williams?

 

[Cruzan80]

Scored today at an estate sale! Knew something looked familiar in this photo, and was still there on the second day to grab it. Can anyone spot it? No, it is not the poster...
Will show off the entire haul later today.

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[gpw_42]

Scored today at an estate sale! Knew something looked familiar in this photo, and was still there on the second day to grab it. Can anyone spot it?

Either the bench light or the drop light hanging from the ceiling?

 

[bcschief]

Folding creeper

 

[Smokeshow69]

Scored today at an estate sale! Knew something looked familiar in this photo, and was still there on the second day to grab it. Can anyone spot it? No, it is not the poster...
Will show off the entire haul later today.

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Are you going to shine a “light” on it or keep us guessing?


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[Old Radar]

Something red and rolly on the left edge of the pic.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

If everything was for sale and money was no object, I would buy the tall refrigerated cabinet, the roller (depending on the age and brand)(as others mentioned), the Dazor lamp (as others have mentioned), and whatever was in that wooden box next to the fan, if it was something good.

 

[madison069]

I say the Harbor Freight magnet blue LED light on the side of the fridge.

What did I win??

 

[gearhead1960]

Scored today at an estate sale! Knew something looked familiar in this photo, and was still there on the second day to grab it. Can anyone spot it?

It must be Miss Strohs in the corner.....

 

[Cruzan80]

Couple of people alluded to it. The roller was a modern Waterloo, sold by the time I got there. No creeper that I saw. Wooden box was nothing special, ditto the hanging light. However, this is only the second craftsman machinist light I have seen in the wild (first was part of a table saw set, and wouldnt separate). $16 brought it home. Will add the rest of the sale in a bit.

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