2021 Garage Sale Thread

[Private Lugnutz]

Don't trouble yourself, RTM, unless it's for your own curiosity. I'm convinced it's late 19th century and I'm not overly interested in knowing that much more about Bates.

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Anyone know what's going on with the sudden uptick in broken pics? Regular posters attempting to post pics but they're not viewable? d42jeep and bmwrd0 are two regular posters I see with broken pics but there are others.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'm not seeing any broken pics, Mike.

 

[Outlawmws]

I managed a good Estate sale in today, and I appear to have beat most all the usual Estate sale crowd despite seeing the ad more than an hour after it was posted today. Certainly they had been open at least an hour. maybe 2!

I spent more that I have in a LOG time adn its mostly tools!

I did get a near new in box Coleman 220e - 3-58 date, I think it been fired once! Plus a can of fuel. I passed on a wood "Camp kitchen" he had clearly made himself (the wood shop was VERY nice) and a Coleman 426 3 burner stove.



and a Fisher scientific Shaker hot plate:




those were from the drive and garage - then it was back ot the "wood shop" two metal shads setup corner to corner, adn upfited quite nice with concrete floos adn yoy would hardly kow it was a shed inside. I started finding tools -

Proto Puller, Craftsman Drown era 1/4" set - no ratchet, but WITH the Tommy bar! craftsman Impact, SO n=mpact adaptor, Utica wire formers, adm the rest is P&C.





MORE P&C! A full set! All but the adjustable were "100" P&C; the hatchet is a True Temper Flint Edge.




A Clamp on vise, Not frozen but certainly stiff, the casting void has a mico-crack radiating down from it, so a "Shelf Queen". Only marking is a "1" on each main casting. 1-13/16 jaws. The screw tip looks familiar I think Lugz and a couple others have vises with a similar fanged tip?




And 2 more vises! A Morgan 45, and a Craftsman 5176 (3-1/2") - (EDITED)

This DOES NOT map to the catalog numbers? 5169 from '49 -54 at least, and that model changed to 5170 by at least 57... (not in the catalogs by 1960)

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I think Lugz and a couple others have vises with a similar fanged tip?

I do, on a Hilger & Sons (NYC) clamp vise imported from Germany. But it's a blacksmith type vise. Maybe a regional thing.

 

[bmwrd0]

Nice finds Outlaw, and the Craftsman box I found yesterday had a breaker bar and Tommy, but no rat (and missing half the sockets...)

 

[Jammer1329]

First significant find in a long time for me. Plomb is relatively plentiful around here but this chest is the first real Blackhawk I’ve found.

Filled with various USA 3/4 drive sockets and extensions, and lots of USA wrenches.

Favorite find other than the box itself is the tiny war finish combo wrench.

 

[FMB4]

@ Jammer; nice haul! I've long been 'into' Plomb, Plumb, Proto, Challenger, and Blackhawk tools. Been growing an extensive set of all of the above since the late '70s. My dad got me started with his '40s Plumb 3/8 ratchet socket set that he bought as a kid.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Dang those Cat boxes are falling out of the sky lately! EDIT Jammer, if you don't regularly follow the vintage board, hie thyself there now and scroll down a little. Thread on thehorse13's box has been piggybacked by Dave455's box. Yours makes 3 lately.

 

[ChefRex]

Nice haul outlawmws!

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[txlonghorn1989]

Looks like a fun time Outlaw! Congrats on some really nice finds!

 

[Outlawmws]

Thx guys!

So on that Craftsman vise, I was going by the catalog numbers as I didn't see the number on the vise until I worked at it (on a retention collar for the main screw) Its a Craftsman 5176 (3-1/2") - (fixed the post..)

This DOES NOT map to the catalog numbers? 5169 from '49 -54 at least, and that model changed to 5170 by at least 57... (not in the catalogs by 1960)

 

[nmantas]

Picked up a 3/8 Proto extension, 1/2 Wright Extension/socket, never used SK punch and chisel set, 1/4 SK set, and Evinrude 4 gallon pressure tank with zero rust inside. $37

 

[d42jeep]

Anyone know what's going on with the sudden uptick in broken pics? Regular posters attempting to post pics but they're not viewable? d42jeep and bmwrd0 are two regular posters I see with broken pics but there are others.

Sometimes when I’m on my slow mountain satellite internet larger pictures either won’t load or take quite a while to fill in.
-Don

 

[Username already in use]

@Outlawmws some sweet finds! Nice job!

 

[RTM]

Anyone know what's going on with the sudden uptick in broken pics? Regular posters attempting to post pics but they're not viewable? d42jeep and bmwrd0 are two regular posters I see with broken pics but there are others.

Every so often one pic wont load for me. Sometimes I click on it and it opens, other times nothing. Go back later and the pic is fine.

 

[bmwrd0]

Getting out today, I found a few things:

A piece of 3/8" steel for a project, and an Armstrong 3" pin spanner.


An adjustable bridge lamp, which someone painted white. By the way, this is one of those things that should get under my skin, as it was done so poorly, but it usually allows me to pick them up cheap and fix them up. Plus, this one had an interesting shade.


These two books on New Guinea came from the estate of a woman who had been a missionary on that island. One is a document of the opening of that land, which had been the home of the last "uncivilized" people on the planet. Fascinating, if very dated, while the other book is a dictionary of the language that those people spoke after many years of interfacing with the western world.

 

[mikeinri]

The site was stupid slow for me at one point earlier today, no pics would show up, and posting replies wasn't working properly. It seems fine now. Not sure if this is related to the "broken pics" comments above...

Anyway, very sucky day for quite a few of you! Loving the Coleman finds, SK boxes, Craftsman sets, and the Evinrude can!!! How in the world do those get patina outside while staying pristine inside?

Oh, and the unused SK punch set??? Wow...

Mike

 

[d42jeep]

d45jeep, I think somebody had a corsair thread somewhere here - add your piece to it!
Great freebe!

I added it after I did a bit of cleaning on the poor cheap thing. Gotta love those plastic handles!
-Don
-Don

 

[c1504]

First significant find in a long time for me. Plomb is relatively plentiful around here but this chest is the first real Blackhawk I’ve found.

Filled with various USA 3/4 drive sockets and extensions, and lots of USA wrenches.

Favorite find other than the box itself is the tiny war finish combo wrench.

Awesome box. I would have snatched that up too. But my eyes were drawn to the Proto box in the background. Could you post some pics of that in the Proto thread in the vintage section?

 

[c1504]

My finds of this morning

Proto professional puller
P&c dbes
Indestro offset dbe
Plomb drivers

 

[stonesfan68]

I was a day late to this sale, but still managed to find some good stuff. $50 all in. The Stant pressure test tool cost $10 and I’m fairly certain it has never been used and neither have the open end Craftsman wrenches.

My Snap-on interchangeable screwdriver shanks fit into the stubby Gearwrench ratcheting screwdriver handle. That cost $1 which is a far bit cheaper than the SO version.

 

[Outlawmws]

Big sale of the year in one part of town, the ultimate "block Sale" - I went by/visited at least 50 sales. Tomorrow, more of the same.

Not bad: I spent $42 all told, only walked away from 3 "deals"...

Cheese box Book the mad King, Edger Rice Burrough, C 1926, USAAF flying class book -1942:




BSA SS utensil set- Imperial Stainless - this is the nicest quality set I've seen! "Real" utensils! - 2 Proto Combo, 1 Plvmb DBE, Ford DOE, Plvmb & Indestro DBE




A Red Devil tool holder with bits! and a small welders Vise Grip:




Rem oil cleaning rod, 3 mop, 3 brush, 2 loop tips, , 200 patches;



Drum Seat, A bit worse for the wear but was only a buck, the mount is worth more than that






4" Cresent, unplaced no name DOE, 4 indestros, 2 Thorsen, 1 SK, 1 New Britain combos;



And an Estate/antique store sale not far away Kodak 3-1/4 X 5-1/2" Wood Contact printer (who will PU #3?) , '45 Canteen, Cup, & cover, '44 C cup, Aluminum Folding cup, and a Girl Scout knife! cant recall ever seeing one!

 

[d42jeep]

I could be wrong but I think that canteen is from WWI. We checked out several sales in the Berkeley area and found a few tools. My wife did okay in the free piles. The Dremel came from a sale around the corner from home. I grabbed the little clamp on vise in case Shiftless is interested in it.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Kodak 3-1/4 X 5-1/2" Wood Contact printer (who will PU #3?)

My money is on Duds. The question is, have I stuck the picture frame idea in yours and SWMBO's heads?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

A Red Devil tool holder with bits! and a small welders Vise Grip:

I'm so jealous. And I'd love to see a close-up of the marking. Given its age, it has to be Smith & Hemenway RED DEVIL, not Hemenway's later Irvington, NJ RED DEVIL paint and glazing outfit. You HAVE to post that in the hollow multi-tool thread.

 

[FMB4]

Off topic, but a year or 2 ago my wife and I walked up to a gentleman who was having a 'garage sale'. I said, Hello Sir, how much are you asking for your garage? The guy laughed, but my wife found no humor in my question.

 

[Outlawmws]

Don, I was hoping so with the aluminum cap, but while most I see are 1918, this one was definitely 1945 AGM CO.

Lugs on the Contact printer, we will see. she has several others as well...

And on the Red Devil, Thx for the ****-o-meter award! it IS S&H Co.. W MFG. Co. Williamsburg Mass. Two of the tips have heat marks from being heated and bent? I'm not sure if that was factory or not... - I will post more in the hollow multi-tool thread.

 

[Outlawmws]

Lugz, its this thread right?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Yessir!

 

[Outlawmws]

and Done!

 

[d42jeep]

I left the Mac roll around that I paid for at this morning‘s sale so we ran over and picked it up. While we were out we stopped by a late opening estate sale and found a few tools. On the way home we grabbed the extension cord a couple of blocks from home.
-Don

 

[Old Radar]

Unable to get out earlier this week, I had to settle for what was left today:

First stop was the last day of a sale that had a lot of tools pictured, but was really picked over. The guy said they were making deals so when I presented my selections, I couldn't argue when he said $5. My excitement got the better of me, though--the Starrett micrometer is missing not only the interchangeable anvils, it's missing all the anvils. I checked the Starrett site and no anvils are available separately. Oh well.

The other items include a Holo-Krome No. 44 case in good condition.
A small family of Thorsen 3/8 sockets and a cousin Thorsen Allied (Japan) 1/2 drive socket.
Rounding out with a P+C 100 1/2dr 5/8" and a D-I impact socket



Second stop was nearly a bust until I saw the Snap on SSDE 48 screw driver and what I hope is a crossbar for some 1/4" set. And packing tape! 25% off day so this $1 pile cost 75 cents.



I lucked out on the last sale. The only reason I stopped was the saw, but looking around didn't see it. I asked one of the agents if it had sold (it was the second day of the sale, after all...) and she said the owner had held it back. She then asked if I was interested in purchasing it and I said I was interested in seeing it first. She spoke to the owner who brought it. All I could tell was that it was a Henry Disston and was in good shape barring the missing half inch of the upper horn. It had an $8 tag on it. We spoke for a few moments and she said she was willing to let it go. 25% off and I was out the door for $6!

I gave it a minor cleanup--basically razored the rust and gunk off the blade just to see if it had any etch left and was pleasantly surprised. This is a No. 12 26" saw with 12 points per inch. The medallion indicates it was made between 1896 and 1917: 104-125 years old.

 

[d42jeep]

Don, I was hoping so with the aluminum cap, but while most I see are 1918, this one was definitely 1945 AGM CO.

I’m surprised too. All of my WW2 canteens have plastic caps and my WWI canteens have aluminum caps.
-Don

 

[bmwrd0]

That is really the sweet spot for Disston saws, not too rare as to be expensive, but still great steel. Very nice.

I ended up going to five sales and one Restore today, with decent results. The first stop didn't have anything really interesting, so moving on to the second stop

I picked up this five vol. set of one of the great gothic novels from the 18th century, Eugene Sue's The Wander Jew along with

A Stanley #5 jack plane from 1910-1918. The next sale had nothing, but the fourth had the Weaver scope mount box with a Williams peep sight in it along with a 4" adjustable. The fifth sale was a hoarders clearout, and I will be back there tomorrow! I found the 1908 Electrical Engineers manual, '50s lamp, clamp-on vise(unknown maker) APEX bit driver, and lamp socket. O ended the day with a stop at the local restore, where I found the Kromedge backsaw, which is almost perfectly sized for my miter box, and much easier to use than the 30"x6" Disston I was using. Between all of those stops, I spent just under $30.

In the middle of the day, I met up with a Craigslist seller and picked this up for $40:

a mission rocking chair. It needs new leather for the seat, but other than a general clean-up, it is good to go. I cannot believe this was sitting on CL for as long as it was.

Oh, and to show why I wanted the much smaller backsaw, here it is with the Disston I was using:

It weighs so much less and is much easier to swing for long periods.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

while most I see are 1918, this one was definitely 1945 AGM CO.

All of my WW2 canteens have plastic caps and my WWI canteens have aluminum caps.

The caps are interchangeable. The M-1910 pattern was made throughout WWI, Interwar and WWII. Since Outlaw's can is dated 1945 on the bottom, his can probably would've originally had the third plastic variant. That's the fat tall one. And the aluminum cap that's on it is probably a replacement from a WWI/Interwar can. When the aluminum ban was lifted for canteens i 1943, they didn't extend it to caps. But stranger things have happened. So you never know.

 

[Outlawmws]

I also have a 1944 MA CO. canteen with an aluminum cap. That is out of at least 6 with Aluminum caps and 5 with plastic caps, all the deep recessed late style. I know several are 1918,





One from 1918 is the one I've carried since I was in the 3rd grade, so I've owned that canteen longer than all the PO's combined, I may have gotten it from the Widow of a WWI vet? possibly the original owner? - I met her once, and she gave me a tackle box, the canteen, and several fishing poles and reels... ) I think the belt came with the canteen, the cover definitely did.

 

[jeffmoss26]

got this lot from the restore today

 

[saukit]

Was a bit limited in the time I've had available so far this weekend so haven't been to as many sales as I would normally hit. Found a few good ones though...

First was a nice gentleman cleaning out his garage, he had a lot of high quality stuff but I am trying to be more selective these days. Everything on the left is Snap on with the exception of the hammer which is Blue Point. Can't seem to beat these SK sets off with a stick these days but I ain't complaining! This one is almost complete but needs a few pieces. Underneath the unmarked perfect handle screwdriver is a Proto breaker bar, the sockets are SK, Blackhawk, long C, and the wobblers are Proto. I'm hoping I can rehabilitate the ratchet but the switch is locked and I have a feeling it's pretty pitted. We'll see. This batch cost me $15.


Next up was a sale that I wish I had gotten too sooner. Everything was priced very reasonably, the guy selling his dad's stuff said the first people to show up "cleaned him out" so I think there was probably a lot more good stuff there earlier. Still ended up with a few wrenches, Craftsman pliers and T handle, and a sharpening stone for $5.



Finally, hit a sale earlier today that had some old stuff. The lady running the sale was a tough negotiator and when I tried to bargain she started pulling stuff out of my pile! Oh well, still pretty happy with this haul for $20. First was the toolbox, I'll spend some time to clean this up and hold my older long C stuff. It's got someones' name and "Bremerton WN" stenciled on the back in a decidedly military manner, wonder if someone on the Navy base had this at some point...



The other stuff that I picked up with the same sale is shown below. More sharpening stones, I don't usually see these with the boxes. The sharpening "stone" on the right though seems like a different material, maybe it's some sort of buffing compound? I'm excited about the little craftsman box, other than some rust inside it's in perfect shape. The random socket is Williams and the pliers are Klein & Sons. I also really like the big Duro Chrome DBE and the smaller DBE's as well



Gonna hit some more spots tomorrow so hopefully I'll have more to share!

 

[d42jeep]

The circle DC (X) 2016 Duro Chrome DBE wrench is quite rare and prized by WW2 tool collectors. Good find.
-Don