2021 Garage Sale Thread
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txlonghorn1989
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Solo trip to Jake’s flea today, after running two errands for MrsLS, who is tailgating w LesserDaughters2&3 in Philly.
$15 brought home a Disston level, Stanley screwdriver, Duff lifter, Bonney knife, ball bearing scissors pat 7Jan1913, Thorsen 3/8 speeder, Challenger & C’man extensions, Master lock w keys, Cross Country moon dbe, twin Herbrand does, small file handles, Berman o’ Buffalo slipjoints, Dunlap belt-driven buffer/grinder (may need a new belt, LOL).
I am really digging that Bonney box cutter LS! I assume that was made by Stanley? Makes me want to start a box cutter collection. Very nice!
Private Lugnutz
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Yes.
I did a very recent "Curator's Corner" on that topic if you're looking for some ideas in terms of what other makes/models are out there...
d42jeep
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My neighbor picked up some tools for me at a sale in Portland, OR. He dropped them off today. The Craftsman BE ratchet is 3/8” drive. The Plomb 1/2” drive socket is a 1-3/16. The 1/2” drive Plomb ratchet needs repair but I have spare pieces. The well used 11” unmarked perfect handle screwdriver (probably Irwin) is hand stamped US. The 1/2” drive breaker is an Indestro Super and the open gear 1/2” drive ratchet is Indestro as well. The sliding Tee is a Proto LA.
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Potential You **** for the pair of CM RHFT ratchets. They are among CM's best ratchets and pretty hard to find. (note: Official You ***** require a purchase price)Finds from last weekend
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Do they require a purchase price? I know a lot of time it's based on something cool and a low price but I've given low pressure kudos just based on quantity, quality and/or rarity. Did I mess up in doing so?
I'd say "You ****" awards are entirely at the discretion of the grantor. My main criteria would be a sought after item at a killer price. However I'd bend my own rules for something really spectacular or for a huge quantity. Sometimes "quantity has a quality all to it's own."
Your RHFT ratchets are sought after but I wouldn't give a You **** if you paid Ebay prices. However if they were just a few bucks each that would be You **** worthy.
Some guys don't like to share the prices they paid. Nothing wrong with that but they likely won't get too many You *****.
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The coveted You **** is generally given by way of a great/interesting/huge amount of something that is highly desirable and at a low price. Like, as an extreme example to illustrate this, a '63 Corvette for a $1. Now, there might be cases of someone finding something so rare and/or interesting that people will give that award without consideration of the price, such as a barn find Tucker, but those times are few and far between. And when you add in the fact that many people do not like to use that phrase, for whatever reason*, it is a hard line to follow. I feel that Davefr is correct in that RHFT**, while a good find is not **** worthy without the price disclosed, is a good rule, and one to follow.
*I, for example, was not allowed to even use that word as a child, but being a general Pain-in-the-***, tend to use to too much.
**I am not a fan of any round head ratchet, so tend to dismiss what others might appreciate.
*I, for example, was not allowed to even use that word as a child, but being a general Pain-in-the-***, tend to use to too much.
**I am not a fan of any round head ratchet, so tend to dismiss what others might appreciate.
That's an official You **** from me!
Private Lugnutz
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I kinda sorat feel like I just woke up from a nap in an alternate universe.
Private Lugnutz
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Thank you.
That question would be a fun little desert island exercise. A utility knife and The White Album. No scratch that. Blood on the Tracks. No scratch that. London Calling. No scratch that. Pretzel Logic. Harder than tools! Although I guess I would be tempted to cheat and pick a Gerber Multi!
Total you ****! Congrats and great work.
Private Lugnutz
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Tex
On the subject of suckworthiness...
Cost is not always the most important factor. In fact, as I have said before, while I can appreciate a good deal as much as the next picker, cost is almost never important for the kinds of finds I appreciate the most. Certainly, there are plenty of things that do require a cost to consider them a suckworthy find, and plenty of people who consider those kinds of finds suckworthy for that reason. But there are people here, including me, who wouldn't consider them suckworthy even if they were free. That is the 'Big Garage' we live in here.
Generally, of course I would have to agree with Dave and Beemer that low price is clearly a major requirement (along with 'quality', or 'quantity') of the most common criteria for suckworthiness for most people. Not only here on this thread, but on GJ in general.
But rare and interesting things turn up here all the time, nearly every week, and there are guys, me included, who show our appreciation for those things with the ultimate form of GJ praise, regardless of price. Expressly and explicitly because they are so dang cool or so dang uncommon that price becomes irrelevant.
But in the immortal paraphrased words of a former host (okay, it was BB), we are doomed if we take this stuff too seriously!
On the subject of suckworthiness...
Cost is not always the most important factor. In fact, as I have said before, while I can appreciate a good deal as much as the next picker, cost is almost never important for the kinds of finds I appreciate the most. Certainly, there are plenty of things that do require a cost to consider them a suckworthy find, and plenty of people who consider those kinds of finds suckworthy for that reason. But there are people here, including me, who wouldn't consider them suckworthy even if they were free. That is the 'Big Garage' we live in here.
Generally, of course I would have to agree with Dave and Beemer that low price is clearly a major requirement (along with 'quality', or 'quantity') of the most common criteria for suckworthiness for most people. Not only here on this thread, but on GJ in general.
But rare and interesting things turn up here all the time, nearly every week, and there are guys, me included, who show our appreciation for those things with the ultimate form of GJ praise, regardless of price. Expressly and explicitly because they are so dang cool or so dang uncommon that price becomes irrelevant.
But in the immortal paraphrased words of a former host (okay, it was BB), we are doomed if we take this stuff too seriously!
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Haven’t been able to pick much over the past few weeks but hit one Sunday after I dropped my grandson off.
An empty tin, Wright flip socket for lug nuts, SK, Fuller, and Snap on and Williams sockets. Pitman arm puller, Blue Point, Matco , and Toyota wrenches, Utica side cutters, and some unknown US made sockets.
Toyota wrench going to son in law who collects Toyota tools (He is currently in Kosovo) and I needed the side cutters for my work bag. The sockets that are out are the US made ones that were in the ziplock bag on the left. What is left in the bag is all SriLanka stuff heading to goodwill. Total was $15.
An empty tin, Wright flip socket for lug nuts, SK, Fuller, and Snap on and Williams sockets. Pitman arm puller, Blue Point, Matco , and Toyota wrenches, Utica side cutters, and some unknown US made sockets.
Toyota wrench going to son in law who collects Toyota tools (He is currently in Kosovo) and I needed the side cutters for my work bag. The sockets that are out are the US made ones that were in the ziplock bag on the left. What is left in the bag is all SriLanka stuff heading to goodwill. Total was $15.
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Thanks. I'm a sucker for little tins like that. This one says "SCHM'O'LE" with bookend Christmas tree looking stampings. I have no idea what it is for or what originally came in it. I'll take some better pics this evening, along with anything else anyone wants close ups of.
Private Lugnutz
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Midget socket set. Did you open it? They normally have a very cool socket tray divider, with the divider having a bunch of semi-circles in it, taking the shape of the sockets. Not holes. More like brass knuckles. German mfgr. That marking above the "o" is an umlaut, instructing the reader to pronounce it accordingly, not like a regular "o".
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I did open it. It was/is empty, but I don't leave tins. What is the phonetic pronunciation Lugz? Do you (or anyone else) need the tin for a set? The snap tab is pretty stout and locks the lid very securely.
Private Lugnutz
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So, no cool socket divider? Hmm. They were typically spot welded on each end near the top, like most socket dividers. If there is no evidence of one being broken off and removed, maybe it held something else. But that sure looks like the Schm'o'le midget socket set boxes I have seen. If you Google it, they will come up. 1950s and 60s I think.
Thanks for the offer, but I don't have any pieces.
It's very difficult to represent the German vowels a, o, and u with umlauts, but, in general, it makes you squeeze your lips together into a small round circle, as if to whistle, with different extensions of the lips, while pronouncing that letter. Closest phonetic pronunciation I can come up with would be Shmool.
Thanks for the offer, but I don't have any pieces.
It's very difficult to represent the German vowels a, o, and u with umlauts, but, in general, it makes you squeeze your lips together into a small round circle, as if to whistle, with different extensions of the lips, while pronouncing that letter. Closest phonetic pronunciation I can come up with would be Shmool.
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If you have the google translate app, it will try to pronounce it for you. It translates to SMOOCH, and the app pronounces it sorta like. Schmoolay, but the double o is slightly different. On an apple product hold the O key down for a moment it will give you the Ö as an option.
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Lugz
Thanks for offering some clarity on the awarding of suckage here. Glad to read I haven't been doing it wrong. :0)
As to your deserted island exercise I'm left wondering if John Prine's self-titled first album would ever come up for consideration. Those you did mention are excellent and bring back good memories.
I had also seen your cutter collection a couple of months ago. I had to go digging around to see what I had. Mostly Stanley but I do have a cast iron Defiance 1299 (by Stanley, I believe) and a couple of Red-Devil Jak knives.
Thanks for offering some clarity on the awarding of suckage here. Glad to read I haven't been doing it wrong. :0)
As to your deserted island exercise I'm left wondering if John Prine's self-titled first album would ever come up for consideration. Those you did mention are excellent and bring back good memories.
I had also seen your cutter collection a couple of months ago. I had to go digging around to see what I had. Mostly Stanley but I do have a cast iron Defiance 1299 (by Stanley, I believe) and a couple of Red-Devil Jak knives.
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"Angel from Montgomery" was one of the first songs I learned to play on a guitar!
Yes, and a nice example. Worn in all the right spots.
Those perforations were to reduce the weight, if you didn't already know or figure that.txlonghorn1989
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Lugz
I did not know that! Makes sense. Fyi, I don't use it much as I'm afraid of dropping it. I've got another one but it had been dropped before I came across it and is missing the cast "1299 Defiance" from one side.
Gonna keep my fingers crossed on finding a Stanley made Bonney cutter. Have you seen other companies that Stanley OEM'd these for as well? I'd be very interested in knowing who they were.
I did not know that! Makes sense. Fyi, I don't use it much as I'm afraid of dropping it. I've got another one but it had been dropped before I came across it and is missing the cast "1299 Defiance" from one side.
Gonna keep my fingers crossed on finding a Stanley made Bonney cutter. Have you seen other companies that Stanley OEM'd these for as well? I'd be very interested in knowing who they were.
Raineman
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I cut loose (no pun intended) a Bonney one before I knew what I had. Looking for another is fun.
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I have not, which makes me wonder if it was exclusive.
BlueBomber
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The alpha and the omega of Lugs' post are the most apropos! This is all just good clean (or perhaps, mildly risque) fun.Tex
On the subject of suckworthiness..
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But in the immortal paraphrased words of a former host (okay, it was BB), we are doomed if we take this stuff too seriously!
On the thread topic, today I brought home the log splitter I bargained for last Saturday. It works great--already turned one round into a wheelbarrow load of split wood in about 6 minutes!
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Just got my first VIdmar, 5 drawer 30 x 28 x 44 (Does Facebook Marketplace count as a garage sale?)
$175, will need some cleaning and painting.
$175, will need some cleaning and painting.
3baygarage
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Herbrand spinner for $1 at the Habitat today caught me off guard in the junk screwdrivers. Was tossing it back then saw USA. Partially concealed name!
Excellent album!Lugz
Thanks for offering some clarity on the awarding of suckage here. Glad to read I haven't been doing it wrong. :0)
As to your deserted island exercise I'm left wondering if John Prine's self-titled first album would ever come up for consideration. Those you did mention are excellent and bring back good memories.
I had also seen your cutter collection a couple of months ago. I had to go digging around to see what I had. Mostly Stanley but I do have a cast iron Defiance 1299 (by Stanley, I believe) and a couple of Red-Devil Jak knives.
BlueBomber
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Indeed it does. For smaller logs, it splits <nyuck, nyuck> the work time in half! For bigger ones, the piston doesn't have the gumption to drive a huge log through the full splitter. For the circumstance, I angled the log up to the top fluke to halve the big round, and then used the four-way for the rest.
You might try cutting back the inner front edge of the "wings." The 4-way wedge on my splitter has the horizontal parts set back from the front edge of the vertical blade, so it first makes the vertical split, then the horizontals (all on the one stroke, just acts like it's doing two separate sets of work). After the initial split, the unit is doing very little work (until it hits the horizontal parts).
Mike
Mike
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Found in trash. Picked them up to “spice” up our garage sale the coming weekend. They served their purpose and drew folks in, who then bought tools. Finally, a reseller came and bought the lot for $75.
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