Had a pretty good day Saturday, picked up lots of goodies. The first planned stop yielded a few goodies, setting a good tone for the day. This was part of a neighborhood sale, so 20+ sales, only moved the car twice, so the dogs got lots of pets, and we got some sunshine, a nice change for us coastsiders. Overall spent a little more than planned, but a few non tool items were a little too tasty.
Finds included (L-R) mini 2.5G shop vac, dust brush, 2 pairs of green painted sheet metal vice grips, Proto and XCelite nut drivers, Proto 280 pliers 10”, older DeWalt miter gauge, Snap-on and PH type screwdrivers, a Klein wobble screw driver, and a long reach Bonney 2126 Carb Adjusting tool (in the Bonney thread), misc Drill goodies, including 2 different partial Hanson sets, one mostly for the metal box, 4 misc pliers including a Klein needle nose w odd jaws, like holding a small circuit board, ratchet garden clipper by Florian, 10 clamps, including a machinist clamp, some sockets, mostly SK, Proto, Williams, Vlcheck wrenches, homemade hack saw, Brown and Sharpe caliper, Keystone M1555 damaged hex drive with the plug, and an unknown Snap Ring plier.
The last targeted stop was a big winner, got the Kennedy chest, loaded, offered for much less than I would pay for a chest in this condition. It was grampa’s chest, and he worked at an electronics mfg shop down the peninsula. I got to this one late, and the previous guy took a bunch of measuring tools, dang. I grabbed a handfull of clamps and other tools from the 1st pic there. All the stuff from the
rules and right came out of the chest. The total list is (L-R) Bushnell 60s?vintage 10x50 binox, 1 pair each 18 & 20“ drawer slides, CenTech digital caliper ( no battery, but in original packaging, probably indicating it eats batteries,
Millers Falls and Lufkin rules, Williams superenches and Dunlap stamped black wrenches, couple of custom assembly guides, Snap-on midget ratchet and wrenches, 2x tiny Hanson drill sets, 2x Stanley Yankee right angle ratchet screwdrivers, home made pin wrench, Williams stubby screwdriver, Wiss shears, Starrett 425 caliper (saw a pair at $75 at the prior sale), automatic wire strippers, Crestoloy adjustables, P&C 3/8” ratchet, lots of different files, including knife profile in RH drawer, pin vise plus in LH, lots of soldering tools like heat sinks, clamps, alligator clips, etc, too much to detail so far. Some weird bending guide, assuming for sizing hole distances on circuit boards.
The box itself has obviously been standing with its flap open for a long time. All the fittings have a normal level of patina, but the finger loop on the flip down cover is shiny like new, never seen that before. No key found yet, but still lots of smalls to poke thru. The leather handle on top is in reasonable shape, places it as fairly old, think 1945+, & has the center hasp. One side of the leather around the rings was falling apart, but the leather was reasonably good, but developed cracks being carried to the truck. It won’t be carried full any time soon now that it’s home. At least one drawer has slipped its slide, will need to fuss with it a bit.
?? I absolutley need everything in my garage 
