2021 Garage Sale Thread

[Outlawmws]

I went back for the Lantern box if still available and was surprised to see al were gone except one Propane single mantle. I did PU this book and belt tackle box:

 

[d42jeep]

We found a couple of Tahoe garage sales with tools today. My wife grabbed the duck faucet. Plenty of Craftsman and a very useful small vacuum.
-Don

 

[Outlawmws]

I have a 1 gallon wet or dry - VERY useful!

 

[Catfishdan]

I did PU this **** and belt tackle box:

What kind of sale has ***** and tackle boxes and why wasn’t I invited!

 

[Outlawmws]

Oops, Fixed...

 

[steaks&anvils]

I picked up a few kitchen tools at the thrift today.

Wusthof "Classic" 8in chef = $1.99
Wusthof "Classic" 6in utility = $0.99
1980s era Chicago Cutlery 44S 10in chef = $4.00

And last week, at a different thrift, I got a nicely sized, Wusthof 25 slot, unused wooden knife block (no picture) = $8.00

The 10in chef knife is nice to use for cutting melons.

 

[bmwrd0]

It turned out that we aren't going out of town this weekend, so I immediately made a beeline to the hoarder estate sale I was at yesterday. It seemed there was still as much there without a dent put into it. Here is what I picked up:

A damaged but fixable Proto 5295 socket box, and an old fiberboard box that I stuffed full of goodies.

A package of Chapman bits, a tin of Bell System Desiccant, five Marples carving chisels in a homemade roll, a nice unmarked level, Starrett jewelers screwdriver, Plomb combo wrench I didn't notice someone had cut the box end, pair of battery pliers, Williams mini pliers, and three Black and Decker hole saws.

In the box itself was a Western Electric operators headset and amplifier. While not marked Bell System it was probably used by a private party operator, such as at a hotel. Pretty happy with that! When I picked up the battery pliers, I noticed the number but didn't spot a maker until I started to put them back when I noticed the maker:
2021-07-31_03-41-11 by Aaron Warfield, on Flickr

 

[Outlawmws]

Eyeahhhh, you still ****!

 

[toolmiser]

Thanks for that! I found the same thing while looking yesterday, but couldn't find a document I could use to screen shot and post.


You may well be right...it's kinda long to be a bottle opener. Today is half price day, so I may swing by and pick it up, just as a curiosity.

Toolmiser, here's a closeup of the markings before I got it cleaned up. Note that this is around 12" long, not the ~24" mattock which would be issued with a vehicle.

Thanks for the info. I really enjoy Diamond Calk, I have a quite a bit of their products, great quality. Did they make anything else like that? Mattocks don't sell for much money so I will be on the lookout for them.

 

[jeffmoss26]

small Restore haul today
12 bucks total, got 3 pairs of pliers, Craftsman hammer and wrenches, couple screwdrivers, cut down 6" Crescent wrench. Sargent mortise lock in my second pic was only $4! brand new those locks are hundreds of dollars I got this display years ago, the lock was broken, now I have a replacement.

 

[Provincial]

bmw, nice pick on the battery pliers!

 

[Provincial]

These items were missed when I took photos of my estate sale finds that I showed in post #3175 last week. These were $7.00 of the $19.00 total at that sale.



All of them are full, or nearly so. The Kano "Weatherpruf" is sold by the company that makes Kroil penetrating oil, so it was worth a try. I have used the Rust-Oleum Light Gray on my Ford tractor, so this will be useful.

 

[saukit]

Got out the last few days and pickings were slim, but I managed to drag some stuff home.

The little Snap on box is full of carburetor tools, I originally just wanted the box and didn't look closely at the stuff inside. When I got home I was getting ready to throw all the contents in the trash and that's when I noticed that it was all stamped with Snap on...I dunno what to do with it all but the whole thing was only $6.50 so I'm happy...

Third pic is a Craftsman grinder, I believe this is one of the so called "block" grinders but I'm not positive. It is filthy and needs some TLC, which it will get! This one cost me $15.

Lastly, a little Union chest that I just thought was cool. 4 bucks.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

... but didn't spot a maker until I started to put them back when I noticed the maker:

Name-Nurl!

Are you sure the headset, desiccant, and maybe even a few of the other things weren't originally in the fiberboard box? As part of a maintenance kit? Even if they weren't together? My Bell System B box is black fiberboard.

 

[Arne73]

Freebie for me. Saved from the dumpster at work.
Runs, builds pressure but its got an air leak somewhere.

 

[ChefRex]

Free is good, you ****.

 

[Raineman]

These items were missed when I took photos of my estate sale finds that I showed in post #3175 last week. These were $7.00 of the $19.00 total at that sale.



All of them are full, or nearly so. The Kano "Weatherpruf" is sold by the company that makes Kroil penetrating oil, so it was worth a try. I have used the Rust-Oleum Light Gray on my Ford tractor, so this will be useful.

I use Remoil for all my ratchets and ratchet wrenches. Great stuff

 

[AngryBeaver]

I use Remoil for all my ratchets and ratchet wrenches. Great stuff

Try super lube…. Works much better.

 

[LesserSon]

Craftsman grinder, I believe this is one of the so called "block" grinders but I'm not positive. It is filthy and needs some TLC, which it will get! This one cost me $15.

Yes - that flat-top aluminum-bodied grinder is a “block.”
A schism exists as to what to call the round-top aluminum-bodied grinders, because while they generally pre-date the flat-tops, they are not the even earlier iron-bodied ones many call “pre-blocks.”
$15 is an excellent price for a 1/2hp block, assuming it runs. I picked up a very similar-condition 397.19340 on a C‘man stand (blurring which held the value) and paid $60. I was trying for an original look, so bungled repainting the steel-steel cover, but was very satisfied with the match of Rustoleum Universal matte metallic gunmetal gray I used on the body and wheel covers (for this generation grinder). Yours looks about the same age.
Nice Snappy haul and Union box, too!

 

[Macduf]

finally hit sale on it's third weekend . seeing the amount of tools left was a shock.

 

[Raineman]

Slow day for me yesterday. Picked up Plomb and Blue Point wrenches and an SK magnetic bit driver. Also got a toy bowling set for my grandson, missing 1 pin. $5 for all of it.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Also got a toy bowling set for my grandson, missing 1 pin. $5 for all of it.

I like it.

Whenever we had toy sets around the house, big and small, when my kids were young, I would tell them all that their great-grandfather used to set pins up by hand at the bowling alley inside the Sokol Club in my hometown, a part-time job, for extra cash, and you would've thought people were taking a horse and buggy to get there by the looks on their faces. Haha.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

My first flea trip (Lugz 2021_44) in August yielded a few loose Indestro Auto Kit style wrenches (not even sure I need them or not....) and my first Quick-Wedge screwdriver. These blue-handled vintage versions of the modern tool (still being made, same brand, but offshore I think) have shown up on this thread and elsewhere on GJ over the years before (Jock found one earlier this year as I recall...), but this is my first. I was probably more excited than I ought to be, but if not for finding that I would've considered the trip a bust.

EDIT: I was wrong, happily! Still made in Utah! Kudos to them.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I did have a couple LEFT-BEHINDs. The rather complete SK 1/2-inch drive set, just because I'm not interested enough in that era myself or in having yet another socket set to flip, and the Hasbro Karate Choppers, because I wasn't interested in it more than looking at it once and smiling. I don't actually remember these. Were they a later Martial Arts version of the Rock'Em Sock'Em Robot boxers?

 

[mikeinri]

I had a set of those karate guys, late 70s or early 80s, IIRC. I was the only kid that had them, all of my friends loved then and always wanted to play with them.

I think each arm punched or chopped, and one leg kicked. The goal was to hit the opponent's chest plate, which would make the guy fall (buckle at the knee). Can't recall if hitting the head had the same result.

EDIT: Google and YouTube seem to indicate that these were made by Aurora in 1975. Not sure if they were made later, and/or Hasbro bought them later. They do look a lot like GI Joe.

Mike

 

[Outlawmws]

My brother qnd I got Rockem, Sockem Robots for Xmas one year - my dad and uncle busted it the same day...

 

[3baygarage]

My brother adn I got rockem, Sockem Robots for Xmas one year - my dad and uncle busted it the same day...

Big kids

Outlaw, I attribute part of my hoarder mentality to the fact that many of my toys were broken and destroyed, and sometimes stolen by others when I was a child.

 

[bmwrd0]

Name-Nurl!

Are you sure the headset, desiccant, and maybe even a few of the other things weren't originally in the fiberboard box? As part of a maintenance kit? Even if they weren't together? My Bell System B box is black fiberboard.

The headset and amplifier were in the fiberboard box together, with nothing else (well, some totally unrelated things) and are only marked Western Electric, who made Bell system parts. But there is no Bell marking on them, unlike the desiccant, which specifically states that it is for something in the Bell System, what I don't know.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Google and YouTube seem to indicate that these were made by Aurora in 1975. Not sure if they were made later, and/or Hasbro bought them later.

After my childhood, which explains why I didn't remember them. I didn't see Hasbro on them. I shouldn't have said that so cavalierly. I didn't look at the markings at all. Sorry for confusion.

 

[saukit]

Yes - that flat-top aluminum-bodied grinder is a “block.”
A schism exists as to what to call the round-top aluminum-bodied grinders, because while they generally pre-date the flat-tops, they are not the even earlier iron-bodied ones many call “pre-blocks.”
$15 is an excellent price for a 1/2hp block, assuming it runs. I picked up a very similar-condition 397.19340 on a C‘man stand (blurring which held the value) and paid $60. I was trying for an original look, so bungled repainting the steel-steel cover, but was very satisfied with the match of Rustoleum Universal matte metallic gunmetal gray I used on the body and wheel covers (for this generation grinder). Yours looks about the same age.
Nice Snappy haul and Union box, too!

Thanks for the info LS, that is helpful. I did turn this one on briefly before I bought it so I know that it runs. I’m hoping I can get most of the rust off without painting but we’ll see how it goes. I’ll probably pony up for new wheels also as they look pretty trashed and I’m not sure I want to trust them.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

...there is no Bell marking on them, unlike the desiccant, which specifically states that it is for something in the Bell System, what I don't know.

I think the association of everything 'phone related' in proximity is too strong to ignore, but hey, maybe my curator association tolerance is lower than yours! As for application, the can says "insulation", and my vintage paperwork indicates they would also put it inside splices before sealing them, I guess preventatively, but hey, you were [insert Glen Campbell baritone...] "the lineman for the county" and would know better than me!

 

[bmwrd0]

Heh, technically, I was I&R, Instal and Repair, never a lineman or splicing tech. And I always preferred the Meters version of that song, as it had more soul. But I did pick that headset and case up due in no small part to my fascination with Radio and the phone company, so my Curator needs were satisfied!

 

[Raineman]

After I dropped off my grandson today I hit a little thrift shop by where he lives. Got this still in its sealed box for $80. I’ve been wanting this set for a while and lucked into it today.

 

[WarrenJ]

Saw this in an antique shop in TN for 175.00, but I passed. No room in the car with a 7 hour drive home.

 

[Smokeshow69]

It turned out that we aren't going out of town this weekend, so I immediately made a beeline to the hoarder estate sale I was at yesterday. It seemed there was still as much there without a dent put into it. Here is what I picked up:

A damaged but fixable Proto 5295 socket box, and an old fiberboard box that I stuffed full of goodies.

A package of Chapman bits, a tin of Bell System Desiccant, five Marples carving chisels in a homemade roll, a nice unmarked level, Starrett jewelers screwdriver, Plomb combo wrench I didn't notice someone had cut the box end, pair of battery pliers, Williams mini pliers, and three Black and Decker hole saws.

In the box itself was a Western Electric operators headset and amplifier. While not marked Bell System it was probably used by a private party operator, such as at a hotel. Pretty happy with that! When I picked up the battery pliers, I noticed the number but didn't spot a maker until I started to put them back when I noticed the maker:
2021-07-31_03-41-11 by Aaron Warfield, on Flickr

You ****! Nice name knurl pliers!

 

[AK4570]

A quick stop at the dingiest and dirtiest pawn shop I've ever passed through--seriously thought I might want to check my tetanus vax status--netted the following for $3

Proto 4769 1/4 Spinner/Extension
Proto 5414-S 7/16 x 1/2 8pt. (appears unused)
Proto 5412 3/8 x 1/2
Proto 5220 5/8 x 3/8
Snap-On GAX5 1/2F - 3/8M 5" Extension/Adapter

Happy picking, All.
John

 

[Outlawmws]

Thanks for reminding me - I have a message to get my tetanus updated.

 

[Smokeshow69]

I hit up a local swap meet this weekend. Didn't really crush it compared to past swaps but stil got out there and made some finds! Didn't buy a ton but I did sell one of my finds for double before I even left the event I purchased an air craft oxygen tank- yellowish green (ww2/korean era?) for $10 and made it about 20' out of the booth before a guy started oogling it and I sold it for $20 I know I could have sold it for more but sometimes the quick sale is best
Picks
-very large nice p&c flat tip, hinge handle, deep socket

Plomb
-wf series 1/2 drive hinge handle
-5449 1/2 ratchet- I dont have this style of handle

Proto LA
3/4 drive socket
minty/ really small slip joint pliers
mfd era-crowsfoot
proto professional extractor

Signal outboard motor oil can- it was too nice to not come home for $10

Craftsman
-Crown top era large, 14" plane , going to a guy at work for a resto/user
-3 nice chisels-crowntop
-linesman pliers

Blackhawk-torpedo ratchet-7/16 drive. I paid $2 ...this one is the one where you push the detent ball to switch directions. pretty good shape for its age

Armstrong-1/2 drive machine screw sockets

-3 snappy sockets

All tools are in as found condition...but should clean up well.

 

[d42jeep]

I did have a couple LEFT-BEHINDs. The rather complete SK 1/2-inch drive set, just because I'm not interested enough in that era myself or in having yet another socket set to flip, and the Hasbro Karate Choppers, because I wasn't interested in it more than looking at it once and smiling. I don't actually remember these. Were they a later Martial Arts version of the Rock'Em Sock'Em Robot boxers?

I could never have left that nice S-K set behind in the wild unless it was wildly overpriced. I actually have two complete versions of that postwar set plus another wartime one. But that’s just me.
-Don

 

[3jakes]

I drove all over creation with nothing to show but an Elvis coin for 5 bucks.

Then less than a mile from my place there was a sign tacked to a phone pole that I circled back to read & pulled down the back road to find a not advertised estate sale.
Prices were cheap for stuff I wanted, or dig a little & make an offer.


The Champion vise is pretty nice for 8 bucks & still has the pipe clamp inserts.


For a dollar I bought two parts drawers that I dumped out hardware but kept the militaria that I am not familiar with.



Old Craftsman pieces, the caliper stamped West Germany.



A Starrett punch set, Coleman funnel, & an old Husky 3/8 ratchet.



So the last stop was pretty good.
also bought lots of misc not pictured, extension cords, shop chemicals, rattle cans of paint & whatnot.
all told around 30 bucks.
Sorry about the monster size elvis photo.
Still getting the hang of the new software. (but hey, .. he's the king!)